The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-12

The House is no longer delibera
tive body
Bulldozing, bossism and Reedisn
reign triumphantly in the lowe
branchI
The majority, with an utter disre
gard of rules or the rights of the min
ority. has given notice that it intends
to do as it pleases.
The committees will not give thu
minority a chance to bring in an opposi
ton report; the House will not ALLOW
the members to state their objections
to any of their measures.
Thus with shameful abuse of theil
power, an utter disregard of all prin
ciples of courtesy, the Republican,
have begun their reign over the inter
ests of the territory Of Utah, and the
unfavored masses will have no chance
to be heard.
Only those who have a special in
dustry which they want protected
only those who wish to have chance
at looting the public treasury, only
those who belong to the favored clas
ses, need expect to have hearing
No others should apply.
Emery is in the saddle, Varian anC
Allen are applying the whip and spur
and no member of the majority dare'
to fail to fall in line when the party
lash curls and cracks about their ears
Everything must give way before the
behests of the bosses.
The fourth day Of the session of the
first Republican Legislature of Utaf
territory passed off with gentlemanly
courtesy and attention to business il
the Council and a disgTaceful amount
of buildozing and the application Of the
gag-rule in the House. Varian anC
Allen tried to see which could be mos
blameworthy in his efforts to shut OF
the opinions of the minority and they
came under the wire neck and neck
It appears that at the caucus held
on Wednesday, the Republican recall
citrants were numerically dashed with
the party whip, in order to bring
them into line. with the bulIdozing
deVil-may-care policy adopted by theil
leaders. It is said that even Speaker
Emery. who has had an idea of being
entirely fair, was made to understand
that he must attend to the orders o.
those who are in command on the
floor With this understanding the
majority came into the House yester
day morning with a determination t
do Just as they pleased no matter
whether it might suit the minority Oh
not.
The first evidence of this determine.
ton came in the report of the commit.
tee on memorials, which was presented
without giving the minority members
any opportunity Of sending in a pro-
test against the adoption of two o.
the pet measures of the leaders of the
&. Q. p.
When the time for the passage O.
this measure came. the Democratic side
endeavored to have the consideration
of those relating to bounty on Sugal
and tariff on lead put off until the,
could have some opportunity to iool
into the questions and prepare them
selves to debate them intelligently
To the surprise of every fair minded
man in the room, this very reasonabl,
request was refused, point blank anC
an intimation given that the meas
ures would be railroaded through a
once.
The Democratic side did not recog
nize the special Importance of either
of these measures, as the Wilson bill
has not yet been presented to either
house of Congress and there is yet
great deal of time to present them
and so stated. But the obdurate lead
ers Of the majority were determined
TO have their way in pushing through
the measures and proceeded to put E
\ gag-rule system into effect, thus com
polling the minority to resort to dila
tory motions. in order to have a chance
to say anything at all.
For over half an hour the small anC
determined minority managed to keer
business at a standstill, because of The
aggressive attitude of Powers. Nebeker
WINS and Hubbard, and still had z
great deal of sea room before them
when the chair, evidently in emulation
of Car Reed, put the previous ques
ton.
But if the Speaker acted unfairly
during the consideration of the lead
memorial, he acted still more unfairly
in the consideration of that relating
to sugar. Without giving the least op-
portunity to amend this resolution
without giving the least opportunity tt
have debate on it's provisions without
looking over to the minority side, with
out even waiting for formal motion
he forgot his dignity far enough tc
order the immediate calling of the roll
on the passage of the memorial and
absolutely refused to recognize several
of the Democratic members who arose
to protest against such a shameful
abuse OF power. Even at the end OF
the roll call, he did not give several
members chance to vote, as he
announced the result and thus won
the victory for the Republicans.
These moves came as a surprise To
the minority members, who had thought
they could depend on the support Of
several. Of the Republicans. should any
conduct ike that be attempted, and
who had thought also that they could
depend on an adherence to the rules
by the Speaker and fairness at the
hands of the clerks.
There was one thing, however. that
became evident tc the majority yes
terday, and that was that they cannot
bring a vote on the previous question
so long as the Democratic minority
holds together, as they have not the
requisite two-thirds. But as the mem
bers on the east side have already
adopted several of the methods OF
procedure of Car Reed, it is not sup
posed that they VIII hesitate to adopt
another and will arbitrarily unseat
Robertson. no matter what may be