Show 7 F W p s n it f fofi fK fi fi an m py Z clr r v Z r it le l e z ye rt Z 5 r 1 L 5 r fl I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ak 1 Z i 7 1 46 democratic DF aa ORATIO 7 MT PARTY Y I 1 Z Z I 1 I 1 VOICE OF oti W iq ISSUES T op TODAY 1 5 reed bd become kaa arila ki kia a n the teeing zet stat to are 1 ur t cola by their n friends gwendi slum oes or of economy T 7 la in 1 speaker thomas thomaa 8 11 meed keea his has made anad k a revolutionary as to what con coil all BUt tiles tates a abor quorum I 1 in the house of es A bill of small importance parti mee was before tl the 19 house bouse last friday when the ol bt il a quorum N was raised railed the full house bouse consists ot of members 0 whom are a ma aty there jim is one vacancy baranc y caused by ruled th that at death and the speaker a majority of 0 the living members quorum this athi a rubw cau cannot ot now nor in the future nave have a serious effect on legislation in congress it was not designed for that object it ills is intended to effect far reacel reaching n g partisan purposes as a precedent in both houses bouses of congress congre rad aad especially in the state legislatures when united states senators are elected it Is a nefarious declai declaration and order to establish political minorities in power the constitution uon of the United States i says in regard to congress J stac ach h house shall be the ily judge age ot bf ibe the elections returns and qualifications of its own Ej members embers and a majority shall constitute a quor quorum to do business from the beginning of the government ent it has been understood lua the phrase a majority ot 0 each meant a majority of oil all the members elected to form a lull full housed house not a mere majority of those remaining after vacancies caused by death resignation or absence this Is the ruling of every speaker before whom the question has been raised including reed him himself self during the quorum fight in the fifty first congress J it is the law established by hundreds ot of precedents that a majority y of the ful tuu I 1 members membership bip Is necessary to torm 0 constitutional Quo quorum the legislature ot or delaware belie ie 4 at its last session cession abrea vote effect da during efti many aby weeks v kt tor for united states senator at length henry A I 1 dupont re received fifteen votes just 0 one ne half of the total an on joint ballot tt wan waa altria claimed ed that ahat il a vacancy existed in jhb senate by which the was reduced to twenty nine fit e which fifteen is a majority that halb question Is now pending in the be senate nate and dupont claims hla his seat A similar question was raised regarding the senatorial election in kentucky the death of a senator and the expulsion of other members reduced the number at roll call republicans in eon ng gresa resa claimed that a majority of the reduced membership was a constitutional tut ional lonal quorum and promised in effect to admit any republican senator elected on that basis no election was held even with this false instruction but the new revolutionary reed heed rule Is ready for future use um 1 1 I 1 periodic Xer from the chicag chronicle IL A river and harbor bill has been wrought out til in with what are und understood r tobe speaker reeds wishes carryl ryang ng the amount tot bf about only T this his it Is a small amount even lor for an lesbon ion year as aa things have been going though it Is not down to the zero minimum of certain years yeam but the speaker is a candidate ake th committees are of his own selection lind and he has ordered them to make a ind of economy for or CRInDa campaign ign purposes s it has come to be the practice to economize ibn en the river and harbor appropriations in the en cn years the years when gentlemen are looking for i reelection election re and especially when n in addition to that there Is a presidential election but this on year economy makes no difference in the general result for it has been discovered that congress can at least make up in prodigality in the off years for its excess off of virtue in the others the foi following lowing statement of the amounts appropriated tn in the river and harbor bill ball tor for a series of years will show how the game Is worked so BO plainly as to require no explanation 1837 t 1 I 1 z I AN nothing 1889 2 1239 1890 nothing I 1 1891 25 1892 1893 93 1894 1895 i 1 1896 i r the trick of appropriating at wl all tn lit theon the ion apa years was too natto deceive anybody tar or any length of f ilius time too much had to be aad bithe inthe WT off years acco accordingly rilin gly after 1891 ait oit that practice was abandoned bas been an apar appropriation every eve ye arnce but it has been f i 0 ot the ae economical ao 60 u i 0 tai t ai varle variety ty I 1 it IL la is nore more so this fe a r was in ima 4 i RT E h erd aks als devised wha li t hi j cal 1 C edthe system g BY ethl a 1 IL U ci nii I 1 I 1 itself me IV ator sli Y year anaf J ti I 1 um hai ait of yeara ve arsa is without at z i makind z ver j y I 1 irp hat odix in ifill aho I 1 have W 4 ar put pot iia aci aal th 0 c bijj i com ted rodl J fair bj jy X tf ai I 1 te iz w r w MW amt ecos yia W iii k aagre asre I 1 alie 1 7 iza i M za aitt 4 M taij i a 11 w iia I 1 ofru 1 M PW T wt 40 s IT I 1 wa W 11 W f I 1 ake yv y I 1 seani op ssi s S i A zo A h I 1 NI 1 1 1 WF V 2 41 V I 1 r ar 1 11 zt 0 Z j 1 1 t W rt 11 I 1 z J 7 11 pt per ler organ which la in supposed toiba be Id friendly dudl to the