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Republican in the House must have voted on this question. I find 
that on the last vote but three of them voted, and I want the people of 
this country to know that there are but three Republicans present in 
this House by their own declaration, and a record of it by vote. 
Mr. ReeEp. Now, that is a very touching statement. 
I think my friend from Massachusetts [Mr. Cogswell] is not at all 
right in the position which he has taken; that is, that the gentleman 
from Indiana [Mr. Holman] should afford an explanation to this 
- House for his action. He has not any. That is the reason why he 
is silent. The only explanation that can really be given is a simple 
one, and he does not like to present it; but I am going to suggest to 
the House precisely what it is. I am going to do it simply because I 
have had experience, and have seen this thing time and again. If we 
could only attract in some way or other the attention of the people of 
this country to performances like this, I think we would get rid of 
them; but, unfortunately, if there is anything that this country does 
not care about, it is the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
Mr. W. H. Care. That is a fact. 
Mr. Reep. You can see that by the hands they have recently put it 
in. 
Now, I have seen this performance—at least ten times—a great many 
times under the leadership of a very great man, whose tactics to-day 
are being imitated by the present chairman of the Committee on 
Appropriations. Having no reasons to give except the reason of brute 
force, he gives that. .Three to one—that is the argument in favor of 
these appropriations. 
Mr. Butter. It counts just the same. 
Mr. Rerep. There are three of you to one of us. There is no other 
reason on the face of the earth except that. Now, what is the purpose 
demonstrated here? The object, the purpose is, to deceive the people 
of the United States as to the action of the Democratic party. 
Mr. J. H. Watxer. That is what I said. 
Mr. Reep. It is an attempt to obtain the good ail of the American 
people upon their economic side, without actually benefiting them the 
least in the world. Nobody knows better than the chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations, at this minute, that all these appropri- 
ations that we are going through now have to be revised, and have got 
to be added to by the Senate of the United States in accordance with 
their official duty, which they will have to perform. He knows the 
Government will not be starved, because the Senate will put on the 
amendments; and after a decent little performance, with a natural 
coyness, he will accept many of them—almost all of them. Then he 
will go to the country and say: ‘‘ Look! see what a virtuous House we 
had, and what a profligate Senate.” 
This is the tenth repetition within my recollection of this kind of 
