The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-29
CHANGE IN RULES
IS bENEF |C|A[
Democratic Regime in House Is
Subject Of Comment and
Generalization.
GOOD HUM0R PREVAILS
There Was Not an Acrimonious Pas
sage During the Long Debate
on Reciprocity Measure.
VIII Pass Senate.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, d. c., April %
Under the brilliant leadership OF ac-
tive and capable young democrats,
the House of Representatives CON
tinues the rapid and orderly dispatch
of it's business. | do not mean to
be too technical in the use of the term
young" in this connection. | have
especial reference to such men as
| Speaker Clark, Underwood of Ala
bama. Fitzgerald of New York, Hen
nv and Burleson of Texas, Kitchin
of North Carolina, and Sherley OF
Kentucky; and mean even to INCLUDE
democrats like Padgett and Moon OF
Tennessee, Lloyd and Shackelford of
Missouri Clayton and Richardson OF
Alabama, Jones and Hay of Virgin
ia, and James and Johnson of Ken
lucky, and numerous others like
them. happily endowed with good
Judgment and discretion, as well as
high order of ability.
The important accomplishment of
the House last week was the passage
of the measure providing for com
mercial reciprocity with Canada.
That body is now busily engaged with
the consideration of its companion
piece" the Farmers Free List.
The remarkable change in the tenn
Lo &c oTIh inHt nf
eral comment and much congratula-
ton. Under the old republican reg
inc the House was ruled by the
Speaker and his select ccterie of
leaders" and the members were Of
ten driven like cattle. Cannon and
his rules and methods were the in
spiration of the insurgent movement
among republicans, and became an
Tissue. upon which there was no un-
certain expression of the people IN
| the last Congressional election BaH
lhumor naturally followed a tyran
meal enforcement of parliamentary
: fn%aoOas LhHTfferent spirit is evidenl
in inns new body, under democratic
leadership and control. Good humor
and good fellowship are generally in
| evidence There was not an acrimo-
NOUS passage during the whole
| week of debate on the reciprocity
| bill, Notwithstanding the strong diff
ferences of opinion concerning its
merits. Consideration so full and
complete was given it that every
member who had an amendment to
offer had an opportunity to offer it.
and every one who had something
to say was given the chance to say
it. Then the bill passed without
amendment by the overwhelming
wife of 2G5 to SO.
Ten democrats were among those
voting against the bill Three OF
these we're from Ohio, three from
North Carolina, and one each from
Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota and Colo
RADIO Seventy-eight republicans vo
ted against it, and but siXty-five fo1
it. This was the second time thu
Presidents party in the House ha
voted against a measure that he ha
! | desired to make peculiarly his own
Last session, when the House passe
this bill the first time, but seventy
five republicans voted with the Pres
ident for it, while eighty-three re
corded themselves against it, TIL
democrats saved it on each occasion
- The fate of this bill in the Senat
d, is no longer felt to be uncertain.
> will pass that body, also, and with
- very good majority, notwithstanding
the early predictions to the contra
ny. But the weather viii be goo
and hot before the Senate reache
:, vote on, IT,
p The republican opponents of tn
bill, who sought yainly to embarras
/ its passage by offering amendments
: are now having their sincerity pm
to the test in the opportunity OF
fcred them to vote for the enlarge
4 ment of the free list. The reciproC
e ty bill is frequently denounced a
4 an effort to reduce the cost of Twins
o at the expense of the farmer, for tn
exclusive benefit of the people VIII
live in the cities and towns an
y Of the factory employees, especially
k 1t is proposed TO equalize condition
a by placing on the free list som
r. ninety-eight articles in daily us'
more particularly on the farm. tn
consideration of these two measure
a has brought about that conditio
= without which it has long been fe
5, that the high tariff system could nC
S, be successfully assailed 1t has ST
the beneficiaries of that system
fighting each other; so that Other
t are encouraged to believe the coul
c try will soon be doing business o
i a lower tariff level How the We
tern farmer politicians feel about
is very well illustrated by the ton
4 OF speech delivered by Senate
{ Young of iowa, the other day
Boston, hotbed Of reciprocity II