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mental functions in the Federal Con
stitution; for all these things are OF
general, continental and national mo-
ment.
"They cannot be hemmed in by State
limitations without disaster to the
national and state governments alike
and control over them must perforce
be lodged singly in some central agen-
cy clothed with organs of irreversible
power"
Senator Bruce then traced the
growth OF constitutional amendments
declaring, however, that he found nc
fault in the first seventeen. He, of
course, is opposed to the Eighteenth
Amendment and of the Nineteenth
had this to say:
"At no time have I ever been OPP
posed to female suffrage. On the
contrary, l was willing to accept
women in that relation as my wife
was willing to accept me-for better
OF for worse; but l always have
thought that the same constitutional
justification could not be found for
the Nineteenth Amendment, putting
women on a footing of equality with
men as voters, as for the provisions
of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth A
mendments, which were least war
ranted by the idea, however mistak-
en-, that the South, for extraordinary
reasons peculiar to its sectional his
tory, was too deeply prejudiced a
gainst negro citizenship and suffrage
for the nation safely to leave those
subjects to be dealt with by the in
dividual States, as they might each
think best.
"Nor do l find fault with any Fed
eral statute which extends the scope
of the Federal authority but does so
merely for the purpose of giving full
effect to powers conferred upon the
Federal Government by the Federal
Constitution.
''The Federal statutes to which
object are those of no, or but doubt
full, constitutional validity which have
aggressively thrust the hand of the
national Government into the very
bosom of the domestic jurisdiction OF
the States. This class of legislation
takes in the whole range of Individual
existence from the bed Of childbirth
to the cradle and from the cradle to
the grave.
ESPECIALLY obnoxious to every citi-
zen who loves the dual form of gov
eminent under which our country has
become so populous, wealthy and
great should be the insidious and cor
rupting system of Federal aid with
respect to agricultural extension
work, industrial education, physical
rehabilitation, maternal and infant
welfare and hygiene, social diseases
rural post roads, national forest roads
and trails, and the fire protection OF
forested water sheds of navigable
streams.
"This legislation has had the effect
of inducing the States of the Union
to surrender to the national Govern
ment a measure of their State sover-
eighty which they never would have
done but for the enervating and spend
thrift appeals which it makes to theil
cupidity and reckless sense of present
convenience.
GAS | said on the floor of the Sen
ate, sooner or later it will be found by
the States that all this Federal aid is
but the box Of glistening jewels with
which Mephistopheles tempted the
virgin purity of Marguerite. To q
thrifty, prosperous State like ours its
bounty has proved simply a cup Of
Dead Sea ashes"
Congressman Hill when called upon
said:
''The greatest need in Congress to-
day." "is for men who will talk in the
legislative halls as they do in conven-
tions."
He then drew a comparison between
the "American jails crowded with
drunken persons under prohibition
and the conditions existing in Quebec
where distribution of liquor is super
vised by the Government.
A resolution setting forth the aims
of the convention was proposed by q
resolution committee composed of E
C Bowers, of Kent county; William
McKenny, of Queen Anne's county;
Charles E. Robertson, Of Dorchester
county; H. p. Holden, of Talbot coun-
ty; Franklin Upshur, of Worcester
county, and o. C. Blades, of Caroline
county.
The resolution, which was adopted
unanimously. reads in part as fol-