The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-02-18
SPEAKER MAKES
SPEECH
CANNON DROPS GAVEL TO
MAKE A FEW REMARKS
ON FLOOR.
Talks For Rivers and HarbOrs and
Incidentally About Other Mat
tiers He Emphasizes Need For
For Breadth of View in Making
Waterway Appropriations.

Waterway Appropriations.
Washington, Feb. 15.-''f we lose
sight of our own Importance ana OF
our own position for the time being,
there will come in cur places better
and wiser men, who will not lose sight
of the necessity to provide for an Or
derby procedure, under which major
ity can work it's will; where response
bility rests there must be power with
the majority to move on, being respon-
sihle. -
"Uncle Joe - Cannon, laying aside
his gavel and speaking from the floor
Of the house yesterday merely as the
gentleman from Illinois, sounded this
warning to his colleagues.
Mr.. Cannon arose for the purpose OF
lending his approval to the pending
rivers and harbors appropriation bill.
but during his speech, which lasted
about twenty n inutes, he took occasion
to refer lightly to magazine and news
paper criticism and to remind the mi
nority members that power of the ma
jority was futile unless engineered by
a we'll oiled machine.
It was while Representative Fitz-
gerald, of New York, had the door
that members we're surprised to see
the speaker rise from seat on the floor
and inquire: 'Will the gentleman
from New York yield to me?'
81 will yield to the gentleman-I
believe from Illinois, replied Mr.. Fitz-
grald smilingly.
Mr.. Cannon told the house how he
voted for a rivrs aud harbors bill dur
ing President Arthurs administration.
and explained he had voted to pass
that measure over the presidents veto.
He said he had some trouble in justi-
flying that vote before his constituents,
but said he did so.
II thanked God then, and thank
God now," said Mr.. Cannon, that that
constituency, agricultural district as it
is today, had the patriot SIN, crossed
with breadth and Intelligence, to
stand by me at the polls"
+. AS the speaker was enlarging upon
the need of breadth of view to obtain
approval all over the country for ap-
preparations for river and harbor i'm
provements, 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-
pired," he exclaimed, in mock sever
ity.
"May I have q minute more:"
pleaded the speaker.
Mr.. Fitzgerald then secured consent
to have his time extended for five
minutes, and Mr.. Cannon proceeded.
With the eye Of prophesy he saw the
nations population growing from &c.
900, 900 to 100000, 00O Already we
have almost half the railroad mileage
Of this earth, he said, carrying almost
one third of the products Of the civil
lied world back and forth to market.
Long before the 500, 1000, 900 are
here," he said. ''if we are to depend
on railroad transportation alone, we
will have the railway milage multi
piled by three, multiplied by four. It
is long work to add to nature sufi-
cient depth Of water to carry the great
and constantly increasing commerce.
In connection with newspaper attacks
on his trip down the Mississippi with
President Taft, Mr.. Cannon said:
"When turned to come back from
New Orleans, from the criticism I re-
ceived, founded on incorrect informa-
ton, I wondered whether was afoot
or horseback, whether was l, or
body else.
II suppose will continue to receive
all kinds of fake information that our
great metropolitan journals may con-
tinue, some of them, to make their
papers from day to day. like the Yam
kee made his razors-to sell. But
desire to say to the gentlemen on both
sides of the house that in the last an
alysis, from the two great organiza-
tions, the minority from time to time
putting the majority on its good be-
havior, seeking to become the major
ity, will come correct legislation and
correct apprc priations for tho greatest
good Of the people Of the republic. F"
| Protest from Porto Rico
San Juan, Porto Rico, Feb. 10
There is wide protest here against Sec-