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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-11-18

Mildred Davis.
Laura Sexauer.
DISTRICT NO. 2-Brookinss coun
Eleanor Kearney, Elkton.
Nellie Connolly, Elkton.
Margaret Mccarthy, Parnell.
Miss Riesche, Richland.
Jennie Peterson, Elkton.
Madge Wilson, Bushnell.
Minnie Reeves, Volga.
Blinda Evenson, Volga.
Marie McConville, Volga.
Marie Svaren, Sinai.
Mabel Stumley, Volga.
Selma Falk, Oslo.
Martha Stinseth, Sinai.
Ida Steverud, Volga.
Julie Karlstad, Volga.
Iva Hinch, Oak Lake.
Maggie De Croft, Oak Lake.
Mabel FuerStenau, Oak Lake.
Anna Fjerestad, Oak Lake.
Petra Berge, Volga.
Mae T. Johnson. Sterling.
Hattie Olson Sterling.
Ida Alrick, Sterling.
Anna Schlobohm, Trenton
Florence Hubbard, Medary.
Beatrice E. Carter, Trenton.
Zenia Stettler, Trenton.
Alice McKenney Trenton.
Angie Kramer, Elkton.
Mae Strong, Elkton.
Mae Barrett, Elkton.
Bertha Bisby, Trenton.
Grace Biggar, Trenton.
Clara Lamb, Trenton.
Mary Wilson, Aurora.
LYDIA Philips, Aurora.
Bertha Swartz, Bushnell.
Clair Lovejoy, Aurora.
Mabel Hoy, Aurora.
Gala Lily, Aurora.
Mary Berry, Aurora.
Nora Smith, Aurorl.
Lyn Sage, Aurora.
Maggie Smith, Aurora.
Anna Endrich. Aurora.
Grace Nesson, Fountain.
Bertha Saba, Medary.
Eta Downing, Trenton.
Hazel Ibeck, Medary.
Lily Bergh, Trenton.
Ethel Garfield, Trenlon.
Clair Sanderson, Trenton.
Flossie Allen, Arlington.
Agnes Jeske, Arlington.
Elgie Stead, Arlington.
Mae Stearns, Medary.
Ida Gilbertson, Medary.
Emma Trygstad, Medary.
Helen Pettes, Arlington.
Laura Tolefson, Preston.
Myrtle Sheets, Preston.
Esther Shultz, Preston.
Rosa Plumb, Preston.
Blanche Cotton, Preston.
Lucy Valentine, Alton.
Emma Hoffdal, Lake Sinai.
Clara Hoganson, Lake Sinai.
Selma Mattison, Lake Sinai.
Laura Bostad, Eureko.
Mollie Studsdahl, Eureka.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

shin with doclity or to accept the conclusions OF
Others Many of them have served in State legisla-
tures before coming to washington and usually nave
been leaders In those bodies. They have none OIL te
tmidity the dfidence which cnaTacaeran enr
of n legislative body; that even new members vi
the House of Representatives are likely to come come
forward often as participants in debate during tner
first terms But still further Is the pecui1arlty OF tue
House of Representatives accentuated Wheh we re-
member that very large proportion OIL les ien In
ship is composed OF men VINO nave seiseu toHe
time on its floor. 1
If one will give the rules of the House OF Repre- e.
senatiyes a critical study he will find that most OF
them excepting a few of the earlier rules adapted
from the Continental Congress- were not framed on
any general theory, but were simply adopted Irom
time to time to remedy certain difficulties or certain
abuses and attain the necessary end OF forwarding
the public business In the same way the co nus
of the House have grown from the rulings OF the
Chair made from time to time to keep the system VI
procedure right theories and in the line OF eclency
Hence the present law of the House is the accumu-
lated wisdom Of all the past experience OF TINS great
parliamentary body. N
few Illustrations will show the perils of lax rul
ngs by the Chair, Of unwise rules and the inven
tveness of able parliamentarians ON the hoor In TAX
ing advantage of such errors and finding metnous 70
paralyze action of the House There was formerly
rule that prior to the call of the roll on vote IL
should be in order to move that any MEMBER De eA-
cused from voting" This would seem to be very
innocent and useful rule, yet the astute men who
were in action the floor of the House Two genera
tons ago, for purposes of their own In oDstructng
certain legislation, built up system OF stopping pusi-
ness in the following way
member would move that Mr. Jones be excused
from voting on the pending question The yeas ana
nays would be ordered ON the motion when another
member would that Mr.. Smith be excused on
the motion to Mr. Jones, and as the question
would come up to excuse Mr.. Smith another member
would move that Mr.. Doe be excused from voting on
the motion to excuse Mr.. Smith.
And one day. about the year 1850 they rolled up in
this way In the House string of pending questions,
each requiring the yeas and long enough to con-
sumo the time of the House for several days Mem
bers raised the question that such proceeding was
nugatory, but the Speaker felt compelled under the
rules and usages to permit it. And years of time were
required for the movement which finally took from
the rules the apparently innocent provision which en-
abled a member to be excused from voting
stiI interesting example OF the extent to
which highly trained men will carry their of tech
nicalities in Affecting their purposes in legislative
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

