St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1918-03-15

the gentleman that once we had
a police official out in Chicago
who called the policemen to-
gether one morning in the squad
room and said, II am not going
to mention any names, but if
Schultz don't stop drinking,
some policeman is going to lose
his star" (Laughter.)
The question that is naturally
agitating my mind is whether
the n man or the few men
having to stand the enormous
strain have failed under it, or
whether the four hundred and
tbirty-odd gentlemen have failed
under the strain of watching
the few gentlemen fall under
the system of placing this enor-
nous burden upon the should
ers of half a dozen men. AS a
failure it is best illustrated by
the fact that the great number
OF men in the House have be-
come SO tender-hearted that the
moment the grind starts and the
few gentlemen start in address,
ing the House, thereby assum-
ing all the burdens, all the rest
of the Members desert the Hall
and walk out of the building.
(Laughter.) Did I say walk?
No; | was mistaken; they do
not walk out, they run out and
1t IS necessary to ring a bell
three times to bring them back,
and when they do some back
and find that the same four or
five gentlemen are still under
the pressure, trying to carry the
burden that 433 men should d.
vide and carry, these four humid
red-odd men Immediately, when
they have responded to their
names, feel SO badly that as
soon as they have answered
Here to the cali of their
names, they again run out, feel
ing that things are being at
tended to SO much better than
they could possibly attend to
them. Laughter.)
If one of the gentlemen who
has come over to respond to his
name should for a moment for
get himself and ask for permis-
sion to help carry the burden
and watch the indicator, helping
the few gentlemen to stand the
strain, he is Immediately jumped
on, sat on, and squelched, and
in unmistakable manner in
formed that the proper place
for the four hundred-odd gent
lemen is over in the House
Office Building addressing n
vclopes and mailing seeds to
their constituents in the rural
districts. (Laughter.)
1t is the hopeless situation
created which compels the four
~hundred-odd gentlemen to come
over and watch the indicator
over the machine that is squeez-
ing both the physical and men
tai life out of the half dozen
gentlemen, that have succeeded
in emptying the Hall of Con-
gress SO that the average bust
ness is being transacted with
about 80 gentlemen present.
Count them now!
And to my mind the Indicator
is pointing out that 100 times
a day for one gentleman, no
matter what his attainments,
is too much of a physical and
mental strain, both for the gen
tleman who is to be under the
terrific pressure and also for the
tour hundred-odd gentlemen
who have to watch him to the
point of breaking or failure.
And let us be fair with one
another. What would happen
to a manager if he was running
the biggest and best show on
earth if he would send his star
performer out to address the
audience 118 times in a single
evening? His. show would
bust; that is all. (Laughter.)
When all other means have
tailed to drive the Members
away from the debates and back
to the House Office Building
the following may be tried sue
cessfu1ly, and was tried the
other day: A gentleman not Of
the select few has the audacitv
TO attempt to participate in the
debate on and he is squelched
by one of the select gentlemen
IN this manner: "Has not the
illustrated the fact
mat a little learning is some
times a very dangerous thing?"
In other words, a colleague
on the floor is willing to hold
up a brother Member is ignor-
ant IN order to take the @pep"
ana grit out Of him and thus
prevent him from ever coming
pack; and the gentleman who