Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04

enthusiasm which had not been wit messed hafore in the house during this congress.
 The report was adopted, 1S1 to It. At $50 a. III. MT Payne moved recess
 until 10 a. m. The motion was carried, 147 to 8, and at 4:07 q. m. the house
 stood in recess until 10 o'clock.
 Washington. March 1.-The speech J of Representative Cannon, chairman or the appropriations, delivered after S:5O 1 o'clock this morning in the house on the Econference report on the general de- I ficiency appropriation bill, protesting against Legislative blackmaiF' and ln- sisting on the 1t of majority to I rule i'll the senate, i'll view of the fact that he is to be the speaker of the next house, is regarded as foreshadoW1ng contest upon this question Then MT
 when MT Cannon delivered this speech I was the most remarkable of this con
 gress in the house. Late as the hour [ was the weary members were fired with enthusiasm by 1t and they cheered his utternaces until the great hall re- sounded with their shouts. MT Can- non said:
 sGentlemen know that under the Ipractice of the house and under the rules of the senate, the great money bills can contain nothing but appropri- ations in pursuance of existing law. un- less by unanimous consent of tEOth bodies. If any of these bills contains I legislation, it must be by unanimous consent or the two bodies, and the uni- I form practice has been-so far as I
 know-the invariable practice has been, with the exception of one amendment upon this bill, that when one body ob- < jected to legislation proposed by the I other upon an appropriation bill, the
 body proposing the legislation recedes.
 Tn this case the trouble is in arriv- ling at an agreement all clustered about one amendment There were many
 amendments of a legislative character proposed by the senate; there were many amendments covering hundreds I of thousands of dollars of claims pure
 and simple, proposed by the senate. One l by one the legislative propositions and
 the claims disappeared as the senate
 receded until we came to an amend I ment to pay the state of South Carolina
 $47,000. A word as to that. In May last on the omnibus claim bill, basis
 was fixed for the adjustment of the ac- counts of Virginia and Baltimore and | GOuLu &jaEOIAlId 8WiIll luG4 kJukIsfU 6LdtEBsf growing out of the war of 1S12-15. The Aauditing officers of the treasury, in
 pursuance of that law, adjusted the accounts of Virginia, An indefinite I appropriation was made to pay the re- spectiye states whatever should be found due by the auditing officers Upon that basis, and under that legis- lation. the sum of $1OO,0O0 in round ! numbers has been paid 10 the state I of Virginia.
 I Under the same law, which is the I law today, the auditing officers i'll the
 adjustment of accounts of the war of T 1912 found due to the state of South yl Carolina the sum of 34 cents. Now
 the senate of the United States, not
 withstanding the law, proposed legisla-
 ton on an appropriation to the extent
 of granting to the state of South Caro- lima SAY ,OOO. The house conferees ob-
 jected and the whole long delay has . been over that one item. Tn the house
 of representatives, without criticizing
 either side or any individual member, i, we have rules, sometimes invoked by our democratic friends and sometimes by ourselves each responsible to the
 people after all said and done-by
 which a majority. right or wrong, mis- taken or otherwise, can legislate. In another body there are no such rules. } In another body legislation is had by
 unanimoIls consent another body an individual member of that body can 7 rise in his place and talk for one :. hour. two hours, ten hours, twelve I.| hours. It is matter of history ,, tbat a senator on the republican,
 side. in a former congress,
 talked to death river and
 harbor bill. There comes time constantly in the settling of , bills when you must do so, or so and i, so else your bill cannot pass, and this with reference to the great money bills. Tn my opinion such condition 7 existed as to this bill. and clustered , about this one amendment. There , was also an amendment put on to the
 bill in another body which involved Legislation to the extent of granting to the state of Vermont $15O.OOO in adjustment of her war claims. The
 sena5e receded but your conferences : were unable to get the senate to recede upon this gift from the treasury : against the law, to the state of South E Carolina. By unanimous consent an : other body legislates and in the ex- 5 bring hours of the session we are l powerless without that unanimous
 consent. Help me, Cassius, or l sink, ; unanimous consent comes to the center : Iof the dome, unanimous consent comes l through statuary hall and to the house : doors and comes practically to the 5 house. We can have no legislation f without the approval of both bodies
 and one body. in my opinion, cannot
 legislate without unanimous consent r. There was the alternative-in my opin- e ion this applied not only to the defici- e ency bill but to the naval bill, or an | agreement as to the naval bill. Your / submitting to legislative blackmail at v the demand in my opinion, of one i'll, ], diyidual-I shall not say when. or of < letting these great money bills fail
 Now. what are we going to do about e lit? This bill contains many important < matters-your appropriations for pub. h lie buildings, legislation lately had e along the line of public service, to the ' Ix.x,4xS94 n2 GOO lnn a0A