The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-20

Michigan has a good homolist i'll the
house in the person of Mr.. Roswell
G. Horr, who is witty without being
aware of it. On Thursday last many
of the members of the house made
speeches in behalf of their committees
and he arose to perform a similar duty
for his committee-on manufactures.
He had a grievance: His committee
had brought in its first bill in eighteen
years and the child was rutblessly torn
from its mothers breast and given for
adoption to the committee on judiciary.
His plea was therefore for the rights of
the committe on manufactures, and he
held that most of the other committees
should report to it. AS to the bill to
give $3.50, O00, 900 to soldiers who had to
take greenbacks during the war, he
said the question would cease to be a
question of finance, and would reduce
itself to a question of manufacture, and
there he found clearly the duty of the
great committee to which he belonged,
and he thought the committee on bank
ing and currency ought to be compelled
to report to that committee for advice
in manufacturing machines to supply
this nation with a circulating medium
[Laughterl. He then turned his at
affairs and to its chairman, Cox, of
New York, whom he had followed to
Rome and Naples and Venice and
Symrna and Constantinople, and
through the awful majesty of the Alps,
in buckeye Abroad" consequently,
when he had come here he had ex-
pected to be highly entertained by the
gentleman from New York; but he had
drawn his seat so far back that when
that gentleman spoke all he could do
was to applaud and laugh, and look in
the Record next day to see If lie had
laughed and applauded in the right
place. IL%aughterl. The committee
on foreign affairs should report to the
committee on manufactures, inasmuch
as it was engaged in manufacturing
witticisms for the gentleman from New
York. lie next paid his respects to
the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
(Wright) who, at the head Of a COM
mittec, had gone in search of general
He (Horrl had studied the history of
that search, and had followed the CON-
mittee to Chicago. Chicago had been
an unfortunate place to look for gen
eral depression because every indus.
try there was blooming" The com.
mittee had taken testimony there for a
few days, and had then gently wendell
its way to Salt Lake City. 1t thought
that among the mormons it would find
the manufacturing element at the low
est ebb. l%Laughterl. 1t had then
scaled the Sierras, had brought up on
the slope Of the beautiful Pacific, and
had there Intercepted the sand lots, -
and one convention had had the impu-
dence to nominate his venerable friend
tWright) for the presidency, not at his
wish but in spite of it. If the COM
mittee had come to the committee on
manufactures for advice rs it was, the
committee would not had come back
without finding any depression. The
gentleman from Pennsylvania Wright
should have looked at Ohio, among his
democratic brethren just after election,
if he wanted to find depression.
Laughter. This was n serious matter
under discussion, and he hoped justice
would be done to the old time and
honored committee which he had the
honor to represent. Laughter and
applause.