Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-27
HLLP NORRIS, >AlS (UMNlNS
Iowa Senator, in Hastings Address,
Urges Reelection Of Congressman.
TRUE TO PROGRESSIVE POLICIES
Declares No Mau TOok Mere I'm
portSpt Part I'm Great struERIes
for Progress ~ Last Cen
RressionaI session.


HASTINGS, Neb. oct 2s-tspeciai Tele-
grsm)-United states Senator Cummins OF
( Iowa came into the Fifth Nebraska district
today to preach tho gospel Of progressive
repuhlican,sm and to tell the people OF
this district that II they wish progressive
policies carried forward IN congress they
should stand by Congressman George W.
Norris and re-elect him. Tonight he ad-
dressed a large gathering OF voters at the
opera house His only other speech IN
Nebraska will be delivered at Lincoln to.
morrow and ct that time he viii have
something 70 say concerning the republican
ticket IN general and Senator Burkett In
particular, whom he heartily endorsed in
tonights address
In his speech here he declared thst in
the fundamental principles OF the demo.
cratic party there are insurmountahle
obstacles to the party's ever taking the
right side in the great conflict into which
the nation has been plunged over three
issues. regulation OF corporations tariff
rev. sion and conservation Senator Cum
Minis had this TO say Of Congressman
Norris 1T is with great pleasure that I
find myself in the district represented by
my friend and fellow worker. George W.
than even his neighbors. perhaps. to know
what he has done IN the service Of tho
people and how faithfully he has devoted
his great talents to the welfare not only
Of his state, but OF his nation"
Among the many advances toward bet
ter government that have been witnessed
during the last few years. no step has
been taken OF deeper Importance in the
a Of he
that was wrought during the last session
Of congress in the rules OF the house of
representatives, and in the fierce struggle
out OF which the change came, no man
bore more prominent or more honorable
part than was borne by your representa-
tive.
1 venture the assertion that for twenty
years prior to the change not a single
measure of wide general Importance had
been considered by the house of repre-
sentatives save under a rule reported by
this committee, q rule which invariably
either denied or limited debate and which
prescribed the character Of the amend
ments which might be offered The house
ceased to be deliberate body. At every
session for years somebody proposed q
reform, but 50 great was the power and
mighty the influence Of these self-selected
spirits OF legislation that defeat was al
ways the portion OF the courageous man
who insisted upon a change.
Last session. however, Judge Norris, with
that zeal and fidelity which so distinguished
his character and with the strength which
he exhibits in every struggle, gathered to-
gether the men of conscience who were
willing to incur the points OF the speakers
dlspleasure and overturned this iniquituous
structure and, under his leadership, there
was substituted for the old despotism a
committee on ruleD not appointed by the
speaker, but elected by the house, a COM
nlittee that will be responsive to the will of
the people. and for the first times In a
quarter century the most important Iesfs-
lative body in the world represents the
spirit Of every free institution ...
For the work he has done and the notable
victory thus accomplished, Mr. Norris has
earned the gratitude, not only Of his own
district and his own state, but OF the
United States. / believe that he has done
more to bring the body Of which he is a
member, into harmony with the principles
Of good government than any man of his
time