The Irish standard., 1895-04-27
|DJHIDN a0F! An ORATOR,
ASKED ron CERTAIN IMPORTATION,
n yeak IN The Knses at First, hs braeos e'E
u Up ana Talks Until He DOESN'T # N
Know Where He !s At.

.. : aassfatIX
3 The following speech was delivered By
Rowan, Of South Nor
walk in the house Of representatives
"Wednesday, on bill authorizing MID
4 "a letoWn to issue bonds, says the soutn
s NoTwalk Evening Sentinel:
5f.l Mr. Speaker rise for Information
and that is this: is there any rule OF tne ..[
4 house compelling a member to arise and
explain q bill?
Speaker-I know Of no ruling making
II compulsory for member to DO 60, but
1T issa general custom; it facilit ates5 DUST
ness for member TO explain the Bill. &C.
fs Mr.. Speaker, the reason j ask IS this;
The gentleman from Putnam, chairman 1il
Of corporations, when bill OF MS was
before the house, said: The bill is be
fore you and explains itself. ! thought
II that was acceptable it would b be
good opportunity for me. to get out OF :ex-
planning my bill. For, Mr.. Speaker,
am not accustomed to speaking in public,
and when I get on the floor my legs
weaken, my heart beats more rapidly
Il Wadsworth, of Suffield---Loude i
,.a..Mr. Speaker, I am hardly able to
stand on the floor now 'sa Fl
Some member suggests that the gem
!, tleman from Norwalk be allowed to sit
while delivering his address. Naugh-
teri
Mr. Rowan ~(continuing)--If the gen
t1eman cant hear me I would suggest
that he be allowed to bring his chair
down where am. prolonged laughter.)
Mr.. Speaker, am chairman on the part
of the house Of the finance committee;
why was put there I never knew, be-
cause I never knew anything about
finance. Who does? [ have never
heard outside that the committee on
finance was the last one put together. by
the speaker. Every country has had
some man, or men, who thought that
they were prominently fitted to give the
world a system OF finance which would
be acceptable to everybody; but before
they died they would feel, as Sir Isaac
Newton did (who / am told was grand
father to the member from New Haven)
after spending his life at his favorite
study, that he had only picked up few
pebbles along the seashore. Mr.. Speak
er, 1t was left to Wilkins Micawber one
of the heroes in Dickins' masterpiece
David Copperfeld," to give to the world
the only safe system ofefnance the world
has ever had. 1t WAS this: RecefIts
f2D 3D.; expenditures, .E19 Cd, on the
road to fortune. Income, f19 6b.;; #ex-
renses, f20 Cd, on the road to the Door
house. Mr.. Speaker, this house needs. to
keep Wilkins Micawber's s system in mind
viz, spend less than your income. Mr..
Speaker, thought If I could Go as the
committee on the Judiciary do in exs
planning their bills, I would get along all
right. For I observe that one member
explains until he gets exhausted and
Men another takes hold. Iaughter.)
!. L hadsthe right kind OF committee
Icpuld do the same; but in looking over
MY committee find can t do it, because
my committee isn't made up right. & ]
find that the chairman, On the part tof
the senate, was educated for q preacher.
naughter) The others are all Sunday
school teachers, except the gentlman
from East Hartford Roberts), who is q
Democrat.
Gum Of Acknowledgements and Sun
day school teachers are Synonymous.
(Prn1onged laughter.} -.-.
Speaker-The gentleman from Nor
walk must remem ber that we have two
orsthree pages OF the calendar to so
through with, and II ne proceeds he must
do by the unanimous consent of the
house. III
10 tAnn, of Milford-I move, Mr.. Speaker,
that~the gentleman from Norwalk have
al the time thaHEf FIX n -; e 0sl!!
day, for we are much better entertained
BY him than we would be by anything on
tn calendar. (Cries. of Go on" ''Go
on.!''. from all over the house.)
Mr.. Speaker, observe that the law OF
compensation don't go in this house. I
have been sitting here in this house for
nearly three months like an old Stough-
von. bottle, without compensation.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, it seems to me that
those who do not speak should receive
some compensation. I think that be-
before the session closes / shall move to
have the rules changed so that when a
bill is put upon its passage the member
who doesn't talk shall have two votes as
compensation for his silence.
Il KeeIer of Norwalk-Tll go in for that,
as 1t will shorten the session, Naugh-
ter.
Mr.. Speaker, there is no man IN the
house who enjoys q good speech better
than I dc. presume. Mr.. Speaker, that
there are in this house 50 men who can
get up and make q rattiing speech, while
there are 200 OF us who can't make. one
without great embarrassment. You see,
sn oratory have a great advantage over
those who are not. Mr.. Speaker, in the
early part of the session, when the Ha-
watian revolutions were before the house,
Iremember i how delighted was to hear
the different speeches. I was enraptur-
ed !; could feel every hair of my head
standing up in single Ale: I could feel
every nerve In nay body tinge with de-
hight. (Laugllter.y That night when /
returned to my home I sat down and
wspt. My boy, lad of 20 summers, said
to me: Dad, why do you weep?'' I
said, Because I am mad. Laughter.)
\ lam mad because was not born an ora
\ tor. Ny boy said to me: Dad, orators
are not born; they are like machines;
they are made They are like a certain
breed Of dogs. Take the setter, for In
stance, he may have q natural instinct to
\ set; but he will never set right until he
( is, ,tr ained: !: and the pointer, he may have
q anae instinct, but he will never point
q tie way you want him to unless he he
strained. SO with the orator; to ocrate
/ properly he must go through a severe
frain1nS. For Instance, Demo mosthenes,
gff1e greatest orator that Athens ever had,
B as trained for years by the best tutors
fatISe day before he attained perfection.s
ifsy vas said thet Demosthene's training
Il ssss s'so severe that he went to- the ssS
lssir I. !. and HE'D his mouth with pebb bles
aas;ss iat NJ he could keep his tongue III
sa,i4 Hea, boise. b think, Mr.. Speaker were
afss ri nfIaition to know yOlI Wnyld Ana: