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one tenth of the dictatorial power which was daily exercised
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by Speaker Cannon, he wuuld almost have been mobbed.
But from S|»eakcr Reed’a slight assumption of power, which
was then generally justified, has grown the ctar meth««is
just now annulled. Speaker Cannon, like Sampson of HitTi-
cal fam •. ha» had hi» locks of power clipped ami the whole
c.»untry rejoices.
The quest,on now arise». Which element of the Rej»ubliean
party now repre»« nta the people— the regulars or tne ir.sur
gents? As th» insurgvnt» ami democrats now know ter
power, it is not llkel. that any very tnis'hteviou» legislation
will be enacted. A wconl unification will te ea»i«-r than the
first. Had this combination of p»w- r been exerr s-d duri >g
the tariff debates of the special session. It is doubtful if
President Taf’’» "best ever” tariff, the (»resent law. wouki
have l>e«-n enact««! in ita present form, at least.
Undoubtedly the insurgent members come nearer repo
sen ting a majority of republican thought than <io the regu
lars
In fact th«’ next republican national platform will rm-
body much more of the thought of the insurgents than of the
regular republicana. It might be w«ll fur Oregon r< pu‘ th-
a is to remember, next fail, that emigres*men Hawley aid
Ell ■ voted to sustain Cannon first, last and all the time.
IKc U1TIE IN IHE HOOSE
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Last week, in the «pint of falrnea«. the N'r.ws publi»be<1
the argument of the friend» of Monmouth Normal w I km I.
urging the |.eople to consider the importance of maintain
ing an efficient Normal school at that place. Of course thi
same argument can be use I to sustain the Noimah at A»h-
la id, brain. Weston, or any other town whi h may desire
to have a Normal seined Mtabll»h«s| thereat
The question ia, can the state affor I the expense which is
likely to ire required. If she takes on the Normal school»
again? The «•xjwnsre now required for the colleges al
Eugene and Corvallis will average m»ro than I3U0.UW
annually. If to this ia a<lded the »xperv»- which will probably
I h - requirrtl, if the Normals are taken on again, our college
expense will not lie less than 9600,000 per year.
And even
this large sum may tie incrca»e.|. f-r .!
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of our Polk county friends in this matter, to be just and
fair, we must grant a like requ« st for any county wh < h may
d' sirv it. fur one county has tlr same rights as another in
th’s matter. It can readily ba aeen that should the alate te
loads’.! up with a c< liege in each county and th -y ahuuld each
be half so expensive as Eugene or Corvallis, »he would I c-
eome bankrupt. Not ia there any mi die ground at which t<
ship, unless we are w iling to .-stabiish a ”irt of »pc tai cla »
among the counties
The trouble with our state colleges is. they seem to thi .k
there la no limit to th-- -late's c»|»aritv to appropriate
money. Hut there ia and most people think we have reach« d
that limit now.
Ihe tax burdens of Oregon, fio n all
sources, are now heavy and much heavier than in many of
the older states
We must not place too heavy a tax bunlt n
upon the productive energies of the state. If we do, there
is sure to tie a rebound in th«* way of depressed development.
When a community pays a tax of three to four | ht - ent. upon
a cash valuation of property, surely that is high «-noigh, and
many cities sn»l towns of the state arr thus taxed Then- la
not much encouragement for men of capital to invest in such
towns.
The News is very well aware that rmwt people consider
Harney exprn ed for ■■durational ¡Hir|a>scs is writ »|«nt, ami
returns a profit to th • state in the way of more intelli
gent citixenry. Hut there is a limit to, even. gi»»l things.
The time has surely come when we shouhl call a halt to th«
increase of state expenditures
If we reinstate the old Normals, other count:«'» will ask
for like »chtHila. Hood Ktvcr la now agitating this question,
ami may come with an initiative petition this fall
Unlews taxpayers are prepared to o|a*n wide the door in
Normal achi«>l matters, with the view that each county will,
in the course of time, ask ami have a right to demand such a
sebotd, they will act wisely upon all Normal ini’iativ«- m«*a»>
ur> s if they vote "no." W e know that such action will seem
harsh ami unjust to Monmouth. Weston ami Ashland, all of
which have expensive slate I inklings and equipment, when,
at th«' same time. Eugene and Corvallis are so munificently
care«! for. Hut there is even a higher law ami nurpose than
that of education which ia Self Preservation. We cannot
afford to impoverish the |>c>ple. even for the meritorious |»ur
(«•»«• of etlucation.
