Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1935, Page 30

B—10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935. AGTION PROWIED ON DEBATELINT Hearings Due Soon on Gléss Proposal to Curb Irrele- vant Talk. i BY J. A. O’'LEARY. The Senate Rules Committee will meet in the near future, Chairman Neely said today, to consider the pro- posal of Senator Glass of Virginia to | curb firrelevant senatorial debate while appropriation bills are pending. Senator Neely expressed no opinion 25 to what action should be taken on the Glass resolution. 1 Revision of Senate rules is sug-| : gested at frequent intervals, but | changes are few and far between, | especially with regard to customs and | methods of procedure that have been followed for many years. In 1896 former Senator Stephen M. White of California arose in the Senate and proposed a rule to require | that all debate be “relevant and con- | fined to the subject directly before the Senate.” Had Small Hope. Recalling how other amendments to the rules had languished and been forgotten prior to that time, he was not very optimistic over the outlook for his own proposal. He suggested, however, that the twentieth century was approaching and ventured to hope that with the advent of this new era, progress might include some revision of Senate rules. After the lapse of 40 years, with intervening discussions, the question once more is in the public limelight, through the limited change put for- ward by Senator Glass. When there is no determined oppo- sition to a pending bill. and the dis- cussion has gone on freely for several days or a week, Senators frequently submit to a voluntary limitation on debate to hasten a vote. This is accomplished by a unanimous consent agreement, fixing a limit of 15 or 30 minutes on subsequent speeches. When there is a last-ditch fight against a measure, however, the unanimous consent rule is of no avail, for one objection is sufficient to block such an agreement. Cloture Used in 1917. In 1917 the Senate forged a parlia- mentary weapon by which it can force a limitation on debate in these ex- treme cases. Known as the cloture rule, it provides that if two-thirds vote to invoke it, each Senator there- after can speak only one hour. Because of the time-honored cus- tom of permitting freedom of debate, Senators hesitate to use the cloture rule. Although frequently threatened, it has seldom actually been applied. Even when there is preponderant sentiment for a bill, it is not easy to get two-thirds to apply cloture. Sena- tors who are for a bill will not al- ways vote to limit debdte. | The Glass proposal, however, is not | designed to limit relevant debate, nor would it apply generally to all legis- lation. Its sole purpose would be to prevent the holding up of appropria- tion bills by extraneous speeches. Just what you want—when you need it most! 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