The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-19
BOWERS ON INFRINGEMENT
CalifOrnia's Congressman Warns
Up the House.
No President Will Ride to the White
House on Chariot With F1ve-Cent
NickeIs for Wheels.

CONGRESSMAN w. w. bowers OF San
Diego, which is full of wit and humor on
foundation of good, sound common
sense:
Mr.. Catchings-I call up for considera-
ton the report of the Committee on
Rules.
The Speaker-The Clerk will read the
pending amendment.
The Clerk read rs follows:
Mr.. Boatner moved to amend paragraph 3.
Rule XXI, by striking out all the pai agraph
after the word order" in line 6, so mat II will
read:
''No appropriation shall be reported in any
general appropriation bill, or be in order
an alnehdlnent thereto, Tor any expenditure
not previously authorized by law, unless in
continuation OF appropriations for such pub
lie works and objects are already in pro-
gress. Nor shall any provision in any such
phi or Amendment thereto changing existing
law be in order"
Mr.. Boatner withholds his remarks
for revision, and they will appear here
after.
Mr.. Bowers-Mr. Speaker this Section
3 OF Rule XXI. may be taken as embody-
ing the Democratic scheme of retrench-
ment and reform. Now, if the Demo
cratic party want to reform, no one
should object. They have been telling
us about it for the last ten or fifteen
years, and undoubtedly the party needs
10 reform. AS for myself 1 have had the
that does not have to be under the disa-
greeable necessity, every time an election
comes round or Is approaching, of prom
lSlng TO reform. a gentleman on the
other side yesterday propounded the
question, "What are we here for?'' Well,
do not know what he is here for but |
suppose for the same reason that l am
here, namely, to represent his constit-
uents. AS Tor me, l do not feel that |
need any reform. l do not want any, so
far as L am concerned, and do not need
any. | am not here to sound the praises
of retrenchment either.
| am not here Mr.. Speaker. TO re-
trench. / came here to represent the
people who sent me here, to try to obtain
what they want and what they asked for,
and L am going to ask for it, | will tell
you, l know what they want. They
want reasonable appropriations to make
needed improvements for their rivers and
harbors. They want necessary public
buildings; they want, more than any
thing perhaps, a reasonable appropriation
for the survey of unsurveyed lands, that
settlers there may secure title to their
homes. They want another thing, They
want the United States to return to those
settlers the 81 25 per acre they paid i'll
excess of the usual price of public lands,
on the promise that there would be
railroad built which was never built,
They now want the United States to re-
turn the money that is being kept from
them and which the United States is not
entitled to keep, the money which is due
TO these settlers. They want the United
States to be honest, ii we do have to make
appropriations.
Now, MIR. Speaker, I have a great
many good Democratic friends. / have
so many that have come to love the
Democrats; not all OF them, of course. for
no man can do that, but great many of
them. Their hearts are all right. They
get wrong IN their heads sometimes. But
IL IS by reason OF this love and affection
that bear so many Of them that | want
to give them the straight tip on this race
for the Presidential axes You see. Mr..
Speaker, am going to get right down to
the real question at issue. Gentlemen
have been skirmishing around it, but
they have not faced it yet, and that is the
question. We are all scoring UP for that
race. And now l want to give YOU a
straight TIP. Gentlemen, you are putting
TINS race up wrong, and will tell You that
II you are going to win it or have any
show to win it you have got to change
your blacksmith.
Now ii you attempt to shoe the nag that
you put IN on that race with five-cent
nlckels instead of putting on his hoofs
good, sound, sensible, modern horse
shoes, you won't be in it" l can tell Won
that. Laughter on the Republican side.
one OF my Democratic friends YESTERDAY
expressed the belief that after the 4th of
March, 1893, there would be a Democrat
IN the Presidential chair, a Democratic
Senate and Democratic House. Now I
want to give you gentlemen what / be-
ueve to be straight tip on that You
cannot win with the hand you hold. Won
have got to draw and fill or you will he
beaten. Laughter That is the fact.
Now VIII tell you gentlemen, the man
or the party that takes tive-cent nickel
piece
The Speaker pro tenn. (Mr. Richardson
In the chair)-The time of the gentleman
has expired.
On motion of Mr.. Buchanan of New
Jersey and of Mr.. McKenna, by unani-
nous consent the time of Mr.. Bowers was
extended five minutes
Mr.. Bowers-GentIemen I would like
to Iarrup my Democratic friends about
nVe minutes more, not in a mean way,
but mildly. l want to say that the man
or the party that takes five-cent nickel
piece as the measure ofthe American peo-
pie, their ambitions, their hopes and their
pride, makes mistake, and you viii
lind that out, and you will tell me so
when l meet you next winter. Now Won
can never roll your Presidential candi-
date into the White House on chariot of
reform that has five-cent nickels for
wheels. You cannot do it. Just as soon
as the Democratic party show to this
country that they are big enough and
broad enough, that they realize that the
country has grown, that il requires more
cloth now to cover it than when it was an
infant, that the family has increased, that
you have got to build the house bigger.
that you have got to build the barns
bigger, that you are working more land,
as soon as you give a guaranty to the peo-
pie of the United States that you will be
devoted to the honor, the prosperity and
the growth of this country, just so soon
you will have a chance. When that time
comes nobody can object to your taking
all these places.
Now, in conclusion, have only one
more item to speak to you about and that
is this: l cannot speak for the Demo-
Gratis of these States. l am not entitled
TO, but can speak for the Democrats of
two Congressional Districts, for whom /
stand on this floor, because / know them
and want TO tell you that they are broad
minded, they are progressive, they are
patriotic, they are devoted to the honor
of this country, and they are proud OF il,
They are not small. Why, gentlemen,
when you go fishing for people of that
KIND, you must use some other sort of
bait than five-cent nickel. That may
do in Indiana. but it will not catch any
fish IN California or on the Pacific Coast,
and you can bet on it. You have got to
find bigger bait and better bait You
talk about the billion-dollar Congress.
DO you not know that every American is
proud ofthe billion-dollar Congress,
Why, if it had not been for that YOU
could not have sent an ultimatum to the
Indians of Patagonia. [Laughter] You
all know that.
Now, gentlemen. I have given YOU a
little good advice, and l hope you will
take ii and let us have a good. liberal
Congress. Let us give the people what
they want us to give them, and what
they require. l have good Democratic