INSUR5ENCT
Since the last special session of congress, we have heard
much talk of ami read many articles in newspa|M’ia concern
ing Insurgency. As used in a congressional sense, it means
a revolt against the csar methode of Speaker Cannon of the
national llouae of Kepn-sentativea, amt the dictatorial,
though different mrtb«»l of Chairman Aklrich, of the national
donate. Hpeaker Cannon has t een supported, in I is over
bearing ami dictatorial rulings, by a large majority of his
party, until quite recently, when a combination of the insur
gent or revolting members of his party and the democratic
mem Iters, deprived him of his power, though they did not de
pose him from the »|>eaker'e chair.
The term "Insurgent,” as applied to these re|>ublican m« tr-
bers. is entirely right and proper. The word, as genet ally
used in time of war. means people who arr endeavoring to
overthrow the ruling power. And this is just what happened
in congress. The power of S|>eaker Cannon to dominate and
control legisla'ion is overthrown. The fact that he was not
deprived of the speakership, «bows that the revolt was rot
against him personally, but against his dictatorial, cxarlike
methods, which have gradually grown up since the days of
Speaker Tom Reed.
Since Reed's day. the speaker’s power ha«l gradually grov n
until he became absolute ruler sod dictator of the House a d
almost of Congress. He has been the congress, for no m< a--
u -e could breome law without Speaker Cannon’s consen«.
No mcmle-r couki atklrews the House nor introduce a bil',
without Cannon’s permission. The wrsonnel of the vsrious
c mmittees were such that he cxrald control the destiny i f a
measure at will. He couki block legislation at any pxint ie
desired
Speaker Reed’s offending was only in counting me nbers
present and not voting, to prevent a breaking of a quorum,
so that legislation might not be retarded. Had he cxcrvbed
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Many pimple have wondered why such a climax couki eon e
in the House of Beetesentatives as was witnessed there last
Saturday. The reason is that there ia no other Just such
holy as our House of Representatives in all the world; io
o her body govern«-«! by such rules, no other I ody where the
»|>eakrr ha» »uch power-
The Senate is eumpos«d of two member* from rarh state.
Rhode Island has as many senator» as Texas, though were
Rhode Island pu!lc«l up by the roots and placed on the hr- ad
back of Texas, it would not amount to "rising ground." I y
the Acton of a theory the Senate represents the states
where the smallest and (««.rest has «-qual voice with the
greatest and most populous. Thus in the Senate, Delaware
counts for a» m ch an New York. As Daniel Wrlister. in
his most famous •(»«•<• h sa d: "This is a Senate, a enate of
equal«, of men of ndividnal h« nor and j>er»onal character,
an) f al
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We know no -maalc • w,
ackn.>w)etge no dictators This is a hall for mutual consul
tation and discussion, not an arena for the exhibition of
champiot ».’*
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n a h- up ■>{ a I-.»' , of men that go there
a» t ie direct ispreomtativea of the oeople; they are rleeti’d
din-cfly I v th«' (a opi>. while the Senate is only on«’ remove
asay in rn th«’‘| «•■ ;
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«tat«- Icirislatun ».
Hut the people re di i led into parties, and that ruling parties
may have the power to enforce such legislation as it desires,
extraordinary powers have to bo given to the man wh«» pre
sides over the House, aisi at least a moral restriction is put «>
upon members to. <>n all normal wcmio : i », act with their fel
low ait »inn»
In that way member! often vote for m« as
ures which they do not entirely approve of, subjectin « their
judgment to th«- consensu« of judgment of their party. Hut
the Re, ubheans in the present Hou»«- w ere elect«’*! on a pli t
form which prom «■ d the .res pie a new and low« r tari ’ the
the IHngley tariff
H hen the nresent tariff was subniittcsl
to the H<ai»e, a careful analysis of the different schedules
maile clear that, while many reduct Kins had l-«-en made, on
many of the artichs which most nearly concern the consum
ere of the c»>u tr>, «nd a t • I’-« wh.ch before were amply pro
ti’Cte«!, pronounc'd incre;-» « hail been put on. Som< of th«-
Rrjiu’ilican mrmlrri w> re not only bound by their (da form,
hut by direct pledges to their own constituents, and, more
over. their outrag’d »• nse of justire* cau»«d them to refuse
to support th«- measure. They were at one«- |«it down aa in
surgents
When they trie! to tie heard the spca'tcr would
riot see them, am! he, working with th«- majority of hi* party
finally drove the matter throj.’h and it tiecam«’ a law
But
it left a work! nf heart burnings am) aw ikened bitter erimi
nations. In ad nti »n. the sprat er displace»! them on commit
tee*. So when th«’ House re convened in Dreeml’« r last
this antagonism soon rev«-ale<! itself. The majority of th
Refiublican* in the House, ably backed by the s ( h aker, in
stead of trying to »Io away with the antagonism, and »«-eking
to win back the recalcitrant membera, tried to crush them
This naturally arou»«-d intonaifUd antagonism, the friction
increased daily, until it culminate«! last Saturday in an open
battle, which was a daisy, and resulted in passing an orxier
that new rules for Ih«- government of the House should be
ft: ’n«-d, arul that the speaker shoukl have no part in th
framing
Then a motion was nia»!e to oust (or accept th«-
resignation of) the speaker. A | ait of the re»-» all«si in»ui-
genta, having been all the time earnest Republicans, seeing
that if that motion pr. vailed, the logicd »«■quence wouki Im
to elect a Democrat -a memlier of the minority (»arty in the
House speaker, voted against the motion, and thus saved
the »(»eakcrahip to Mr. Cannon. Rut he was t<«> much en
rage«! tn appreciate thia devotion to party principle» on the
(»art of those mefil»ers, and taunted them with living defeat
ed, which is an indication that he lacks the generosity and
courage of a real hero and txslra more clashing in future.
