| Show DEMOCRATS HOLD flOLD CAUCUS Richardson is Decided Upon for Speaker and Will Lead the Minor Minority Minority Minority ity i iA i th the House During the Session Plans V L Outlined T 1 Mr May M The T he Dem D em V VV V members DIe of the hone houte ho of met in in tR inthe Inthe the hall hail of the boo house at 11 U o to today today today day There are Democrats and eight ts S anti and Pop Populists p lists Hats in the house Of these thelle members member of or the minority lif 12 were present in including eluding Mr of Colored Colorado and aad Mr Newlands Me Neville and Mr Mc Stark Populists fit dC Nebraska N declined to enter th u the caucus canons Mr of Virginia chairmen of the Site cratie cra c caucus presided of ea position the folio aeI wee wei made for officers om ers rs or of Ithe the house fie to b be presented pre at the Ute meeting limitIng of f the House bone e next Monday Speaker Mr Richardson en of Tomes Tennes Tennessee see Bee Clerk James Issues J me Kerr Pennsylvania Charles of er f Texas Tern Postmaster po James K of Alabama The selection of Mr R h ft as u candidate for speaker clothe clothel clot Ida him om ofU officially daily with the minority leadership The four tour places on the house hose roll 1011 al allowed allowed lowed towed the minority win will be tilled filled by it Isaac Hill Hilt of Ohio assistant as sergeant sergent and James F English of Cali California fornia Felton B Knight of Georgia and sad Ewing Bland son n of Silver Sliver Dick Bland special employees Richardson Thanks Caucus Mr Richardson briefly thanked the caucus for tor the honor dose done him and said I shall not attempt here hue and now to discuss dl cua or lay down any prin principles principles rin by which we are to be governed as 8 a party perty It would not be appropriate for me to do so There is one thing however that I will iII say now at t the very beginning of f our service because I believe it is that It should be said It is this thiB I a 12 rg upon you and each of you the sui suli Basing importance of attending the sessions ses ions of the house We have a minority consisting of about t tJ J 0 members If every member of ef this opposition will attend our sessions and answer when his name is ill call called led we will be able to defeat oUr OUT opponents in their efforts to pass unwise and nd nd im improper improper improper proper measures me measures ures I feel that I have the right ht to ask uk you and I do ask uk you ou now that you are chosen n to fill a seat in hi the house that you will be as anxious to t occupy that seat eat as you assured your eoa constituents you were desirous of occupying it before the election If we will be punctual in attendance although In Inthe Inthe Inthe the minority we will be he able to t do much towards enacting wholesome legislation ana ano more and Del above all 11 that we e will be able to prevent the en enactment n of many bad laws law 1 w The country wil be able when the session closes dolles to pass judgment not ROt r upon pon the he action and conduct t of the majority but also upon the minority side aide and If we act wisely and patriotically tf cally we will place our party in the use po pa position to deserve and to commend command a de decisive declaire claire cl lve victory vl tory in the congressional alec elec elections lions of next year and a still renter greater triumph in the national contest con t of ot uti 14 Plans Flans of the Minority The interesting portion of the caucus followed when Representative Mc lc McClelland Clelland Cleiland of New York at the direction of ot the New York members who had bad Just met prior to the assembling as of the caucus offered the following follow resolution as an expression of the of f the caucus Resolved that tha we shall promote to toUte the Ute utmost of our power the removal of the oppressive restrictive and nd often I prohibitory features of the existing tariff It has been truly declared to tobe tobe tobe be the mother of trusts The Tb tendency to create combinations of wealth and the tile establishing of ot practical monopolies in the manufacturing and commercial industries of the United States threat threatens t tens ens the future existence of individual manufactures and merchants and tradesmen of moderate or small means That the tendency must undermine the sturdy independence of large larse Bodies of American citizens and may well ell be deemed the most serious rlou menace maee to the moral and political welfare of Jf the tile coun cairn country country try The time has come when our In Industries Industries industries manufacturing a as well welt a u as ag agricultural agricultural which practically enjoy no protection for the reason that their products are ar exported export d and because uee whether or not duties be levied in I their favor when competing products i ts tI can be profitably imported V permitted to avail themselves them I eign olga markets to the fullest extent a athey as they cannot do r existing restriction tion Highly Hi protected industries I should no longer be permitted to sell more cheaply to foreigners than tn to their own on countrymen Pit Fit j ough relief can be had only by amend amendment amendment ment of or the present tariff St Bet we shall favor such reciprocity as a will w l reduce even een if it does nol noi altogether I remove the unfair and oppressive bur burden burI burden I den of the present system tem t Second We shall favor just j and generous g treatment of the Inhabitants of or Porto Ri RIo Rico o and Cuba American Amerian iii C obligations to