Show SPEAKER REEDS POWER violent attack by jerry simpson of kansas DENOUNCES kansas stat statesman as sit declares that se will obstruct leg isolation wherever possible BOCHUM bechum the speaker has ha not appointed co committees tor for the TrIlus transaction action of Busl Sp speaker ealter reed beed replies saying ho Is but tho the agent ot at the houses house which can change the rules washington Vash higton april 7 the house it acted 0 ted promptly today on the president d enta a message and adopted a joint resolution authorizing the secretary ot or war wa arto to expend oooo for the relief relict or of tho the hood 11 di sufferers of the mississippi valley alley the most interesting feature ot 0 t tho the session estloa was as a 9 passage between bet wl entail mental tive ve kimpaon Sim sl paon th the kansada ans as populist find and speaker aker reed sir jr simpson cave evl botoe to the 0 opposition to the S s temporary policy of 0 hi atlon which has hag been shouldering ing la in somo some quarters qu artera by ep eakIn to a question of 0 leAM lie he finished a flory denunciation CIL tIon of the tha speaker by dents demanding 13 ding that he appoint tho the committees of 0 tha 1116 housa at once and cave alve notice that ho he would prevent any attempt to do business by unanimous consent several republicans attempted to stem I 1 the he tado of mr SIMP sOres attack but mr reed need to desire to he hear ar it and declined to interfere ire listened calmly to the speech and then with lit ahli u usual s coolness and lucidity replied that th L t tho aill speaker was merely the inspru instrument ill t of 0 the house that lie had enforced what ile he supposed to be a the policy desired cd by the majority and that tho the house had power to command the spa speaker icer it f it of 0 his course ahe republicans ref pub public ans their approval by by it a round of 0 hand clapping after tile im message sw had bek been read mr r Calchi catchings dem bliss ln ya fa t tor for the immediate con older idt ration atlon of 0 a joint resolution author lzina the Sec mutry iry of war to distribute rations among tho the sufferers it appropriates for the purpose and authorized the secretary to ern employ tile the government steamers and other boats baste on the mississippi in transporting and distributing the supplies and also such ot other ber means as he might deom necessary tor lor the lh purpose of 0 distributing supplies Bupp lles contil conui buted by the government or individuals mr drw walker alker rep rei mass vi aa inclined to object mr walker said that mr should present lome some reason why the states slates affected by the floods should not bear the expense ot of caring for or their heir own people to which mr replied that there was no authority under their constitutions for the legislatures to disburse money for such ouch purposes moreover the legisla tures lures were riot not in session and the governors had no such authority WALKER OPPOSES mr walker made macle a vigorous speech in reply 1 I yield to no man he said in my wIlling willingness inc to relieve suffering in every legitimate way but there la Is nothing more abutted abused nothing more dangerous in its use than charity when the great ilare swept the city ot of chicago the inhabitants ot of various cities came to the bellef of 0 chicago but were vere that same tire lire to reach chicago today or any other one of the twenty titles cities any one ot of those cilles or the states int in which they are located would mould decline assistance feeling that it was trench ins ing upon their own self respect and assuming duties that belonged to the state or tho the citizens olti zens of that state stale mr simpson why did not the gentlemen prevent it on saturday w alien hen he voted money to send succor to the muttering poor of 01 india mr jr walker that was it a national affair where private citizens had made contributions from all states stales and I 1 did not then approve of 0 that act I 1 believe that when any of 0 our people contribute to a people anywhere here the contribution trib ution should cover the delivery of 0 that charity I 1 am opposed to charity everywhere and under all circumstances laughter on the democratic side except where it Is an absolute necessity and where the poor and suffering su cannot be alleviated in any other manner and in a proper way it Is not for us to take motley money by taxation out ot of the pockets of the people and distribute it in charity where we ought to be personally responsible for it mr simpson that Is what Is done for the benefit of the manufacturers SIMPSON ATTACKS THE SPEAKER the mississippi sufferers having beon been disposed of mr simpson pop kan X an furnished tile tho house with entertain nent mr simpson had endeavored to secure the floor immediately after the routine business announcing that he desired to speak on a a question of 0 tho the highest privilege 1 I 1 have an article in the forum by senator hoar which reflects on art the house ot of and as a member of tho the house I 1 desire to enter any he protest phala had ben been induced to waive his speech until tho the lood flood resolution was 98 dealt with irith but now he be sent to the clerk to be read an editorial from a washington newspaper this article declared that the members