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when the ayes and noes are called in the House. 

 One result of this has been that more than once the 

 whole appropriation has been stricken out in Com- 

 mittee of the Whole, and then voted back again by 

 substantial majorities by the same men sitting in 

 open House. 



In the debate on the appropriation the whole ques- 

 tion of the workings of the law is usually discussed, 

 and those members who are opposed to it attack not 

 only the law itself, but the Commission which ad- 

 ministers it. The occasion is, therefore, invariably 

 seized as an opportunity for a pitched battle between 

 the friends and foes of the system, the former try- 

 ing to secure such an increase of appropriation as 

 will permit the Commission to extend its work, and 

 the latter striving to abolish the law outright by re- 

 fusing all appropriations. In the 5ist and 52d Con- 

 gresses, Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, led the fight 

 for the reform in the Lower House. He was sup- 

 ported by such party leaders as Messrs. Reed, of 

 Maine, and McKinley, of Ohio, among the Republi- 

 cans, and Messrs. Wilson, of West Virginia, and 

 Sayers, of Texas, among the Democrats. Among 

 the other champions of the law on the floor of the 

 House were Messrs. Hopkins and Butterworth, Mr. 

 Greenhalge, of Massachusetts, Mr. Henderson, of 

 Iowa, Messrs. Payne, Tracey, and Coombs, of New 

 York. I wish I had the space to chronicle the names 

 of all, and to give a complete list of those who voted 

 for the law. Among the chief opponents of it were 

 Messrs. Spinola, of New York, Enloe, of Tennessee, 



