The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-18
SEES TYRANNY IN RULES
Democrats Loud i'm Applause of His
Opposition to Present Conditions,
and Republicans Also Com
gratulate Him.

L make the statement On this moor
now that no member who introduces a
| bill, not private bill, can get it consid-
| cred unless 1T suits the speaker, and IL
anyone wants to deny that, L am in a
| personal position and in peculiarly
happy frame of mind right now to give
a little valuable testimony on that
point applause and laughter) Who IS
the speaker Of this house? is he mortal
of this house that sets UP his immacu-
late judgment to judge on every bill that
is introduced? When member intro
duces public bill in this house, what
happens? 1t is referred to a great COM
mittee Of this house.
'fThey pass their judgment on it, rec
omm mend 1t for passage, and then it goes
misnomer. 1t ought to be called Gene
terry NaUghter) For therein lie the
whitening bones of legislative hopes.
Qaughter) When the bill is reported,
what does. the. member who introduced it
and who is charged by his constituency
to secure IFS passage do? Does he con-
suit himself about his desire to call it
up? No. Does he consult the commit
tee that recommended it? No. Does he
consult the Will of the majority of this
house? No. L will tell you what he
does.
Quotes Cassius on Caesar.
''IIe either consents that that bill may
die on the calendar, or he puts his man
hood and his individuality in his pocket
and goes trotting down that little path
way that leads to the speakers room
All the glory that clustered around the
holy of HOLES in King Solomons temple
looks like thirty cents prolonged laugh
ter and applause.) Yes looked like
tWenty-nine cents-compared with that
Jobbing department Of this government
(Applause and laughter.)
Mr.. Cushman then quoted Cassius' allu-
sion to Caesar as the Colossus of the
world, and continued:
Il make no onslaught on the Individual
l nave high regard for the speaker of
TINS mouse personally and for him p0liti-
cdliy, Dut the TACT is that we have adopt
ed set of rules in this body that are an
absolute disgrace to the legislative body
Oh any REPUBLIC. Applause on the Demo-
cratic SlGe.) They are unrepublIcan thew
are undemocratic, they are un-Anerican
(Applause on the Democratic side) We
need to restore this house to the great
patrlotlc plane on which the fathers Of
the republic placed it, where every indi-
Vldual on this floor stands on an eql,aI
ana an exact plane with every ether
lApplause.) We operate here under Il set
81 rules confessedly designed TO ba.ittle
the hopes and dwarf the ambitions Of the
individual members of this body and at
me same time to vest more power in the
hands Of one or two men than was ever
enjoyed by Oriental despot or A ten hut
ton mandarin. / say to YOU my friends
that the system is rotten at both ends
Sees LiIIiDutians in Congress.
Mr.. Chairman let no man charge me
now with trying to tear Gown the Re
publican party / am not irving 70 tea
down the Republican party, but [ confess
that | SON etimeS feel that / would Ike
70 put my hand upon the throat of ore
or or Two men en-. who conceive that they are
the Republican party. applause and
laughter) There are people in Washing
ten city today who are going down to a
theater and paying out so cents each in
order to see performance of Lillipu-
tlanS. What a sinful waste Of money
When they can come up here and Watcn
this house perform six days in the week
for nothing. Naughter)
Now, Mr.. Chairman, a member of this
house said to me the other day: 'Cusl-
man, what makes you SO thin% I Will
tell you what makes me so thin. have
half million earnest patriotic and in
tell1gent constituents behind me de-
handing that secure certain needed and
righteous legislation in their interest
That is the pressure on me from the rear.
When | try to secure recognition and an
opportunity to bring up that legislation
for consideration / go up against the
stone wall that surrounds the speaker of
the house and the committee on rules.
That is the pressure on me from in front.
and between the pressure from the rear
and the pressure from in front, ] have
been fattened out like a Cancelled postage
stamp. daughter
Will Fight the Machine.
''Now, in the three years that I have
been member of this body | have al
ways approached that little machine with
the Difference due TO It's lge and ITS sta
ton; but ! hope you will excuse NV
frarkness when tell you that from this
| time on | will devote little Of NY time
and a 1.-THE of my energy II pattipg q
! few spokes in the wheel Of that machine
that the designers Of the yAfIcl9 neye
Now. I will leave the consi lerltion Of
| this subject with The final observation
| that sometime between now and lie
! close of this session 7 will get a little
| time at q GI1it9iOla
! will make a speech 81 the sUb;ec Of
| the rules of this houGe, and I promise
| you that that speech will he SO hot that
| it will have to be printed on asbestos
| paper and tied to a hand grenade for
| distribution
Mr.. Cushman then ;lrned his lttertion
| TO the pending measure and its spon-
After reading the utterances of Harri-
son, Blaine and Mckinley On the sub ;ect
| OF reciprocity, to show that they did
not advocate. such reciprocity as was
| contained in the pending bill. Mr. Cush-
| man said:
Severe on Mr.. Payne.
! DalzeH to the reciprocity IF BENJAMIN
| Iie rrison. I appeal from the reciprocity
| OF congressman Grosvenor to the recip-
| rccity of William Mckinley | appeal
| from the reciprocity of Seren0 e. I1a1 nc
| to the reciprocity of James g. Blaine,
| have been interested as well rs enfer-
| tained,' he continued, ''by some necuIiar
statements that have been made on this
| floor in support of this measure.
| 1.-THE gentleman from New York Mr.
| Payne) on this side of the chamber
| proclaimed that this measure was the
| height of Republican protection, and
| then, within an hour, before the sand
| IN the glass had run once, Mr. McCIeI-
Ian arose on the other side and announc-
! cd that he was going to vote for it he.
| cause y was breach in the wall Of
| and c%oT 4cxr
| ana these two speeches are printed in
| parallel columns of the same issue OF
| the Congressional Record
| FIN Tnere IS q picture. The gentleman
| from New York (Mr. Payne) with on,
| loot planted on the wall of protection
| with the other set firmly on the ramDarts
OF free trade. with the American Sugar
| Refining company in his arms and a.
| platform of the Republican party in his
| hip pocket Gaughter). There is q tan
| leau (renewed laughter) that, with tn,
ala OF slow curtain and little red fir,
| would bring tears to the eyes of an Fpvn,
tan mummy Oaughter)
| HQnOred at Close of Speech.
Nov, then, my distinguished frienl
| IRON Ohio Mr.. Grosvenor, for whom
have a very high regard, also spoke unol
| this bill, and / desire to say here am
TO give it all the emphasis I can, tina
| ne is personally responsible for the fac
| that occupy seat on this floor today
The way 1t came about was this, II
my state, that great, expansive voun,
| commonwealth in which there are few
NNilroads, and where you cannot cam
paign In Pullman car, we have TO ea
out on horseback, or in a rowboat. a
with mule, or with a bicycle. and e.
over The country anyway, where there i
10 baggage train equipment When :
man goes campaigning in that countr,
ne puts n clean pair of socks and a tooti
crush in his pocket and starts out
lLaugnter) ! felt it was absolutel,
fnr
carry along certain documents bearing Of