could have described the Speaker in his potency as
the Speaker is to-day and the House In its helpless
the constitution would not have been adopted.
In the intention of the constitution the Speaker
to be the presiding officer of the House. In
is the House itself Under the rules and practices
the Speaker has initiative and power The 1ndiVid
ua member has not. Speaker Cannon represents the
people of 391 Districts he is responsible to the peo
pie of district ony-the Danvie Gill; district MS
own.
here and there himself, his ramparts have been
strong. But breach has been made In the wall
How big is it?
study the wall itself. 1t will then appear just how
much of it torn away when the Cannon machine
took the Fitzgerald resolution to save itself.
In it's principal points the power of the Speaker is
threefold There is, first the power or 1nqusltoria
recognition; second the power which comes through
his control of and membership on the committee on
Rules and the appointment of all committees; tnird
control over business.
He has control over business Certain bills in the
House privileged-that is they have the right OF
priority consideration. They may be called up at
any time The Speaker designates when they shall
be called up and when they shall be held back. And
the Committee on Rules, of which the Speaker Is
member and which he dominates, may at any time
bring in special order setting aside any other bust
ness which happens to be in the way 1t is curious
circumstance that while no American crowd would
tolerate a baseball game without the implied assur'
ance that the distance between the pitcher and the
home plate would remain the same throughout the
game at least three hundred and seventyfve Repre-
sentatives habltually attend sessions with no clear
idea of what will be sprung next ana what the con-
ditions of the contest will be-
The mower of inquisitorial recognition remains and
with it the power of the Speaker over the Committee
on Rules and in committee appointments In them
is the real secret of the Speakers inordnate power
That they will be attacked is inevitable. The people
have forced one concession of the three needed the
least.
But this is the beginning of the END of one man
power in the House of Representatives. new day Is
dawning in representative government. majority
of the Representatives refused take the first pre-
liminary step for complete revision of the rules.
which would have led eventually to the collapse OF
the autocracy.
Another day, with the people aroused the Repre-
sentatives will act and in their final moment of vic
tory will give themselves to manifestations OF
10y known only to and shown only by those who have
felt the supreme bliss of long deferred emancipation
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

body is shown by the growth of the well known
system of obstructing public business by silence of
members ON a roll call for a vote. This was called
"breaking a quorum" John Quincy Adams of
Massachusetts, the innocent originator of this
ingenious scheme of obstruction, when, one early
Sunday morning, the House sitting past the
hour Of midnight of Saturday, he refused to answer
to his name the roll call because he did not wish
to participate in business Sunday. The House
was put in state of uproar by this proceeding, so
unusual at that time, and one extravagant member
predicted that if the example should be followed 1T
would be possible to tie up the government Such
result did then at all likely but i'll point OF
fact the example followed, and for half cen
fury after John Quincy Adams refusal to vote the
idea which he then for the first time suggested to
members used to obstruct measures, some of
great Importance to the public interest The policies
of the responsible political party in the House were
repeatedly thwarted and the impotence of majorites
became a subject of jest.
1t is obvious from examples like these that strict
rules only preserve the House of Representatives
from anarchy and confusion. still further reason
for strict rules is the fact that indviduasm must be
repressed in House having membership of 391
members. 1t is manifestly impossible for each in
dividual to participate often he wishes in de-
bate or in the making of motions. There must be
selection of the who are to have the floor, and
there must be limitation the time which each
member may occupy. This only be done
through strict rules rigidly applied.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
BY JOSEPH G. CANNON.

