Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-05
THE NEW CODE OF RULES.
Ex.Speaker Reed Tells an Associate
 Press Representative What H

Ex-Speaker Reed Tells an Associated Press Representative What H< Thinks of Them.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-After the houee to-day agreed to the new code of rules ex Speaker Reed was asked by an Associated Press representative to talk upon the sub
 ject. MT. Reed said:
 The withdrawal of the Louisiana lottery
 of its demand for a new charter is one of
 the triunphs of the Fifty-frst congress.
 The country will remember the prompt
 ness with which the house committee on
 postofices and postroads, under the chair
 manship of General Bingham, even before
 the presidents message on the subject,
 considered and on the 2sth of July report
 ed the bill to deprive the lottery of the use of the United States mails. The commit
 tee on rules very soon after set apart the 18th of August for it's consideration by the house, and the bill passed that body that day. Now that the supreme court has sus- tained the constitutionslity of the act even the lottery company recognizes the futility Fifty-frst congress are all standing we'll the test of time.
 With regard to the rules just adopted Mir. Reed further said that the principle of responsible government in the house had been more ruthlessly recognized in that part of the new regulations relating to the power of the committee on rules than had been dreamed of in the Fi.ty-frst con- gress.
 Power to enforce the will of the house was lodged in important measures in that
 xl,A have full swing, while the bill of the indi- house,was left to the mercy of the flibus- terer. The right of present quorum had been denied and the farce of the member prevent for the purpose of being absent had been revived. All this, however, time and the supreme court would take care of. Meanwhile it would be a source of regret to the country that more liberal measures for the promo ton of innocent, useful, non-psrtisan and necessary legislation had not been adopt ed. It might have been done and the house really wanted to do it, but the majority having fought campaign some what on abuse of the rules of the Fifty first congress it was too much to expect of poor fallen human nature to make such a confession of error.
 MT. Reed continued: "The debate, how ever, has shown that the good example of the last two years has not been entirely lost. What used to be called tyranny" is now on the road to be called ''good sense" has been established in the great and une1amplifed power conferred on the committee on rules. The folly of wasting the time of the house in the reference of bills has been forever done away with. This, with the sound ex- pressions as to the folly of the doctrines of the rights of minorities which fell from the lips of eminent democrats during the debate shows conclusively how sure reason and sense is to assert itself in some measure even after the fercest con- fict. I am disposed to thank the demo- crats for some progress and to hope that during the session further wisdom may come to them. In the new regulations the old member who knows the ropes has pre- served much of his structure. But this will do less harm than formerly. Thanks to the example set by the last congress, the country knows that the house can do all it wants to. What it don't know now it is responsible for The ostrich has left off concealing himself by putting his head in the sand"