The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-17
WHY GAGGED AND sHACKLED.
Mo Necessity For Suppressing Debate
In the Lower House. -

It is undisputed by the speaker that LIT
only the members OF what Tor the ino
representatives, but also the members OF
the majority, are more Thoroughly
gagged and schackled than :, are the
members of any oEier parliamentary
body in the world What is the reason
for such a state of things? The, reason
put forward Ky the speaker IS that %
huge is the volume OF business prou ie ~
before the house that onl by the exist
ing method of muzzling and eIIaclng III
dividuals can any business at all be Done,
That this asserted reason IS less wen
founded than it might be VIII at once
appear when we point out that ias
greater liberty of speech is enjoyed Ply
the members of the French chamber OF
deputies and of the British mouse u
bodies than is our house of representa-
tives. and although an incomparaoly
greater volume of important ana urgent
business comes before each OF those as
semblies The British house of com
mons contains go members; the French
chamber of deputies, ISL; the house OF
representatives, 35l. From the numerlcs .i |
view point the popular branch OF our
federal legislature corresponds most 5
closely to the German reichstag, Whlcn
has S97 members, but wh:ch has more
work to do, since in addition TO US
legislative functions with regard 20
federal affairs, it has to make laws for
the federal district, or Reichsland, o.
Alsaee-Lorraine, which has no legislature
1
wealth and population than all OF our
territories combined: AS regards the
volume of urgent and important business
devolving on the French chamber OF
deputies and the British house of COM
mons, this must needs be far greater
than that transacted by our house OF
representatives, for the. Obvious reason
that both France and the United King,
dom, instead of being considerations OF
semi-independent and mainly self-govern-
ing states. are intensely certraiiZed anu
cd @Nx<Nl1F Al
| should suppose that our house OF repre-,
| sentatives, in addition to the federai
| business, which now properly comes pc
| fore it, had to perform al 1.-THE work now
| done by our % state legislatures, we
| should get but an approXtmative idea OF
| the vast scope of the law making duties
! devolving upon the French chamber OF
! deputies and the British house or COM
| mons We say that the idea would be
| only approximative. because, first. the
chamber of deputies not only has to dc
| for France ali that our house OF repre-
sentatives and 10 state legislatures do
| for the United States, but also to leg1s-
| late for Algeria. for French West Africa
| for farther India. and for the French
! Indian Ocean, and in the Pacific. Sec
| ondly, the British house of commons not
| only has to for the whole United King
! dom adj that the house of representatives
and As state legislatures do for the
| United States, but it also has to legislatt
| for ell the so called Crown colonies OF
/ Great Britain. and for the. stupendout
| Anglo-Indian empire, which contains
nearly 2 fifth Of the population Of tn, the
| able to talk of the over grown and IN
manageable. business of the house o.
! representatives, when this business /:
compared to the overwhelming response,
| bihties of the parliamentary bodies just
mentioned? Yet, although in London ant
in Paris there is so times more excuse
than there is in Washington for the sup
preston of debate and of the rights OF
| Individual utterance, not for momen
| would the members of the house of com
! mons. or of the chamber of deputies, un
dure the process of strangqlati4 2p ard o.
| hers of the house of representatives have
for some years subjected thems elves
Representatives" by Mayo W Hazeltin'
| In North American Review for August
Few medicines have held their ground
so successfully as Ayers Cherry Pee
toraI. During the past 80 years. it ha!
been the most popular of all cough
| cures, and the demand for it today Il
greater than ever before. Prompt tt