of at the had been I 1 robbed at 0 their house hou the speaker to whom to legislate by it referred as a P political cannibal auto ornit t when wh nhe the clerk had read 9 a reference to what the speaker ili 1 his bis own language calls calla retrospective interposed an lel legislation atlon mr dingley that mr fr simpson had bad not objection stated state dany any quention quent que ion lon of liege but the Sn ealer decided ed that tho the member from kansada might continue article was mas exceedingly newspaper the pery DW in ILits language ua tac I 1 and when it been read re air st 3 ele rep ind nad bad jumped to hla his feet shouting this Is no of t P privilege i and I 1 move that the th nu now w adjourn the were not t ready to adjourn i Hourn slid and th they ey cried no no reed R very vera ca calmly antly ruled on the mot speaker juLy wa ingi all tile motion cannot t b sit at present when it was stated elated in a newa newspaper paper during the fifty first cengr congress that were it an n drunk on the th floor sim said that was croAd ered mr apon fon of P privilege the point fUw c on declared ras he now raised ho he high r thereupon he ot of ono waved att AL a copy py of the F forum in and proceeded proceed 10 0 o rf read rapidly from tn an artl arti loar hoar entitled has haa the me by senator I 1 extract which d he quoted botel tel follot is tile which tho the house tho the res with deals with some important representatives of questions flue tons Is a good thing but tor for prompt action Is pur acety capacity ISi its chased sedat at the price pric e of the repudiation 5 ilc debts end and the tha kuppr suppression si of of public constitutional rights right fil personal dignity y official authority of the great mass sad a gentlemen mccu occupy py of its ta members the beginning to 21 there who from sea t of ervice ar are 0 endom d of their term ls 1 the d to make a moti motion onor or to not PO a of which assembly ia aird to the a v utter members perhaps w 0 o leg ther cislon axle way roay lee be secured eu red while bit one housa hos Is on OA thit principle but I 1 am afraid free government would nota not 60 lath 1 lone 19 hour houses 9 endure n if it were I 1 applied to mr sampson paon read very rapidly and mr siccle Z protested in at an angry to tone 1 I e b ut the s speaker paid no 0 attention a to the ember from inglat indiana la I 1 rep represent en ara laree district shouted the he ica kansas sa alo senator to stIng down the salt broj and the refusal ot of the th speaker k to 0 appoint the committees of inn thita house deprives me and my iny constituents ot of the right to do business I 1 propose to rise here find and protest against tins this thu it autocratic toor atle dictas dictation on it is reported in tho 0 nes newspapers papers that tile hie speaker says that tile the trouble Is that it tile the committees were appointed where one just claim framed there would be ten unjust ones la Is not this tha a reflection on this HOUW in the ritty first congress the power a of f the minority to protest had been taken away and the speaker given alven a veto power mr simpson continued it was unsafe to give one man mail such power eri for or it here one out ot of one hundred in might use his power mit wisely sely the other ninety nine would prove bud despots TI alio a speaker had come into kansas during the election and had said on the mump that for or four our years yeara the seventh C congressional district sir mr Simp simpsons sons had haa been represented by chaos when the speaker reused refused to appoint committees comm camm m I 1 ties the house was ruled by chaos 1 I demand that the speaker appoint those tholie committees he shouted As long lone as I 1 am a member tit n tills this house no s shall be done by unanimous consent and only lit in tho regular form A after opportunity for atlon by he committees the members of 0 this I 1 house hane hae given ghen the speaker the veto reto power hy by the adoption of 0 ili the rules of n the lit congress the people e might ai well lieve As sated ed thomac themselves iv tho the expense pense of electing members anil given alven all the power t to 0 the speaker chii Is not a legis latho body and I 1 insist that its ti power be returned to tile the howie house R nii PLIES there ISMS a profound silence when speaker reed began to explain his policy hebald he said sald the house will ivin per perceive celva that the gentleman fron from kansas mr tr has haa mode made no proposition whatever upon the subject ile he has haa simply stated mated lit his own oun alefi arid and the chair haa thought perhaps it would be heitt bert that the matter should lie ile stated anil and the iloe home can consider sIder it so ro fir far as the power of 0 tile the speaker 1 Is concerned every one who has made the he subject a matter mailer of understands understand that his power Is solely the power of 0 the house and tile the house can at any moment chango change the action which it sees nt fit to indulge in the huse lias has abu i power at all times elmra and il while title the I 1 ules lules or of tile the house require tre certain committees to be appointed pain t ed there has haa always been allowed to the chair a reasonable amount of discretion a as q to the time when ahen they should 1 11 be b appointed