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Show THE INSURGENT. The wuy of tho Insurgent Is haul It by light ought to bo and no one will shed a tear becauso of Its being be-ing so. Ho Is a spasmodic chap, unless un-less porchnnco ho happens to bo one who is continually afflicted Ho arso-gates arso-gates to himself nil that Is good In humanity, and sets himself apart to legiil.ite tho affairs of men, p.irtlevs, and conditions governing tho unlvcn.o Ho usual!) takes a chance at all the jobs on the calendar and makes n success or none. If ho goes Into busl ness It Is for himself alone, nnd summing sum-ming up tho cause of hln insurgency I' almost Invariably saddled on tilt lock of selfishness. If ho liiBiirges agaliiHt his party with any mensiue of success ho Ms suio to do that 'which not enriches himself,' hut makes his party "poor Indeed ' If ho Is spasmodic, as somo nie, ho at soino tlmo or another wakes up to find thnt vvhllo lfe has been fighting ngalnst his own ho has pl.ije.1 i-ito the hands of the other fellow If ho Is continually afflicted, the poor fellow Is soon ostiaclsed from all parties and becomes a man without a party. To which class Representative Nor-Us Nor-Us of Nebraska belongs time will on-1) on-1) tell. Norils was leader or the in-sin in-sin gents In the House of ilopicsenta-lives ilopicsenta-lives last fall, and to himself and follow fol-low cms Is due more or less thu over-thtow over-thtow of the Republican majority In the House of Uepiesentatlves. Ho led tho fight against Speaker Cannon, and so phi)ed Into tho hnnds of tho other fellow thnt he now Is obliged to tako his medicine at tho hands of a Demo-cintlc Demo-cintlc speaker. Nouls objected to tho lecent gag rulo on the occasion of tho adoption of tho lules governing the piesent congiess, and now bus the pilvilego of discriminating between what ho though gag rulo on the pint of his own hoiibehold, and what appears ap-pears as gag mles on thu part ot tho other fellow: ,. To show tho embairasslng position In which the gentlemnn from Nobras. ka has placed himself wo print horo with part of his address Incident to tho adoption of the recent mles- "Mr Speaker, I Imvo bcou ono of those who have alvva)s bollovod that the Miobtlon of niios for tho govoi.imtnt of thu House was not a partlBnn pio position I havo always vhought wo ought to adopt rules for tho govern ment of this body without taking Into consideration which political party was In control of It. I ought to demand de-mand tho Bamo rules for my government govern-ment arid my control as a member of this houso when my political opponents oppon-ents nro Iif tho majority that 1 lnsUt upon for ntyself when my own political politi-cal pnity bii In control. 'Ivvnnt tb discuss briefly tho pro-i'ojed pro-i'ojed lulos, now before the Houscv nnd to suggest to the Houso some dmendnents thtfl. I bcllovo vvllj np-peal np-peal to every man, regardless of his polltlcnl armiatlons, If ho believes In fair play.nnd good legislation, nnd llkowlsebelloves In remedying tho defects 'that have been developed In tho past under our rules. 1 regret that wo are place j In such a parliamentary situation hero that whilo wo can talk nnd talk and talk wo aro not nllovved to offer amendments amend-ments andi to vote. Ono of the greatest great-est prerogatives of members of this houso Is to be permitted tb voto upon up-on propositions material to our people peo-ple and,'upon propositions material to tuo coutiol 'bf our own body Now, the gentlemnn fiom Noith Car ollua said taht tho object of those pioposed rules was to lessen the power pow-er of tho Speaker and Increase tho power of tho member. Under the rule, the same as It existed before and ns )ou have repeated It In tho proposed code, the speaker Is absolutely In con-tiol con-tiol on suspension dny. He Is absolutely abso-lutely supremo. He can recognize or not recognize as he sees fit. Tho Speaker need not recognize a member, nnd no member Is entitled to recognition under this rule unless the speaker desires to give it to him. Now, I do not seek to take that power pow-er away. If I had my way about It, 1 would take It away altogether; hut Ivvanted to mnko this chango moderate, mode-rate, so It would have no doubt In passing, and therefore I only provided that notice must be glvoa t? the Houso so that it will be published on the calendar and the members ot the houso may know what is coming up under suspension. There is no way now, under this Democratic caucus proposed rule, of finding out what It Is. Tho speaker and the