| Show tI VAIN APPEAL u TO REPUBLICANS John Sharp Williams Wanted Them to Join in a Petition To Speaker Cannon Cantlon ONLY THIRTY WERE NEEDED i te n II I I ii SIH t III I In ng 1111 u iiI I n f III on lil floth Holl SkIts of f 10 o Washington 29 John today Have the tho Republican majority In tin tl house hou e an opportunity lo o 0 either permit or UI refuse reCI o In lu t permit n IL I Vote on the tho Stevens bill 1111 bi to place pulp Pulli on Oil 01 the tho tree free list In iii tho the i f course lollO of at n a n cleverly humorous and ulI sa satirical speech fech he ho Il unrolled mid held to toIl view Il the tho to Speaker c j kinnon anlon the th signatures of ot 1141 of the tho UI Democratic members We ce e tho the undersigned representatives In th Congress Con rs request each for himself mid Bud ut for loI each of or th others that you OU recognize one of ot us u or if Ie you UI t prefer weter some Rome other representative to tu ir move to dIscharge the he committee on onI I WRY mays and means mean from further consider consideration r tion and to tn suspend tho the rules and andI I paa ass the Stevens bill bi or any an other d hill bill hii having hyIng the tho effect to put wood wod pulp PUll mid II print paper pl r on 01 tho the free list Mr Williams eald that tho the two to Dem members whose names 1011 i not appended to lo tho the petition were out of or r town but wore were being 0 to tn t reach them by wire when their fK b Ig natures Mero added only olly 30 Republican would b 09 needed to swell oll tho the i of the tho petition to tim the proportions ot a majority request Mr MrA A 1 said saM with Rood good natured naturel sar ll l i ho felt fet SUN tho the speaker would woul heed A table had Jaul been beon x placed on the Uie floor 1 In front of ur ll tho the bench and on It tho the petition was wU spread with tho tic flanking of Ink bottle bolle and nl n L which tho the minority leader lendel simulating tho the voice olce and manner of a I revivalist exhorted the tho Republicans H to rise and fro go 0 forward and ai sign up pleading for tr tOI trio 20 io O only 30 and IUt aked Are Ar there thero tholO not 30 3 who WiO will vill wi conic como CO I 0 forth 1 1 After saying that thaI only 30 Republicans worn were ora necessary to make mako up tip the tho re le requisite L number n to pass paH the bill 1111 bi Mr lr i Williams declared that It should bo be b beto tasy to pot gt ol them because lAUlO almost lmos 30 3 O Republicans had Introduced free paper a P I bills and ho lie 10 eald eaid I know that I I every one of you ou who ho Introduced ed a I bill bi 4 meant what whal yon you said j Quoting lie ho lines lne from fm the old hymn While the lamp holds holth out to burn bum 4 The rho Te vilest 1st sinner may ma return rot urn Mr tr rr Williams proceeded If it I you YOI have hae been beel In lii any In manner k bulldozed why h think for to I a 0 second e nl think oe ot what a I short sharI life w we 10 hero helo i and nd how ho Important It I Is i that we wo should i t bo t b things thinGs while wo we live le In tn this t brief day dR of our tinie I express a I hope that at 01 least 30 80 of you 01 may sign u a 1 petition If It I you do not like 10 that ne pa p paWA WA petton litton Iton my namo name Is on 01 It and the names of oC Camp Clark C rk and nd Do D Armond Arnond mid and Underwood and John Jolin Wesley Gaines Raines mid all al these vile le publicans and aud lud on tutu this aide jet get us u one OlO of ot your our 1111 DV fl We 0 can al add Idd the thc two together 39 io 0 oC of you OU 11 the speaker can ait cannot enl not It refuse you 01 together with f us Il will wi then constitute a of tho thu house hOI o of representatives galI Kaily In Inthe inthe n the cession when WItch the rules were ore belli leing FT adopted the ns asked If Ir a n aL L majority of or tho the hOlY made a request to tl t the tho speaker PInker whether that thal request Jt i would bo be heeded and his hil reply 1111 as IU I tf dt remember It I was wa waA wasA wasA A majority of ot the tho house of will wJ always nh be heeded by b tho the thel l speaker So te If you oU put pul 30 31 names to 10 our OUI t ind nd ad constitute 1st a 8 I majority of the thet t I house oC or I know that thatA A tho the eminently Rood good Iod natured man Inn w who o 9 over this house hOUM who Is so 50 soLi Li of ot opposition no 1 s patient patent when vien evet Iel there Is II a 1 stumbling block athwart t pathway will wi ill bow b In 11 his hll most niost ele Ji manner mauner with wih I ii i II that la i 1 peculiar to him hl and ml say lety Nl Gentlemen a majority of the tho rep representatives of the th American A people have ha vo a ii I right right to have havA their way anti and I 1 m iii 1 recognize l c somebody 1 Ho lie concluded amid and alid laughter Indulged In III by Democrats and t K n ii Republicans alike |
