Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-16

are familiar enough with human ma
ture as we find it exemplified not only.
here but all over the world to appre--
ciate the fact that to be strong and
masterful it is not necessary for a man
to be brutal, unapproachable. grim,
suspicious, disagreeable. Besides, Mr..
Henderson has his own ideas as to
what the proper duties Of speaker
are, and their execution does not re-
quire any other spirit or temperament
than those which are natural to him
fair dealing, an appreciation Of the fact
that it takes $50 odd men to make up
the house of representatives, and that
the house is, and ought to be, first of
all, a purely representative body.
In other words, Mr.. Henderson does
not believe it to be the proper function
of the speaker to make himself the
house. AT the same time it is UNDER
stood he is not in favor of revision of
the rules. He is wiling enough to take
What is known as the Reed rules and
abide by them, and so are most of the
men who in the past contended, more
or less openly, for new system. 1t is
not the Reed rules that men complain
of. but the manner in which they have
been at times enforced. Under these
rules the speaker of the house may, il
he chooses, constitute himself an auto
crat in that he may stop practically ev-
erything to which he is opposed. Such
| a power as this, it is generally admit
| ted speaker should have, aud must
have if his administration is to be sue
cessfu 1t is not that the speaker has
autocratic power which arouses bitter
| ness. but that he uses it too often or
unwisely The Henderson policy, as it
is understood by some of his friends
| who arrived here, is to retain the power
| and use it sparingly
1t is a surprising fact, when one takes
/ the trouble to look into it, that in the
4 next house of representatives nearly all
i the strong and influential men are
found hailing from the mighty west.
The speaker himself. and likewise most
all the men who will form his staff up
on the floor and al the heads of the inn
i portant committees.
Call the roll of the representatives
! who are sure to have influential voice
in the majority party of the next house
and with few exceptions they are from
west of the Allegheny mountains. Can
non, chairman of the great appropria-
lions committee; Hit, the chairman OF
the most important committee of the
4 house-that of foreign affairs; Hull
that of military affairs, and perhap:
II Hopkins or Grosvenor of ways ans
means.
Continue the list of prominent name:
and we have Dolliver. Hepburn, Cous
ms and Lacey. all from the speaker:
avn state; Foss of Illinois, an althori
ty upon naval matters; Prince of tn
same state, influential in currency at
lfai,s: Mercer of Nebraska, Babcock o
Wisconsin. Tawney. McCleary Heat
wale and Page Norris of Minnesota
William A. Smith of Michigan am
Overstreet, Lands, Steele and Watson
lpf Indiana.
What is the matter with the east?
It effete when it comes to statesman
ship in the house of representatives
/, Actually one has TO stop and think 9
the prominent names upon the hous
roll of this section of the country, noN
fhat Tom Reed and Dingley are gone
j Yes, there is Payne of New York, VII
may be chairman of ways and mean:
and 8outelle of Maine. who of cours
: liuiIl be at the head of the naval con
n eniittee There may be others, but the
g IDENTIFY does not come TO mind. Tai
it all in all it is going TO be westei
,e congress and evidently pretty GOO
= one ut that.