Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-25
He Is ViYaCiOus Still.
CHAMP CLARK Boards 00N-
GREssIoNAL LIONS IN
THEIR DEN.
Scores High-Handed Republican Ap-
preparation Methods-Keeps the
House in an Uproar-Pays
His Respects to Reed.

House IN an uproaI
His Respects to Reed.
WASHINGTON, D. O., March 90
Champ Clark, of the Ninth Missouri
district, signalized his return to Com
yress by q characteristic speech to-
day, which won him hearty applause
on both sides of the chamber. Secur-
ing ten minutes to speak on the agri-
cultural appropriation bill, he utilized
the time in excoriating the Republic
can majority's high-handed methods
of forcing the appropriation bills
through without giving the new MEM
bers either time to read the bill or
discuss it.
yesterday and to-day" declared
he, "the House has witnessed the
most astounding and exasperating
performance on the American CONT
nent, by passing without reading or
debate bills which, for aught the 1872
new members know, contain the
greatest steals in the history of the
nation"
SIN the last campaign" said Mr..
Clark, "the Republican leaders had
charged over six million citizens with
being anarchists, but these same lead
ers were really the anarchists them
selves. The Republicans were always
long on promises and short on per-
formance. They had promised pros
perity chin deep if Mckinley were
elected. 1t had not come yet. 1t was
clearly a case of suppressed develop
ment."
"The longer a man lives the more he
learns" was the first proposition Mr..
Clark laid down. He declared he had
changed his mind about the United
States Senate. First to last he had
said many unkind things about the
Senate. During the dog days of 1894,
when the Senate was holding up the
tariff bill, he had eve favored the
abolition of that body. To-day, he
said, he wanted to retract everything
he had ever said in derogation of the
upper branch of Congress.
"I thank God" said he, "that the
Senate of the United States still re-
mains a ~deliberative body. Demo
cratic applause.) undertake to say
that yesterday and to-day have wit
messed the most astounding and ex-
asperating performances which ever
took place in the American Congress"
He proceeded to argue that the
rules of the Fifty-fourth Congress had
not proved drastic enough, so that the
whole government of the House had
now been turned over to the trium-
virate composing the committee on
rules. "During the last campaign"
he shouted addressing the Republican
side, ssyou wandered over the face of
the earth denouncing 6,000,0 900 Amer
ican citizens as anarchists. Gentle
men of the majority, you are the
anarchists. What is anarchy? Gov
eminent without rule, the govern
ment of this body to-day" Demo
cratic applause.) He warned his po-
litical adversaries hat this would be q
day Of reckoning.
"The Republican party" he said,
''has always been long on promises
and short on performances. You said
the people would be swamped to the
chin in prosperity if Mckinley was
elected, even before the last admins
tration went out, for which I also
thank God. Democratic applause
But the prosperity you promised
seems to be in a state of suspended
animation, while you besiege a care
wor President trying to break
through the hypocritical 'snivel' serv-
ice rules"
He created much amusement by
asking what the House was going to
do after the Senate entered upon the
real consideration of the tariff bill.
"What are we going to do?" he said.
"Sit and look at each other and con-
stitute ourselves a mutual admiration
society? Why not give the 14s new
members a chance to try their ora-
tory?"
Mr.. Clark said that when Speaker
Reeds biography vas written the
corner stone would be the quorum
counting rule. Just as he made this
complimentary reference to the
Speaker his time expired, and, with a
broad grin on his face, the Speaker
pounded the gavel. The House broke
into a great roar of merriment and it
was a minute before Mr. Clark could
proceed under the two-mlnute extern
sion. He said that he was in favor of
ining every member SIS for absent
ing himself from roll call without a
good excuse.
Taken In"
81 used often to read the news
paper aloud to my wife," said Bert
Robinson, "and once I was fairly
taken in by a patent medicine ad-
vertisement. The seductive para
graph began with a modest account
of the sea-serpent, but ended by set
ting forth the virtues of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, which, it
was alleged, was a III for all Bron-
chial Throat and Lung troubles, and
would ever cure consumption if taken
in time. The way l was taken in was