The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-25
Now is the Time to Check
Senate's UsurpatiOn.
So Said Congressman Warner
Regarding the Tariff Bill
VOTE ONLY ONE WAY.
People Overwhelmingly on the
Houses Side He Says

fight IN my life, and there never was
more glorious opportunity to mako just
the right kind Of a fight to finish, 2 said
John De Witt Warner in the course OF a
very energetic talk on the tariff disagree
ments between the two houses Now is
the time to check this Increasing usurpa-
ton on the part OF the senate and re-es-
tablish the constitutional rule that it rests
with the house to originate revenue bills
/ haven e a doubt that the people are with
in such fight, not that the people care
60 much about the constitution but here
is q plain issue that every one Of them can
see We are trying to do q thing which
the people want done, and the senate
stands in the way of it, If the people had
accidentally voted one way or done it only
once, there might be something in the
plea that the senate should obstruct the
popular will, but there never has been.
since represent ative government was es-
tablished in this country, a more deliber-
ate act than that OF the people in electing
this house and giving us our instructions
In 1850 the people voted Overwhelmingly
one way They thought it over two years
and did it again There never was cam
p2gn with less fuss and nonsense in it
than that Of 1892, and IL the people did
not then vote their will deliberately they
never did and never will So now is the
time to settle this question
ADJOURNMENT Prospects.
"And what about adjournment?''
"Oh, that is not TO be thought Of when
VIC have an issue like this to meet. But
do not believe that there is a Democrat in
that senate who viii take the responsible
1ty of defeating = Democratic tariff bill
no, not one am positive Mr. Hill would
not vote against it now If his vote would
defeat It, He has made his fight and re-
corded his protest, and the issue would
give him just the opportunity he wants to
make himself square OF course You know
that he has no moro respect for that old
tradition of unlimited time in the senate
than you or l have. What q splendid CD
pOrtunity this is for some young mem Der
Of the senate to make his everlasting repu-
tatiOnl He ought to get up there every
morning and make his motion for a clio
sure rule and claim the right to speak on
1T as long as he wishes. That would be
the courtesy of the senate, you know
They would say that they had been here
ever so many years and nothing Of the
sort had been done The proper answer to
that would be, You have been here so long
that you have forgotten how TO do bust
ness, and besides i am not living on your
glory. but expect to have a reputation
after you are dead But that's neither
here not there The thing for this house
to do Is to take q firm stand and fight this
battle out without yielding an inch The
people are with US, and those senators
now it, and we should stay it through
Such the feeling of most of the
democrats in the house when the disagree
ment was first reported and reserve was
laid aside in speaking Of individual son
ators, but the weather is hot, and this
session has already lasted almost an even
year, less the brief vacation, and even
statesmen cannot long be held up to the
high heroic standard Messrs- voorhees,
and Wilson, chairnen Of the committees
in the two houses both came out of the
first contest sick, and though the rugged
physique of the senator enables him to bear
up better than the representative he is
still far from well 1t appears also that
the house is quite captious about even the
smallest senate addition to the apprOpria-
tion bills, and at ono time no less than
eight bills of various kinds were in con-
ference between the two houses. Never
theless the desire to adjourn at least as
early Aug. ID IS having a great effect.
Old members say that the house is toler-
ably patient till the 1st of August, and
after that there is wild and feverish anx-
1ety TO get home, but this year may be an
exception by reason Of the extraordinary
condition as to nominations
Foreign Affairs.
In the meantime interest in the trouble
in Korea has suddenly become great on
account of the action Of Secretary Gresh-
am, and there are faint symptoms Of a re-
vival OF controversy about Hawaii. The
alleged attempts of Australia and Canada
to get an English hold on the island has
stirred up the patriotism Of the stalwarts.
Routine business still goes forward rapid
1y in spite Of the tariff racket 1t is bare
" possible, after all, that Utah may not
be the forty fifth state, though the presi-
dent has signed the bill, for the senate
subcommittee has voted unanimously for
the Arizona and New Mexico bills, and
members say both will be pushed through
Owing to changes in all three of these
bills, the three commonwealth will start
even in the race-that is, they will elect
members of their constitutional conven-
tions next Nove1nb Der, which conventions
viii meet next March, and the people viii
vote on the constitutions and at the same
time elect legislature and state officials on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday IN
Novem Der, 1895.
Labor Matters.
The curious way in which new inter
est chllls the arClor of action an old one
As shown by the slow progress of the in
vestigatiOns which were all the rage but
little while age Besides the numerous
resolutions there were four complete bills
providing for arbitration, which were sent
to the labor subcommittee of the house
These bills were prepared BY Mr.. Springer
of Illinois, Mr. Hudson of Kansas, Mr.
Kiefer Of Minnesota and Mr.. Tawney ol
the same state, the last three containing
provisions for compulsory arbitration in
States could be maintained, as in the
cases OF roads in the hands of receivers
appointed by federal courts Senator
George has elaborated a still more extern
Eive plan for the settlement of labor trou-
bles and proposes in addition c0nstitu-
tiona1 amendment restricting the hours Of
manual labor to 4S week. The senator
IS not at all communicative of his views
on the proper relations of the government