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Show .DEMOCRATS EXPLAIN FACTS "And than he did the very thing we morabew hai been deprecating and fighting against for jvara moved the previous qaethjn' the state. "It is bad enough to be gagged bv our opponents, but ldiin the muzzle was clappod upon us by our friends, we protested, and successfully." The Clark resoluthm la attacked because be-cause of the six dejnocratlo members proposed by Mr. Clark for the committee, com-mittee, members from Colorado, Indiana, In-diana, Illinois and Pennsylvania, with nearly' one-third of tha total democrat-lc democrat-lc members la th present house. Every Ev-ery man except Representative Hitch--cock of Nebraska represented a southern south-ern state, It Is said. "No encouragement to the democracy democ-racy of the great stats of Ohto and Indiana in the maffnlncent battles they are fighting," the statement concludes, con-cludes, "no voice to Netr York or the great middle west, and yet we are censured cen-sured tor not suplnefy Bubtnfttfng to such action." I Leading Up (o Opposition of Minority Leader Clark on Rules Washington. March 21. Another explanation ex-planation was forthcoming today as I to the course of certain democrats In j opposing Minority Leader Clark last Monday by voting for the Fitzgerald amendments to the house rules. Representatives Kellhor and Peters ! of Massachusetts and Representative j Francis Burton Harrison of New York issued a statement, In which, they as-! sert that so generally has the action ' of the democrats who voted for the measure been misrepresented and misinterpreted that they wish to present pre-sent to those Interested the facts The Fitsgerald amendments are defended de-fended as being very effective In the curtailment of tbe power of the speak- er. For six months, Representative , Fitzgerald, acknowledged as the beat j parliamentarian on the democratic j side, had been preparing the amnd- i ments. It Is said, but no opportunity) was offered to bring them before the democratic caucus for consideration. "He was unable to do so because of the high-handed manner adopted by a few 111-advleed friends of Mr. Clark. Referring to the fight. In the house, the three members say that when Mr. Clark offered his resolution, he refused re-fused any democrat a chance to speak, i |