Hut the scrap somewhaf cleared the atmosphere of the
House, arwi we will all hu|»e will lead to goes! results. In
our judgment these are days when President Taft should !»e
getting Imay.—-Goodwin's S. L. Weekly.
Tne house of rr|»resrntatiV’*s has, on f.iur occasions, a(e
proved of the i Ian to elret Unit«-d Stat»» senator* by popu
lar vote, i ut the senate has rejected that plan. Democrat*
arxi republican* alike favor that method, yet so far as the
republican congress is concerned the popular will in thia re
form go«’» un).e«d«'d. There is. however, a diapoaitkin in var-
i<»us sections to put the reform into eff«ret in other ways. In
Oregon they have th«> plan where the people declare their
preference ami the candidate for the legislature may. prior
to election day. tell the people whether he will, in casting
his vote for senator, lie guided by the popular ch*»ice. In
tlr-gun a republican legislature was chosen, but the demo
cratic candMtate for arnalor received a majority of the votes
cast at the general election and so we had the novel sight of
a d»'mociatic senator being elrcte«! bv a republican It-gisla
ture. Nebraska has aikipted that plan ami. unless threats
of reuubl » an politicians to have the plan declared unconsti
tutior.al prevail, that method will b«* used in Nebraaka thia
year Where states do not have th«’ Oregon plan a camli
»■ate for renator may
rhoaen by the democratic state run-
v e ition. I hat has be« n done on »• v« rai occasions in Nx’bras-
ka and it w«»uld I«- well if in every state senators are ch«4en
this year the camiidates for senator submit their claims to
their parly to t* pas»««! u(«»n in state convention.
One of the most inqortant tasks of the American citixen
is to reform the Unit««! States senate. The senate will I*
•farmed when it ha» been brought clos. r to the Mapla
Democrats must work steadily in the effort to mske the («>t>-
ular election of senstors part of <>ur fundamental law. In
the meantime, they can put their tlwory into practice by re-
ciuiimg their party to nominate the candidate for senator so
that the people may know just what they have to expect in
the way of a Unit»d Stat«* senator in the event of that
party's success.—Drysn’s Commoner.
Friday and Saturday
April 8-9
Thoroughbreds, Standard Bred«, Gorman Coach, French
Coach, Cloveland Bays. Clydes jalea. Percharon*, Hackneys.
Morgans, Belgians, Shires, p in.es, tnul-"*, b 'St stallion. 1. 2,
3 years old or over; best mares 1. 2. 3 y 'ars old or over; best
stallion and get; best mire and pro-luce; fo ir-in-hand teams,
grade teams, farmers’draft teams, dr.tdv drafts, roadsters,
and saddlers
$1000 IN PREMIUMS DISTRIBUTED
LADIES’ DRIVING AND RIDING CONTESTS
In connection with this, the third annual Horse Show, a big
sale wili Dike place on Saturday afternoon, April 9, 1910.
Buyers will be here from all sections. Parties having stock
for sale will pleas«» list the same with the secretary as soon
as possible. These will be tabulated in order and copies
mailed to prospective buyers. It is the intention to make
this a prominent feature of our annual exnibition. Call or
write the secretary for further information.
C. L. DICK. President
R. C. PAULUS. Secretary, care Salem Fruit Union.
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