The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-02-01
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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you to keep in mind that you are under
the same obligation to put q roof over
your children and to provide for your
future and to lay something by for old
age as is that great mass OF American
citizens whose income Is equally limit
ed. Thirty years in a Government po-
sition, when there have been 10000
others who have desired the place, is
no justification for demanding a pen
sion at the hands of those who have
been involuntarily excluded. I am glad
that this organization Is not demanding
pensions Life in the Departments is
bad enough at best. 1t carries with it
sufficiently the implied dependence up
on the Government without further
Gripping the inherent manhood and
womanhood Of those who enter it's SER
vice"
In concluding, the Secretary of the
Treasury declared that Government
clerks who remained in office for rs
and 30 years Or longer became like so
many barnacles, and he appealed to
the clerks to face the future manfully,
and not ask the Government to pension
them.
Making a State is not such a solemn
thing. after all, according to the actions
Of some of the eminent gentlemen upon
the floor of the House when the joint
Statehood bill was up for passage last
Wednesday and Thursday, the bill
which makes one State out of Indian
Territory and Oklahoma and admits
them as Oklahoma, and Arizona and
New Mexico, to be admitted as one un-
der the name ARIZONA" There was no
kick coming on the first named. The
people OF the two Territories are per-
fectly satisfied to come in as one, and
the provisions of the bill suit them ex-
actiy; but the other two. oh. my; Ari-
IONA is kicking like bay steer and
the Spanish Territory like a Mexican
vaquero. Many of the opponents in
referring to the bill declare that it con-
templated political miscegenation;"
that 1T was an "unhO1y alliance" "a po-
litical trick" "a political holdup," a
partisan expedient." and called each
other most everything that is applied in
ward caucus politics and shouldn't be,
denounced railroad influence" de-
nOunced mining influence" denounced
"cattlemen's influence, and any and
all kinds Of Influence" Indeed, if you
had known nothing about the matter
at all, and depended upon the speakers
on the two sides of the question to in
form you. you would have concluded
that Scylla and Charybdis, the devil
and the deep sea, had things rounded
up for wrecks that would strew the
and that the signs were ripe for old
Diogenes to get out his tub and lantern
again; for according to the facts de-
duced from the speeches the last hon
est man had disappeared from the face
Of the earth.
Party lines were not drawn. The
majority stood pat" to do exactly what
the President wanted them to do, vote
to let Arizona and New Mexico come
in as one State, but about 40 of the
Republicans became insurgents" and
lined up with the Democrats to vote
against the jOinture. Most of the OPP
position believed that neither should
come in at this time. while few
thought that Arizona might come in,
but the fight was to separate the two
sections Of the bill and permit sep
arate vote on the coming in of the two
States. The bill that was presented to
the House by the Committee on Terri
tories was fashioned SO as to admit
both on one vote. The opposition was
SO determined that at one time the Gin
surgents' counted enough noses to vote
to separate the two sections of the bill,
but this the majority, standing pat OH
the Presidents desire, refused to permit
done. To save the majority power, 1t
was necessary to do some tall hustling
among the stalwarts, and they finally
got enough insurgents into line to break
the power Of the opposition, and it was
then an easy matter to bring in a rule
from the Committee on Rules, which is
comprised of the Speaker, Mr.. Dalzell,
OF Pennsylvania. Gen. Grosvenor. Mi
nority Leader Williams, and Mr. De
Almond. This Committee, when it goes
into business, Is really the House."
and by putting this rule through under
the previous question it made it impos-
sible to cut out Arizona and New
Mexico, and made them stand or fall
with the vote on Indian Territory and
Oklahoma.
The tales that some of the insur.
gents tell Of the way in which they
were bulldoZed into voting against their
principles and convictions are pathetic,
to say the least, and not the least pa
thetic was the statement OF Represen-
tatiye Tawney, Of Minnesota, Chairman
OF the Committee on Appropriations, the
In the House. He made q speech in
which he stated that he had been long
convinced that the two Territories were
not fitted for Statehood. and that last
Summer he went to Arizona and spent
some time studying the matter UP and
Investigating for himself. He came
back more firmly convinced than ever,
but that he felt that his duty to his
party was to vote with the majority,
though he did violence to his princi-
pies in thus voting. Gen. Grosvenor
said that 1t was party measure and
a partisan measure, and that he voted
for it as such. It was pointed out to him
by various speakers that he was not con-
sistent In his vote now as compared
with his vote q few years ago on the
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