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present congress; you cannot determine
whether you will appoint this commission by
this body until that change is tried, and then
it goes over to the regular session of con-
gress, and when the next congress is elected
if legislation has not before been had, you
will not get it. You will not, in my judg
ment get it for ten years. | don't believe
there is a member Of congress here nor in
Washington who believes by the machinery
you have devised here anything can be &C
complished until the Fifty sixth congress. l
ask the people-if you wish to face the people
again-if the financial condition has been
revealed to them.
In closing Mr.. Walker said:
Now l propose to say something about the
methods Of securing legislation, if there had
been the slightest hope or encouragement
from this convention, but | want to say to
you that you have damned the whole reform;
damned it here today in the weakness of hu-
man nature and there is no salvation.
F, L. Roots of COnnOrsVille Ind Jumped up
at once to reply to Mr.. Walker. He said:
I take it that he has misunderstood the
motive of the men who have been active in
the calling of this convention. Rather let it
be the beginning Of a grand future in poll
tics, that are so interested that will
spend our money, we from the East, from
the West, the North and the South, and act
as citizens, because the republic Is in our
hands and not in the hands Of congress or
senate. We came here for a purpose. We
came here to express our sentiments, and
dangerous is the position of that man in con-
gress who charges US with being lobbyists
for immoral or any other purpose.
By this time the delegates were aroused
and interested. and began to prepare for the
SQuall that to come. Congressman FOW-
Ter offered the following as an amendment to
the committees report:
Resolved, That the permanent executive
committee of this body shall be constituted
by the selection of one member from each Of
the states represented and the selection Of
such member shall be left to the delegates
of the respective states; and that said COM
mittee shall confer and cooperate with the
banking and currency committee of the house
and the finance committee of the senate to
secure the inevitable passage of a bill carry
ing out the principles adopted.
Mr.. Fowler spoke to his amendment. After
paying his respects to Mr.. Roots in sar-
castle tone, said:
This convention is nothing, if it is not q
convention of the United States. l venture
to say that any prolongation of this question
through the complicated machinery adopted
here will result in dry rot and the defeat of
the noble purposes that have called you to-
gether. Make a popular committee, a com
and make them feel the Importance of this
convention, by giving them to understand
that you want them to act as coming from
the people. This will force the congressman
to see that the people demand from them i'm
mediate action on the financial question.
Mr.. Built Of Pfnnsylvania. spoke against
Mr.. Fowler's amendment, urging that 1t
would not be feasible to appoint
mission composed of one from every
state in the Union. He said:
ION that committee you want men of the
convention together-nien who are not to be
deferred from doing thir duty, by being
told by the chairman Of the committee on
currency that our movement is damned. No
man should rest, from going forward in a
movement he believes to be right, because
some man in a moment of disappointment tells
you that you are damned. Immense applause)
You have right TO call upon congress.
You have a right to Say to them that they
must do what will conduce to the true
INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY
and what will preserve to you and to other
citizens the rights that they enjoy. Let us
move forward, confident that we are right
determined to assert our rights and deter
mined to hold them responsible II they do not
come up to what is rightfuliy expected of
them"
Congressman Walker at this point again
took the floor, saying among other things:
You have friendly congress now; you
may have hostile one next. Members of
congress are not absolutely ignorant, and all
the wisdom of the country is not outside.
After running debate. in which L. C..
Ramp, of Knoxville Tenn, Mr.. Rhodes, OF