Wichita eagle., 1888-06-12
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
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Up to this time the committee on rules
had not assigned one day or one hour tc
the consideration of pension bills While
it had given days to nearly every other
committee, it had stubbornly refused to
let the committee on invalid pensions have
a day.
The Republican party in its platform at
Chicago, had pledged itself to substantial
pensions to the soldiers. and the Democra-
tic party in its platform had also announc-
ed itself in favor of all having liberal pen
sions. But unfortunately in the recent
utterances of the Democratic party at st.
Louis there was no word, no reference or
no suggestion that the Democratic party
in the future proposed to carry out its
promises to the Union soldiers Of the
country.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, as one of the
minority members of the committee on
rules, said that so far as he knew there
had been no meeting of the committee for
some weeks. The other minority member,
Mr.. Reed. of Maine, and himself had
asked that a meeting be called IN order
that they might properly voice the sentl-
ments of the Republican members of the
house, but they had heard nothing in re-
gard to it.
Mr. Grosvenor then said he wanted the
soldiers OF the country to understand that
the minority was utterly powerless TO call
up pension bill except with the consent
and through the will of the majority as
expressed by the committee on rules
Mr.. WOODBURY., of Nevada. made a bit
ter personal attack upon Mr.. Cox, of New
1ork, taking for his text extracts from
Mr.. CoX's tariff speech in which he char
acterized Nevada as a ''rotton borough
and ridicuied its representative in the
house. The gentleman, he said, called
Nevada rotten borough" but he deied
the gentleman to name an instance of the
purchase of the legislative of that state.
He defied the gentleman to name time
in her history when there had
not been an honest vote honest
ly counted Nevada never had
to boast of a Connolly, Sweeny, Car
dosa, Field or an lngersoll, and it was to
her credit that she had never produced a
Cox. Laughter.l She needed no Canada
on her borders to shelter her thieves and
political scoundrels Unlike the state of
New York, the capacity of her ballot box
was limited by the quantity of votes cast
and if the Blair bill became law his con-
stltuents would not get one cent where
gentiemen's constituents would get dol
lars. If all the corruption fund that
would be expended to carry the empire
state for Cleveland were put into
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influence on any of the four wards. He
had always heard that the gentleman was
the wit and humorist of the house, bnt he
had never been convinced of it until the
gentleman had delivered his speech on the
tariff. He remembered that when Ben
Butler ''shOo-hied'' the gentleman into
silence, the people believed that he would
forever cease to pose as the funny man of
congress, but the gentleman had evidently
L.. Nf \ s.
sippi, and in a desperate effort to regain
his shattered reputation had Sc
lected his (Woodburn's name for
a humorous analysis. If he
name were the same as that of the gentle
man from New York he would have the
good sense never to permit it to be the sub
ject OF criticism on the floor of the house.
He had read modern and ancient, sacred
and profane history and he had failed to
lind that the name of Cox was ever asso-
ciated with a decent or conspicuous
achievement The Almighty had never
destined to immortality man bearing the
name of Cox. He then quoted Mr. Cox's
remarks eulogistic of the Celti and deroga-
tory of the SaXons, and commented upon
the marvellous change which had come
over the sentiments Of the gentleman since
he wrote THE Buckeye Abroad" From
this book he quoted to show that in
1854 Mr.. Cox had held views deroga-
tory to the Celt, and ne declared that the
Buckeye in Ohio was totally different
from the Buckeye when he placed his
carpet bag in Tammany hall. The gentle
man was DR.. JeEyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr..
WOODBURY. then went into an analysis of
Mr. Cox's middle name of Sullivan and
denied that gentleman's claim that he
was descendant of General Sullivan of
fame. In conclusion he re-
piled to the charge in regard to S. Hewitt
having apologized to the English minister
because the house prssed a resolu-
ton Of inquiry as to the trial of an Ameri-
can citisen by a British court, but
his time having expired he stated that he
would take the floor tomorrow uron a
question of privilege and address the house
on the subject.
Mr. Cox said that he had been avdised
by friends on both sides of the house to
pay no attention to his nonsense. For
many years the book, "The Buckeye.
Abroad" had been quoted against him on
many subjects. Though young man, he
had in that book indicated, as every young
American should, the doctrine of our con
as to religious liberation. He
had paid a visit to Ireland and had paid
tribute to the people of that coun-
try. The gentlemen should have made
this attack upon him during the debate on
the tariff The bullet had gone by and
the gentleman did not know enough at the
time to know that he was hurt. He didn't
know because he was an incarante sup
presso yer. That was Irish for a man
who did not tell the truth all through.
I Laughter. He admitted the gentleman's
assertion that he was better lawyer than
he Cox was. He had, therefore, referred
to Blackstone, and found that when jury
had heard evidence and found accusation
groundless, it formally entered in the back
OF the bill 'ignoramus." If the gentle
men were indicted for intelligence and for
telling the whole truth, and the grand jury
kept to the old custom, it would write on
the back of the bill'' ignoramus. laugh
teri All he had TO say to the gentlemen
in conclusion, ''dig, dig little more; dig
under ground; there's sunlight in the
sky"
Mr.. Stuble, of Iowa. and Mr.. Dingley, of
Maine. criticized the committee on alco-
holic liquor traffic for not having reported
measures to regulate or prevent the sale of
liquors in the District of Columbia. The
bill was then passed.
Mr.. Sinola, of New York, asked unani-
nous consent for the immediate consider
alton of the joint resolution appropriating
81. 900 for the celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettys-
burg.
Breckenridge, of Arkansas, objected on
Ine 0roiuu tnat War CeieDTdCiOlts III any
part of the country were conducive of no
good
Adjourned.
INCREASED POsTOFFICe ESTIMATES
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE postmaster
general today sent to congress an addi-
uonal estimate of appropriations for free
delivery service for the next fiscal year of
81, 02l, 200. This additional amount, the
postmaster general says, is necessary to
carry out the provisions of the act extend
ing the eight hour law to the letter car
riers. 1t is estimated that it viii be nee
ccssary TO employ 1000 more carriers, an
increase of p per cent, to bring the hours