Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-03-13
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speaker Reed was troubled, in spite of his
seeming mperturbahility, BIZ the solid dis
sent OF the Democrats from the declaration
adopted by the Republicans that he deserved
thanks for the impartial manner in which he
had presided over the House. Mckinley last
night tried to save the Speakers feelings by
actually going over to the Democratic Size
and asking the leaders not to object to the
vote OF thanks; but the Democratic leaders re-
piled that they could not stultify themselves
by seeming to acquiesce in such a mockery as
the proposed vote of thanks. They agreed
among themselves, however, that they would
omit the proposed statement of their reasons
for their dissent, assuming that the country
knew and approved them, and that the state
ment of them might provoke unseemly de-
bate. Accordingly they contented themselves
with requiring the yeas and nays Oh the Nc
kinley resolution and recording their votes
against it.
REED FELT THE CUT.
Reed, who had left the chair to Burrows,
paced up and down the Speakers room while
the vote was being taken.
Later on, w. G. P. Breckenridge, by way of
bringing out the action of the Democrats in
sharp contrast, went out OF his way to praise
Cannon as chairman of the Appropriations
Committee for courtesy and fairness Reed
WINGED under this. His feeling about the
Democratic dissent is we'll shown by the pub
lication, through Journal Clerk Harry Smith,
clerk of Reeds Committee on Rules, of list
of twelve cases, all Of them before the war;
the latest in the Thirty-siXth Congress, when
Speakers OF the House did not receive unani-
nous votes of thanks. OF course, he says
nothing about tho fact that for thirty years
there has been no Speaker who did not receive
what lie desired but was denied Reed felt
the denial all the more keenly because tie
Democrats of the Senate forgave the Iapses
during the Cloture-F Force bill debate and gave
Vice President Morton the usual vote of
thanks.
REEDS CLOSING SPEECH.
After the passage by party vote of reso-
luton Of thanks, Speaker Reed thus replied:
After two long and stormy sessions, in
some respects unparalleled in hundred
years, the House of Representatives of the
fifty-first Congress viii soon pass with COIL
pleted record into the history of the country
and its works will follow it, What we have
done is in a large measure political. What
ever is political rouses the sternest, the most
linforgiving passions of the human race.
Political action can never be justly viewed
from near standpoint. Time and distance
are needed for a ripe judgment, and the YER
diet OF history is the only verdict worth
recording.
''To state in language which would seem to
me to be adequate to the achievements of the
House, would not be suitable to this time OF
this place. Nor is it in the least needful that
| should here and now rekindle old disputes
OF fan the dying embers of struggles past and
gone. Whether we have disposed of ques-
tons of finance with the wisdom of broad
craftsmanship time will surely show. Whether
in the things we have done and the things we
have attempted for the furtherance of Human
Liberty we were actuated by high and honor
able motives will be visible to all the world
at no distant day. Our actions need no cata-
logue, and all enumeration and praise by our
selves would be in vain. Ii our deeds do not
praise us, our words cannot. Confident as |
am of the verdict OF time on what we have
done, | am still more confident that the high
est commentator will be given us in the flu
ture, not for what measures we have passed.
valuable as they are, but because we have
taken SO long stride in the direction of re-
<ponsible government. Having demonstrated
to the people that those who have been elect
ed to do their will can do it, henceforth eX-
cuses will not be taken for on-perfOrmance,
and government by the people will be the
stronger IN the land.
Toward those who have opposed what the
majority of the House have desired, we can
have no unkindly or personal feeling Who
ever offers battle to old convictions and faiths
must expect battle. and the vigor of the resis-
lance must always bear some proportion to
the vigor OF the onset.
ITO the members on nv left, with whom |
am politically associated, / beg to tender my
most sincere and heartfelt acknowledgment
Nc man ever received more ungrudgng and
untiinching support, or from band OF men
more patriotic am proud to acknowledge
in all that has been doue, have been but one
iii the multitude, and that the honors of the
Fifty-first Congress belong to you alone.
Il now declare this House to be adjourned
without day"
When Speaker Reed had finished his speech
in the House, announced the eXpira-
ton of the Congress, and stepped from tile
Chair, the Democrats burst out with a loud
cheer and boisterous demonstrations of joy.
The Republicans joined in the cheering, per-
haps in a different spirit.
The vocalists OF the House on the Republi-
can side of the Chamber at once gathered in a
body near the front row OF desks, headed by
Mr. Coleman, of Louisiana; Mr. IardIy, Of
Pennsylvania Mr.. Silvers of New York, and
Mr.. Wade of Missouri, and started up the
stirring war tune, Marching Through Geor-
gia,' which was taken up by the great mass
Of Republican Representatives who made the
hall ring, to the great delight and edification
4 Democratic chorus, headed by Represen-
tative-elect John J. O'Neill of Missouri, re-
tnrted with the 'Doxology," but their voices
were soon drowned by the volume Of sound
porters having ia ken up the hymn. Republi-
cans and Democrats alike ceased their sing
ing to listen to that of their sometime critics.
whose full resonant chorus was very effective.
The members on the floor responded with
cheers, haEdclapping and waving hats.
hahdkerchiefs, papers OF whatever they found
handy.
There was pause of a moment, and Mr..
toWieS N. W raised himself on tIpt0o and
shouted, eve thank God for the defeat of the
Lodge bill, and Immediately again started
the DoXoIogy, in which Republicans and
Democrats alike Joined. The tumult Of sound
was something tremendous. Ladies crowded
through the doors until the space behind the
seats was filed, and some of them joined in
the singing.
THE SPEAKER GIN TEARS"
After the adjournment of Congress, Speaker
Reed received callers in his private room,
and, according to the Baltimore Aeerican
(Rep.) ''the great, big Teller, six feet three i'll
his stockings and weighing 215 pounds, wept
like a baby"
CELEBRATION OF THE CLOSE OF REEDS RULE
AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
From the N. Y. Sun
With the minute hand on the moon-faced
clock, high on the walls of the Stock Ex-
change, travelling fast toward noon yester-
day, there was a great wagging of heads
among regiment OF brokers huddled in front
OF Chairman Mitchell's rostrum. MIR. Mitchell
looked down, expecting at any moment an
explosion of some kind. With the minute
hand within a line of the hour hand, young
Tom Williams slipped out of the crowd and
darted upon the rostrum, at the same time
reaching out for the Chairman's ponderous
gavel
Mr. Mitchell was too quick for him. Clutch
ing it tightly and raising it menacingly, as
thmOl1 Mr. Williams nd InvrpniIonc