The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-19

suited for the laborcus duties Of one
Of tile majority leaders on the floor Of
the House.
After prayer by the Chaplain and
The reading of the journal, the House
gets down to business. The Com
mittee on Ways and Means report
through its Chairman, Mr.. Wilson,
tlls Tariff bill as amended by the
Senate, taisagreeing to the Senate
amendments and asking Its reference
to conference.committee. MI. Reed
arises, and at once ON the floor and
in the galleries, he is given close at
tention. He signifies his readiness
to have the bill referred, but proceeds
to demonstrate Fhe peMopFatllc !ncon-
sistency in having the matter sent 70
committee without debate. His Ian
gHage is we'll chosen, his thopghhts
clearly expressed, bis Iasip inrlsive,
and underneath it all there rms 4
vein OF party venom that is WoFt
irritating to the Democrats. Catch
ings reptile but, l thought, rather
feebly. Again Reed prods the Dem
scra,. aa4 they seem to get more
and more restless under ms attack.
At length, to their evident relief
Wi|,op, from West Virginia, is rec,
ognixed and dsligese ? fattliilng speech
defining the Democratic position,
showing what they bad done To-
wards the redemption Of their pledges
and what they would do. This, amid
enthusiastic applause from his aide
| Of the chamber. Then Reed turns
loose his dogs Of var. He yields por<
tons Of his time to Burrows, DalzRll,
! Cannon, all of whom make partisan
speeches.
Il Il u
Finally Mr.. Reed gives twenty MIN
u,ss of his time to Mr.. Quigg, from
New York. He is, as | have said,
quite young and dude like but evil
dent has sufficient amount Gf self
confidence and assurance. He is
greeted with applause IN the Demo
cratic side, which ] take to be de-
risiye. For few minutes he gets
on famously, and pitilessly assails the
Democratic lines. He launches into
vein of sarcasm and proceeds to
tell how grateful the people of New
York were to Senator Murphy for
getting collars and cuffs on the duti-
| able list list. He evidently intends
to create good dsa' Of Rlle|rIrii!mlcnt at
Mr.. Murphy's expense. The Republic
cans begin to smile dclightedly in
anticipation and appear to be very
proud of their yoppg colleague. dc
compares Murphy to Gladiator ai
| Ancient times. and tells in . bnrst OF
ironical eloquence how the junior
Senator from Now York had enter
ed the Senatorial ring TO do battle
for tho interests of New York, de-
scribing him as "belted and bucklcd
and booted and spurred." And for
the moment how the Republicans
laugh. But only for the moment.
Mr.. Caruth, from Kentucky, arises
and asks permission to interrupt the
gentleman. Quigg gracefully yields
and Mr.. Caruth asks the gentleman
from &ew York to inform the House
at what time and undat what condi-
tons a gladiator was ever known to
wear boots and spurrs. Roar after
roar of laughter goes up from the
Democratic side. The Republicans
endcavorcr vainly to repress their
smiles for Mr.. Quigg's position is
most mirth provoking one, and he
looked the very perss!onniiffcation of
helpless chayrin. At last qAiet is
restored and Quigg, In low hssitat-
ing tones informs the other side that
if an answer to the question would
enlighten the gentleman from Ken
lucky as to the real merits of tho de-
bate that he would cheerfully reply,
'"but as it u.s." says he, II give back
to the gentleman from Maine the
time allotted to me which | have not
comsumed.'a Poor Quigg. Caruth's
question has SO completely ratified
him he is unable to complete hls
speech. Confused and COMPOUNDED
he resums his seat. The bill is
then referred to conference COM
miftee