Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-02-24
(By B. F. Fly)

(By B. F. Fly)
 The Congressional Record is reDlete with the utteranceS of our lawmakers. Every word that is spoken in each branch of Congress is sup posed to be printed in this daily journal.
 Sometimes, in the heat of debate, words are uttered, that, upon sober thought, the speaker would never have al- lowed to escape his lips. In almost every instance of this kind the objectionable words are stricken from the record"
 In many other instances Speeches appear in the Record that were never ut tered on either floor of the Senate or House.
 The way this comes about is quite easy. A member simply arises from his seat and, addressing the presid 1 ing officer, says that he wants, or asks the unanimous consent of his fel- low-members to "extend his remarks | in the Record" Nine hundred and ninety-nine times in a thousand this request is cheerfully granted, for 1t relieves the members of the painful necessity of listening to the congress- man actually deliver the speech in | the presence of the other members, whereas if he be given leave to print, he can turn the subject over to his clerk and have him write speech for home consumption.
 The best speeches, however, are those that are delivered lon the spur of the moment" such as the short, pithy, pathos speech of Congressman Carl Hayden, when the House Ehd under consideration the bill to pen sion the survivors of certain Indian wars. Every word came straight from the heart, and those who heard the | Arizonan could not help being lm- pressed. It was one of those sponta- neous bursts of enthusiasm born of the man who really believes in what he says.
 i Here are a few extracts from this speech, which show that Arizona has a congressman with a human heart; a man who, believes in awarding valor; a man who thinks it the duty Jf the United States to care for our veterans, especially those who acted as the pathfinders to western civili- zation Among other things, he said:
 Far be it from me to cast the very slightest reflection upon the valiant services rendered by the men in blue who saved the Union. The fame of their valor and prowess is fixed in history. They fought against men of their own race, equally valorous, and to whose courage all time will pay tribute. The leaders on both sides of the war between the States were the very flower of our civilization. They knew the meaning of honor and chi valry, and wherever possible they soft ened the rigors of war by acts of kind ness and consideration for a fallen foe.
 ''The veterans of the Indian wars dealt with an enemy who knew nOth- ing and cared less for the rules of civ ilized warfare. He was savage, not content with a mere killing, but who took delight in torturing his prisoners in the most fiendish and revolting manner The Indian warrior never came boldly to the attack unless sup ported by overwhelming numbers, but fought from ambush. Intimately ac- quainted with the country, skillful in his own kind of strategy, 1t was only by superhuman efforts that the Ameri- can soldiers could ever capture him. T have talked with many of these old Indian fighters, and they all tell the same tale of long marches over
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