Cubs Cuba should he De performed Having freed treed her from frem Spanish dominion and a assumed over OY her a protectorate and even some of tit the tile prerogatives of sovereignty we are bound by every enry consideration of Justice ju and generosity ity to allow her the tile largest practical liberty of commercial inter intercourse Intercourse intercourse course with our own 00 country Third We are opposed to the sub ash subsidy It sidy bill presented pre at the last session a calculated to create a shipping mo me monopoly Fourth We shall oppose the use in iny Ml y form of the money of all the peo for the exclusive benefit of or private ts Fifth We shall insist on the sacred force of the fundamental American rUle role of democratic elt Whatever protectorate over oyer islands tIan or lately conquered peo pee peoples plea pies may maT be necessary ary for a longer or a shorter time whatever limited sites Ita for naval stations sinUous may properly be he re retained or r 1 acquired by the United tg to te y Ins into our republic be of other otherl landa l or 0 the assumption of sovereignty over theta them the except as their inhabitants may ma be fitted for tor such elt and except ex pt as the protection of our constitution no lose less than of our flag may be extended to them with safety to ourselves We are opposed o posed to th the establish establishment establishment ment meat of any colonial or other system whereby the executive or military power of the United States may per permanently permanently permanently rule masses of men outside the sanctions and safeguards of the I constitution Wherever the United I States has assumed umed u obligations they must no doubt be fully met but with the steadfast intention at the earliest practicable moment to accord to the peoples of other ot lands now in our power the same ame right of ment meat we claim for tor ourselves Row Bow in the Caucus The presenting enUng pre of this resolution precipitated a row Mr lr Richardson at attempted attempted attempted tempted to prevent the reading of it by bj a motion to refer all aU resolutions to toa toa toa a special committee of twelve who should report at a future caucus but buthis his motion va wa i ruled out of ot order pend pending pending ing I the rea hup o the resolution When the it was as concluded Mr Ball of Texa Texas s gave notice that he would offer the tIlt Kansas Kan as City platform as a substitute and withdrew the re report reI report port of or Mr Ir Fitzgerald erald of New York I and aid Mr Mi Dormott I of New Jersey both of ot whom protested against the I injection of o th tho financial issue into the th Democratic oum ils We Ve cannot E ver er r win declared Mr Fitzgerald if m w do not discard the heresy beFell of free silver We can never win retorted Mr I Ball men mn calling themselves Democrats ts sui ort the national plat pInt platforms platforms I forms tories of the Den party part After further sharp exchanges Mr Richardson succeeded in quelling the disturbance by bJ renewing his motion to II refer all resolutions to a special com corn committee committee of twelve to be appointed by bythe bythe bythe the chairman of the caucus This Thill mo motion motion moton tion ton prevailed The following resolutions resolutions fleas were then introduced uRet Resolved That the Hon James D DRichardson DRichardson Richardson on and the Democratic mem members members bers hers of or the house committee on rules when appointed and three members to tobe tobe tobe be appointed by them constitute a committee to 10 have bave in charge the con control trot and direction of the policy of the th Democratic party in the house of rep representatives representatives except as ordered by a caucus of ot the party By Mr Burleson of Texas Resolved That every representative in congress participating in this cau caucus caucus cus shall be governed by the action of I the said Id caucus where the same does not with the declaration of prin principles principles principles and policies set Bet forth in the last platform adopted by the Democratic Demo party in national convention assem assembled a assembled m bled Resolved That the best interests of I the Democratic party will be I by the membership of said party in congress refraining from fron soliciting pat patronage patronage at the hands of the administration tine tion By Representative Fitzgerald of New NewYork NewYork York Resolved That we oppose any in interference interference with the existing standard of values vae That question has been set settled settled tied by repeated and helming ex expressions exI pree fonA of popular sentiment and I must be definitely closed lo by the statu statutory statutory statutory tory recognition of gold as a the sole standard I The Democracy of or New York has hall the very greatest respect rf S for their thet r rn hren n who for many years ears sought The tat establishment nt of a bimetallic t dard rd But the Interests interest of or capital and labor alike and above all the in interests interests interests of ot the wag of ot the country forbid f that the legal Standard I of value be uncertain I By Representative Re New lands of or Ne Nevada NeI Nevada I vada Resolved That an advisory commit committee I tee be selected consisting of ot one mem member memI bet bee from each state selected by the I delegation of such suh state of which the leader of or the minority shall be chair chairman chairman man and the whip whir shall hall be secretary I These The e resolutions will m be reported ported upon by a special committee Friday 1 wi u |
