St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-19
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HE ROASTED" THE SENATE.
Mfr. Remick of LitHeton Called on for a
Few Remarks.

st. Johnsbury people who remem
Der Hon. d. {. Remick OF Littleton
will be interested in his recent speech
before the New Hampshire senate
On the last day Of the session ana
during a lapse in the proceedings OF
the honorable senate the president
allowed considerable liberty in order
that the time might be passed pleas
antly. When the fun-making pro-
pensitics of this body were quite ex-
hausted, the messenger OF the SEN
ate was requested to visit the house
and invite Mr.. Remick to seat on
the floor of the senate. The latter
gentleman appeared as requested,
and hoping to continue the fun and
perhaps get the laugh on this apos-
tie of temperance, the president an
nounced that the senate would be
glad to know that gentleman's opin-
ion of the senate of 95. 1t was any
thing but fun for the IS senator's
present as may be seen by the re-
marks of Mr.. Remick, which were as
follows.
"Mr. President and Members of
the Senate: You have asked my
honest opinion as to what think OF
the senate Of 1895, and ! propose to
give it to you straight without fear
or favor. would gladly say some.
thing good of tiff | could but with
some few glittering exceptions, | think
you are about as cheap, tricky and
dishonorable body as ! have ever
had anything to do with Your
whole ambition has been to see how
many house bills you could kill and
how many of your own schemes you
could put through. You seem to
think that killing of bills is an evil
dence of greatness. 1t is your bust
ness to pass measures that are in the
interest of the people in general, and
you are not placed here to be the
tools of any persons or corporations
engaged in unlawful business. No
dependence can be placed on what
you say. More than a majority OF
this senate have told me personally,
and without my solicitation, that
they were in favor of all the liquor
bills that had passed the house; that
they should support them and put
those who did not on record by yea
and nay vote. | have in my pocket
letters written by members of this
body pledging their support to these
measures. Instead Of doing as you
said, you have broken your good
resolutions for some unknown and
mysterious reason, so that when the
vote was taken there was only one
senator Senator Gordon, and hon
or him as far as he VENT who had
the courage to raise his voice in be-
half of this legislation, and he lacked
the courage to call for the yeas and
nays, thereby placing you on record
for the next campaign so that each
could not deny his individual re-
sponsibility and be supported by the
record. One OF the most important
OF the most important of the liquor
bills was framed by me at the request
of one of the prominent legal gentle
men on senate judiciary committee.
1t was submitted to him, approved
by him, and his support pledged to
it before it was even introduced by
me in the house. Notwithstanding
all this, he signed, without MUIR
muir, the senate report attached to
the measure 'Inexpedient to legis-
late ] admire a square, straight
forward opponent who differs with
me honestly, but despise most bitter
ly the hypocrite or traitor who de-
ceives and stabs in the back. In
concluding will say, basing my
opinion (Which you have solicited
and which | have been laundering to
giveyou) upon your action, that you
are weak, pusillanimous body"
Concerning the speech the People
and Patriot of Concord, a democrat
ic paper, comments as follows
We call especial attention to the
speech of Mr., Remick in denuncia-
ton of the senate. This speech was
made before the senate, in the hear
ing of that body, Mr.. Remick hav-
ing been invited to address it, and
no senator had the courage to utter
word in reply to or rebuke of the
gentleman from Littleton. He de-
nounced the body as tricky, weak
and dishonorable, and minated
that it had been corrupted by the
rum interest. More than a majority
OF the body, he said, had voluntarily
promised to him their support of his
liquor bills, and only one of the sena-
tors had even pretended to favor
them when they were submitted to
a vote, and that senator was too
cowardly to call for the yeas and
nays. More than this. One of the
members of the Judiciary committee,
he declared, had basely deceived and
betrayed him-had acted the part of
hypocrite and base deceiverl
We venture to say that never be.
fore in the history of any American
legislative body, did a member of
one chamber, speaking to the mem
bers Of the other chamber, indulge in
such bitter language as Remick