The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-10
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traIob he eoeeial interests are AL
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power i'm both. The same lRinG II
inn, in North Carolina as in the Fed
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like 10 cGntro5 the Legislature, but
.h.,. ara determined ia control tha
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regulating lhelf spe@lai interests.
milan Hawthorne has drawn n
u..abi. ,3c+nra of s,,ina conditions
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q the representatives VINO are iote"
by the Speaker, concluding With q
Quotation from Mr. Moons recent Wig
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"iodS speech - 3"'1S 80"
THE gag rules OF the House are
sl;rDOseG to expedite business: but
they do not ONO order, or Stinu-
late attendance of merlbers. Perhaps
the Speaker Ices not think it worth
his While to keep the House quiet
when i sneech is being made. because
if the sDeech be on the majority side |
# is 4 mere matter Of form. the bill.
resolution or ~proposition of whatever
sort being certain to pass in any event.
and if the orator he of the OppoSftion. |
listening to him would be but waste
of time since saw what he NAV he
win fail Of his ~supposed object
AT al events. the House is now a
noisy and fo1. the most part uninter- !
esting ana uninterested BODY: the
renbers under thei, rags. sit either
sheepish or sullen. and i great part of
them absent themselves except when
a vote or other special emergency de-
nlapds their nresencc
sneaker cannon lolIs IN his chair
ar in meacnrea accents .-,arocnizac, On,
doc not ,ano@ni1a , NON hor. rricbior
10 sneak. he brinas down his hand
with ! dacna,ata ha,o .,a die,ocas /
of Legislation ACCORDING to hi. hunloI
which is the hnnor ~ the nov.e,.s he.
hinl bie tbrona
"Dai1el1 Paine crosrano, a,d
Ijttauer. his aids in government Who
cononnca With him to raa1 n,aiority
of the House lounge comnlacant win
their hands on the brakes ana tbei,,
ol ~ 80 ei'h
written, newspapers read, conversation
is carried on, and the aiSles are filled
with rou chatting idly, or standing
idle, their hands in their pockets.
Meanwhile, some statesman is vo-
CifelatinC something in a Sing-Song
tone at the top of his voice, ana pos
sibly half a dozen somnolent persons
sit with their eyes fixed upon him,
thinking of sometime else. Such i
the appearance at this iuncture of
the greatest deliberative hodv in tho
world, as it is so often called. 1t is
to the hands of these people that the /
interests of our eighty millions are
committed. And al fer the sake of
expediting business.
The onlooker cannot avoid the re-
Election that business may he az
pedlted at too high q cost. 1t is doubt
less not nice TO have a single man!
hold uo the affairs Of three or four
hundred at his personal pleasure, as
used TO be done in the day preceding
Reed; but II IS even worse. from some
points OF view, TO have them schooled
and driven rigidly in preordained di-