The Irish standard., 1902-04-26

. "'"' a. tHe Sdue Ilme, TO vest more
power in the hands of one or two men
than was ever enjoyed by Oriental
| despot or ten-button mandarin. I
say to you, my friends, that the sys-
TEN is rotten at both ends. It is rot
ten at one end because it robs the in
dividual members in this House of the
power that the Constitution of the
United States and his credentials as
member on this floor entitle him to:
it is rotten at the other end because it
vests power in men that have no right
to it, and oftimes places on them
duties that they have no capacity to
fulfill.
MIR. Chairman, let no man charge
me now with trying to tear down the
Republican party. I am not trying to
tear down the Republican party, but
confess that sometimes feel that l
would like to put my hand upon the
throat Of one or two men who con-
ceive that they are the Republican
party. I am believer in the Repub-
lican party. The true friend of his
party is the man who does not sit idly
by and watch his party drift into dis
repute and toward destruction, but the
man who rises up and calls attention
to the evils that exist.
"Nero sat on the hilltops and fid-
died while the Eternal City rose in
smoke and sank in ashes, and we are
sitting here idly and unconcerned
while the great power of this ancient
House is being evaded, belittled, de-
bauched and destroyed. There are
people in Washington City to-day who
are going down to theater and pay
ing out so cents each in order to see
performance Of Liliputians. What a
sinful waste of money, when they can
come up here and watch this House
perform six days in the week for
nothing.
'Now, Mr.. Chairman, member Of
this House said to me the other day:
'Cushman, what makes you so thinY
I will tell you what makes me so thin.
I have half million earnest, patriotic,
intelligent constituents behind me de-
manding that I secure certain needed
and righteous legislation in their inter-
est. That is the pressure on me from
the rear. When try to secure recog
milton and an opportunity to bring up
that legislation for consideration I go
up against the stone wall that sur
rounds the Speaker of the House and
the Committee on Rules That is the
pressure on me from in front, and be-
tween the pressure from the rear and
the pressure from in front have been
fattened out like a Cancelled postage
stamp.
"Now, in the three years that have
been a member of this body have al
ways approached that little machine
with the difference due to its age and
| it's station; but hope you will excuse
my frankness when tell you that
from this time on l will devote little
of my time and tithe of my energy
to putting a few spokes in the wheel
of that machine that the designers Of
the vehicle never ordered. Now, I will
leave the consideration of this subject
with the final observation that some
time between now and the close of this
session I will get a little time, at a
suitable opportunity. and I will make
speech on the subject of the rules of
this House, and promise you that
that speech will be so hot that it will
have to be printed on asbestos paper
and tied to a hand grenade for dis
tribution."
Mr.. Cushman then turned his atten-
ton to the pending measure and it's
SPONSORS. After reading the utter
ances of Harrison. Blaine and McKin-
lev on the subject of reciprocity to
show that they did not advocate such
reciprocity as was contained in the
, pending bill, Mr.. Cushman said:
II appeal from the reciprocity of
John Dalzell to the reciprocity of Ben