present house however ver unfix unfriendly endly it my may bi be to its I 1 speaker 1 I e aspirant warl it mar pl i 17 bo be accepted therefore as aln an admission I 1 OW perfy paper that the irlis present house while malting making 4 a pret pretty tt show of economy has in reality surpassed all ILI in gal W river alyer and 1 har harbor b or expenditures endla tha a i arrangement la Is illustrated i in the case of Clila chicago iio cly ieti gete only immediately available for improving the chicago river a bum i um entirely inadequate e while the secretary tary of war Is authorized to contract tract for further work subject to future appropriations up to a total gotlif of this plan not only opens tt way to extravagance unknown tn ir former times but gives an opportunity to postpone deserving work tor for the benefit I 1 of those in which there la more politics while pacifying for the time being those who are more immediately interested in the de deserving gerving works but theeb the expenditures V endi tures will soon run into big fl figures g and then the plan will be no longer available president macint and pension arrom the chicago chian chronicle maja 0 1 connolly from I 1 the springfield 4 ct I 1 in this state ka te sized falta up ho M his it flemig verr in in J a reat recent d debate Q jh 1 the ahe house e on a minor pension MIL bill he declared that bills ilia for the benefit of bonafide bona fide soldiers were being neglected while others were being passed for civilians including teamsters photographers and ers e rs of every grade this stirred up the animals somewhat when he added these words when the various candidates tor for the presidency are seeking the support of i the old soldier they coddle him and embrace him but herein this house when the old soldier and his widow come feeble and tottering with wounds i 0 or r age there is no time to give chbr d a hearing after this he fie kot hii ind again and wd said it il was s a shame that with more chah cepa republican 4 can ra e arity in ift th lh I 1 vt t was seldom that members enough to constitute a quorum were present ek at the friday evening sessions which were devoted to pension bills major connolly is liable to become disliked for his plain speech in regard to the dishonest republican political trickster tricksters trick stem they are always appealing to the soldiers for aid at the elections and proclaiming themselves the exclusive friend of the soldiers but they kick the interests of the soldiers bitts around as a university club doth does a football whenever the business of politics president making and the spoils attract their attention it to is well that a rebuke like that of major connolly should come from one of their own number on the inside who known the facts and has the courage to make an exposure the people laft adt ddt hk IRL 81 louis bauls post A according ce to td his hii clai esons s estimate will enter enier the ahe convention lacking backing about bi of tha number of votes necessary ne cess rV 16 to il bomin nomination atlon thereupon the platts the the clariso no the manless manleys Man leys the carters and the cuneta I 1 working behind the cloak of the alleged favorite sons will combine the field against him until they can wear out or stampede his friends and will then concentrate on some candidate who Is willing to concede their ferms jt it will be observed observe eb served ed that in this plan ol of campaign pai th mr clarkson an and the 0 other bosses utterly ignore the wishes of the people in fact nothing Is plainer balner than that the bosses consider it little lit tle less than treason for any man to go behind the alleged leadership and appeal to the people more protection needed in now new rug angland ng land st SL louis post dispatch it will take a great deal of protection to keep the new england cotton mills in competition with the southern cotton catton mills some SOM e of the new england mills are already going out of business possibly the government will be e asked to pay a bounty to new england manufacturers ir order to save them what evha t tho the reat bel trouble ta cpr springfield ingfield register mckinley I 1 may be using the fat fried from manufacturers in ih his canvass calva sa for the presidential nomination of the party barty as ag senator chandler declares and Pt senator cullom alleges but that fact la Is not bothering those distinguished republicans so much as that mckinley is 13 getting tan 9 the delegates I 1 1 th arneri american sell sailor away avray springfield republican a americans used to th be the best be st sailors in the ih e world I 1 Bu under the long sway of the policy poil CY ot of alleged protection to shipbuilders ship builders which has nearly succeeded irl in driving the flag entirely from the high ij seas the hand fiand seems to have lost something of its old cunning I 1 wl chandler tat alar me B made good GO I 1 P earia zerald berald mr chandler hai baa p promised rc to ta produce the evidence to sustain ackt his char 1 1 T charges gea of af fat frying on the ifie part of the mckenley agers andee and he irmild aiu Irl ild bojt 0 it if biome sami bt thi the verdant ie io republican newspaper M aej jj mea n donot noi keep their tightly closed aaa 4 1 j y s rw 7 a Z f 57 yi y af Z k v fv e t kz i 5 F 4 7 irta 3 PI 1 i bats amaie of abe araw 11 iz ne birli it Ja Liim was I 1 1 I 1 a certain rv I 1 7 etalea IMP ii ib 4 iriki tid Z 1 I 1 IV w aib foben 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