Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-05
ROGERS PARTICULARLY SEVERE.
Mr.. Breckinridge Grows Grandly- Eloquent
in His Appeals for Fra
ternal Fellowship
AND MR. BOUTELLE CALLS HIM DOWN
By an Unknd Allusien to the Election Methods Of the
Southern States.

curry favor with the Farmers Alliance, he
had his license as LAWYER annulled. He de-
nounced the statement as a falsehood, and
as a campaign lie.
The House then went into committee OF
the whole (Mr. Psyson. of Illinois, in the
chsir) on the general deficiency appropria-
tion bill. Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, ex-
planned that the bill carried an appropria-
tion of S., 140, 600. The items of deficiency
submitted to the Committee on Appropria-
tions, aggregated SIS, 500, 900.
Mr.. Rogers, of Arkansas, promised his
remarks by an expression of gratitude that
the presence of Mr.. Payson in the chair was
q guarantee that be would not be taken off
the floor. On two occasions the Speaker had
taken him of the floor. The Speaker had
conceived and taken it into his brain, for it
had come out of his mouth (though it
brain), that he had right to take a mem
Der off the floor.
Mr.. Kerr, of Iowa, thought that it was
about time that members addressing the
House should cease to insult the presiding
officer, and he made the point of order that
the remarks of the gentleman from Arksnsas
were out of order.
The Chairman, however, permitted the
gentleman to proceed, and Mr.. Rogers, con-
tinuing, attacked the Speaker and his
rulings.
UNwARRANTED POWERS.
He claimed the code of rules under which
the House is proceeding gave the Speaker
power to stife debate, gag the House, force
the passage of bills, avoid exposure, out
rage and mistreat the minority and bull
doze the majority. The House, he said, had
degenerated into a state of anarchy and
chaos. 1t was suspected that the Speaker
tarned his back on full, fair, frank discus
sion, on opportunity for amendment, on
parliamentary decorum, on official urbanity,
or historic and patriotic memories, in order
that he might unlawfully perpetuate his
party In power and draw to his support for
the Presidency the unscrupulous mass of ig-
norant and vulgar partisans, who practiced
the infamous and corrupt maxim that the
end justified the means. He had degraded
the majority with the full assurance on the
part of Republican members that if this
scheme should break down under the judg-
ment of liberty-lovlng people, they would
perish, like Samson, under the ruins but ii
it succeeded, that he alone should reap all
glory. Mr.. Henderson, OF Iowa, defended
Speaker Reed against the attack made upon
him by Mr.. Rogers.
THE MIGHTY MAN FROM MAINE.
Ee referred to him as the mighty man
from Maine, and declared that he stood to- |
day as the towering, historic grand figure of |
this age Of legislative victory and reform. |
If the people of this Republic did not an /
preciate what earnestness, courage and |
patriotism had done in this Congress, then |
there was no gratitude in the Republic for
LOYALTY to its best interests.
Commenting on the legislation of the ses-
sion, Mr.. Henderson touched upon the tariff
bill saying that although some of the Re-
publicans might have desired to amendit, by
reason ofthe organized opposition on the other
side, the time had been so consumed that
those amendments could not be made. 1t
seemed as though the minority was bent on
preventing all amendments. This House |
had passed the general court bill and the |
bankruptcy bill. 1t had passed the silver |
bill, whereby silver was already marching |
forward to take its place beside gold.
COURAGE AND PATRIOTISM.
This House had been the first one with |
the courage and patriotism to pass an anti !
trust bill. 1t had passed an election bill
an election bill and not a force bill, as its |
enemies took pleasure in calling it. The |
bill was merely an enlargement and an |
improvement of the law which had been in /
force for 19 years. 1t sought to gag the |
right of no citizen, nor TO do any wrong to
any citizen North or South.
The House had passed the Original pack
age" bill, marching boldly forward to the
demands OF the best thought of the people
of the nation North and South. The Re-
publieans of the House had erected pyra-
mid of legislation.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, criticised
the code of rules and then said he had no
criticism to make upon the Speaker. Ifthe
gentleman on the other side were satisfied |
with the officer, God forbid that he should
attempt to remove that satisfaction. II
they were willing to accept the Speaker as a
fair type of their party he would enter no
dissent. The Speaker had won his suprem-
acy. He had exercised the supremacy he
had won. Laughter. He had been the
Republican leader on the floor. The Re-
publicans had made him their leader in the
chair and he had exercised that leadership.
[Laughter.]
DREW THE CONTRAST.
Mr.. Breckenridge then proceeded to con-
trast the personal and political relations
which existed between Speaker Carlisle and
the members and that which existed be-
tween them and Speaker Reed. It the last
Congress the members of the minority had
always been treated courteously; now a
member of the minority rising for recogni-
ton did not know what treatment he would
receive at the hands of the Speaker, He
then proceeded to make an earnest appeal
against the force bill, concluding as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen of the North, why shall we
not come together? Why can we not lay
aside these suspicious? You cannot take
your rotten burroughs" from the South.
You cannot hold power here by mercenaries
put at the polls. You cannot control this
House by the use of the army. You cannot
keep political power by debauching the
ballot box or the jury box. You cannot
make the country one by turning out the
members elected by the people, and seating
the non-elected by your votes What you
can DO is this: You can aid the people of
the South to build up that country.
COULD HELP ONE ANoTHKR.
You can help us dig our mines, bridge
our rivers, tunnel our mountains, endow
our schools, make our colleges prosperous,
erect our churches, keep us in the line OF
progressive march; so that your sons may
come and live among us, buy our lands, en-
Joy the salubrity of our climate, throw in |
their lot with ours, intermarrv in our fam
lilies, SO that, while there will still be a
North and a South, it will be loving and
q rich North, prosperous and patriotic
South. That is what we Democrats. who
on this side OF the chamber protest against
your rules, desire to have done by the peo-
pie who are behind you at home.
/ appeal to the Massachusetts OF Plv.
mouth. I appeal to the Western Reserve.
settled by the men who came from New
appeal to the living soldiers who
met as In battle array; appeal to the
Christians who kneel with us at the same