Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1905 — The Bill Wax Not In the Senate. [ARTICLE]

The Bill Wax Not In the Senate.

One of Senator Frye’s scintillations as presiding officer, when the Philippine bill was near its passage in the senate, should not be lost to the world. Such measures, till perfected, are considered In committee of the whole, not In the senate, as the term goes. The distinction is of little popular significance, but of great parliamentary Importance. Senator Bacon, wishing to make a certain motion, was informed that the bill was not In the senate, but in committee of the whole. “Oh, I thought we were In the senate,” replied Mr. Bacon. “We are in the.senate,” Mr. Frye responded. “but the bill is not.”—Washington Post.