opportunity is 3 tit 1 ya al allotted loel to the chair to find out something about members no ito that he may do the duties which are imposed u upon pon him in the most moat intelligent way may he la Is capable of it lit H not net IL rate raie case that the speaker has ha not appointed ca committees in m itt ces at one A congress which was wall called together under circum sor something like the present the forty second was man presided over by a very eminent man mr blaine and he decil declined ned not declined but did not see sec fit to appoint committees the matter was waa brought up in the house and he cave his reasons and those reasons were approved app hy by the house at least no ila fiction action was taken by tit the house on the subject there are arc about new members in the I 1 house under ordinary circumstances the occupant of the chair lias has time front from the day of march until the first monday in december to obtain information in regard to his fellow members but under the present circumstances there has been no opportunity we hae hac lieen been called together in extraordinary session and the question was what was wa the best beat course for us to pursue whether we ae should delay appointment of the committees until such times as we ile would make the appointments more suitable or whether the public service was alas in such a condition that that ought to be done isma now the chair has had full consultation sul tation with the vatious vailous members tta as he has met them upon the sub subject jert ond and until ahli morning lie he supposed that it was tho the unanimous feeling of the house that it was not necessary cesary ne to appoint the committees in haste bante because the public service did not require it IL the chair is horry to see that any gentleman in the house hits has lent himself to the suggestions which are sometimes made outside of the house A with till regard to the power ot of organization of the chair it Is a power that Is given to him by the house tor for its purposes and its purposes alone not tor for any selfish seini purposes not for him to carry out any personal desires or designs of his hat own oin but to carry out the wishes of tile the house as aa he understands them after a faithful and conscientious examination of the subject if the house thinks that any occupant of the chair Is 1 not carrying out its wishes Is nt not acting as its represent representative athe the remedy Is in the hands of the house it at any time and the chair cheerfully welcomes any action on the part ot at the house whose representative he Is prolonged appI applause ause on the republican 15 side ide at p m the house adjourned until saturday THE SENATE cubs cuba and the flood come in tor for consideration washington april I 1 cuba and ana the flood sufferers divided attention in the senate today the reading of 0 the presidents message urging congressional relief for or the devastated regions of the mississippi river was fol followed loved by the passage of a joint resolution offered by senator jones of ar arkansas 1 asas C appropriating SIGO to be lmar immediately g available tor for the flood sufferers lufrere rs it w was passed by the vote of the senate the plans were changed however when hen the house resolution appropriating g for the mississippi M river and R red ed river of the north was received this was accepted in lieu of the former resolution and was ased passed unanimously mr nelson rep minn moved an amendment including the red river of the north with mith the MIA sis sippi in the terms of the jones resolution mr jones pleaded against the embarrassment barras with the red river amendment the resolution he said had been framed after tile the most careful lit inquiry ty by the president and d secretary of war through the government officials in the hooded flooded it I 1 was att requisite for the rod bad river it could readily bo be secured as a separate proposition ion in deference to these appeals mr nelson withdrew his amendment after tile the passage of this resol resolution uLlon a message was received from the house a of rep representatives san natives reporting the passage by ili that el boda badir of it a joint resolution lution jai latoni g 2000 in for ill thit flood sut cut along the mississippi river and the it hed bed river of the not th mr davis stated that ihal the hous house e resolution was the same as the one jut just pa bawd sed by the senate penile except that was add added ed and the red river elver of the north included lie he therefore moved the passage 9 of tho the ilou HOUM and ancia th this 1 0 send e without division the original senate t a resolution was then reconsidered and laid oxide aside mr morgan then continued his speech begu bairon in yesterday in support of tho the resolution decla declaring that A STATE OF 01 WAR axi exists ats ini in cuba and both parties as belligerents mr morean referred to G gen on lers orders herair together people in the towns tons and villages of cuba tor for the purpose of oC starving them how 10 long a g he ha asked mas aa this captain general to continue in power new orders day sa after day as a hla his bhim wulm 0 or caprice night dac dictate tate resulting la in against american citizens I 1 in cuba a at 2 the senate went into executive session |