The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-24

Washington, February Z5-Nopecie'' Senator Heyburn of Idaho coined brand new phrase last Monday in the midst Of a rebellious debate on the floor of the Senate. It was "rebellious majority
 The Senate had demanded that clerk of one of the committees of the Senate be brought before the bar of the Senate for some sort of reprimand for derelic- ton of duty. The alleged derelietion was his neglect to have printed the testi- mony in the Investigation of Senator Stephenson.
 In the midst of Senator Heyburn's ty- rade Senator Shoot, the chairman of the committee on printing. explained that he had ordered the clerk not to print the testimony until the report of the minori- ty had been submitted
 But this did not satisfy Hepburn. He wanted the clerk punished and demanded the Vice President to call him before the bar of the Senate Sunny Jim ex- plained that he had no authority to take such procedure. but that the Senate by a majority vote could demand the ap- pearance of the clerk
 Heyburn demanded a vote. The only votes favoring the move was his own and that of Senator Gallinger. After the vote was announced Senator Hepburn, rising to his feet and looking about the Senate with malicious disdain he gave utterance to the following.
 'Mr. President, I will speak on 1t Tn this connection. We have rebeilous majority evidently, who glory in some underling of this body disobeying its or ders. and they will sit here and vote, perhaps, in that way from motives that they would not care to justify on the floor"
 The House enjoyed lively oolloquy between Congressman Hehin of Alabama and Republican Leader Mann during the discussion of the chemical schedule .f the tariff Tuesday.
 MT. Mann had been busy all the after noon offering useless and impossible amendments to the bill Mir. Hefiin had stood it as long as he could without an explosion and he got the floor while one of the amendments were pending.
 Following is the result:
 MT. Hehin: MT. Chairman, l have listened with amusement to the gentleman from illinois (Mr Mann) offering amend ments to this chemical schedule that he does not understand
 MT Mann: How do you know? tlaugh- ter on the republican side)
 MT. Henin continuing: Amendments containing names that he cannot him- self pronounce, and some amendments which, I think, should they be adopted, he would vote against the bill on the hhal passage. You have so little to talk about now that you harp on amendments that you do not believe in, and abuse the democartic caucus. The repupncah sue of this House has been reduced to such A small minority that you have not enough to have q. real caucus. (Laughter on the democratic side)
 We have a real, live democratic cau- GUS, and it Is bringing into this House measures that look to the greatest good to the greatest number. There are gen tlemen on that side who recall the last, or Sixty-first, Congress, presided over by a republican nominated in a republican caucus, denounced by honest insurgents in this House who charged that mem- bers had to go with their hats in their hands to this republican speaker to get him to let them in the name of their peo- pie call up bill for consideration by this House When I look upon that side and see how, on account of your broken promises and faithlessness to the people you have been repudiated, and that speaker taken out of that chair and a democratic speaker placed in his stead, and a majority on this side legislating in the interest of the people, I say again, Long live the democratic caucus! (Ap- plause on the democratic side.)
 About all you can say now is, Con- found the democratic caucus" Applause on the democartic side) The democratic caucus has given you a great deal of trouble and will give you great ieal more. It has given us weapons with which to cut the dirt from under the feet of some of you who are offering amend whose record on tariff reduction is such that the places that know you now will soon know you no more forever. Applause and laughter on the democratic side.)
 At the close of his remarks MT. Hef1n retired temporarily from the hall and dur ing his absence MT. Mann returned to the fray and chided Mir. Hefin for oppos- ing the adoption of an amendment plac- ing agricultural implements on the free list when the metal schedule was up.
 During his speech MT. Hefin returned and when he could secure the floor the was added to the coloquy:
 Mr. Hefiin: MT. Chairman. l did not hear all that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Mann) had to say about an amend ment that he offered some time ago to the steel schedule putting agricultural implements on the free list. We have occasionally in this House a piece of grim humor. That amendment regarding