The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-23
HE FIGHT ENDED.
Ex-spealter Reed Takes Parting Shot ae
 the Democrats.


 EI-speaker Reed Takes a Parting Shot as
 the Democrats.
 In speaking upon the passage of tho senate tariff bill in the house on Mon- day, August IS, ex-Speaker T. B. Reed made some telling shots on the sugar coated democrats. Almost by his first remarks he stabbed Wilson in a most tender spot, declaring the bill as it passed the house had come back again without even SO much as the name of its author, as hereafter it would be known to the country as the German Brice bill. A great wave of laughter and applause rolled through the cham Der, even the democrats joining in the merriment, when the ex-speaher re- ferred to the conferrees on the part of the house as the little babes in the wood, who had been left there by their uncle in the white house, and to whom were later to come little birds bearing ballots that were to bury them out of sight. So, too, there was lots of fun when Springer, of Illinois, was made the victim of the cold steel, as the ex- speaker referred in sneering tones to the intention to fire out one of those popgun tariff bills on account of which the gentleman from Illinois had been deposed from the committee on ways and means Mir. Reed spoke as follows:
 MT. Speaker, somewhat reluctant to address the house because my feelings are di- vided between two emotions One is an emo tion of regret for the democratic party and for it's position, and the other is a feeling of equal regret for the country and its position. too. So far as the gentleman from West Virginia is concerned and his compatriots, there is nos the slightest necessity of my commenting on | the difference between this scene Of sorrow and the triumphal procession which carried him out of the house. Laughter and applause on the republican side He is not so joyous now. having been carried out in another branch and more effectually. Renewed laughter.
 Tt is unfortunate for the gentleman from West Virginia that he and his compatriots have had to contend with so much more capacity and skill Undoubtedly the house conferrees meant well. Undoubtedly their intentions were honorable but they were no match for the gentlemen whom they met in the other branch. They were not skillful, as these men are. Why, our conferrees come back to us, | gentlemen of the house, without so much as the name of the bill that they transported across l this building month ago. It will be known in | history the Gorman-Brice vice the Wilson bill, dead. Laughter and applause on the republican sidel And not dead on the field of honor, either. Renewed laughter and ap- plausel The gentleman from West Virginia and his compatriots appear before us now. not the triumphal reformers march, ing to glCry at the sound of their own | sweet voices. They are little babes in the wood, and it will be found pretty soon they were left there by their uncle In the white house. lGreat laughter and ap- plause on the republican side And can hear the coming of the pinions of the little birds bearing the ballots that are to bury them out Of sight Laughter on the republican sidel, but their fate is of small consequence. Their dis appearance is the least of this event. l told this house. speaking this tarin question, that one of the great misfortunes of this at tempted action would not be the fact that whatever basis was reached it would not be Q permanent basis which this country could do business; that that was only an effort on their part to do something, an effort which they were going to continue, and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Will sonD signalizes his departure from history by talking about this being step in the onward | march. So, not even content with this senate bill not even content with what attack 1t makes upon their industries these men at the moment when they feel their personal discred- 1t by submitting to the bill, announce to us that 1t is only the herald of the future attacks upCu the DuSlueSS 1nuuStrl6S or tnlS country. Great God, has not this country suffered enough during the last twelve months that these men should come and assure 1t that their | rayages are to continueg tell you that when the people of this country get opportunity | to express their opinion of you you will listen to it more intcntly and with sadder hearts than you have to-day even. Not content with | what you have done you have threatened the people of this country with yourselves again. | Laughter on Republican side.
 l We shall not write its epitaph. That has been done by nearer and dearer parsonage. That has been done by the man whose name must be af1xed to this bill before it can be @ discredit to the statute book. His name must be to 1t. He tells you this bill Is an instance of perfdy, injustice and dishonor. We have got nothing to do in the next campaign except to reai the testimony of your chief magistrate, under whose protecting wing the committee on ways and means of the house of representatives have lived, so that we did not know at any mo- ment whether they were a committee of the house of representatives or a committee of the executive. Applause on the republican side. Out of your own household has come your con- | demnation. Nay, out of your own mouths has your condemnation come For we shall read | that bold anC uncompromising declaration of l the chairman of the committee on ways and means that we were to sit here until the end of our term to put down the sugar trust. What do we have instead? Why, we have a proposition to fire out of those pop | gun tarin bills for which the gentleman from | Illinois (Mr. Springer) was deposed from the ways and means committee Laughter on the republican side. His successor, after filling the atmosphere with his outspread wings, finds his nest in some other birds premises. | Laughter on the republican side.l Why not resign, if you were to adopt the action of the other person? I congratulate the gentleman | from Illinois (Mr. Springer) upon his personal | triumph. l wish I could congratulate the country upon something, and will upon the speedy departure of incompetency." Applause on the republican side.
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