The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-05-29
Congressman Bartlett
Defends Vote on Rules
Pays His Respects to Detractor- Says He is Doing His Duty
to Nevada Constituents As God Gives Him Light to See 1t
Special Dispatch to the Reno Gazette

Of bed against my doctors advice in
order to be present that day, and at
the Democratic caucus held just
before the House met, and the proceed
ings Of that caucus and those i'm
mediately following on the floor Of the
House. caused the forming of my judg-
ment, aud I was the first Democrat TO
vote for the Fitzgerald amendment, and
did not care IL l had been the only one.
l was surprised to find 20 odd others OF
the same mind as the roll IA called,
amongst them some of the most highly
respected and longest serving members
of Congress. We did net violate q
pledge and we did not hold a caucus, as
the Goldield News alleges. We voted
for amendments proposed by q Dem
ocrat. and q Democrat whom Champ
Clark said on the floor was the ablest
parliamentarian In the House. but
whom he did not name in his select
committee of 10. simply because Fitz-
gerald did moi agree with him. and in
cidentally Mr.. Clark was the first to
invoke the aid Of our amendment in
subsequently, moving a recommitment
Of the tariff bill.
"The News charges Cannon with
terrifying himself with a set OF rules
that makes him an absolute dictator.
aud that SO 'ar bitrary and dangerous
had Speaker Cannon become that Can.
nonism became q d to the
country What insufferable, ~inexcus-
able ignorance and rot. The other vel.
low pencil of the ~coterie, little Johnnie
Jaundice, who lives in Reno, should
have written the News editorial. He
has more brains. even if they are a lit.
tie clouded by resentment of fancied
wrongs. The rules are the outgrowth
of some hundreds of years Of experience
of assemblage and parliamentary prac-
tice, but this interview cannot go into
the question now. Let me remind the
c~oterie. however. that these very wicked
rules were our Democratic rules when
we held the gavel in the Fifty-third
Congress. when Crisp followed Reed
into the Speakers chair. That there is
room for an honest difference of opin.
ion on the House rules, there can be no
question. aid it is possible those now in
force might in many instances be i'm.
proved, and it is up to those who are
abe and earnest in their desire to i'm
prove to suggest and work for a better
ment. and il right. they'll win. This
is still a representative government,
aud the majority rules. Mr.. Cannon
did not make the rules; they were made
by the House Of Representatives Of the
United States acting by a majority
vote. and it is simply damnable rot and
criminal ignorance for q lot of pin.
headed. yellow pencil pushing idiots to
reel off reams of copy about the country
going to hell because a majority don't
think like q minority.
"By the way, 1 note the Journal OF
the 18th Of May states that the kind OF
Democrats 1t knows never makes or at
tempts to justify deals with Republi.
cans Rare jewel, that. in face of the
fact that Champ Clark's plan was mos'
Objectionable to a number of Demo
Gratis because of the very fact that il
was q deal with Republicans-his com
mittee of Is providing for nine Repub
licans and six Democrats, but that his
tory is too new to require repetition
The inconsistency Of the Journal il
more pfiable than amusing.
Eyes. / voted for a 10 per cent tariff
on hides, and it is justiiable both Oh
the grounds of it's being a revenue duty
and because my home people wrote and
petitioned me to do SC. And hav'
been equally earnest for the presen
duty on lead, and we have had O hare
time keeping 1t from being lowered, anf
the coterie might investigate or asl
me for a heap sight more evidences o.
political c~ussedness and they'll find tina
I'm not shaping my course to favorinf
breezes on the political seas. but an
earnestly e~ndeavoring to represent the
interests Of the people who have SEN
me here. ! may not always be right
but l shall continue to pray for tn,
courage to do the right as God gives MI
the light to see it,"