man ho Is going to recognlzo carry It In tholr breasts. Wo will sit hero all day and never know what he next motion to suspend tho mles Is going to bo unless un-less one of thofeo men .ells us Wh would IJ. not bo lensonublo and fair to put on the calendar a notice of this motion, thu sniuc ns must be done with all hills repoited from com mlttecs. It this wonderful power on suspension day-Is to bo vested in the Speaker, why not leuulro that notice to tho membeiship shall be given as to what hills tho .Speaker Is going to hnko taken up? Iwant to rerer bilefly now, In con-cuslon, con-cuslon, because I have not tho tlmo to discuss these questions as I would like to, to th'e, parllamentaiy situation situa-tion as it'exlsts at tho piesent tlmo. Tho gentleman fiom North Cniollna said ho wanted to enlarge the power of tho Individual, and )et this very lule )ou havo brought In heio and havo adopted by a paaty vote cuts off the light or eveiy Individual member here to orrer amendments to these mles, something I must serve under, something you must servo under, nnd tho country must llvo under ror tho next two )eais. 1 want to say that you aro not Kactlclng what you pi each. (Applause on Republican side.) You ought to hnve peimlttod amendments to bo otfered heio. I do not enro whether In the pnst soino Ho publican innjorlty has been tyrannlcil or not. 1 never havo stood for It. i novor believed In n gag iuIo from my own putty, and I 'want to say that It docs nut tasto any- hotter when it comes from the other pnitj. (Aoilaujjo on Republican lde). It seems to n.o ou have given us an exhibition heio of Just what j on lufvo claimed jih woio going to avoid. Wo ought to hnve had tho light to orrer amend monts horo In good faith. Tlwj ruloj must govern me Just tho samo ns tboy must govern jou, nnd I want to cay that jou can not Justify your.ielt by bay lug that Republicans did tho iaiuo tiling somo other tlmo I bnvo hoard that argument nnd ox-cuuo ox-cuuo mado many times on both ski ot tnis houso. l huvo heard Rofiubll-mmr Rofiubll-mmr Justify tholr ..ppllcntlon of tin. -M' , lHgMlBigillBliBMiBiMiBW"jBBiiM gag by teferrlng to equally drsstl pigs applied by the Democrats, nnd todily we find the Democrats citiii; republican precedent. In neither ensa is tho argume.U olther good or logl-c.il. logl-c.il. Democratic tin will not Justl'v Republican vvlskc rpss and Republican Republi-can tjranny will net excuso Demo -ratio coercion, lnjtcnd of seeing if wt can not bo ns buu as our opponents novo been we siiould bend our '.ner lcs nnd nmMtions toward Impi"m- ment. The people will not bo satisfied satis-fied when wo tell them we were no worse than someone else has been. Instead In-stead of Imttalng what Is wrong we should try to Improve and stand for what Is right. I have refused, whon my party was in control of fho House to surrender my convictions at Hip behest ot King Caucus, and I dccllno today to submit my hands to liu shackles when he comes In the guse of a Democrat. There ought to bo no caucuses on matters of legislation. legisla-tion. You know these amendments 1 havo proposed today would be adopted adopt-ed If your hands wero not shackled nnd every mnn was allowed to follow the dictates of his own conscience. Many of you men on tho Democratic side, nnd nearly all of your nowspa-rers, nowspa-rers, condemned Republican patty machine methods. Thero aro somo ot us over hero who came out In the open, and at the expense of polltlcil punishment nnd'tho surrender of political po-litical patronage, Jought those samo methods and thnt same machine. That machine today seems to bo on 'the Democratic side of the aisle. King Caucus seems to be thero In control, and If you surrender your consciences to him you will bo in ns great a political poli-tical slavery as though you were ruled by a czar on tho speaker's throne. When my party was In power I stood hero in my place and denounced mles that camo In from this sido and said then thnt wo could not afford to back up our action by saying th.it Democrats had done the snmo thing seme time before; and thnt nppllei to jou today. It oughht to bo non partisan. Wo ought not to tie ourselves up heio with a nn rulo nnl hi- a caucus. You aro not oleqted hero to servo ft caucus. A caucus nino times out pf ten means only that 51 me.i shall compel 50 men to do what they do not want to do and do not bellevo In. It means that a majt'ity of a ma-joilty ma-joilty will control tho House, which rlteu will bo a minority of the Housq " Verily tho way of the Insurgj.it H hard. . B |