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Show TIIK HI 'LKS OP THU IIOl'SK. , A. new cotlo of rules will soon bo formulated for-mulated for t ho Fifty-second congress. After tho iiwful wail of woo about tyranny that has filled the land there is at least ono feature of tho rules in force during the last congress that will lie eliminated, although the time might come when the democrats would only be Uf glad to be ttblo to prevent the breaking of a quorum. Just now their majority is so large that they will have no occasion to count a quorum. If all tho republicans should absent themselves, them-selves, or leave the hall in a body, there would still bo a quorum for tho transaction trans-action of business, provided the majority ma-jority were faithful in their attendance Notwithstanding all this, if the democrats demo-crats are wise they will not go buck to tho old way of encouraging obstruction and placing it in tho power of a hatul-f hatul-f nl of reckless members to deadlock legislation and stop the machinery of the government. .Speaker Kkkd did a good thing for the country when he brushed away the cobwebs of a century and asserted the right and duty of the majority to "do business." For threo-qtiartcrs of a century there had been more or less advancement in tho direction of more rigid rules, but it was not until the sturdy and intrepid Tom Reed took the gavel that tho constitutional con-stitutional maudato was so fully and so vividly impressed upon the country. Tho present house can adopt such rules as it may see lit, but there is nothing clearer or more certain than that the course pursued by Speaker Reed commended com-mended itself to the approval of intelligent intel-ligent and patriotic men of both parties, par-ties, and will eventually become tho settled policy of the country. |