Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-12

farmers and mechanics, and. indeed, TO all
classes Of our people. 1t has been repeatedly
stated on the other side during this debate
that the present republican President did
not receive a majority of the popular vote of
the country. What that has to do with the
question under consideration am not able to
discover; but how would it have been
IF THERE HAD BEEN FREE AND FAIR ELEc.
TIoN
and an honest count in the southern states Of
this Union. Why, it took more than thirty
thousand votes to elect the Representative in
my district, and I am told that there are
men sitting on this floor who received
oser sis tssS oo votes ,sa ssupp0's s.,ts the
entitled to vote had voted and had their votes
counted, and had been free to exercise the
election franchise, who then do you sup
pose would have had the popular vote of that
district and OF the country Away with this
nonsence about Cleveland having ma.
jority of the popular vote of the country,
when there is no such thing as free and fair
erection In several OF the great states of the
Union, and when masses of men are disfran.
chised and not allowed to vote at all.
THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE COUNTRY
are demanding business legislation and that
the ''do-nothing policy" of Congress tor the
last ten years shall change. and how shall you
change it without amending the rules that
bind the body hand and foot? The business
men OF the country want bankrupt law We
want at least radical amendments to the inter-
state commerce law. We want greatly needed
public buildings in cehters of population and
business. We want life-saving stations light
houses and needed improvements to rivers and
and growing country We want laws
regulating and restricting immigration.
We want a wise revision of the tariff on pro-
lection lines. The Union soldiers want the
soldiers dependent pension bill, bill that de-
crees that no soldier shall die in the poor
house-vetoed by Grover Cleveland.
WE WANT NAVY AND COAST DEFENsEs
that will command confidence at home and re-
spect abroad. The country has been demanding
this legislation for ten years, and the only
way to reach it is to cut the chains
that bind this body, as is proposed by
these new rules, and make it a
republican body, where the majority, who are
responsible for its acts, can do business. Il
am no orator, as Brutus is. but only plain
as representative of the plain peo-
pie to say that they do not
understand this business; they do not
understand by which hocus-pocus, by what
trick of legerdemain the minority were able to
defeat the majority in Congress for the last
twenty years. The plain people all over the
country do not understand the process by
which the minority in the body is able to de-
feat the majority SO as to prevent all business,
and we are content to 60 before the people on
this issue.
STRONGLY SUPPORTED THE NEW CODE.
Mr.. Allen (AIich.) strongly supported the
rules, especially that which permits the Speaker
to refuse to recognize dilatory motions, and he
eulogiZed the recent action of Speaker Reed in
this respect. The dilatory motions had not
been made to further public business, not to
prevent raids on the Treasury, not for the pur-
pose of settling some great question, but had
been made for the purpose OF preventing the
consideration of the question whether Jackson
had right to seat on this floor. He ridiculed
the excitement which had prevailed on the
democratic side, but said that it had queted
down when the democrats and the country had
seen that the Speaker was
NOT REED TO BE SHAKEN BY THE WINDS.
He criticised the democrats for sitting in
their seats and refusing to vote. II might be
said that this was parliamentary, but his
tory would say that it was silent seces-
sion, and that the members were
not doing the duty which their oath of office
required them to do. He denied the charge
that the rules would allow raids upon the
treasury. The representatives of the
people on the republican side of tho
House were not men given to loot
ing. They were men who represented con-
stituencies which were conservative, which
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the value of law, OF the value Of order and
LIE HURLED BACK THE CHARGE
that the republicans were revolutionists or ever
had been. The fathers were revolutionists when
they broke away from Great Britain, but since
the nation had been founded the republicans
had never attempted to destroy it. The revo-
lutionists, if there were any in the House
which he did not believe-could not be found
on the republican side.
THE SAME OLD TACTICS.
At 1855 the House adjourned and at noon
the session of Wednesday began. The journal
having been read Mr.. Boutelle of Maine
asked unanimous consent for its approval,
but objections came from the democratic side
and a roll call was made necessary. The jour-
nal was approved-yeas 119, nays (Mr. Buck
alew) )-the Speaker counting u democrats as
present and not voting.
KENTUCKY PROTEST.
Mr.. McCreary (Ky.) entered his emphatic
protest against the new code and criticized the
recent decisions Of the Speaker. That officer
had defied all precedents and had reversed
the parliamentary decisions of nearly all the
Speakers who had presided over the House
He had not only Overruled Blaine, Gar
sl Ss had H""es aSsrruea Sni his oOoger hut
ances when on the floor of the House. The.
time had come when the House needed rules
instead of a ruler and dictator, fairness and
justice instead Of communism and Casarism
He inveighed against the new rules, asserting
that their effect would be to make the Congress
of the United States consist of the Senate of
the United States and Speaker Reed.
Chief Clerk of the State Department.
Secretary Blaine went to the Department Of
State this morning for the first time in some
weeks, and the first thing he did was to sign
paper making Mr.. Sevellon A. Brown chief
clerk Of the department in place of Col ].
Fenner Lee, resigned. Mr.. Brown assumed his
duties at once and started Immediately upon
the work OF the Office, which is very familiar to
him. A large portion of his time during the
the large number of congratulations that came
to him from all sources. He held quite a re-
ception, greeting the old clerks and meeting
the few new ones who have appeared since he
left the department couple Of years ago.