The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-24
DEMOCRATIC PARTY READY TO 60 BEFORE VOTERS ON
 RECORD OF 62ND CONGRESS

Statements Prepared For
 United Press By Conspic-
 uous Members of House.
 Washington, Aug. N-Answering the query: What has the past session of Congress done for the peop1e?" the following Congressmen today prepared for the United Press the statements herewith:
 House)
 ''This House passed more bills in the nature of constructive legislation than any House in 20 years. It passed tariff bills alone that would have sav- ed the American people $500, ,0O0, 900 a year. It passed more bills for the benefit of laborers and wage-earners than any other Congress that ever met. It passed bill that amelior- ates to the greatest extent the condi- tions of our seamen which will have a tendency to induce the securing of high-grade men. It saved several millions of dollars without crippling the public service. It admitted New Mexico and Arizona as two States, as ought to have been done 20 years ago. It is an outrage that they were kept gut of the union so long.
 We submitted constitutional amendment for the direct election of United States Senators. We liberal ized the rules. of the House. We passed laws to try to stop undue use of money in elections. We enacted a them being the Panama Canal bill
 President Taft prevented, by vetoes, enactment into law of our tariff bills and other legislation"
 i(By Representative G. W. Norris, of
 NebraSka.)
 .'The. bitterest enemy to progressive legislation and progressive action is the political machine and the political caucus that strives to take away per- sonal responsibility and to make it impossible for the citizen to locate the cause of failure of executive action. The progressive Republicans have sought to eliminate partisanship when ever it was possible to do so.
 ITO my mind, the most important part of the past session has been the clear-cut issue developing out of the secret caucus. The fight of the pro- gressive Republicans has been to make such action impossible. We realize that hopes men l2ay honestly dis agree as to any concrete proposition dH fekfs1A tfof What we seek to bring about is an absolutely uncoerced free dom Of action that will prompt any man to vote the dictates. of his own conscience and,s in the aggregate, we will then always get the unhampered and unbiased judgment of major Bity.''
 tBy J. Hampton Moore, Representative
 from Pennsylvania and Secretary
 of the Republican Congressional
 Campaign Committee.)
 What have the Republicans accom- plished in the 62nd Congress? Over and above everything else. they have accomplished the overthrow, at least temporarily, of the pernicious tariff Legislation brought in by the Demo- crats. Apart from the small business which has kept up here harassing the country for fully nine months, we have done nothing but held down tariff bills that threatened our industries and passed mongrel Panama Canal bill
 ssThere is one thing which the Re- publican minority has not succeeded in accomplishing. They have not been able to keep the Bourbon Democrats from injecting free trade into the ship ping bills and the Panama bills. The Republicans as rule had little to do in this session but protest, in prevent Ing an unSclentl1lc TeVISlOn OI lHS tariff laws the Republicans have done their best work
 Washington, Aug. 24.-As the House clock, today, ticked off the last min utes of the second session of the 62nd Congress, Speaker Clark delivered "valedictory'' speech. He praised Democrats and Republicans alike and both sides cheered and applauded wildly.
 Accounting the achievements of Democratic leadership, Clark said:
 When the future historian comes to review the times in which we live. he will declare with absolute truth that the House Democrats of the 6lst and Sand Congress did big things. We found the party inured to the habit of defeat. Behold it, today, defiant, aggressive, full of hope. We have won many victories.
 While every Democrat is entitled to his full share of the glory, I will add that no majority was ever led more successfully than has been the majority of this House under the leadership of the gentleman from not be just if did not also state that no minority was ever led more ably than has the Republican minority un- der the leadership of the gentleman from Illinois, MT. Mann. Leader Mann fully lived up to his name. He is in very truth a man. Were it not for him would feel decidedly lone some in the Speakers chair.
 'I utterly refuse to believe that the country is going to the dogs because I have implicit faith in the courage, patriotism and ultimate good sense of the American people.
 we have not done all of the things we desired because we were confront ed with Republican Senate and a Republican President. For years WE were sneered at as party of mega tion, but this Democratic House has passed more bills of constructive statesmanship than did any other House in a generation
 Speaker Clark then paid the fol- lowing tribute to the progressive Republicans who joined frequently with the Democrats:
 Our thanks and gratitude are due to the brave, patriotic Republicans who have co-operated with us in passing good bills. Other bills came to grief as they deserved to do. We will go before the people on our rec ord with absolute confidence"
 TRIP-HAMMER IS STAYED.
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