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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ngto recognize members who vociferously endeavored to catchhis eye. Being a new member of the House, my experiencein the direction indicated had been limited, but as I hadheard here and there a complaint that the Speaker would 288 WITH SPEAKER CANNON THROUGH THE TROPICS. not always permit bills to be called, I took Colonel Busbeyaside and put to him bluntly the question: Why does the Speaker give recognition to some andrefuse it to others? The answer was direct: The Speaker is a member of the House, having the sameright to object that every other member enjoys. If everyl:)ill and every scheme were to be brought up for debate,Congress would be in session continually. As the Speakerof the House, in declining to permit bills to be called, or, asyou say, in not giving recognition to members to call bills,he is simply exercising his right to object, just as you orany other member upon the floor would have the right todo, and in doing so he is saving the time of the House andof the country.
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CABANA AND THE; MORRO, HAVANA. 19 CHAPTER XL CUBA. A Showery Departure—Views from South America—Put-in atSantiago—Opportunity Creates Heroes—Scene in HavanaHarbor—The Wreck of the Maine—A ReHc That Should beRemoved—The Omnipresent Flag of Cuba—Secretary TaftsProclamation—Tremendous Cost of the Cuban War—NationalAltruism Sublime—Cubas Great Debt to the United States—The Expensiveness of Intervention—Troops and Ships Required—The Foundling Fattens—Who Drove Out the Spaniards?—QueerEvidences of Gratitude—A Problem, Says the Speaker—Talk ofAnnexation—How the Native Votes. Take we down, down, down; where the cocoanut grows, grows, grows;Where the earthquake shakes and the hurricane blows, blows, blows,O, show me the men who dont wear any hose.And women who dress up with rings in their nose—Where babies go out in their little brown clothes,Down where the cocoanut grows. Our departure from Colon had been hurried. The tour ofinspection had filled us wit

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