The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-14

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| Washington. June 11.--tslaT Special -
Hon. Joseph w Bailey is thoroughly dis
4 gusted man. The passage of the bill TO
allow the soldiers to vote for congressman.
no matter where they may happen to be To-
Gated, is the cause OF his fit OF disgust. MI
! Bailey made splendid speech against that
/ bill yesterday and 1t was said by many
| men to have been an able constitutional
| argument and absolutely unanswerable
| from a constitutional standpoint. He trel
hard to stem the tide in favor OF the bill in
| his own party, but did not succeed, and
that Is one thing that added considerably
TO his disgust. Many of them admitted the
! correctness OF his attitude, but said tley
| wanted to vote for the bill In order to
please the soldiers from their respective
| districts. They no doubt acted upon the
same principle of Colonel Tim Campbell.
! who, when he asked a friend to vote Tor
certain bill and was told that 1t was ul
constitutional said, What's the constitu-
ton between friends?"
| Tho bill IS not only compound fracture
| of the constitution, which gives the Stale
| the right to fix its own time and manner OF
| holding elections and also the qualifications
Of its voters. but it Is flapdoodle and bum
| cornbe and demagogy OF the worst kind. Il
/
OF other good, old fashioned democrats that
| If there was anything under the sun tina,
would soldify the democratic vote In con-
sress, it was Federal interference In cleo
tons, but 1t seems he was mistaken, for
many democrats voted for this bill, as there
were only AZ votes against it aud 1876 in
favor Of it.
haze talked to several men here who
have seen voting among the soldiers dur
ing the civil war and they unhesitatingiy
pronounce it dangerous business and a
farce. IL congress. the Federal govern
mcnt, has the power to fix the qualfica-
lions of voter in the First congressional
district of Texas and allow man to cast a
vote for or against the candidate for con-
gress in that district no matter where the
voter may be and no matter whether or not
he is qualified voter at home in that dis
trict, then we may as well blow our
bloomin' constitution at The moon. our
boosted States rights have gone glimmer
ing In the dim vista and all sorts OF crimes
may be committed in the name Of the con-
stitutlon. 1t is worse even than the So
called force bin" that the democracy
kiiled long time ago. and how any demo
crat could vote for 1t don't understand
! The truth Of the matter is the democrats
here are demoralized aud ratified" and
are grabbing at shadows. They don't seem
I TO be able to lay hold on the old landmarks
and unless they are brave enough to do 50.
the result VIII be disaster to the party. |
am AFRAID there Will be new issues next fall
| IN many parts OF the country issues grow
| ing out of this war. and if there are tho
! democrats are not now conducting them
selves in way that will be conducive to
alarming popularity.
political corpse was resnrrectca H.,
President Mckinley yesterday in the pzr-
son of j. Warren Kiefer of Ohio who was
appointed a major general in the army. lie
has been dead and buried since the close OF
The Forty seventh congress ana he died be
cause his political record smelled like a
| second hand coffin from a ngger ceme-
terry.
! keifer was hrIgadler general in the
iate civ!l war between the States and is
I saia to have been good soldier AS speaker
OF the house OF representatives, however
| 1e was an arrant failure and his constlt,
! uchls nave since repudiated him. The
ror'y seventh congress was remarkable for
q number of things the principal one bs,ng
INC action ot Speaker Kiefer in firing
Two compe' ent stenographers. who attend
ca 10 the work of the committees, on tn,
idsl DAY OF tho session and in appointiDp
10 lhelr places TWO of his henchmen. one OF
Nhola was relative and neither of whom
was stenograpner This apnointp,erI
gave these men $l16 Il month each for nine
months with alb iolutely no work to do. In
@daltlon TO this, j. Warren Kiefer on the
last day OF the session. issued an order
compelling tho doorkeeper of the press
gallery TO admit outsiders during the clos
ing hours OF the session, and the result was |
that every seat was occupied by people not
engaged in newspaper WORK, and the CORE |
spondents were consequently excluded Az |
result OF this there was meeting of the |
newspaper men Immediately after the close
Of the esson aud Kieter was unanimously |
ana picturesquely denounced by the hun |
dred odd representatives of the press. |
whose work was seriously retarded by his
uhWarranted action. These resolutions OF
eehsnre were largely responsible for the
taot that J, Warren Kiefer. although per-
slstent ofiice seeker Tor the past fifteen
years has never since been able to qnt bis
are ,,r,, ehe KIND OF men Mckinley is now ele
''''"s " positions.