The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-10
RIGHT OF PETITION.
The Fate Awaiting Appeals to
Congress.
lNDEFATlcAslg WASHINGTON.
Dig.i6ea Treatment AZ Hanhis rets-
tiesers ~ tAe ssasAs-Bsndltnx
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Tie right OF petition Was never % liher-
any exercised BY the American people ~ At
present In the senate this popular priv
lege Is treated with the old-tims courtesy.
The more practical and less disni1ed
House Is less regardless Of the feelings of
we the people,. Every morning. irnme-
diafeiy after the chaplain has PRAYED. the
senator's rise. one after another, and claim
the attention Of the vice president The
petitions are presented singiy. A page
makes flying trfp from the senator
TO the clerks desk with each roll OF paper
and brief announcement of the contents
Is made Then the petitions with their
thousands OF signatures and representing.
perhaps, days Of preparation, 80 TO the
COMMITTEES rooms 10 b buried In pigeon
holes and 10 be heard of never more. But
there Is this TO be said Of the Senate's
method of interment of the peoples wishes.
The obseqnies are attended with some de-
gree OF ceremony aud dignity.
On the House side Ia is different The
petitions are not referred % in the proceed
ings. Fastened upon the front OF the
clerks desk Is big box. After the men,
Der has conc through bis morning mail he
gathers up the petitions. memorials and
remonstrances" with which he has
been favored by his constituents
during the preceding twenty-tour
hours. walks down TO the clerks
desk and chucks the armfal. more or less,
into the biz box. In the hack part of the
Congressional Eeewa NEXT morning there
appears the briefest possible funeral notice
OF each OF these petitions, announcing tho
committee room TO which IL has been sent
for cremation. That h the end of them.
The box and clause OF rule -" save
the House from forty minutes 70 an hour
everv morning
The District Of Columbia, having no SEN
asor. exercises its right of petition through
the vice-president He usually leads Oft in
the daily presentation. I.etus see what he
has to day. First comes . letter and
series OF resolutions from the district as
sembly OF the knights Of Labor urging en-
forccment of the eight-hour law. The
next thing that Mr.. Morton lays before the
Senate is petition from the Norfolk branch
OF the Brickiayers' and Masons' Inter
national Union This prayer Is that none
| but American citizens be employed on
| government work-a mild application OF,
the principle OF America for Americana.
The vice-president also offers letter from
c. Burton Lyon. giving his views in regard
| to the proposed Worlds fair. After that
he gives way to Senator sherman.
What does the man who brought about
| the resumption Of specie payments have To
stand sponsor fort why. five petitions
from Stark county. o.. praying for tree
coinage Of silver. Mr.. Sherman once stood
up in the Senate and offered memorial 50
directly adverse 70 hrs known views that .
newspaper man went around TO see what
| be meant
II recognize tho constitutional right Of
the American citizen 70 petition. resolve
and smonstrate." replied the Senator.
THAT Is ALL"
Mr. sherman closes out his lob lot with
the quantity drawn protest Of the Cincin-
matt Quakers against expenditures for forti-
fications on the sea coast. The further In
| land the Quaker lives the more he abhors
| preparations for war on the coast.
A new state" senator unhinres his six
feet two in the rear row OF seats on the Re-
publican side. Sioux Falls bricklayers,
through Mr.. "Pickcrell" Fettigrew, inform
the Senate that there ought To he Law TO
prevent aliens from getting on government,
payrolls. This Is all from South Dakota
today, thank you.
The polished Mr.. Squire, Of Washington.
works of in full for the Record the memoir
ial of his legislature asking for q sJ0.Oo
lighthouse for that portion OF Puget sound
known as San Juan Passage" This Is
the tenth memorial from the Washington
legislature which her indefatigable senator's
and representatives have had printed ia
full in the Record within . week.
The other energetic senator from Wash
ington, Mr.. Allen, gets another memorial
from the Washington legislature inserted
in full in the Record This time the legisla-
ture feels that statehood will be . failure
unless congress win grant Tacoma sub
urban railroad right-oi-way across an In.
dian reservation to reach those wonderful
hop yards and fruit orchards In the Puy-
ailup valley
Senator Allen also has the word Of 100
citizens OF Washington that $500 viii
make the Lewis river navigabie4
And that Is all for today. Having de-
voted something less than an hour to the
recognition of the right OF petition, the
Senate proceeds 10 other business
Let as overhaul the petition casket at the
other end OF the capitol The box is
already overfowing. Sixty Of ths $50
representatives have made their deposits.
and thereby fulfilled their duty TO memo
rializing constituents. The same subjects
"a at the Senate end are treated, with
several interesting additions.
The Farmers Mutual Benevolent Assoc
citation. Of Grant county. Ind. insists that
bonds should be paid in half silver. This
same organization demands that the gov
ernment stop ioaning money TO national
banks and lie; the farmers have the chance
the banks have had.
Mr.. strubic has damped In big bundle
OF petitions from alliances In half dozen
Iowa counties asking for penalties on gam
bling In farm products
i California petition asks for legislation
TO improve spelling.
Perhsps this daily avalanche Of petitions
and rernonstrances has some influences upon
legislation. IL Ii doubtful. Perhaps q pur-
| pose Is served in providing this harmless
rent for the pent up sentiment OF the peo-
pie. That IL more likely.
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