Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-09
AT TUE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Retired List for Revenue Cutter
 Service Advocated BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE Clarke of Missouri Gives His Views of the Bill in a Char
 acteristiC Speech.
BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE

mittee on interstate and foreign commerce to provide retired list for the revenue cutter service and thereby promote it's ef- fcency was taken up in committee of the whole.
 MT. Mallory, democrat, of Florida, ad vocated the passage Of the bill, and stated that the officers in the cutter service were appointed by the president for life, and when incapacitated by age or infrmity from dscharging their duties there was no way under the present law oi providing for them save by placing them on waiting orders on three- quarters pay At present thirty of the 220 officers in the service were on waiting orders. Such a course pre- vented promotion to the active officers, who were sometimes compelled to perform the duties of officers Of high rank without receiving comme nsurate pay therefor. Every consideration that impelled the es- tablIshment of retired list for the army or navy was argument in favor of the passage of this bill.
 The bill was further advocated by Messrs. English, democrat, of New Jersey, and Covert, democrat, Of New York, and then MT. Clark, democrat of Missouri, enter tained the house with one of his charac- teristic speeches in opposition. Openly avowing his purpose 10 talk the bill to death if he could, he said that the last hali of the well-known quatrain,
 ''Trut.. crushed to earth will rise again,
 The eternal years of God are hers;
 But error woun ded writhes in pain
 And dles amid her worshippers,''
 was lie, and that the history of the bill demonstrated it.
 "I thought twice last summer, p contin- ued MT. Clark, "that l had killed it. rejoiced in the thought that had been en- abied to kill one steal in my one session in congress; and l did not believe it would be my last, and to give you pointer do not think 1t will be the last one yet. Laughter and applause.
 "I would like to take the American peo- pie into my confidence and state to them honestly, periodically, as man, repre- sentative and citizen that more danger ous, a more venal, a more vicious, more far reaching bill of evil was never intro- duced in this house than this. l am dem- ocrat. [Cries of ''Glad to hear it. Goodl'' aud great laughter.
 '.I am not the sort of democrat as the man who first uttered that declaration. He ought to amend his using of it. l am g democrat now. '
 Mr. Dazel, republican, of Pennsyl- vania-Are you sure?
 Mir. Clark-The gentleman who repre-. bents the Pittsburg district ought to keep pretty still Democracy does not mean the spells of office. Derisve laughter from the republicans and counter cheers from the democratic side. That sounds rdicS- lous to some, I-suppose. lLaughter.l
  The gentleman is a humorist as well as democrat.
 Mir. Clark--It does not sound humorous either. It means that the people of this country are going to rule this country. [Repu blican applause. Yes, you clap. 1 understand exactly what you are here for, and you claped for the declaration of the dis tinguished orator of yesterday-the republicans did, not the democrats-when he was fighting for the principles of the oor0OratiOn and mnnOnOlleS the principles of the people. Applause on the democratic side. Deny Ill 1 give you fair chance to deny 1t. When MT. Bryan stood up here, the most eloquent tribune that the people nave had in this hall Laughter on The republican sidel--ior the last thirty years
 MT. Boutele. repub blican, of Maine-The last of the tribunes?
 Laughter. When Mr. Bryan, the most eloquent tribune of the people that ever stood in this congress-, stood up here and laid down the principles of democracy and the principles of the people as against tho rule of corporations, railroad attorney who was elected to congress that has moi even a seat on this floor, except by cour, tesy, sat and smirked and grinned ant pulled his spectecles of and put them of and rubbed his torso, and the corporation butter flies of the coming congress sat around him and grinned and smirked in hope of favors yet to come, it looked pretty hard for democratic principles. But am here to assert them, and one is this: That man who does not earn his pay has got no right to it. This is my view and that is democracy. This people can go, the hired tools Of corporations Of this house can jeer. As fer as l am concerned they can go to the everlasting deuce. Laughter.
 Continuing Mir. Clark said: 'There has been so much internal demagogry on this floor on both sides of the house about sol- ders, rebels, 'federals,' that have got sick of it. l was just about six months or a year too young to get into the army. tried my everlasting best to get into both of them. All that wanted was a chance to fight. or course l have got better sense now. II any man that served in the federal army faithfully and got hurt wanted pen- sion l would vote to give it to him, although my heart was with Morgan and that gang of rough riders. Laughter If one of Morgan's s men should rise up out of the ground and ask for pension l would vote to give it to him; not because he de- served 1t for serving the government, but because of his spirit an American ci,i- zen. But when fellow goes around, sails up and down the coast, eats oysters and canvass back ducks, drinks wine aud has the entree to Washing ton society, whatever that may-'' Laughter.
 Her. the gavel fell and the hour having expired the committee rose, Chairman Dockery declining 10 entertain request for unanimous consent that MT. Clark might proceed, and the bill went over.
 Mir. Brown, democrat, of Indiana, gave notice that he would, on Tuesday next, ask the house to consider and dispose otthe contested election clse of Williams vs. Settle from the Fifth district of North Carolina.
 Under the special order the house took up the bill 10 so amend the interstate com merce law as 10 permit railroad companies to pool their earnings.
 At the close of the debate Mir. Patterson of Tennessee, in charge Of the bill, after yainly eudeavoring to obtain unanimous consent 10 close the general debate, gave notice that on Tuesday afternoon next at o'clock he would ask the house to second the demand for the previous question upon the passage of the bill. The house then. ar 4:fo o'clock, adjourned until Monday st