The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-15
THE WEST SHUT OUT
Gar Reeds Way of Furnishing the
Bryan States.
JUDGE KINGS DISCOVERY
Is THE WHOLE THING
IN CONGRESS.
Senator Cannon's Protest Against
Timber cutting Restrictions
Lumber Men Have a Double Cinch
Expected Democratic Majority
of 60 in the Next House.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, D. c., Feb. 11.-Repre-
sentative King has come to the conciu-
sion that the speaker is the whole thing
in congress. While he admires the big
czar personally. he believes there
should be a radical change in the rules
of the house when the Democrats get
control of the body, 1T is an outrage,
said he to The Herald representative,
that one man should be able to eXer-
else such power as is lodged IN the
speaker under the Reed rules II was
never contemplated by the constitution
! that any single member of the house
should become its absolute master.
That is what Reed now is. No measure,
no matter how meritorious, can even
be considered in the house, when he
disapprOves il. No man can be recog-
nized to do anything in the body unless
the speaker knows what he is going
to do and assents to it.
Judge Kings conclusions have beer
confirmed by the fate of the Salt Lake
public building bill and other meas
ures of interest to Utah, none of which
can possibly be taken up. There is
absolutely no hope for any measure of
Importance to the people of the west
except in cases covered by amendments
to the appropriation bills. 1t is coming
to be more and more the practice to do
all important legislation by means OF
appropriation bill riders, and not by
independent measures.
THE DO-NOTHING PROGRAMME
1t is the declared policy of the Re-
publicans in congress to rush all the
work of the session as rapidly as pos
sible and force an early adjournment
The great appropriation bills are far
n ora mr.
an adjournment may possibly be reach
ed in May. This will be in full accord
with the desires of the Republican lead
ers.
They believe it will help them in
the fall elections to bring their do-noth-
ing congress to an early adjournment.
But few of them express any hope
whatever that congress can be saved
AS matter of fact, the Republican
congressional committee in its prelimi-
nary campaign work figures every dis
trict that gave less than 5000 Repub-
lican majority in 1896 as doubtful. The
last Republican house caucus was en-
livened by a speech made by Blenner-
hasset Mahany, the Buffalo member, in
which he frankly aid that his district
which gave him nearly 5000 majority,
is in the doubtful column this year.
BAILEY FOR SPEAKER.
Conservative Democratic estimates
are that the next house will have some
thing over so Democratic majority, and
if the off-year tide is running it may
go much higher. There seems little
doubt that Joseph w. Bailey, of Texas,
will be the speaker. His forces are
thoroughly organized already, and his
friends, largely composed of the young
er members of the body, are actively at
work endeavoring to maintain the point
of advantage that he occupies as Demo-
cratic leader.
Judge King is an ardent Bailey man,
and if he is a member of the next house
he will certainly come in for important
committee places. Although Mr.. Bailey
has been a member of the house nearly
eight years, he is one of the youngest
members of the present house. He is
a few months younger than Represen-
tatiVe King.