T. OR period which extends backward into the past
further than the memory of any living man there
have been frequent outbursts of criticism against
the rules of the House of Representatives.
1t has been declared in the public press, IN inasa
zines and by great multitude of people VINO know
nothing about these rules, well as by a rev VINO
have known something about them, that the system
procedure in the House of Representatives Is hars
arbitrary and unjust and even subversve of the will
of the people. And yet through all these criticisms
the members of the House Of Representatives, VINO
have worked under the rules and who have known
most about them, have continued to readopt them IN
substance, Congress after Congress, regardless or
political changes in control OF the House At Intervals
Of ten or twenty years they have MADE supstantia
reforms but the changes made In the course OF THESE
reforms have not at all times borne any close relations
to the criticisms made in the country at large
In other words the House OF Representatives has
always acted the principle that it knew more about
its own rules than did the critics who write for the
magazines and the newspapers. There is, however,
rational underlying cause for the favor with which
the public grees the criticism leveled against the
rules. In the first place. legislative body like the
House Representatives is always subject to adverse
criticism both for that which it does and that which
It does not do. Criticisms and the opposition which
the functions of governing arouse IN modern states
impossible except to bodies like Parliaments and Con-
crosses which may come in from time to tme with
direct mandates from the people, and which at RE-
ouent or stated intervals of short duration may go
out leaving the difficult task to be taken up by new
and fresh hands. This shows why Congress- and
especially House of Representatives, must always
be subject to criticism, and why that criticism VIII
even include the rules of procedure.
The rules are apt to be blamed Dotn LOT tnose
things that are done and for those things that are
not DONE and ready nstigators of this criticism are
always found in the body itself, among those mem
hers who have been unable to obtain the legislation
which their constituents may have desired or have
been unsuccessful in preventing other legislation
which their constituents may not have desired
rbe House of Representatives, the other hand
has a quorum of 1856 members This means that at
least that number of legislators must be ON hand, or
within easy call at every days sitting. Usually
sar large number is present the hail. and on many
occasions where important measures are up, those
nresent number from two to three hundred, ana
Sometimes practically the entire membership are
present and participate in the proceedings
Members of the House of Representatives are not
men new to legislative life prone to follow leader
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

the restoration to the people of their particular
branch in legislative government.
The event had its peculiar dramatic intensity.
Once only in two years is an attack the rules of
the House possible. Only for instant is the port
cullis open and the bridge down. When John Dalzel,
of Pennsylvania, the adoption of the old rules
at the beginning of new Congress, then and only
then can the onslaught be made Made futilely the
bridge draws up and the portcullis clangs down,
and the Speaker and his power are locked and double
locked in and representation is locked and double
locked out
In the recent clash the stormng party took the
bridge; for day America saw Within and the whole
proposition is before the American people, naked
and in its proper proportions.
The identification of machine is its destruction.
machine becomes visible only it ages for as it
ages it narrow and as it narrows it personifes.
The machine in the House is exemplifed in the
Speaker and his power That power has been pie
nary. 1t is only in degree PERSONAL it is mostly
official and is becoming systemic. This power has
been challenged by popular demand which asks that
selves the power they have surrendered. No punish
ment dam that demand No relaxation of disc-
pne divert the floor No compromise can blind
the instincts of righteous popular protest that has
ceased be partisan. The question is bare, bald and
memorable 1t will have pity for the repose of the
nation until it is answered.
Before the question settled the public will bark
back often to the constitution The constitution was
once campaign document. 1t offered the nation
through an Electoral College President, the States
a Senate, the people House of Representatives. The
people long ago put out giant, though gentle, hand
and pushed the Electoral College aside. In several
localities the people prying at the States with an
inquirng thumb far the Senate Is concerned.
And now they are reaching out 10 take possession
again of their own, nominated in the bond and
defined in the charter, that branch of the federal
Congress which of all the alurements offered, when
the constitution was campaign document, was the
most inviting.
This their own, has been drifting away from them
The two year tenure of the members of the House.
the elemtn of a numerous membership the threefold
safeguard of deberative Senate Presidential vote
and the ordered vigilance of Supreme Court to save
it from of impulse, have not made the House
sensitively responsive to the democracy On the con-
trary the House has turned its power and its vitality
over to its presiding officer and while in the constitu
tion after the opening short preamble the powers OF
the House enumerated first the House stands last
President and after the Supreme Court. And if Alex
ander Hamilton, urging the constitution in his day.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
BY VICTOR MURDOCH.

