The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-25
UNCLE JOBS HANGING SPEECH
,INSURsENT CHIEF NORRIS HAS
FUN OVER IT.

l,WeleOmea Payne. DaiEeIl and FordAey
into InsuFgents' nAnts and says ths
speaker WIN Have 70 Adsgn Hii
belt win ThPir Picturesque scalps.
WASHINGTON. May 2G--ssreno Payne
Of New York. John Dalaell Of Psnnsyl.
vania and Joseph Fordney Of Michigan
three OF the most regular Regulars that
ever lived-Were welcomed 10 the ranks
Of the insurgents to-day by Representa-
tive Norris Of Nebraska. the outlaw
leader
The occasion for this performance.
which was not relished by the Welcomes,
was the opposition Of Messrs. Payne.
DalEsll and F0rdnsy 10 the proposition In
the sundry civil appropriation bin APP
PrOpFiating S2SO.OOO for creating a tariff
board.
Mr.. Norris took occasion 10 refer 10
Speaker CannOn's utterance in New York
several nights ago that shooting was too
good for the insurgents and that they
ought 10 Be hanged Mr.. Norris suggested
that pretty soon Uncle Joe may be wearing
the soalps Of Payne. DalSell and Fordney
at his belt.
we are confronted said Mr. Norris.
by a peculiar kind OF combination.
understand that the gentleman from New
York. Mr.. Payne. chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee; his lieutenant. Mr..
Dalsell. and Mr.. Fordney. are all opposed
10 this provision Of the bill and have
united their fortunes on this occasion with
the Democratic side Of the House When
these three form a combination with
MeasFs Clark. Underwood and Fitzgerald
they form Elk Of a kind that it certainly
would be hard to beat. believe il il
time for the rest Of us 10 take 10 the woods.
This is a brand Of insurgency on the Re-
publican side Of the House that 10 new and
the country ought 10 take notice Of IT,
After referring TO the shooting and
hanging speech made by Mr. Cannon.
Mr.. Norris suggested that il wouldn't 10
long until we witness a spectacle in this
HOUSE when the venerable Speaker will
he seen climbing the steps Of the marble
throne dangling at his belt the heavy
locks Of the gentleman from New York,
the iron gray treases Of the gentleman
from Pennsvlvania and the almost bald
headed scalp Of the gentleman from
Michigan, Mr.. Fnrdnsy.
you have all read in the Good Book"
continued Mr.. Norris. of he kind man
who in ancient times made a covenant
that II he could attain a certain victory
he would Offer when he returned home
A. a sacrifice the first living thing that he
met When he went home and was COM
ing up tho road the first thing that he saw
was his own lovely daughter clothed in
q new gown u palm leavea. She jumped
over the picket fence and ran down the
lane 10 meet the old man. little knowing
that be had made u necessary for him.
her own father, 20 kill her unless he could
induce some county justice Of the peace
10 declare his contract unconstitutional
and contrary 20 public policy.
Here We have the Speaker OF this House
going 10 New York and attending q ban
quet and after the banquet in The late
hours Of the night or the early hours %
the mOrning-but Il WAs after the ban
quet. and a New York banquet 90 think
that explains sufiicisntly the probable
condition Of the Speaker-aiter the ban
quet he issued that terrible decree that
all insurgents must die, and like The king
Of old he comes baca and 10 and behold
the first Ones that must come under that
terrible penalty and suffer the awful
death ars three Of his most trusted leu
tenanta-
The House was exceedingly amused by
this time and expressed itself accordingly.
i think. continued Nj. Norris blandly,
that their actions here will have a ten
dency to interfere with party solidarity:
they ought 70 realize and they ought TO
remember that the Republican party in
its last national platform defined what
protection means and what IL ought 10
BE-. This ia a step toward carrying out
that definition