Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — Perpetuating a Fiction. [ARTICLE]

Perpetuating a Fiction.

, Nothing could be better than the following summing up of the fight in the House of Representatives, by Mr. McKinley. It is worth reading: “Gentlemen on the other side insist upon what? That they shall perpetuate a fiction—th.d is what it is—that they shall perpetuate a fiction because they say it is hoaiy with age, a fiction that declares that although members are present in their seats they shall be held, under fiction, to 'be constructively absent. That is what they are contending for. We j are contending that this shall be a fact and a truth, riot fiction,-and j tha t members who sit in their seats .in this hall be counted as present, : because they are present. (Applause on the Republican side.) They want the journal to declare a lie; we want the journal to declare the truth.”