Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-07
HOW VOTING IS
ARRANGED FOR.
Different Bills Mean Life or
Death to Certain
Members.
THEY NEED PROTECTION.
Taken Care of by Special Rules Which
Prevent Votes Being Taken on
THEY NEED PROTECTION.
Taken Care of by Special Rules Which
Prevent Votes Being Taken ON
Buncombc Propositions.
special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
Washington. April 3,--There is
plenty OF time in the house--time for
debate. time for all important legisla-
ton and time to consider all bills that
ought to be considered. Yet there Is
complaint. This comes from men who
cannot get up the measures they want
considered talked this over with
Serene h. Payne. chairman of the
ways and means committee and floor
leader of the house. and asked him
why the house managers were not viii
ling to allow the members to vote on
many of the important matters that
come up. There was no complaint now
OF ''gagginR so far as debate was
concerned, ana why should there be
on a plain yea and nay vote? Payne
explained that In the majority party
there were many men from close dis
tricts where vote for or against a
measure might mean their defeat and
that II was necessary to- protect them;
that the various propositions advanced
IN different bills would mean the life
or death of certain members II they
We're compelled to vote. and so they
der or by rules which prevented votes
being taken on measures which the
house leaders knew we're buncombe
propositions.
PAYNE TALKING STRAIGHT.
II might be assumed that Payne was
talking balderdash II everybody did not
know that there are many members
constantly running TO the house lead
ers for protection. Hold n caucus on
this and whip us into line" Is what a
number of Republican members said
regarding statehood. III n caucus de-
cided that we shall vote to keep out
Oklahoma unless the other two terri
tories come in as one state. We have a
good excuse for our people who thin'S
we ought to make Oklahoma a state"
Regarding the Philippine tariff bill,
one of the prominent Republicans of
the east said 81 wish they would eau
Gus on this bill and force me TO vote
for IL. Our people are against II, but
want to stay with the fellows who
run the house" He voiced the senti-
ment OF a number of men. |, Is a fact
that In nearly every Congress there are
lot of men who want the leaders to
make stringent rules to prevent them
from voting the way they do not want
TO vote. There Is where the gag" Is
effective. and the gag" is not effective
unless majority OF the house wants
to make 1t so.
NEW YORK FARMER.
Representative Houston of Tennes-
see was making n speech In favor OF
restricting immigration
What IL the principal industry In
your district" asked Representative
Goulden of New York.
strictly agricultural" was the reply.
II am a farmer myself said Goul-
den who represents a Bronx district
and does an Insurance business down
Broadway.
You look like good man and are
probably good farmer said Houston
so solemnly that Gouden's city friends
laughed at him.
DRIsCOLLs PLEA FOR THE AGED.
Representative Driscoll made an elo-
quent plea in the house for the aged
clerks who were to be crowded out OF
service according TO the plan Of the
committee on appropriations. in which
10 said a number of good things.
Longevity should not be looked upon
as n disgrace he said THE true
philosophy of life is to grow old grace
fully. Whom the gods love die young
is a poetical fallacy invented to con-
sole the hopeless invalid the unfortu-
nate and the bcreaved. Whom the
gods love do not die young. for they
create them with discriminating pal
ates, painless stomnchs, good diges-
tlon. strong hearts. large lungs. quiet
nerves and red blood and all the or
gans 80 healthy. sound and well adj
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