Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-10-03
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MS nose at least held In the trough
long enough 10 count loo. Long
continued laughter. 1t was form
erly feared that, to openly count a
man present who was present,
would provoke the outbreak of n
volcano. But in the light of our
experience. there is a color of laugh
Ter in the idea of Mr.. Breckenridge.
of Kentucky; Mr.. Bynum, of Iudi
ana; Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, with
Others, forming a syndicate to start
a volcano. Loud laughter. 1t
might have been easily foreseen that
the predicted ordeal vi the elements,
like the advertised features of u
menagerie, would dwindle from the
dignity Of volcano to the less i'm
pressive phenomena Of natural gas
explosion. Loud laughter. 1t is
certain that neither silence nor
noise can stop the proceedings Of
the house. To-day the house is free.
ii Il majority is present, t. proceed
with the public business. And on
that question the good sense of the.
American people is with the speak
er. Loud applause.
The election in Maine shows it
Llong continued applause1, wher,
four candidates for congress went
up in the balloon of democratic
congress and walked back. LOuG
laughter and applause. The elec
ton in Pennsylvania will show it
Applause. For if there is any sec
ton OF the country that prefers u
paralytic congress, laughterJ, al
impotent house OF representative
laughterl, government with
cury rya;uye of the spine loud laugh
teri, it is not this magnificent COM
monwealih of yours. Applause. ]
No man need fear that element of
deliberstion Is eliminated from our
legislative proceedings. 1t is gone
only in so much as il ought to go
The value of speechmtring is settled
by the habits of the house. A
weeks debate amounts to week :
vacation. In this view of the facts
it appears absurd for people to la
ment the disappearing freedom of
debate in congress. An assembly
of speechmakers can no more be ex-
pected TO listen TO speeches than a
conference of doctors to open their
proceedings by passing around pills.
I Loud laughter 1t requires the
largest charity of the imagination to
find in the senate the features of a
deliberative body.
l went the other day into that an.
cient, political retreat. found seven
men nodding in their chairs, thirty
four in various attitudes of repose
in the cloak rooms, while in the
seven stood a venerable figure. /
paused to listen and as the old man
turned corner in his discourse,
solemnly asserting that the tariff
is tax laughterl, l could hear a
melOdious snore from the cloak
rooms [laughte and by simple
fact cf the Imagination l could hear
snore from the whole country.
Loud laughter.
Mr.. Delivers alluslon to Speaker
Reed was received with veciierou-
applause. President Stewart step
ping forward, said: II now have
the pleasure of introducing to you
the man who Mr.. Doliver has called
the greatest living republican,
Thomas Z. Reed" When Mr..
Reed was able to make himself
heard he said:
Fellow citizens: / am very thank
ful for your cordial greeting, and it
makes me sorry that / have moth
ing to present in any way worthy of
it. Not until a very recent time did
expect to De with you tonight,
for tine wicked baye been very ram
pant cheersl for the last few days,
aud | dad not know that it might
not be necessary for Mr.. Dolliver
and myself to stay with them. Ap-
plause. Or without them. Pr
onged cheers and laughler But
all that is happily over, and l feel
more responsive to you tonight
han l might have felt this morn
ng. The republican party was
born fighting. Its very hest history
las been on battle-iields- civic as
we'll as military. The very essence
,f its composition Is that it should
10 battle, for the republican party
makes every forward movement in
he interest Of the people Of the
United States. Applause. 1t has
never been necessary for the demo-
cratic party to do fighting except
Turing the civil war. We have just |
.ome down from scene which men !
\ no were in Washington. in the I
'arly days of reDublicanisln and re-
publican rule, were reminded Of the
Genes then and there made memo
able-of the legislative halls de-
erted.
On the democratic side for the last /
week we have been treated to emp
y benches; they have not been visi-
lie. [Applause.l And ] want you
o understand the occasi0n for what
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