The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-04

treasury Of the United States, stop the
spoliation OF the people and obstruet the
schemes that came in by the CARLOAD. He
had had an idea that the rules Of the House
embodied the experience Of past Congresses
and were intended to allow the House 10 do
such things as it was bound to do and pre-
vent 1t from doing anything else. He
had had a suppositiOn that no matter what
subject came up. II it had public sentiment
behind 1t, 1t would be agreed to without diff
ficulty or without serious objection. He had
supposed the Speakership was judicial pO-
sitiOn and had had the idea that the Speaker
was the judge. He had had an idea that the
Speaker was not a partisan, but would come
up to the old traditions and become worthy
OF his great position, aDplause on the Dem
0cratic sidel but this had been when he sat
in darkness and ignorance, and before he
had learned the immense advantage of gen
could now tell what parliamentary law was.
The essential was that each ruling OF the
Speaker should be placarded in advance, as
theatrical bills were. as the first and only
appearance" Laughter.I It seemed that
genera parliamentary law made 1t possible,
not only for a 0ne-eyed man TO be Speaker,
but for him TO be at an advantage,
ESPECIALLY IF THE BLIND EYE
happened to be towards the side Of the
House where the minority sat. That
was the meaning Of parliamen-
tary law. Laughter. That
was the meaning Of the new dispensati0n
which was to do away with the rules Of the
House. Hereafter, so the members were
told, representatives were to come here to
legislate. In the good time. soon to come,
the Congressional Record would shrink into
the size Of a volume Of statutes, and the
statutes assume the size OF the CongressiOn-
al Record. The House would appropriate,
would legislate, would irrigate. ughtef
and whatever 1t did, would never hesitate
nor mediate, nor cogilate. Laughter. IL
would refund taxes to those who wanted
them refunded, would subsidize whomever
wanted TO be subsidized, and all the members
would go home with their public buildings.
And, incidentally. he notified the House that
In his district was the most meritorious place
in the country for the erection Of such an ed
ifice Laughter They would legislate and
era, acting under general parliamentary
law,the lobbyist would be power in legisla-
not be obliged to 60 around
and give checks to individual mem.
beTs, What had the members @E to DO with
passed. bills. The Speaker approved the
journal. The lobbyist would have TO come
here, not to bother with members, but to
"see" the Speaker as much more effective
tleman on the other side hesitate to go on;
let them press the advantage they had got.
In the language Of finance, they had caught
the Democrats short on the market. Laugh
teri. Let them press their advantage, while
they had 1t. Let them not stop because
there was good d-natured action ON the Demo-
cratic 81 Ie; nor let them be alarmed by the
angry ebullitions of the gentleman from
Illinois, Mr.. Springer. 1t was only
LITTLE JEALOUSY ON sPRINGER's PART.
He had done little in parliamentary law
himself. [Laughter.l Like Moses flying
from the rod which he had flung down,
which turned into serpent, the Republican
trty would flee from general parliamentary
law long before this session adjourned.
The question then required on ordering
the previous question and the adoption OF
the report of the committee on elections was
ordered; yeas, 166; nays, none. This is the
first time since the meeting of Congress that
the Republicans had quorum voting. The
result was received with applause The
only absentees on the Republican side were
Messrs. Caswell and WILDER, both Of whom
are sick. Four roll calls were required be-
fore the vote came finally on the seating Of
Smith, the contestant. At the end he was
declared entitled to his seat, yeas, 166; nays,
0, amid Republican applause. Mr.. Smith
appeared and took the oath of Office, where
upon Mr.. Springer of Illinois, sarcastically
inquired whether this was a proper time to
make motion to adjourn. With a similar
intonation Of sarcasm the Speaker replied in
the Affirmative. The House accordingly, at
35, adjourned.