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Show Hobart Beat Dawes to It by 28 Years VICE PRESIDENT DAWES' rebuke re-buke of senate filibustering was not without precedent. March 4, 18U7, when Garret A. llobart was Inaugurated as vice president, lie politely criticized the parliamentary obstructors and Intimated that he would try to apply the senate rules so as to expedite business ami produce "prompt and positive legislation." Mr. Hobart did not urge the senate to amend the rules or any particular rule. The vice president preferred to tribunal the most distinguished of the legislative bodies of the world. "In entering upon the duties of the oltlee to which I have been chosen I feel a peculiar delicacy, for I am aware that your body, with whom, for a time, I will be associated, has bad but a smull voice in the election of its presiding officer and that I am called upon to conduct your deliberations while not, perhaps, your choice in point of either merit or fitness. "It will be my constant effort to aid condemn the whole theory and practice prac-tice of obstruction and to hint that he would do what he could Individually to smash It. Here Is what Mr. Hobart said In I3D7 as to this point: "My gratitude and loyalty to the people of the country to whom I owe this honor, and my duty to you as well, demand such a conservative, equitable and conscientious construction construc-tion and enforcement of your rules as shall promote the well-being and prosperity pros-perity 6f the' people, nnd at the same time conserve the time-honored precedents prec-edents and established traditions which have contributed to make this you, so far as I may. In all reasonable expedition of the business of the senate sen-ate and I may be permitted to expiess the belief that such expedition Is the hope of the country. All the Interests of good government and the advancement advance-ment toward a higher nnd better condition con-dition of things call for prompt and positive legislation at your hands. To obstruct the regular course of wise and prudent legislative action aftei the fullest and freest discussion is neither consistent with true senatorial courtesy, conducive to the welfare ! of the people nor In compliance with their Just expectations." |