, 1890-08-05
REEDS ROTTEN RULE
Denounced by Representative
Rogers Of Arkansas.
The Speaker Hated and Cursed
by Republicans.
Breckenridge's Eloquent Ap-
peal for Fair Play.


WASHINGTON, Aug, 4-The house went
into committee of the whole on the gen.
ersl deficiency appropriation bill.
Henderson of Iowa explained that the
Pacific railroad claims were not provided
for in the bill. While he believed the
time was near at hand when the claims
would have to be settled. the committee
had been practically unanimous in re-
fusIng to provide for their payment, when
they are still running in the courts OF the
country.
Rogers Of Arkansas attacked the
speaker and his rulings. The code Of
rules. he said, under which the house was
proceeding gave the speaker power to
stife debate, gag the house. force the
passage Of bills, ayoid exposure, outrage
and mistreat the minority aud bulldoze
the majority. He had degraded the ma
jority with the full ASSURANCE on the part
of the Republican members that if this
should break down under the judgment
of the iherty-loving people, they would
perish like Sampson under the ruins, but
if it succeeded then he alone should reap
all the glory.
Their want OF patriotic courage was ex-
ceeded only by their stupidity, and among
them all has not been found a man with
the courage Of q Jackson, the patriotism
of . Henry and the love of liberty that
inspired our fathers. Il tell you, Mr..
Speaker, that they curse you and desplse
YOU and hate you, and when you are as
sailed in private and in public. they are
silent"
Henderson of Iowa defended the
speaker against the attack made upon
him by Rogers. He referred to him as
the mighty man from Maine, and de-
clared that he stood today as the tower
ing, historic, grand figure Of the age Of
legislative victory and reform. Com
menting on the legislation of the session,
Henderson touched Upon the tariff bill,
saying. although some Republicans might
have desired to amend it by
q fusion with the organized opposition on
the other side, the time had been so con-
sumed that those amendments could not
bemade. 1t seemed as though the minority
was bent on preventing all amendments.
This house had passed the silver bill
whereby silver was already marching for
ward to take its place beside gold. This
house had been the first one with the
WILL u DAtiloliolh ~ paoo al dutl"
treasury bill. 1t had passed an election
bill-an election bill, and not a force bill,
as its enemies took pleasure in calling it.
This house had passed an "original pack
age" bill, marching boldly forward to the
demands of the best thought of the peo-
pie of the nation. North and South. The
Republicans OF the house had erected a
PYRAMID of legislation.
Breckenridge of Arkansas, criticized
the code of rules and proceeded to contrast
the personal and political relations which
existed between Speaker Carlisle and the
members and that which existed between
them and Speaker Reed. In the last con-
gress the members of the minority had
always been treated with courtesy. Now
n member of the minority rising for recog-
milton did not know what treatment he
would receive at the hands af the speaker.
He then proceeded to make an earnest
appeal against the force bill, concluding
as follows: Gentlemen of the North, why
shall we not come together Why cannot
we lay aside these suspicious? You can
not take your rotten burroughs" from
the South; you can not hold power by
nercenarles put at the polls;
you can not keep political power
by debauching the ballot box or the jury
box; you caunot make the country one by
turning out members who are elected by
the people and seating men elected by
your votes. What you can do is this:
You can aid the people of the South to
build that country; you can help us keep
In line; your sons may come and live
among us; throw in their lot with ours;
inter-marry in our families. So, while
there will still be a North and a South,
it will be a loving and a rich North, and
S~-NL TL.t
is what we Democrats, who on this side
of the chamber protest against you rule,
desire to have lone by the people who
are behind you at home. / appeal
to the Massachusetts, of Plymouth.
l appeal to the Western Re
serve, settled by men who came
from New England; | appeal to the living
soldiers who met US in battle array; | APP
peal to the Christians who kneel with us
at the same alter; | appeal to the brave
men who recognize sincerity and craving
behind you; | appeal to the loving people
of the North to give us you confidence.
We well deserve it; we do deserve it, and
he who says otherwise does not know us;
does not speak the truth of US. |
speak today in the light OF God and this
body and of those people who have known
me at home since | was a little boy, when
L say from the fullness OF nv heart, there
is no reason why the North and South
should be apart. There is every reason
why the brave and true men of both sec
tions should believe each other. Loud
applause on the Democratic side
Boutelle said he had no desire to at
tempt any defense OF the speaker from
the kind of remarks which had been made
from certain sources today. He then
commented on the Clayton Breckenridge
case, taking as his text the press report
of the majority of the committee on cleo
tions. UDon this text he built a strong
denuuciation of the election methods in
the Southern states.
Breckenridge of Kentucky said his
relative. the gentleman from Arkansas,
had not sought an easy escape by a cow
srdly resignation of his seat in congress.
The gentleman from Arkansas knew he
had nothing to be ashamed Of, and he
knew that the truth, when finally found,
would not affect him. Pending action on
the bill the committee rose and the house
adjourned.
In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-Davis offered
a resolution calling on the secretary ofwar