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Senate Bill 5228: Senator Simmon's speech

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  • 16 gle vote cast in this Chamber against the pending bill, and I sincerely trust there will not be a single vote cast against it. Mr. President, one other remark personal to myself. Unfortunately I was not in the Senate on Saturday when the junior Senator from New York [Mr. Depew] delivered his very eloquent, forcible, and illuminating speech upon this subject, and when it was suggested that a vote might possibly be taken. To my prejudice it has been reported in the press of my State—and I speak of this in the nature of a matter of personal privilege— that my absence from the Chamber at that time, and the fact that I had given notice that I would speak to-day, prevented a vote, and that a golden opportunity for the passage of a bill in which the people of my State are greatly interested was lost. I wish to say that I was not responsible for the failure to take a vote at that time, if there was an opportune occasion, further than the fact that I had given notice that I would make a speech to-day. I wish to state furthermore that I am informed by two Senators who have been deeply interested in this question tliat they would not have permitted a vote to have been taken then because they desired to hear further argument and elucidation before casting their votes. I have said this simply that my absence on Saturday, which was unavoidable, might not be subject to misconstruction in my own State. 5833 o
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