Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-29
SOME FUN IN THEHOUSE
Mr.. Allen, Of Mississippi, Has Fun
With President Harrison.
HIS MESSAGE WAS JUST IN TINE
Further Debate on the Report Of the Committee OF
Rules-Othsr Congressional Matters Of
More or Less InterOst-The Feeling
Over the Improved Chilean Situation.

WASHINGTON, D. c., January 2S.-
The proceedings Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives were marked by two sigHih-
cant events to-day. One was the re-
ceipt of the Presidents message an
nouncing that the war cloud had lost It's
sombre hue, and that the administra'
tion now felt able TO cope with Chile
without special powers from Congress,
and the other was an ebullition or that
American humor which irresistaoly
bursts forth as the aftermath OF all Pc
riods Of National crisis.
The reading Of the Presidents mes
sage and accompanying dispatches was
frequently interrupted by applause,
which was by no means confined to the
Republican side.
The discussion of the report Of the
Committee on Rules occupied the re-
mainder Of the day, and it was during
the afternoon that an adriot motion OF
Mr.. Allen, Of Mississippi, once more
drew the attention Of the House to the
Chilean controversy. The Mississippi
Democrat moved to amend the rules by
increasing the membership of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs from thirteen
to seventy-ive, and the speech which
followed contained so many thrusts al
his fellow Democrats that il was hardly
regarded by the Republicans as typical
political arraignment Of the Republican
party.
NOW, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr.. Allen,
"the great struggle to which thirteen
men, the members of the Foreign AZ
fairs Committee, have been subjected
for the last few days, has prompted me
to offer this amendment 20 increase
their membership from thirteen to sew
enty-fve. Laugher. We have no
right, sir, in my humble judgment to
impose so much responsibility upon
thirteen men. Laughter. You will
remember, too, thirteen is an unlucky
number renewed laughterl, and l do
not want any unlucky things to happen
when we come to deal with foreign
affairs. Laughter and applause.
81 do not know but that it would be
proper for me to state the reasons why
my views upon the question of our for
eign relations with Chile have not ap-
peared in the public print and why |
have not, like the others, given voice to
my war-like feelings. Great laughter. ]
Sir, some thirty years ago went to war
rather hastily. Tumultuous laugh
ter and applause. Ny experience in
the war never daunted my courage,
Ilaughterl but 1t has made me decidedly
more cautious. Renewed laughter.
Just to illustrate how this thing
strikes me, l will read sentence from
an interview with a distinguished gen.
tleman who once sat where you now sit,
Mr.. Speaker mean ex-Speaker Kei-
fer. l read from the newspaper:
"'Mr. Keifer thinks the sentiment in
the Republican party is drifting towards
Harrison. Laughter. His message
on the Chilean imbroglio was issued just
in time Great laughter and applause
on the Democratic side.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, just suppose be
had waited little while longer, think
what might have happened laughter
This drifting of sentiment in the Re-
publican party towards that distin-
guished gentleman, the President Of the
United States, might have been stopped
II he had not got in here with that Chill
can message .just in time laughter
Why, sir, remember that not a. great
while ago, it was stated in the public
prints that on one occasion when the
President was to go to New York, the
train that was to have left the depot at
ten minutes to twelve o'clock was de-
tanned until ten minutes after twelve,
lest the President should travel on Sun
day [great laughterl, and yet, l am in
formed that the President had num-
Der Of printers working all day last
Sunday, in order to get that message In
hers just in time great laughter and
Democratic applause
"Now, Mr.. Speaker, why should we
proceed with haste TO bring the govern
ment Of Chile into state OF humili-
alton? Another Republic, our sister Re-
public, part of the great Pan.
Laughter. For a long time, Mr..
Speaker. our distinguished Secretary OF
State has been sending US documents
about the Pan-American Congress and
we have been making appropriations for
that purpose. Now, Chile is part OF
the Pan yet here we are humiliating
her by our own hasty action. Laugh
ter.
81 am sorry, Mr.. Speaker, that have