The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-09
RECIPROCITY TALK
WAS ENuVENING
NEW NUMBERS GOT THEIR
NAMES IN THE RECORD
NYB's TALES.
ny Ernest q. walkor.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser

] lyman III NNAaAA W AN Ahh'ANAaNAfN
WASHINGTON, April 24.-Tho re.
ciprocity debate in the house, although
It contributed little information on the
general subject to the country, stands
out as a distinctive congressional fea.
tare. 1t was the first large opportunity
that the new representatives had to
find themselves in discussion. There
was very general participation aud,
consequently, there is now a great out
flow from Washington of reciprocity
speeches. 1t can hardly be said that
these will contribute to the enlighten-
ment of the country, but the influence
will not be untoward. Hundreds of
thousands Of constituents will have a
chance to see what their new represen-
tatives can do upon the floor of the
American congress.
The Democrats are conducting their
debates rather leisurely and trying to
give time enough for all to come in.
This, of course, promotes good feeling,
for it makes your congressman very
cross to engage in lively scrabble for
little speaking time and then to be
crowded out of it. Some only want
leave to print, which has been granted
pretty freely also. BIT there is a
growing disposition in the house to
''cut out leave TO print, unless
speeches so delivered be plainly labeled
as undelivered speeches. 1t is claimed
with some show of reason that if a
speech is only inserted in the Con-
gressional Record and not spoken from
the floor it is only fair the reader
should know it. Certainly there is no
honest claim for allowing the matter
to go forth as having been bona fide
speech.
This agitation, if anything ever
comes of it, will bring the house nearer
to the practice of the senate, where
there is never leave to print. Of
course senator's speech may be de-
livered to an audience of only one or
two or of only a handful of hearers.
All the same when one sees a senator s
speech in the Congressional Record it
is certain that the senator stood mp
and made that speech.
Debate Interesting
4 The reciprocity debate in the house
was not without interest. 1t was filed
with entertaining incidents. Some toll
cradle stories were toll. 1t was better
than the eclprocity dol ate of the last
session. Representatives Underwood
of Alabama, chairman of the ways and
! means; Cannon of Illinois, the eX-
speaker; Samuel W. Mccall of Massa-
chusetts, and Asher C. Kinds of Maine,
! long the house parliamentarian, made
, the speeches which attracted most at
J tentiOn. There were, however, few
: good efforts which were the wheat in
the chatf of several days. talking.
When Hon. Frank NJ Nye, represen.
tative in congress from Minnesota, lifts
up his voice in the national house, he
generally says something that marks
him as a worthy brother of the late
. Bill Nye, humorist. His remarks are
i almost invariably punctuated with ap.
: plause. The other day he talked about
: reciprocity and fell to telling stories
: all of which were tolerably good.
81 have been reminded, - said he, 90 a
} good deal, while thinking ON this sub
! IJeet, of a story used to tell about q
? fellow who went west from Maine.
can with propriety locate the story in
Maine, because l was born there, and
1 know something of the characteristics
and peculiarities of some of the people
This was case where a man went
West and was very fortunate and made
: lots of moRey and forty years latel
went back to visit an old neighbor OF
his, and to visit generally those nigh
bors whom he knew and with whom he
r went to school. On one occasion hC
4 dropped into a little store and saw al
7 old friend whom he had not seen fol
Q forty years. AS the two sat and talked
r together the western man helped him
/. self to an apple that was in barre
f by his side and ate it.
Q As he started to GO he said, B.
Q the way L took an apple here. How
t much are they7' and the merchant hest
!. tated minute and then said: oh, the,
q are two for a nickel. Take anothe
Z one They had gone to school togethe
Z and been boys together. There was
genuine sentiment of gladness in tn
;. breast of each to meet the other. Their
n was the oldtime sentiment of friend
ship at the bottom, but it had finally t.
be measured on the basis of two for
: nickel 1t is no new commentary oil
human nature,' AIDED Mr.. Nye. "Striy
as we may to give freer breath to tn
? social and generous sentiments of on
being, we fall back at last to a inancia
:. basis of action"
"a Aho Oebu LANG.
4 Representative Nye also told anothe
: story to represent the reciprocity sit
!. uation, he having been one of the fey
a Minnesotans in congress who supports
y it. His district comprises Minneapoli
: and the -four mills there want FIRE
> wheat.
81 remember when I was a boy o.
the farm" said Mr.. Nye,' couple o
" neighbors could not agree ON lin
r. fence. There was a variance of abou
e two and half inches between ther
v as to where the line was and they fin
]. ally built a narrow lane that peopl
q used to call the Devil Is Lane. L II
v member 1t very well.
q ~ believe in future years we wi
y look back at this DEVILS lane tina
I, stretches 5000 miles across this Rrea
. continent and wonder that neighbors o
3 one blood and one kindred, with on
hope, one ambition and one destiny
could not come to terms of real rec
procity."
The Talked Of Trio.
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