Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-07
THE EREPUBLICANLEADER
BY sAvoYARD.

1 ! heard the maiden enOrt of John | Sharp Williams in the American con 1 gress and that moment ! predicted his future eminence in the field Oi American politics. | heard the first I speech in that body delivered i'y
 Edward W. Carmack, and then and | there I fOretold that he would take ] high rank, and will say this.
 that his absence from the senate the last four years is the sorest ea-
 lamity that has befailen his panty in his country for a generation. ]
 heard the debut of James A. Tawney
 in the house Of representatives. and t!iat day : made the forecast that
 he would attain tc the highest rank among our parliamentary leaders. ] heard James R. Mann the first time he addressed the speaker, and ere he sat down. ] said: That man has great future And I am reminded that ! made the same remark when Theodore Burton first introduced himself to the American people ir Ia speech le made in the Anericag lcongress.
 It is a gScat body. .hat hoase os representative. aud it ought to be the hrst senate in the world That is what the fathers intended it should De when tJ 1t they intrusteQ the purse of the people But the
 house has been faithless to its trust and allowed the senate to usurp hrst place as a part of the national
 legislature, u is daily becomlns more manifest that the defeat ol ] tiet proposal to require the president Ito choose his cabinet from the major fly side of the house of representa- ltives was a misfortune, II cabinet heads held seats in the house, being members Of the majority, we would see senators resigning to seek seats m the house. whereas it IS the amb-
 ton oi every representative 10 be l prom1ted to the senate. It is the
 reverse in England
 Jim" Mann is not a Ton Reed,
 but he is a vast improvement upon
 Sereno E. Payne The first leader of the house the republicans ever
 had vas Lewis b. Campbell oi Ohio,
 who never ceased to be a Whig and never became Q full fledged repu5- lcan lie died a democrat. by the
 way. after serving all three parties iu congress. He was a very superior
 man indeed and a far match for Clement L. Vallandigham and Robert (. Schenck, both of whom he beat for congress and by both of them he , was beaten. He was from the Miami , valley and represented the Dayton . district
 John Serman was the next repubh , can leader in the house, and upon , ! his transfer to the senate Thad | Stevens took his place and he would . have usurped the leadership even Il 5 1 sherman had continued in the house , Yet Stevens was never chairman oi l ways and means, but he was master - of them aIl-Morrill. LoVejoy. Wash ! burn, Logan. Butler. Bingham, Bout
 well, Conkling. Elaine, Kelley. ColfaX
 Julian Schenck, and the others H' 2 fused to shake his long bOny fingei g and say: T know every miserable i coward here and every eOntemptibl' . | peculatOr there" pointing to thu ], senate. That was the era of re
 construction He died in 1868 with ;
 threat to vote for Seymour and Blai iif the republican party dared to pa, i' the bonds iE coin lie would hav'
 been the head ol the Greenbaci U party had he lived and been physical r ly capable.
 After the death of Stevens tn ! irepubican leadership of the house c |, Irepresentatiyes was put in commis sion" as they dispose of the -grea C seal" in England when the admin II istration is al loss as to .whon Q 10 choose for lord chancellor. Bel ], Butler Dawes, Garfield. Logal d Schenck, Horace Maynard and other t plunged fn and led each one for hin ?, self. Butler made Blame speaker | hoDinr to get the chairmanship O if ropriations. and doubtless he wa h promised the purse. What he woul
 have done with il would have been q plenty.
 In the Forty-third congress Gai
 held led, though Kelley was chan n man of ways and means, but m m n Forty-f1,55;;Trt;hh congress, which wa
 democratic, the first of that con
 uIexion since March Q. 1S@9. or si' S teen years, James G. Blaine led th Ii republican side. and Garfield 70 = lowed. Blaine entered the senate b' . for the expiration of the term whe !, the house was making inquiry aDou , ltbe .NuuigaE letters, and again Gal
 neld took the Teins of Bepubiica
 leadership in the house and hei them until he was elected presideh
 Keller was speaker of the forty s seventh congress and for the seeon T time the republican leadership wa but in commission. Kelley va 2: chairman Of ways and means, bu
 the leaders were Reed Mckinies Haskel of Kansas. Burrows. Hiseoei
 and some others Of lesser note ant v