The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-12-14
TO THE POINT
Is the Presidents Message
Neither Dodges Or Juggles
Any Issue.
More News Concerning POlygami>t
RObets-DOings of Congress the
Past Week.

Inc RepuDIlcaOS IN DOtn DrdpCDeb Vi
Congress have shown a commendable
disposition to get right down to the
work of the session. In the Senate the
committees are being arranged, in order
to give them a Republican membership
in accordance with the Republican ma
jority, and the financial bill, which
is to be one of the most important meas
ures passed, has been introduced and
referred to the Finance committee. In
the House the Republican caucus has
endorsed the Financial bill prepared by
its committee, and arranged to put it
through the House at once, besides
adopting rules, those of the last House,
and disposing of the Roberts case, and
in order to facilitate business, Speaker
Henderson has named the committee
on Rules. This is a remarkable show
ing for the first week OF the session, and
indicates that this will be business
Congress.
Frankness is the keynote OF President
McK!nley's message. 1t neither lodges
nor juggles any issue now before the
country. These facts become clearer
the more the message is studied, and it
is document that will repay the closest
study. 1t does precisely what the Pres,
ident's message to Congress was intend.
ded to do-tells the present State Of the
Union-and indicates plainly the things
the President thinks Congress ought to
do 1t declares for support of the exist
ing gold standard for the increase Of
our merchant marine for legislation to
euro the power of trusts for free Cuba.
as early as the Cubans can be trusted to
maintain stable government, for the
abolition of all customs tariffs between
the United States and Porto Rico and
the establishment of civil governmento on
the island for the retention of the
Philippines for the early construction
of an Isthmian canal between the At
lantic and the Pacific Oceans, and the
laying of Pacific cable; for the pro.
viding of proper form of government
for Hawaii, and against entangling for
eign alliances. 1t is doubtful whether
any other single Presidents message ev
er contained 80 many or such frank dec
larations upon important matters. Even
his political opponents have joined in
congratulating President Mckinley on
his message.
Representative Taylor, of Ohio, who
made the obi ection to swearing in Rob
erts, of Utah, as q member of the House,
and who is chairman of the committee
appointed by Speaker Henderson, under
the resolution adopted by the House
with only 81 adverse votes, to investigate
the charges against Roberts. and who
was, for the time, floor leader of the Re-
publicans, added new laurels to his rep
utation as ready debater during the
discussion of the ret solution. He said
the argument of the Democrats that
Roberts should be taken into the House
and then put out again, reminded him
OF bit Of poetry written when King
Charles tried to batter down the doors
of the English Parliament and to deprive
the Commons of the privileges, which
quoted one OF the members as saying:
l hear lion in the lobby roar,
''Say, Mr. Speaker, shalt shut the door2
Or, shall we let him in, and then
Bee II we cannot put him out again"
Had Roberts not been allowed to make
q speech in his own behalf, the Demo-
Gratis would have had difficulty in using
the time allotted to them for discussion
of the Roberts resolution, and the speech
OF Roberts, instead Of being defense oi
himself, was merely an attack upon