Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1890 Page: 2 of 8

                                
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Senator Reagan has our thanks
for his very able speech against
the Blair educational bill.
Senator Richard Coke has our
thanks for his magnificent speech,
in pamphlet, against the Blair edu-
cational bill.
It is about time for spring po-
etry to come out of its shell and
speak of fragrant flowers and
gentle zephyrs.
«4NBgKiKAaiKSaama(&(S«WM
The Ft. Worth Gazette, is
shouting happy. It rejoices over
the Ft. Worth & Abuquerque
railroad, the coming spring pal-
ace, the city election. &c.
The Texas Commercial Repor-
ter of San Antonio, says:
San Antonio has some strong
friends in Corsicana, Texas.
Certainly. They will come
down and see you when the state
convention meets in the Alamo
city.
LET THE TRUTH COME.
Last Friday the Light said:
The Observer takes another
whack at the Light. Of course
the Observer owes the Light no
“amenities as he knows of.” It
has published a dozen lies about
us, and when remonstrated with
privately has offered us nothing
but insult. The Light neither
asks nor cares for your amenities
since you have not sense enough
to know what your reasonable
duty is to your neighbor. We do
not care to bandy words with
you, but will not take your slaps
any longer without resentment.
You can put this in your pipe
and smoke it to your souPs con-
solation.
The Obsever replies—
1.    If it ever published a lie
about the Light we do not know
it, and if made sensible of the fact
will take pleasure in retracting it.
2.    If the Observer ever offered
an insult to the Light we do not
know it, unless it took it as an
insult when we contradicted its
false statement about the Obser-
ver’s circulation at Frost.
3.    So far as “amenities” are con
cerned the Observer owes no
paper the amenities of journalistic
courtesies which publishes false
statements about its circulation.
4.    If the Light did not want to
“bandy words” with the OBaER-
VF-R it ought not to have stated
that we had three subscribers
at Frost when we had fifteen.
5.    If the Light wants to resent
what others said about it, svhy
does it not pitch into the Demo-
crat; the Democrat said very hard
things to the Light about the
Frost circulation. Why vent all
your spleen at the Observer?
6.    The soul of the Observer
would And no consolation in
smoking “this in your pipe”—it
does not smoke a pipe.
As the Light made the fust
“slap” about the Frost business
it ought to be the first to stop the
slapping.
LUCID ARGUMENT.
MR. JARLISLE ON THE LIMI-
TATIONS OF THE SPEAK-
ERSHIP.
Extraordinary and indefensible Nature of
the New House Rules Cleariy Shown—
A Long Step in the Wrong
Direction. ’
Feomthe North American Review.
“The rules of Parliament are
designed to afford every legiti-
mate opportunity of discussion,
to insure reasonable delays in
the passing of important meas-
ures, and to guard the rights of
minorities.”—Sir Thomas Erskine
May.
The constitution of the United
States provides that the House
of Representatives “shall choose
their speaker and other officers,”
and that “each house may deter-
mine the rules of its proceed-
ings.” The powers and duties of
the speaker are not defined in
the constitution or in any statute,
but are to be ascertained from
the general practice of parlia-
mentary bodies' and from such
rules as the house of represent-
atives may, from time to time, see
proper to adopt. The framers of
the constitution were familiar
with the law and practice of the
British House of Commons, the
great legislative assembly of their
mother country, and it is not un-
reasonable to suppose that when
they provided for the election of
a speaker, they had in contempla-
tion a presiding officer with sub-
stantially the same powers, duties
and responsibilities as had be-
longed for many centuries to the
presiding officer in that body.
