Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-15
Where Responsibility Rests There
Must be Power With Major
ity to Move On.
FIRM BELIEVER IN MACHINE.
Rule OF Majority Cnnnot be Enforced
Without n Wcll-Olicd
Orc.

Washington, Feb. lift We lose
sight OF our Importance and Of our
| own position for the time being there
| will come In our places better and
wiser men who Will not lose sight OF
the necessity to provide for an orderly
procedure under which q majority can
work its Will; where responsibility
rests there must be power with the
majority to move on, being RESPONSE
BILE"
Uncle Joe" Cannon. laying aside
his gavcl and speaking today from
the floor OF the house. merely as the
gentleman from Illinois" sounded the
warning to his colleagues.
Representative" Cannon arose for
the purpose of lending his approval to
the pending river and harbor appro-
priation bill, but during his speech,
which lasted about 20 minutes. he took
occasion to refer lightly to magazine
and newspaper criticism and to re-
mind the minority members that the
power OF the majority was futile un-
less enforced by a we'll oiled machine
1t was while Representative Fitz-
gerald. Democrat. New York, had the
floor that members were surprised to
sec the speaker rise from a seat on the
floor and inquire;
"Will the gentleman from New York
yield to me?"
Il will Yield to the gentleman-I be-
lieve, from Illinois, replied Mr.. FltZ-
gerald. smillngly.
Mr., Cannon told the house how ho
voted for river and harbor bill dur
In Ip,..g Axtl 1,,,tr icfY ~
and explained that he had voted to
pass that measure over the presidents
veto. He said. he had had some trou-
Bile in justIfying that vote before his
constituents but snid he did so.
Il thanked God then as / thank God
now said Mr.. Cannon. that that
constituency. agricultural district as ii
Is today, had the patriotism crossed
with breadth and intelligence to stand
by me at the polls"
AS the speaker was enlarglng upon
the need of breadth OF view to obtain
approval all over the country for ap-
propriations for river and harbor i'm
provcmcnts. Representative Dalzell OF
Pennsylvania, who occupied the chair.
began hammering the desk before him
with the speakers gavel.
THE time OF the gentleman has eX-
pred" he exclaimed In mock severity
May I have minute more?" pleaded
the speaker.
Mr.. Fitzgerald then secured consent
to have his time extended five minutes
and Mr.. Cannon proceeded.
With the eye of prophecy he saw the
nations population growing from 9O.-
900. 600 to 5OO,00O00O. Already we have
almost half of the railroad mileage Of
this earth he said. carrying almost a
third of the products OF the civilized
world back and forth to market.
Long before the 500. 100000 are
here" he said. 'if we are to depend
on railroad transportation alone. we
will have the railway mileage multi
piled by two. multiplied by three, null
tipllcd by four 1t Is n long work to
add to nature sufficient depth OF water
to carry the great and constantly in
creaslng commerce"
In connection with newspaper at
tacts on his trip down the Mississippi
with President Taft. Mr.. Cannon said:
when I turned to come back from
New Orleans, from the criticism / re-
ceived founded on Incorrect informa-
ton, / wondered whether / was afoot
or horseback. whether 1 was or some
body else.
II expect we will continue to receive
all kinds of fake information that our
great metropolitan journals may con-
tinuc. some OF them to make their pa
pers from day to day. like the Yankee
made his razors, to sell. But I desire
to say to the gentlemen on both sides
OF the house that In the last analysis
Of the two great organizations. the
minority from time to time putting
the majority on its good behavior.
seeking to become the majority will
come to correct legislation. and correct
appropriations for the greatest good of
the people of the republic"