The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-03-17
LAST HoURs IN THE HOUSE

heucldl leliSItdtioGS, nihtiy euio-
giles. and general feeling that all
WAS we'll aud that every member
would cave TO-. his he lie with no.
thing but the kindest of recollections
of the | 18th session, characterized the
session in the house yesterday morn
ing. After the members had conven-
ed, Majority Leader Davis arose on
a question of personal privilege. He
spoke of the session which was about
to end, of the hard work which had
been done, and in very neat speech
presented the speaker with a beauti-
full Morris chair. He paid high
compliment to the speakers fairness
as a presiding officer and said that
Mr.. Storey was held in high esteem
by both the majority and the min
ority.
Speaker Storey responded. He told
of his attempts to be fair in all things
and said that while he appreciated
that he had made mistakes, it was not
because he desired to be unfair that
they were made His remarks were
greeted with rounds of applause.
He was followed by Minority
Leader Morgan, who, in his oratical
manner, paid a high tribute to the
speaker, and to all of those having
any connection with the house and
the work He paid an especial COM
pliment to the chief clerk, James H.
Wallis. He told of his indefatigable
efforts to satisfy all OF the members
and keep the wheels moving, and on
behalf of the members, presented the
clerk with beautiful stickpin.
The chief clerk responded very
gracefully, sayini that he appreciated
the kind words of the minority leader
more than any gift they could have
given him.
Big Surprise Sprung
The surprise of the morning was
then sprung. Minority Leader Nor
gan being the one surprised. Terrell
arose and told of the peculiar tie
that bound all of the members of the
minority to their inimitable and cour-
ageous leader, who had faced the
solid phalanX of the majority, and of
the respect and admiration the men,
bers of the minority felt for the
member from Latah. In closing he
presented the minority leader with
a beautiful solid gold watch, finely
engraved, and ended by saying that
tho members on the minority side of
the house would ever hold in high
esteem their leader, whose fairness
and logged determination to get
through such measures as would ben
eft the whole people had placed him
in high position.
For the first time since the ses-
sion began the member from Latah
was nonplussed, and as his friends
put it afterwards, Morgan was not
able to come back"
81 hardly know what to say"
shouted the fighter from the north, in
an attempt to regain his ,equanimity.
But l do want to say to you, gentle
men of the minority, that l should be
giving each and every one of you a
gift rather than you giving me one.
AS | have stated before, l bear no
ill-will to any member of the house
on the majority side, but l love the
minority. TIE memory of this day
will always be with me, and after we
are all dead and gone, I will think OF
this ten thousand years from now"
Regards to Steam Roller
II want to say, too, that it has
been a great session for the legisla-
ture. The minority has stood out
solidly for what is right, and | think
that we have served the majority
we'll in this regard. AS look across
the chamber to the majority side and
see the manipulators of that steam
roller, I think of the many times we
had to face it and go down. I see
across there, too, the fighters and
hard fighters. Particulrly, do l see
'bobbing up that member from Bing-
ham, "Pete" Johnston. He reminds
me of Kipling's 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy':
Ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, in your
'ome in the Soudan;
You're poor, benighted. 'eathen,
but a first-class fighting man.
And 'ere's to you. Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with
your 'ayrick head O. hair.
You're a big, black, bounding beggar.
but you crumpled up the square.
"Mr. Speaker, ever since I have
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