While the right to enlarge or
restrict these powers, duties and
responsibilities by its own rules
was expressly conferred upon the
house of representatives, it can
not be supposed that, the authors
of the constitution intended, by
this clause, to authorize the ex-
ercise of a power which would
destroy or impair the free repre-
sentative character of the body
itself. Like all other powers del-
egated by the constitution, the
authority to make rules must be
construed and exercised iu har-
mony with the general spirit and
plan of our republican institu
af/orded by the rules oflegisla-j
rive bodies generally; but, in fact, j
such was not the case. Iu the i
British House of Commons the j
opportunities are now, and al • I
ways h^ve been, much greater
than they ever were in our house
of re-presentativ es, and while
much inconvenieuce has fre-
quently resulted on dilatory pr-o
ceedings in the Commons, no
English statesman has ever ven-
tured to propose such radical and
oppressive regulations as have
just been adopted here. In our
house, in addition to the usual
parliamentary motions which are
allowed in the Commons, we have
always had the previous question
(which cuts off debate), and for a
long time there has been a rule
limiting speeches to one hour
each. In the House of Commons
there is no previous question, and
no order limiting the length of'
! speeches. Prior to November 27,
! 1882, the only limitation upon de-
bate was an order made in 1604
that, “if any man speak imperti-
nently, or beside the question in
j hand, it stands with the orders of
the house for Mr. Speaker to in-
i terrupt him; and to have the
pleasure of the house whether
| they will further hear him/' But
this was found insufficient to re-
strain members and prevent them
gent observers. The constitution , from consuming the time of the
begins with the declaration that j}10use uselessly in discussing ir-
“all legislative power herein | reiev.ant questions and repeating
granted shall be vested in a con-|the same arguments over an(l
gress of the Unite-d States, which j ove|. an{j, consequently, on the
shall consist of a senate and | 27th ’ of November, 1882, the fol-
Itouse of representatives.”'    iovvmg order was made:
power to legislate necessarily in-j “The speaker, or the chairman
eludes the right to Lear and de- j of ways an(j means, may call the
termiue all such motions and j attention of the house, or of the
propositions as are incidental to j committee, to continued irrele-
the consideration of bills and res-1 vance 0r ’tedious repetition on
olutions and the transaction of j ttle part 0f a member; and may
other legislative business; and j (nrect the member to discontinue
this power, given expressly to ! his speech ”
the senate and house of repre-
sentatives, cannot be delegated
by either of them. It must be
exercised by the members chosen
by the people and the states to
speak and act for them. If they
can rightfully delegate to their
presiding officers the power to
decide finally and conclusively
upon all motions made in the
course of legislative proceedings,
it is difficult to see why they can-
not also confer upon those offi-
cers the power to decide in the
same way upon the merits of all
bills proposed. There is certain-
ly nothing in the mere name or
title of the presiding officer to
qualify him for the constitutional
exercise of such a power, and it
could as well be conferred upon
the clerk, or the sergeant«at-arms,
01 the doorkeeper.
From time immemorial the
speaker of the House of Com-
mons lias been, in theory and in
fact, simply the servant of the
body over which he presides, and
the freemen of England would no
more consent to see him control
Its proceedings by arbitrarily re-
fusing to entertain motions or
put questions than they would
consent to see the crown itself
usurp the functions of the legis-
lature. A standard American
writer on parliamentary law says:
“The presiding officer, though
entitled on all occasions to be
treated with the greatest atten-
tion and respect by the individu-
al members, because the power
and dignity and honor of the as-
sembly are officially embodied in
his person, is yet but the servant
of the house, to declare its will
and to obey implicitly all its com-
mands.”
It is the duty of the speake .0
obey the commands of the house,
but the house can give nc com-
mands if he refuses to put the
question on motions made by
tions, and, therefore, any rule -members. The only way iu which
which confers upon the speaker the house can oxpress its will is
arbitrary power and allows him, i by a vote, and it cannot vote if
at his own will and pleasure, to
deprive members of the right to
make ordinary parliamentary mo-
tions and have them voted on by
the house is an inexcusable sur-
render of the privileges of a free
constituency, and a gross perver-
sion of a power which was con-
ferred for the very purpose of
promoting and preserving the in-
dependence of the representa-
tive. Members of the house do
not act for themselves, either in
making rules or passing laws;
they act for the people whom
they represent, and whenever
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Black Oil and Giuners supplies generally, which we will sell cheap for cash.
We are maufacturers of the Shelnutt Water Engine and Bartleys Patent Pruning im-
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ENGINEERS, MACHININISTS, PLUMBERS, & GAS FITTERS,
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Money to Lioan.
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Farms and Pastures
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(Continued next week.)
HEWS ITEMS.
At Paris, Texas, last week Mrs.
Kirk Kosser fell in the fire with
an epileptic fit and was burned to
death.
