Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-02-07

ing a bad time of it these days. Pro
gress under general parliamentary law
is slow. The machinery runs along /
smoothly enough so long as no demo
crat resists its workings, but the least
obstruction stops it and then there is
a parrot and monkey time before it /
gets started again. Of course, this is
fun for the democrats but is annoy
ing to the republicans and worse than /
annoying to the Speaker. It is sim
ply making his life a burden. There
have been two skirmishes this week |
In the first instance Mr.. Bland start
ed the trouble on a decision denying
the right to demand telIers. He ap-
| peaIed and the day was saved only
by the somewhat doubtful victory Of
/ laying the appeal on the table. MIR.
! Cannon saved the day by that motion.
/ Mr.. Holman started the second row.
/ He took an appeal on the ground that
a bill from the judiciary Committee
appropriatlng money for a peniten-
tiary must first be considered in com
mittee Of the whole. The House re-
fused to Over-rule the Speaker. Then
the machinery moved again. The
new rules are looked for with anxiety
and a strong desire on both sides to
! have some adequate system of proce-
/ dure.
4 By strict party vote the House
I committee on elections on Wednes-
! day decided to report in favor Of IN
seating jackson, the democrat &C
credited representative from West
Virginia, and declaring Smith, the
] republican contestant, entitled to the
membership. OF the seventeen con
tested election cases in the House this
is the first one reached, and as is gen
/ orally the case the verdict is purely a
party matter on both sides. What
ever merit there may be in the case
each party votes for its own man.
This fact was so generally recognized
/ that the committee on the final hear
ing of the case, after a short review
4 of the matter, decided that 1t would
be useless to dissect the evidence tax
en-, as several days would be cOnsum
. ed in the process, and the members
4 were we'll enough acquainted with the
/ facts and legal points involved, any
way. There Will, Of course, be two
reports presented to the House, {
majority and aminority report. Jack
son thus will hold his seat but a shOr
/ fine in comparison with most mem
b, 7rs who take their seats and are af
ter wards unsuccessful in contests
The re have been cases in recent year
when members held their seats int,
the Sc cond session and were then onI,
unseat, ID at the very close. This how
ever nel 7er occurs when the membe
first rec ognized does not belong t.
the domu liant power. Right anus
inc, these hearing Of contests,
Every fe W weeks the Postmaste
General Civ .es. a personal hearing t,
some deIega ton from a nearby tow
in the interest of a particular candt
date for post master. The railroa
! fare and the til ue consumed are bot
light, and the m 'aklng up of 4 delegs
ton is as easy as organizing a cOuI
try surprise party = Tt is when two c
these delegations lock horns that th
real tug of war COL aes. For two MOI
tai hours this week MIR. Wanamake
listened to the Orat Ors representa-
four different candid ates for castor
Maryland, who were present. Ih
solemn looking deIega ton sat range
. about the walls of the loom and mad
; havoc of the water COO ,ler and eye
the Postmaster General as the orr
tory flowed.
Secretary Noble has a disagrscabl
habit of searching for and fn0in
crookedness in the m engagement {
public funds. Just nov ? he has falIe
upon the receivers of pr IoIic money
the far West and there are already
dozen heads in the bas' keb and a scol
more to follow The spe HaI agen
have been making an nves agation
the books of the receivers, with IL
result of finding numerous shortage
running from one to fftY thousan
dollars IN amount. The r smovals al
pre-emPtory
The Supreme Courts 81 dng a hea
ing this week in a case in which Il
state Of North Carolina IS. sued by
citizen of that state to compel Il