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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1909)
fmmsmwi wiiil wv i n;t . I'-t'-Ti tV" ? V-J .-. The Commoner. VOLUME 9, NUMBER U fciri inwiiniwii r- 1 U ! l!1 FL I "iTS, m riWttJrfMl hRH e- rx ar- IT-... .-JtS. w To get the most out of a farm. pvftrv snuare foot musf hp. either tilled or else mnlo r tYrnrhir.fi ffiP.fi for live Mf stock. A fence all around the farm, then cross lences, mating more ana m smaller nelds permitting rotation oi m nrnns and change of rasture are first essentials in making possible maximum earnings. tt ...o, m-Afit fnnnna thn h9f finutiro mesh and tho best diamond mesh. Wo selected thesetwo styles years n?o, after careful study- and vlco fm many of tho most oxpononcou nnu suuuusaiui iuhuud, m.w .i...v.w.. v. .....w. -- . n,i ,, nrt.ini rnniiltB In tho field. Those fences aro tho simplest In construction; aro inndo of any size or weight of wire desired and perfectly adapted to all uses If you want squaro mosh, buy American; If you Hko diamond, buy Ellwood. You can safoly take tho verdict of tho millions of farmors who have tested and tried out thcao two croat tences. uoaiers everywhere, currywu biyjua uuuyiv ........ m.mnon Qnn fhnni. Ontnlnmin fnr tho Iiskltltr. AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE CO. Chicago Now York Denver Sim Francisco ... i ii fi nTfil ttiEM ) L-t s v taurant, wo will say, entombing a tripe sandwich; but that does not dotor the speaker from announcing testily after another fruitless glance around tho house: "Tho gentleman from Missouri asks consideration for the followinc bill." Tho clerk roads the bill and it is passed; and the speaker told the truth, for although nobody in tho houso hoard the gontleman from Mis souri ask consideration for tho fol lowing bill, least of all himself, it's a thousand to one that he had asked nnnslrlfirjirlrm fnr M- in M nA iWi . ,,410 iVUU luom an hour or two before the house mot at an. In some ways he's an engaging old despot, is Uncle Joe, and occa sionally his victims have to laugh oven while they agonize beneath his yoke. On one occasion an unusually large number of republicans hap pened to get hungry about the same nine, wnuo lor some unknown rea son tho democratic appetite did not require attention. Catching the speaker napping, the democratic floor leader, perceiving that he had a majority, called up a bill and push od it to a vote. Tho speaker strung out tho voting in all of the various ways that are known to him, but at the end of the second roll call, the democratic votes were still in a majority. Though the rules of the house expressly forbade such a thing u luiiu ron can was ordered by the speaker, a proceeding which called out a red hot protest from one of tuo democratic leaders who flpmnn. ed to know the reason for the speak er's extraordinary action. The speaker genially advised the protest ing democrat: "Tho chair will inform the gentle man," said he. "The chair is hoping that a few more republicans will uumo in. ' A gale of strictly non-partisan laughter swept over the house "and before it had entirely subsided, enough republicans had been round ed up by the hurrying scouts to ful fil tho speaker's wish so candidly ex pressed. Among the irreverent th -ti clary committee is pleasantly known as the Speaker's Morgue." Trouble some bills are frequently sent there and oftoner than not their friends tvnd sponsors never see them more. The judiciary committee is a verv busy committee and it takes a Ions time to reach a bill. There time oft approaches eternity. It has fre quently been charged that this com- jmitteo has been deliberately packed by the speaker, who has denied tne allegation with a high degree of characteristic heat. At all events, all the republican members of this committee eat out of the speaker's hand. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, long a faithful Cannon man, was superin tendent of tho "morgue," but .he was last fall defeated for renomina tion by Lenroot who made his con test on a red hot anti-Cannon plat form. Next to the speaker himself, more power resides in the committee on rules than anywhere else. This has been composed of the speaker him self; John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; James S. Sherman, of New York, and two members of the democratic mi nority, John Sharp Williams and De Armond, of Missouri, who are figure heads As Congressman Williams, the former democratic house leader, said of it: "The majority having prepared the outrage, the minority will bo summoned to be told what it is." The committee on rules is practically omnipotent as to proced uro on the floor of the house. It can at any time report a special rule, which takes precedence over every thing else and sets aside the stand ing rule. John Dalzell and Sereno Payne, who aro the two chief assistant bar nacles on the hull of the ship of state, and among the half-dozen rul ers of the house, under Uncle Joe, are very different men. Payne is chair man of the highly important commit tee on ways and means, and he is one of the reasons why the tariff stand patters have had things all their own way up to so recent a date. He is the titular floor leader of the ma jority, though, as a matter of fact, it is Dalzell who as rankine member of the committee on rules claps on the gag or turns the thumb-screw up another notch whenever emer gency requires. Payne is a large man with a griz zled moustache, a ponderous stom ach, and slow and heavy ways of speech and movement. Benevolence is written large upon him upon the outside. He smiles and smiles and smiles. It is the smile that won't come off. He has an annoying way of saying the most savage things and smiling while he does it. It Isn't that he likes to smile. He would probably give a good deal '.o look as savage as he sometimes sounds. But ho just can't make that smile behave. If the truth were known, that stereotyped, unchanging and unchangeable smile is probably the tragedy of his life. But is deceives no one who knows him. Barnacle he is, and as such he will cling close ly to his snug place until the ship of state is nut into drv dock ami h and the other barnacles are scraped Free to the Rupture A New Home Cora That Anyone Can Ui Without Operation Fain, Danger Or Loss of Time Ruptured persons can forever end tho chafinir and annoyanco of truss-wearing and tho dangeri of strangulation by writing Dr. W. 8. Rico, Adams, N. Y. for his famous freo method'. trans COL. L. W. B18SELL Thousands havo done this and are now cured and there is no reason for anyone to suffer longer. Col. L. W. 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And if ,the tariff gets a real revision he will not regard it as his fault but as the result of the clamor ings of a misguided populace urged on by demagogues like Andrew Car negie. Both Payne and Dalzell are far from gentle in their exercise of the great power that is theirs. They siuuL auu reiuse requests with a finality little less than the speaker's own and with far more brusqueness. They are the type of committee bosses whom the unfortunate con gressman struggling for his political life at home is most unwilling to offend. For they ate merciless and he knows It. Too well he remembers certain victims of their wrath. Dalzell is in some ways the coun terpart of Payne. He is a spare, little man, with quick, alert ways ?? d !?, se?,erally regarded as one of the frostiest propositions" in the house. He is as magnetic as a crutch. He occupies the second place on the big ways and means committee, and as a barnacle his record has been as consistent as that m r JMCL Jf ITr ''ftfW'l mi. 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