Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-05

| beers of Congress to say-not Of their own
| sweet will, but after full, free and impartial
conference with all the republicans, and repre-
senting them all. Congress- Is never strong
except when the people are vigorously and
| vociferously behind it. II you want Congress
to do even what ii wants to do itself you had
| better help from outside al you know how.
| Owing to this suppression OF votes In the
| south, and owing to maneuyers, fortunately
| unsuccessful, to count us out altogether, the
House of Representatives goes TO work 80
evenly balanced that ii needs that the whole
republican party should come to the help of
the Lord against the mighty.
"Most people are giving little heed TO this
| close balancing of members. The country
must keep helping hand outstretched or be
ready TO be thankful for nothing. Let us look
these things squarely in the face. The first
| thing the country needs is parliamentary puri-
| fcation. 1t has been the bad practice Of the
House of Representatives for years to indulge
in flhbustering, OF which the most effective
| form il to refuse TO vote. When the Constitu-
ton authorized any member to demand a
quorum no thought existed OF such an abuse as
q refusal to vote. The Constitution, like Eng
land at Trafalgar, expected every man to do his
duty; but to-day 80 prevalent has become the
practice, 80 free has II been from rebuke, that
any man who is shameless enough can stop all
action on the part OF Congress. Some Of this
facility for eyil-doing grows out of the worst
set OF rules that ever afflicted a decent
community. but no cnauSe OF rules alone
can remedy what results from bad pub
lie sentiment and the slight notice which
our people take Of the way they are gov
erned. How many people in this country
realize that day after day is wasted in Con-
gress by men refusing to act who are paid
$1,000 a year for acting. and who do this simply
because more people are against them than
with them. minorty-simp1y because it is a
minority-stops legislation, and the country
looks on as if it were trivial matter. Unless
some remedy be found you can expect nothing
from the next Congress or any other. But
there is a remedy in plain sight, and that is
public sentiment. Let the people at large but
once understand the facts about this practice
OF defeating the public business and he will be
bold man who attempts it in the future. If
1t were possible on the Fourth of July in
country of 81. 000. 900. with wealth untold to be
a little dismal. should be so over the small
attention Congress gets. That fight of dogs
must be eventess and that lady about to shine
as a star on the dramatic stage must be press
ing her divorce suit with great languor If either
cannot dispiace in any metropolitan journal the
regular proceedings OF Congress-.
u suppose, however, We must take the bitter
with the sweet, and if we are not photo
graphed in our especially statesmaniike atti-
tudes, we escape display in some others. So,
on the whole, we may safely hope the people
will attend to their business faithfully as they
have until we reach 400, 900, 900. am full of
confidence that after that there will be chance
to be scared"
When Mr.. Reed had finished Gov Bulkely
introduced Secretaries Noble and Tracy
Neither was down on the program, but each
made q few remarks in patriotic strain.
Thus was ended the morning program. and
the guests then went to the cottage on the
shore of the lake for lunch. President Harri-
son rested for a quarter of an hour, and then
was escorted back to the stand by Grand Army
men.
A pRENcHINa RAIN.
The first speaker Of the afternoon was Presi-
dent Gates, of Rutgers college, whose subject
was Liberty Through Allegiance to Law"
When he was well advanced in his address a
furious and drenching shower caused the peo-
pie to make precipitate run for cover. Dur
ing slight lull in the storm Will Carleton
read his poem, Rhymes to the Day." and Sem
ator Hiscock got through part of his address
on American Political Pessimism,' but the
rain soon began to fall more heavily than ever,
and MIR. Bowen announced that the rest Of the
program, consisting of the doxology and the
benedictIon, would be carried out at his resi-
dence.
President Harrison will leave Putnam at 8
O'Clock this morning for Newport and will leave
there in the Despatch at IL pm. tonight, and
VIII be In Jersey City in time to take the $40
pm. train for Washington tomorrow.