In the Senate their plan worked to perfection.

There was in the Senate no fighting leadership of the forces of decency; and for such leadership of the non-fighting type the representatives of corruption cared absolutely nothing.

By bold and adroit management the substitution in the Senate was effected without opposition or comment.

The bill (in reality, of course, an absolutely new and undebated bill) then came back to the House nominally as a merely amended measure, which, under the rules, was not open to debate unless the amendment was first by vote rejected.

This was the great bill of the session for the lobby; and the lobby was keenly alive to the need of quick, wise action.