= OR once the nation has had view of the House
| of REPRESENTATIVES without partisan focus on
the lenses OF all things that transpired in Con-
gress during the election of Speaker this is at once
the most important and the most significant
Those people of the United States VINO insist on
twisting and distortng political events to partisan
taste are not able practise the gentle art of mental
strabismus upon this transaction Thirty-one repub-
lican insurgents" standing for principle, the
restoration representation in Congress- induced the
democrats to act with them In the open Tor change
in fine rles of procedure In the onslaught these
gether met the Cannon machine and for a moment
bore it down. The machine shook the hills of Mace
lonia with its cry and twenty three democrats, hot
with the fever of future preferment, rushed to the
rescue The rescue could not be accomplished with
out a change in the rules, and they were changed,
moi as the republican insurgents desired and not as
the machine would have conceded If 1t had not felt
the ground going beneath its feet. But the rules
have been changed and the first step, mlncing
though II NAV prove to be- has been taken in the
most pressing governmental necessity of the times
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
PROSPERITY POINTER.
Southern Railway Again Busy With
Increasing Its Facilities.

Atlaata, Ga, April 13.-Work has
been renewed on the double tracking
of the Southern Railway between At
lanta and Washington, and it is ex-
pecled that the construction of the
s econ d track will be pushed as rapidly
as possible The previous plans will
be carried out and the work will con
sist i'm the double tracking Of various
port ions of the road which will finally
form the connecting links in the Jou-
BILE tt acking of the entire system.
The double tracking of the road
from Lynchburg, Va, to Diemet, Va.
has been resumed, as has also the
double truck from Asheville to Crag-
CIV. N. C. The latter work includes
the construction of a concrete viaduc1
over the French Broad river at Ashe
Vile. About one year will be required
\ to complete the contracts, which have
/ been let to the w. J. Oliver Construc
i ton Co., of Knoxville, Tenn
The work was suspended abou
! eighteen months ago, on account
the financial depression. The South
~ern Railway, with it's last issue Q
| bonds, expects to make many improve
kiments over it's various divisions
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
LITTLE GIRL
BITTEN BY DOG
Taken to Hospital in Raleigh
To Undergo PaSteur
Treatment.
O|SCOVEREDDOG HAD RABIES
Young Dauhgter OF Mr. ". D. Hello
man Bitten Friday Afternoon
In PikevilIe-DOq Killed

Excitement ran high Friday night
n Pikeyille when the fve-year-old
laughter of Mr.. w. d. Holloman was
bitten by a dog. The dog was at once
killed and it's head sent to Raleigh for
examination. A message announced
Saturday evening that the dog had ra-
bies and that the child should be
placed under the Pasteur treatment at
once.
Sunday Mr.. Holloman took his child
to Raleigh in hopes that the life OF
ais little girl may be saved through
this well-known treatment for hydro
phobia.
The little girl was playing near her
home at the time the dog attacked her,
and upon being bitten medical aid was
summoned at once.
She is an unusually bright little
girl and the many friends of her par
>ents trust that nothing serious will
result from the bite.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
Important Notice.

To the Confederate Veterans of Wayne
County:
l have been requested by the ladies
of Thomas Ruffin Chapter, U. D. c.,
to notify all Confederate veterans liv-
ing in Wayne county who have never
been presented with a cross of honor
and who desire one, to make appfica-
ton through the undersigned between
this date and the 10th of May, so they
will be ready for presentation on the
second Thursday in August next, the
date of our regular annual reunion
and picnic.
The oldest son of any veteran who
has never received one is entitled to
a cross of honor if his father is not
living. AS this may be the last op-
rortunity for obtaining one, do not
fail to make application to me between
this date and the 10th of May, or if not
convenient before be present at oul
meeting on Memorial Day, 10th OF
May, and fill out application.
All veterans are invited and ex-
peeted to attend memorial services.
A. B. ItaLE4OWELL,
Adjt. Thomas Ruffin Camp, U. c. v
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
DIR. MINIS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
VIII Succeed DIR. C. AlphOnsO Smith
But Will Spend a Year Abroad Be,
fore Going to Chapel Hill.

