Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-04
HELPED THE ENEMY,
Democrats Place a Weapon in
Their Political 0ppo-
nents' Hands.
BIG MAJORITY MADE WEAK.
A Preacher-Senator's Game Fight for
Uniform Marriage Laws.
A COMMENT ON STATESMANSHIP.
Pittsburg's COllectorship Expected to Be
Settled To-Day.
GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING
A COMMENT ON STATESMANSHIP.
Pittsburg's Collectorship Expected to Be
Settled To-Day.
GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING
ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC letter.
BUREAU OF THE DIsrATCH,
WAsuINGnON ID q Enh


radically vary from their professions, as
witness their persistence in favor Of
''riders" on appropriation bills.
Undoubtedly majority of the great
Democratic majority of the House are op-
posed to this vicious practice which the
Committee on Rules has formally en-
balmed in the new code, but the sense of
discipline and the autocracy of few COM
mittee chairmen are so absolute that only q
few of the boldest opponents dsre to protest
openly. The knowledge that the Commit
tee on Rules and the chairmen of the Com
mittees on Ways and Means and Appropria-
tions insist upon the adoption of rule
agreed upon by ma ajority of the Committee
on Rules is sufficient to secure almost a full
party support for that rule
Democrats Throwing Away Chances.
Why, at this time, with their mouths full
of protestations of virtue, the Democratic
leaders should persist in the adoption of a
rule sanctioning and clarifying form of
legislation that has been condemned in all
parliamentary bodies, though it may have
occasionally operated for good-as any other
form of evil may at times-is inexplicable.
Bv means of Il, the minority may be en-
abled to force through legislation utterly
Objectionable to the majority, who have
their choice either to accept it or to risk the
failure of appropriation to which it is at
tached if the minority can gain the conniv-
ance of the Senate.
The Democratic majority of the House BY
this rule openly invite the small minority
of Republicans of the House to cooperate
with the small Republican majority of the
Senate to devise legislation which could be
enacted in no other way and attach it to an
appropriation bill; and the Democrats who
insist on the privilege of such legislation
will be compelled to assume the response
bilitv for such enactment or for the failure
of the appropriation bill to which it is at
tached.
A Weapon for the Enemy's Use.
At this time, when the Democrats num-
ber two-thirds of the House and have their
own quorum, even allowing for a large
number of absentees, such parliamentary
enactment as this rule permitting riders
or. to put ii another way, the lack of rule
prohibiting such foreign legislation on ap-
preparation bills, seems little less than
idiotic. The Democratic majority is so
great that it can make or mar any legisla
ton that comes before it, and every dictum
of common sense suggested that the leaders
should, as defense against the minority
and the Senate, stamp with. their disap-
proval this objectionable form of legisla-
tion. 1t is to be presumed, however, that
if the Democrats choose to put q weapon in
the hands of the enemy the latter will not
object.
With the opportunity for riders on ap-
preparation bills, and that other opportu-
nity to tilibuster afforded by the refusal of
the Democratic leaders to adopt the wise
methods for silencing INSTRUCTORS which
were in vogue in the last Congress, the
Democrats have not only surrendered much
of the powers of their great majority, but
have given their approval to methods
which should have no place in an enlight-
ened parliamentary body in the last decade
OF the Nineteenth century
Preacher-Senator's Work of Reform.
Senator James Henderson Kyle, who in
troduced the joint resolution providing for
a vote of the States on an amendment to the
Constitution giving the National Govern
ment the sole power to enact laws for the
regulation of marriage and divorce, and who
to-day spoke upon his resolution, is a
Presbyterian clergyman, and received his
theological training at the Western Univer-
sity at Allegheny City,. He has not
religion during the last five years, how
ever, as one might well conclude from the
substantial fact of his presence in the Sen
ate. Legislatures do not go hunting among
the pulpits for United States Senators,
while the pews are full of statesmen await
ing a call, unless the pulpit has made itself
on the stump, at the polls and
in the political convention. Mr. Kyle is
an Ohio man. which, with his Western Penn
sylvania religious education, must come
near making him, or any other man with
similar advantages, an invincible.
Shrewdness of Young Statesman.
The South Dakota Senator started out to
use the bar as stepping-stone to the Sen
ate, but soon began to look at life more
seriously, and came to the conclusion that
I he shrewd thing to do would be to strike
for the highest honors in this world, and
the next by choosing the profession of a
clergyman, which would not debar him from
the Senate, though it might lead him to feel
out of his element while the pro-
fession ola lawyer would go far to shut him
on the outside of the gates of the New Je-
rusalem. Despite his calling he has reached
the Senate, though he is only in his 3Sth
year, South Dakota having a special and |
commendable liking for youth and piety.
MI. Kyle. L am glad to say, is an Inde- |
pendent. He was elected after a contest q |
days in duration, by large majority over |
the profane candidates of the Republican |
and Democratic parties. Senator KYLE dis |
tinguished himself at once upon his arrival |
in the Senate by introducing the resolution
a constitutional amendment |
which will, If adopted, enable Congress to
enact general law regulating marriage and |
divorce.
Necessity of Uniform Divorce LAWS.
1t is fine comment on the statemanship
Of 100 years of moral and Christian repub-
ic that what is marriage in one State is i'm
moral cohabitation in another and that ner-
sons unhapilv married in one State where
divorces are tedious and come high. though
hey must be had, may go to another State
md obtain a separation quickly, quietly
md cheaply.
1t will certainly be a laurel wreath on
Senator Kyle's brow in this world. and a
trong recommendation to the kindly Offices
# St. Peter on his advent in the next, if he
an accomplish q rational uniformity of
avs governing marriage and divorce. 1t is
o be hoped, however, that he will not in
list that it shall be too very difficult for the
lnhappilv mated ones to restore themselves
S nearly as possible to the condition of
inrle blessedness which obtained before
marriage. and which will enable them to
make new experiment
Representative Huff to-day recommended
: J. vinton for appointment as postmaster
1 Jeanette, Pa
A Pittsburg appointment About Ripe.
1t is expected that the Pittsburg col
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