Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-15

will be made in few day. Senator
Gray will prepare the minority report,
which will be an exhaustive argument
for the Democratic side. Senator Tur-
pie will not sign either report, but will
likely make one for himself, as he holds
that no formal election of Senators has
been accomplished and believes the
case should be returned to Montana
for action.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections has reported on the re-
quest of Mr.. Call that the accuracy Of
the report of his speech on the Saun-
ders Florida murder as published in
the Congressional Record, be investiga-
ted. The committee declined to
question the accuracy of the steno-
grapher and recommended that the
report of the speech stand without
correction. The additional question
as to how far a Senator may go in
debate and be within parliamentary
bounds was recommended to be refer
red to the Senate committee on rules
for definition.
In this beautiful manner does the
Senate sit in judgment on hair pulling
among its old women. Senator Chand-
Ter claimed that Senator Call had
interpolated into the published report
of his speech, remarks derogatory to
his New Hampshire dignity. This
accusation Mr. Call resented with all
the fervency of his Southern nature.
Of course this was true and everybody
knew it to be true. Still Mr.. Calls
language as used on the floor was fully
as bitter and personal as was the Ian
guage in the Record. He had added
nothing of Importance. The custom
of allowing Senators and Representa-
tives to revise the official reports of
their speeches shall have some limit.
At present it sometimes means that the
official report is mangled beyond re-
cognition, and speech that was when
delivered a miserable, stumbling fail
ure becomes after pruning and padding
a brilliant success. When you start to
revising a speech there is no telling
where you end.
The House is deep in figures. The
scores of public building appropria-
lions are before it, and the end seems
far off. The mill grinds rapidly
enough. Regularly a bill is called up
in the Committee of the Whole, it is
recommended that the proposed appro-
priation be reduced about twenty five
per cent. and then the able salons
grab the next one and put it through
horizontal reduction.
The government clerks are having
some difficulty recognizing their Re
publican State Associations. The
trouble is generally about membership
The truth is that so many of them for
get their allegiance to the old party
during Mr.. Cleveland's administration
that there might be awkward explana-
tons to make. Their love feasts give
promise of being cold and suspicious
affairs.
Speaker Reed usually walks home
from the Capitol, and you can be sure
that there is always somebody lying in
wait to catch him and ask for some
favor, as he strides up the avenue. His
enormous body shakes as he walks and
the gait is rapid but not firm. His
head is bent forward as that Of man
who has habitually poured important
advice into shorter mems ears. The
smile on his face is one Of content
and his eyes, looking like small beads
in that immesne mass of jelly-like flesh,
take in everything. No one in his
party is half so we'll pleased with his
success as a Speaker as is Mr.. Reed
himself For years he has fretted at
being kept in the background, and now
the sarcasm and accusations Of his
political enemies are as dear to him as
the congratulations of his friends:
But if the present session has glori-
fed Reed, it has depressed Major Nc
Kinley. The Ohio mans leadership
is waning. Reed takes all the laurels.
The recent debate on the new rules
and the prior fllibustering, offered
Mckinley an opportunity of which he
failed to avail himself. AS the repre-
sentative of the majority in the most
important committee of the House, he
exhibits the same defect that Carlisle
does as representative Of the minority.
He is too slow. With all their exper-
fence and good sense these men are
unfortunately placed, for neither has
the cut-and-come-again powers that
make such men as Reed and Randall
leaders on the floor.
The contested election cases are
especially annoying to the Democrats.
The debate on these cases have develop
ed the strength of Crisp, of Georgia,
who is rapidly going to the front rank
and who is personally popular with
the House floor, of his party. If the
Democrats had their choice to-day
Crisp would be Speaker. If the Re
publicans had it to do over again; |
doubt if Mckinley would receive
quarter of the vote he had last Deem
ber Thus are regulations lost and
made in few months.