The Washington times., 1908-07-04

makers OF ,tho constitution intended It
should have
The public business should be transact
e0 in public Secret sessions Of committees
in either house OF Congress OF joint and
conference committees are undemO-
cratic. and should not be tolerated. The
Democracy VIII whenever - achieves
control OF either house Of Congress. 50
amend the rules that no business other
than that Of executive and diplomatic
character shall be done behind closed
doors Legislation IS or necessity mold
ed in committee. and me people should
know the influence and arguments
which prevail there no less than the
record made on the floor OF Congress"
Opposed to Cannon
The first plank IS intended TO attract
70 the Democratic party the support Of
people who are Disguised With the con-
duct Of the House under the Cannon
domination. BIZ assuring them that II
the Democrats get the next House new
rules Will be prepared
The truth IS" said Judge Wade.
that Speaker Cannon and his Rules
Committee are the most unpopular insti-
tutions in this Government. I have been
a member OF the House, and know what
It means to ask as a favor from the
Speaker the privilege OF calling up a
measure in which my people are In
ter rested. The plank says just what 7
mean on the subject, and l have no
doubt it will be adopted"
The second OF the two planks is re-
garded as even more startling in the
way OF innovation. for II proposes moth
ing less than that all committee meet
Everybody familiar with legislation
knows that the real business IS done II
committee There bills are smothered
or promoted, jobs are Matched and put
through, and IN general most OF the real
business IS done behind closed doors,
and with statesmen assuming that the
public has no business with what is
done The whole method OF legislation
would be revOlutionized, IL is declared,
II these Two proposals should become
the legislative practice.
Delegates Arrive.
There Is no doubt that Denver saw
things last night that 1t never saw be-
fore. The town was literally full Of peo-
pie Delegates arrived; Illinois came in
automobiles and trains. The Greek
Fraternity boys were there, and about
midnight they took possession, and YOU
never would have known a Democratic
convention existed TO hear them cut
loose
The streets are decorated beautifully.
and there are enough electric lights 10
put the Worlds Fair in the shadow.
Everybody was interviewing every
body else, and all the highbrows and
leaders in the brain trusts settled every
question to their own satisfaction. If 10
no ones else
Railroad Men on Hand
Representatives Of railroad labor or
CARNATIONS have arrived here. looking
after their interests in anti-injunction
planks- They include the executive Of
fcers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen, Order Railway Conductors
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen. In
ternational Union of Machinists, Black
smiths International and Boiler
makers International Union. The dele
CATION is headed by Herman E. Wills.
assistant grand chief engineer of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
The railroad men and the American
Federation Of Labor have not agreed
TO what is wanted in the anti-iniunc-
ton plank The railroad men are less
radical than the FederatiOnists being
willing that properly guarded injunc-