Durham, N c., April 19.-Though
he fatty declines to talk of his plans,
DR.. Edwin Minis, of the department of
English in Trinity College, according
to the most trustworthy rumor, is to
become the successor of DR.. C. A.
Smith at the State University.
DR.. Minis has resigned at Trinity.
was verified in the faculty admissions.
A message to President Venable from
your correspondent did not bring an
answer, but there isn't any doubt that
the Trinity man has been called, and
none that he will accept. 1t lacks Of
icial action only.
Before going to Chapel Hill in
September of 1910, DR.. Minis will GO
abroad and spend a year. He will
not take post graduate work, but will
travel and spend much time in Eng
land. He has been very hard work
I'd man and needs the rest that he
gains in this trip abroad.
He is too we'll known for any biOg-
raphy. His work ON Sidney Laniel
mas brought him large reputation as
an author and his part in editing the
| Idle Comments of Erwin Avery
| whom he loved very much, is wei
known. DR.. Minis is perhaps the mos
popular man in the Trinity faculty
His students are very much attached
to him, and the city has always beer
proud of him. He is a power in th'
church also.
| The announcement will come as
great surprise to Durham people. Al
| though he has been often invited t.
other fields, his devotion to Trinit,
was so great that such a change as h
contemplates was hardly to have beel
expected. There has always been 70
him the friendliess feeling at the Uni
versity, and the best of feelings hav
existed between him and the facult
there ever since he came here.
i There is of course no suggestion
thus far as to the successor of D1
Minis, as the trustees will not act un
til June. What the Methodists ar
to do will be the next interestin
move.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
couplet of which has 4cn in
my mind today:

.v8
couplet of which has - acn in
my mind today:
Dead he lay am0 mis- books,
The peace of God in all his looks
AS l looked today upon the dear
dead face of my friend, my country
man and my brother in the Lord, ]
saw there the peace of God, it's last
lingering rays still lowering over the
clay tenement. It was there in death
because it had been there throughout
life-the peace OF God, which passeth
all understanding. We can we'll leave
him in that undisturbed peace in the
hands of the loving God who gave him
that deep peace; and going each ouI
own way pray that a peace like that
may be ours. May we die the death
of the righteous and may our last end
be like his. Let our brothers life be
an inspiration, let his death be
fraught with hope and consolation
alike to grief-stricken relatives
mourning congregation and sorrowine
friend"
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
CUBA TO HAVE AN ARMY.
Extraordinary Progress Is Being Made
i'm It's Development.

Havana, April 19.-Extraordinary
progress is being made in the organi-
zation of the Cuban regular army.
When fully recruited, it will number
about 5000 infantry and artillery.
That the President considers this as
indispensable to the maintenance of
the government is shown by his refer
ence to it as "a powerful instrument
for the preservation of peace" in his
recent message to Congress. Private
ly the President is reported to have
said that he will not really begin to
rule until the army is fully ready for
service. Already more than three
fourths of the force has been enlisted
and the work of training is going on
rapidly.
President Gomez has authorized
contracts for furnishing the infantry
with the new German Mauser rifles
model 1909, and the artillery with thu
latest Schneider-Canet guns made il
France.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
PARK DAY.

Civic Improvement League i'm Meeting
Last Night Determine to Make This
Years Celebration Record Breaker.
From Wednesdays Daily.
The Goldsboro Civic Improvement
League held a meeting last evening at
the City Hall with President l.. N.
Grant in the chair. Plans were made
for the celebration of Park Day on
the first Monday in May, it being the
third day of the month.
The already established custom of
having the citizens enter their deco
rated vehicles for a prize in the pa
rade will be kept up.
1t is hoped that this year a larger
number than ever before will enter
the contest and thus make the spec
tacular feature of the days program
an additional attraction.
Other places for the days celebra-
tion will be published from time to
time as arrangements are completed.
All Goldsboro is invited to ioin
heartily in the observance of Park
Day, to make it an expression of ouI
civic pride and loyalty.