Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-04
|CANNON CAUSES
4 sensation
scathing Denounciation of the
Methods of Doing Business
In the Senate
APPLAUSE BY THE REPusLIcANt
Senator TiIlman's Course in Forcing
Appropriation of $4,000 to Pay Claim
Of South Carolina Which is Known 70
b. Unjust, Furnishes Text for :
Grsat Speech.

0T0o9 SPeecns s
Washington, March 4.-The confer
ence report on the general deficiency
the last of the appropriation bills. waa
presented in the house at three this
morning by Cannon. In brief speech
Cannon protestedi against the '1egis-s
lative blackmail' by which the house
conferees have been compelled to
yield to the dictation Of a single sem
ator and accept an appropriation Of
$4,000 to pay an alleged claim Of
South Carolina against the govern
ment The speech aroused the menu
bers Of the house to pitch Of genuine
enthusiasm which had not been witt
messed In the house during the congress.
An officer, OF the government. he said.
lascertained that the claim amounted
! to only "a cents. yet upon the alterna-
Tive OF this gift from the treasury or
failure of the great appropriation bill
| the house had submitted to this
I"blackmail."
i
AS Cannon will be the next speaker
|foreshad downing contest upon the Ques-
ton OF the right of the majority to
rule He said in part:
Gentlemen, you know that under the
practice here and under the rules Of the
senate. great money bills can contain
nothing but appropriations in pursu-
MI
nous consent OF both bodies. II any
Of the bills contains legislation, It must
be by, the unanimous consent Of the
two bodies; and the uniform practics
has been, with the exception Of thd
one amendment upon this bill, that
when one body objected to legislation
proposed by the other upon an appro-
priation bill, the body proposing thd
legislation recedes. In this case the
trouble In arriving at an agreement
all clustered about an amendment "a
pay the state OF South Carolina $4,000.
In May last, on the omnibus claim bin.
q basis was fixed for adjustment Of the
accounts OF Virginia, Baltimore and
South Carolina with the United States
auditing officers of the treasury, in pur-5s
SuduCc VI liAdl 4aWs n0JuSNSO iAAC &AS-1r
counts Of Virginia. An indefinite ap-
preparation was made to pay the rec
spective states whatever should be
found due by the auditing officers. Up-
on that basis, and under that iegis-
lation, the sum of 100000. in round
numbers, has been paid to Virginia.
Under the same law. which is law to-
day, the auditing officers found due to
M <1rn d
of 34 cents. Now the senate, notwith-
standing the law, proposed legislation
on the appropriation bill to the extent
of granting South Carolina $4,000.
The house conferees objected and the
whole long, delay has been over that one
time. In the house, without cittctsing
either side or any individual member,
we have rules, some times invoked by
our democratic friends and sometimes
by ourselves-each responsible to the
people after all Is said and done-by
which the majority, right or wrong,
mistaken or otherwise. can legislate. In
another body, there are no such rules.
In another body legislation Is had By
unanimous consent. An Individual
of that body can rise in his
place and talk for one hour or twelve
hours. 1t is matter OF history that g
senator on the republican side In a for
mer congress talked to death the river
and harbor bill. There comes time
constantly in the settling OF bills when
you must do so and so, or so and so.
else your bill can rot pass. and this
with reference to the great money bills.
In my opinion such a condition existed
as to this bill, and clustered about this
one amendment. There was also an
put on to the bill in another
body which involved legislation to the
extent of granting to the state OF YER
mont $150,000 in adjustment of her war
claims. The senate receded, but your
conferees were unable to get the senate
to recede upon this gift from the treas
ury, against the law, to the state Of
South Carolina. BY unanimous consent
another body legislates, and in the ex-
piring hours of the session we are pow
erless without that unanimous consent.
Help me, Casslus. or sink" Unani-
nous consent comes to the center OF the
dome. Comes thru statuary hall and
10 the house doors, and comes practica1-
y to the house. We can have no legis-
lation without the approval Of both
bodies, and one body, then. In my opin-
ion, can not legislate without unani-
nous consent. Your conferees had the q.
of submitting to legislative
blackmail at the demand, in my opinion,
IF one individual. shall not say
we shall let this great money
bill fail. Now, what are we going to do
about it. This bill contains many fm-
oortant matters, your appropriations s
'or public buildings. legislation, lately
had all along the line of public service
% the extent Of $40, 900, 900.
Gentlemen, have made my protest.
do it in sorrow and in humiliation, but
here 1t is. In my opinion another body
lnder the methods must change its
method of procedure or our body, back
ID up by the people. shall become amer
change; else this body, close to the
people shall become q mere tenderer.
mere bender of the pregnant hinges Of
he knee to submit to what any one
member of another body may demand
Il this body, q price for leg1SlatioA