Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-13
With him, a fact Of which all Repub-

with him, a fact Of which all Repub-
hcans harboring presidential booms
would do well to take immediate no.
tice. The Kansas boomers Endorsed
Colonel Roosevelt for 1904, but the
buckeye Republicans simply Endorsed
him in voluble and meaningless sort
of way. They We're on to their job.
There is no hint in this long and ram
bling platform that they desire to
march under the oriflamb of Teddy
In 1904. Quite the contrary. Marcus
understands his business.
cochran's Hot Shot.
In the debate on the subsidiary coin,
age bill Colonel Charles Fremont Coch.
ran Of Missouri got his dander up and
delivered himself in a manner much
more truthful and emphatic than ele
CANT. He was objecting to tho way IL
which the bill was being railmaded
through. Inter ala be said:
"By the suppression Of debate upon
this measure the house of representa-
tives again exposes itself to the coun.
try as branch of the government
which is gradually sinking beneath the
level of the contempt of the people
We are going to send this bill over to
the senate to be pruned of features
never dreamed of outside of the fertile
brain Of the gentleman who just ad
dressed the house [Mr. Hill. The gen.
tlemen on the other side Of the cham.
Der know that this will be done; other.
wise many Of them would not vote
for It
"Dvery important piece OF Legislation
that has been enacted In this country
since became o member of this body
has been treated in the same manner
by the majority In this chamber. The
most important measures enacted by
the congress during tho past few years,
ostensibly originating in the house,
have been thrown together by medi-
ocrtty and incompetency on that side
of the chamber, rushed through here
without debate or the right of amend
ment and sent to the senate, there to
be formulated into laws.
"Under the constitution the house of
representatives originates money bills.
In the exercise of this great power
how do You formulate money bills?
You do it with the distinct understands
Ing that in the end the senate will re-
view your work and correct your blum
ders. Everything you do is revised in
the senate. Every measure of impor-
tance brought into this chamber by the
leaders of the majority is disposed of
under whip and spur, regardless of its
cruditfes. because the senate may be
relied upon to edit, revise and perfect
1t. We proceed under rules which shut
of amendment, shut off debate and
thus deprive the minority Of any voice
in legislation. Every day the majority
in this chamber thus makes confess
sion Of its incompetency to formulate
legislation. The house formulates GER
tain bills by virtue Of the mandate of
the constitution. Read in the history
of this class Of legislation the story of
your shame.
"Go look at any one of them as it
left your hands within the past FIVE
years, and then look at it rs 1t appears
~ ~'> SS1SuIS poOhb lllu ISsiu there
the fact of the contemplate figure cut
by the majority of this house in the af-
fairs OF this government.
Shame upon legislative body that
Is content to go on as we do! The COM
mittee on rules meets out here some
where and over good Havana cigars
discusses what you ought to do and
what you ought not to do. Who COM
pose the committee on rulesa Do the
gentlemen on that committee bear Gre
dentials differing from yours and mine i?
who authorizes three men to say
what shall be debated and what shall
not be debated and how long measures
OF importance shall be debated in this
house? The Republicans on this floor,
who by thetI conduct abdicate their
functions as individuals and collective
ly consent TO the elimination of the
house Of representatives. as III effec-
tive branch of the congress. Go home
to your constituents and, If you can,
make sufficient apology for having
thus emasculated the peoples branch
Of the legislature"