Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-27
CANNON DEFENDS
ACTS OF CONGRESS
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Senator's Cummins, La Toilette, Bristow
and their so-called 'progressives' following
join hands with Mr.. Bryan in making war
upon tho republican members Of congress
who passed the tariff bill and upon the
president who signed it, in that contest
1 know of but one way to treat them and
that is to fight them just as we fought Mr..
Bryan and his following.
- shot at Champ Clark.
Your distinguished fellow citizen Of Mis-
souri,, the Hon. Champ Clark, has done me
the honor on several occasions lately to
take issue with a remark made by me to
the effect that the fight against the rules
Of the house was a fight to prevent any
tariff legislation.
Mr.. Clark knows Aesop's fables by heart
and he has formulated much Of his polit-
ical philosophy on them. In one of these
fables the wolves wanted the sheep to dis
charge the dogs and employ the wolves to
defend them. Mr.. Clark's committee on
rules would AVE given the same protection
to the tariff bill that the wolves would
have given to the sheep. The republican
majority Of the house, with a clear ma
jority in support Of the tariff bill, would
have been helpless in any effort to reg
lister it's will, because any resolution for a
special rule to bring the bill to a vote
would have had to be referred 10 the com
mittee on rules dominated by Champ Clark,
leader of the minority and leader Of the ef-
forts to prevent the enactment Of the bill.
ITO put 1t In another way, the nominal
republican majority in the house would
have been destroyed II all the minority had
co-operated with the so-called Insurgent
republicans and the very first pledge of
the republican national convention and the
republican president, Mr.. Taft, would have
failed as completely as though a demo-
cratic house OF representatives had been
elected instead OF a house with a nominal
republican majority of forty-six.
Rules of Democratic House.
Mr.. Clark has always been regular In
his own party. For his benefit and that
Of Mr., Bryan I cite the rule adopted by
the democratic majority, August 10, 1894,
for consideration of the Wilson tariff bill,
for which both Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Bryan
voted, and which accepted enbloc over COO
senate amendments. This rule was reported
by Representative Wilson Of West Vir-
ginia, from the committee on rules, but
he stated that 1t was in accordance with
the action and will OF the democratic eau
Gus:
Resolved, hat after the adoption OF this
resolution, It shall be In order In the house
to move that the order heretofore made
the disagreeing votes Of the two houses on
Il. r. 1854 be ~resclnded; that the conferees
heretofore appointed on the part Of the
house be discharged from further duty IN
that behalf, and that the house recede
from its disagreement to the senate amend
ments to said bill in gross and agree to
the same; that after two hours debate on
said motion (Which shall be indivisible) the
vote shall be taken without delay or other
motion.
Speaker lCrisp left the chair and took
the floor in support Of the rule. Among
other things, he said:
"T want the gentleman (Mr. Cockran) TO
understand and I want the country to
understand hat the dessrters from the
cause of tariff reform are not these con.
ferees and others who have been making
this great struggle and who now advise
that this bill be accepted, but the deserters
are rather those gentlemen. who in the
midst Of the fight. because they do not
approve all the provisions Of this bill. hold
back and say, We will have no lot or part
In this struggle further
How Bryan Defended Has Vote.
Mr.. Bryan, IN defending his vote on that
bill. said:
II voted for everything in that bill to,
day because that is the best we could DO.
and now ! am going to do better by voting
for these separate bills. / want to suggest
TO those gentlemen who find fault because
We did not go far enough that they stand
in the attitude OF the criminal who. when
sent to the penitentiary complained OF the
inefioiency OF the prosecuting attorney
and said; He has not done his duty; he
ought 70 have had me hung, but instead
Of that I get off with a term in the peni.
Tertiary
NOW a word about the rules Of the house
OF representatives which have been so
much discussed by people who know SO
little about them or those who have simply
iound them a convenient subject for mis-.
representation.
We have haa these rules since the be
sinking OF the government and substan.
italy without change for the last twenty
years until a'few months ago two changes
We're made at the suggestion Of the So
called insurgents who then voted against
the adoption OF the notifications.
ANY one who desires TO know what the