New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-02

WHY sbould good Democrats, washing their hands,
like Pontus PLATE, Of this matter and desiring onS
the Quiet and convenient seclusion OF their own So''
be compelled to submit to the outrage OF being hou
in order to enable legislation to marchf Leu the ma
jority have their here. Let every hepuphcoA
be in his seat, where he belongs, and there "oiu 10
trouble
This sounds we'll What could DO more simpler
One hundred and sixty-cight Republicans present ana
voting is all ask. UisortuDaeE, tnis - 49, 49,
which Congress does not utterly ABSORB. oavs n
and death and business crises 90 hot SPAR 49,.
congressman In the struggles over INC eio. 80
OF Jackson and smith two men were re he oVercome
two at risk OF further SICKNESS anu pa ~
Of their lives AT the next crisis wIea ~ T have
all the Republicans there Mr. Mckinley VINO was hIs
good health on the prior occasion dared nVs vcS
room. Mr.. Morrow had taken the place OF elr h9ex
Well the sckist, and d death IN MS lAniiy -
sent Mr. Van scbaick home In place Of Mr ia 'e
who could not be with US on the decision Oh tne eie
ton Many representatives III CongIess' inorv
over. are men OF affairs business men WHO hn
throw away their enterprises and close up taer snop
entirely If the country wants their servlces,xsn!u
no men are more useful by reason OF te very aS t
and Judgment which put them in the fore 'front.' OF I've
business world,they must have time once IN WINE ne
to attend to important AFFAIRS And IN M meS VII
be called OIL Just at the moment when the greas
doctrine OF furnishing quorum is TO be put IN prac
tice. Whenever this matter Is examined, IL VIII seem
very clear to intelligent that 1T is much more
sensible count those have than TO send Tor tnoss
Another specious form which his argument some:
times takes the declaration that there are great ano
solemn occasions when the minority should nave Tie
right to demand majority vote OF all those elected
to membership Who Is TO Judge OF these solemn
occasionsi Why the very gentlemen whom our
government by maores eoncsysy prssumsssr to be
this is in the Constitution OF this state, that State, and
the other state and therefore is right 1t would seem
10 an ordinary constitutional lawyer as II the iact
that had to be put into other Constitutions ana had
not been put into ours, was conclusive that II was
NOT there either by implication or design. 1t IS To
lie hoped that the time Is far distant when anybody
will even propose to put into the Constitution OF the
Inltad states the crude expressions of disrst In the
representatives, Of the people which disfgure many OF
when men learn that the truest foundation on which
to build perpeYate and maintain republic Is con- o;,;
cease to deprive them of power IN order to lodge
in the hands Of the few. whose ONLY claim to WISDOM
and virtue Is their paucity OF numbers When the
world reaches a real belief in government by the
people we shall find II the surest safeguard OF liberty
and property: shall find States better ruled ana
cities better governed than by any OF those devices
which are based the false idea that for the gov
eminent Of oil the wisdom Of the few is better than
the wisdom Of the many.