Show SENATORS how the contest was worked by THE SENATES BAD JUDGMENT the house is deep in difficulty of government clerks speaker reeds habits from our regular correspondent march 10 1890 the montana was treated in the senate committee on elections and privileges as is always the practice in contests for seats from A purely party standpoint in accord with this custom the majority recommends ali seating of saunders the republican the grounds for thia recommendation ia that alie republican house in montana v as the leeal house as its members bield certificates of election and the body was recognized lie cepal houa of ohp state senate the report ili lio made in a few days senator gray ill prepare the minority report which will be an exhaustive argument for the democratic side senator turpio will not sign either report but will likely make one for himself as he holds that no formal election of senators has been accomplished and believes alie case should be returned to montana for action the senate committee on privileges ind elections has reported on the request of mr call that the accuracy of he report of his speech on the Ra florida murder as published in the congressional record be investigated the comra itte declined to question the ic curacy of the stenographer and recommended that the report of the speech stand without correction the additional question as to how far a senator may go in debate and be within parlia mentry bounds was recommended to the senate committee on rules for definition in this beautiful manner does ate sit in judgement jud gement on hair pulling among its old women senator chandler claimed that senator call had interpolated into the published report of his speech remarks derogatory to his bew hampshire dignity anis accusation mr call resented with all the fervency of his southern nature of course the charge was true and every one knew it to be true still sir calls language as used on the floor waa fully as bitter and personal ae was the language in the record he had added nothing of importance the custom of allowing senators and representatives to revise the official reports of their speeches shall have some limit at present it sometimes means that the report is mangled beyond recognition and a speech that was when delivered a miserable stumbling failure becomes after pruning and padding when you start to revising a speech there is no telling where you end the house ia deep in figures the scores of public building appropriations are before it and the end seems far off the mill grinds rapidly enough regularly a bill ia called up in the committee of the whole it is recommended that the proposed appropriation bo reduced about twenty five per cent and then the able salona grab the next one and put it through a horizontal reduction the government clerks are having some difficulty recognizing their republican state associations the trouble is generally about membership the truth is that so many of them forgot their allegiance to alie ild party during mr clellands Clev lands administration that there might be awkward explanations to make their love feasts give promise of being cold and suspicious affairs speaker reed usually walks home from tho Capito and you can be sure that is always somebody lying in wait to catch him and ask for some favor as lie strides up the avenue his enormous body shakes as lie walks and the gait is rapid but not firm his head ii bent forward as that of a man who has habitually poured important advice into shorter mens ears the annile on his face is one of perfect content and his eyes looking like small beads in that immense mass of jella aike flesh take in even thing no one in chiy party is half so well pleased with hia success as speaker reed himself for years he has fretted at being kept in the background and now the sarcasm and accusations of his political enemies are as dear to him as the congratulations of his friends bt if the present cession has glorified reed it has depressed mayor mckinley the ohio mans leadership is waning reed takes all the laurels the recent debate on the new rules and the prior offered mckinley an opportunity port unity of which he failed to avail himself As the representative of the majority in the most important committee of the house he exhibits the same defect that carlisle does as representative of the minority he is too slow with all their experience and good sense these men are unfortunate placed for neit lier has the cut and come again powers that make such men as reed and randall leaders on the floor the contested election cases are especially ally annoying to the democrats the debates on they cases have developed the strength of crisp of georgia who is rapidly going to the front rank and who is personally popular with his democratic colleagues he is the readiest man now on the bouso floor of his party if the democrats had their choice today to day crisp would be speaker if the republicans had to do over again I 1 doubt if mckinley would receive a quarter of the votes he had last december thus are reputations lost aud made in a few months |