Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21
DEFENSE OF INSURGENTS
Dwight, Bennett and Speaker Can
non Come in for Hot Shot.
SPEECH MADE IN HOUSE
New Yorker Declares That Progress
sives Have More Work to Do and
Will Soon Do It.

A speech in defense of insurgency was
made in the House yesterday by Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish of New York, g.
member of the District committee, during
general debate on the sundry civil appro-
priation bill.
Mr. Fish paid his respects to several
republican colleagues in the New York
delegation notably ]. Sloat Fassett of the
thirty-third district, who is a regular OF
regulars.
The whole atmosphere of the House
has changed of late said Mr.. Fish, and
many public questions are given the ut
most consideration and the fullest de-
bate on the floor of the House. such
have been the fruits Of the contest waged
for greater freedom of action and the
rights Of representation.
Insurgents Not Through.
More remains to be done. That it will
be done within the next few weeks admits
of no doubt
Those of us he said, who are unwill
ing to carry out every wish of the Speaker
and the House organization are derided
as insurgents. Insurgents against whom?
Against what republican policy? No. not
! that but against the tyrannical rule of
the mouse.
Fish Fighting Mad at Fassett.
Mr. Fish poured hot shot into Mr. Fas-
sett
He" said Mr. Fish, referring to Fas-
sett. "glories in the fact OF his blind
adulaton of the Speaker and of the rules
of this House, as they existed prior to
! March 10, and mathematics the So
! called insurgents. Yet, with but little
| consistency, in conjunction with the
| eminent whip of the House (Mr. Dwight),
| he sought to bring about in March the
| election as president pro tenn. of the New
York state senate of a gentleman who
only two months before had refused to
! support the caucus nominee of the re-
publican state senator's.
lis there not broad enough field for
! the political activities of these gentlemen
| in their home neighborhood in view OF
the fact that within two or three months
| even the state senator from the district
| Of one of these gentlemen and the state
/ senator from county represented by the
other gentleman have. for the sake of
| the good name of our state, been COM
PEELED to resign?
| My colleague from the thirty-third
district owns and l believe edits a news
paper which. while perhaps limited in
circulation, is not limited in fulsome
| pTdlSe VI It's OWHcI ItS COlulIlIlS
\ over with his great deeds"
Fassett's Paper Quoted.
Mr.. Fish then quoted from Mr.. Fassett S
paper the Elmira Advertiser, the report
of a speech made in the House by Repre-
sentative Malby of New York, calling at
| tention to the fact that when MIR. Fish
| was speaker of the New York assembly
| he created a committee on rules and
| made himself chairman.
This illustrates said the article, 1.-The
sweet simplicity or hypocrisy of G. Ham
ilton Fish"
! Apparently 1t was this article that had
| rolled Mr.. Fish into making a speech.
! He remarked that the article in question
shows only the Grass ignorance of the
| owner or editor of the paper. one or
BOTH
Mr. Malby. Mr.. Fish added, had since
| acknowledged that he was mistaken. but
he did not expect any specific acknowl-
edgment from Mr.. Fassett.
, 1T is a matter of Indifference to me.
he said, what he may think. The only
time the people of the four counties COM
| posing my district had of expressing
| their views of him was when, in 1891, he
ran for governor, and was defeated by
| Al 900 majority by his democratic oppo-
nent.
Only Defeated Republican.
He is the single and significant in
stance of the only republican candidate
| for governor of cur state who, in twenty
| years, has been defeated.
He does not always correctly reflect
public sentiment. For long time he Wig
| orously opposed Gov. Hughes in his ef-
| forts to secure legislation to stop betting
on the race tracks
Stofa n
| it, and il was only at the end of that
| memorable struggle that he sent the IA
! nous John and l. telegram. which. ap-
| parently, was found to be capable of two
| interpretations.
| Mr.. Fish then took a shot at Repre-
sentative Bennett of New York remarking
| that the speech delivered by Bennett last
| Tuesday was the first time he has come
| out in the open as the champion Of Can
noniSm.'