Burglars robbed a jeweler’s safe
in Kansas City last week.
Congressman Sayers is about to
get $148,650 from the national
government for Indian depreda-
tion claims for Texas.
Perry and Hamilton killed a
negro in Teyler for an assault on
a white lady. The negro was
under arrest when the attack was
made and was * being taken to
court for trial.
Gen. Palmer of Illinois will be
a candidate for the United States
senate—a hard man to beat.
In 1866 Dr. J. H. Levering of
Marion, Pa., was waylaid and
killed. Rewards were offered for
the murderer but all was shrouded
in mystery until on his death-bed
about a week ago his neighbor,
John G. Honderson, confessed
that he did the killing, but did
not tell why he did it. He shot
his victim from behind a stone
fence with a shot gun.
The French again repulsed the
troops of the king of Dahomey
with a loss of 400 Dahomians.
Congressman Randall is said to
be improving. He may yet re-
cover his health and help push
on the car of legislation.
It is believed in Dallas that F.
A. Walton, who got off with $35,-
000 express funds, was iu that
city last week. Walton’s father
was in the city and $16,980 of the
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presiding officer entertains
motions and gives it an opportu-1 money was recovered,
nity to consider and act unon j
them.    ‘    Tariff reform leagues are being
filibustering.    organized all over Illinois; both
The only justification that has j republicans an.d democrats are
been offered for the revolution joining the leagues with a rus .
t hat has been made in the prac- Throckmorton is drawing multi-
tice of the house 01 representa- j    , m    .
tives, and for the extraordinary j Aides m nort exas in o is
powers conferred upon the boom for governor, while he has
speaker, is that certain motions a good following all over the
and proceedings heretofore al- state
lowed have been misused for the
purpose of obstructing or delay- The papers say Jhat the Alli-
they put    fetters    upon    their    own - iug legislation. This is true to a    ance Wheel,1‘Grange and Knights
limbs or    stifle    their    own    voices    certain extent, -and if a proper    of Labor and other labor orgamza-
remedv for tins evil had been pro- .    A ,
posed—a remedy consistent with tlons are combining to e ec a
the constitution and the freedom governor of Texas. Dr. Fields of
of parliamentary proceedings— the Alliance and A. J. Rose of the
there would .mve been little, if Grange are spoken of as candi-
auv, opposition from the mitiori- , „ m.
ty. But there was no necessity    datee' T1,e <",ee,s 8a-v 11 “ a
for such radical changes as have    political movement to put the
been made, and nothing but the    state in control of the labor ele-
most itnperauve necessity could    meat. Suppose it is; the laboring
furnish an excuse foi them.    classes make the state what it is,
It appears to be popularly sup- ,    ,,    Al ,    ,
posed that the old rules afforded -and are the P°we.r that make9
greater opportunities for ob- an(I moves the traffic of the whole
structive proceedings than were earth.
they inflict a grievous injury up
on their constituents.
ARBITRARY POWER.
Arbitrary power can exist no-
where in a free government, and
if it be true, as now claimed, that
the popular branch of the legis-
lative department has been au-
thorized to confer such power
upon any one man, no matter
what his official title may be, It is
clear that there is a defect in our
system not heretofore detected
by the most careful and intelli-
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Oongresaman Abbott has re-
ceived a protest from the Knights
of Labor of Dallas directed to the
president against the remission
of fines imposed on Gus Wilkie
for the employment of Scotch
granite cutters in the state Capi-
tol. He seut the protest at once
to the president.
PRESTON’S “HED-AKE”
Ex-District Judge Sam R. Frost of Corsicana
writes:    “I had neuralgic headache for several days,
but one dose of your remedy, f‘Hed-Ake,” relieved
1    ■’    minutes.” For sale bv all
me in less than
NEW BROOMS.
Geo. W. Bounds, one of the
most industrious blind boys iu
Texas, is making a splendid line
of brooms at Hubbard City. The
Observer hopes the merchants of
Corsicana will place their orders
with him. He can supply all
sizes of brooms from little to big.
His prices are reasonable. Send
your orders to bim. He has
ample machinery and facilities to
meet the demand.
Address, Geo. W. Bounds,
18w4    Hubbard City, Tex.