The Republican journal., 1892-01-21
Boutelle's Witty Speech.
HE PUNCTURES VARIOUS DEMOCRATIC
HUMBUGS.

HE PUNCTURES VARIOUS DEMOCRATIC
HUMBUGS.
In the House Friday, after the adoption
of the first Of Holman's picayune resolu-
tions, Mr.. Boutelle, of Maine, began an
amusing speech by the exclamation:
''What comical old humbug the Demo-
cratic party is"
Year after year, he said, Congress after
Congress had the same old tune on one
string. He sat here yesterday and looked
on the remarkable spectacle presented by
the gentlemen from Indiana (Mr Holman)
who administered to the brethren around
him, in allopathic doses, the medicine of
retrenchment and reform.
The performance was simply repeti-
ton of the portrait made by Dickens and
the caricature of Cruikshank. who depict
ed that famous event when Mrs. Squeers
gathered the boys around her and admin
istered to them, with a long spoon, their
dose of retrenchment and reform in the
shape of birthstone and treacle, for the
purpose of breaking down their appetite
aud saving provisions.
Now, according to the prearranged form,
Mr.. Pecksnitf arose, with taffee in one
hand and am endment in the other and Un-
dertook to follow the great onward course
other friend, Rev. Clladband, OF Kentucky,
came i'll with a ''bless you my children
and pronounced the benediction.
There was more of history and fun in
yesterdays proceedings than he ever be-
fore witnessed in the House. His volatile
friend from Alabama (Mr. Wheeler) had
jumped upon the back of the debate with
an alacrity which reminded one of a rep
resentative of the Darwin theory leaping
upon the back Of a trick elephant. Qaugh-
ter.)
That gentleman had got into difficulties
with his voice. He opened like a calliope
on Mississippi river steamboat and he
wound up like a sandpeep with pneumo-
MIA. Uaughter.)
H was afraid the gentleman had brok-
en- something inside himself. There was
the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Dock
ery) who was haunted all the time by the
nightmare of apprehension that he was too
good looking to be taken for Democratic
statesman, and therefore felt obliged, on
all occasions, to keep up the assurance of
Democratic party orthodoxy.
After all this comes the ''deuS eX
machina'' gentleman from Indiana, under
taking to start the reform machinery by
protestations, undertaking to deal with
the slot machine. even then attempting to
cheat the machine by dropping in bogus
nickle. Naughter.)
Mr. Boutelle nveighed against the Dem
ocratic party for its lack of patriotism,
saving that in the last six months he had
heard OF only one patriotic remark being
made by a Democrat. and that Democrat
was the estimable wife of the present Gov
ernor of New York. That lady on visiting
the executive mansion, had alluded to the
necessity of refurnishing the house. She
had said it was not necessary, in order to
put the mansion i'll order, to 90 beyond
the confines of the American public. ZAP
plause on the Republican side.
She had further said that in order to
purchase her daughters trousseau she
had found little occasion to 90 beyond the
shops OF Watertown. When the firms there
did not have the Article called for, she
would buy them of the manufacturers or
importers. Cat the word importers the
Democrat, lu S. into lauo hter as if the
lady'> remark strengthened the Demo-
cratic view OF the situation.)
Boutelle also quoted Mrs Flower as say
inc that she had yet To find a better and
cheaper place in which to shop than
the American stores. Applause by the
Boutelle read an editorial from a New
/ York paper calling attention to the i'm
mense expectation of merchandise from
this country during the three months
ending November Both last and saying
that $50 far as money making goes there
is no visible reason why the United States
should not have "a happy new year, and,
continued Mr.. Boutelle, the only people
in the United States to-day who fail to
unite in the aspiration are those who claim
to be the leaders of the Democratic party,
and will say to them that the people of
this great country are going to have a
happy and prosperous new year in spite
of the Democratic party, the gentleman
from Indiana (Mr. Holman) and his little
slot machine. applause ON the Republi-
car side.)
Later in the debate on the second res
olution, Mr.. Rusk, of Maryland, demand
, ed the previous question.
Mr.. Reeds the effect of that to cut off
debate?
j The speaker pro tem-That is the effect.
Mr.. Reed (dryly)-We will have to go to
our own states in order to have that free
dom of debate which belongs to an Ameli-
can citizen. Qaughter)