Mr. Speaker. allow me to draw upon your imagination for a moment. Resurrect the author of the Constitution and place him in the White House. inform him of our immense bonded debt which we shoulder so complacently. advise him that our imposts are $200.000.000 annually. and that our excises are $150.000.000 . that our exports. chiefly agricultural. amount annually to $800.000.000. tell him that palace ears of many tons weight flit across our continent in eight days. rolling upon wheels made of paper. that magnificent steamers in the same length of time cross the Atlantic and deliver in the English markets fresh beef butchered in America one thousand miles inland from port of shipment introduce him to the hundred thousand Mongolians on our Pacific slope. place a telephone to his ear that he may hear the discussions upon this floor of the representatives of fifty millions of people. give him a morning paper that be may read. as we do daily. notices of events happenlagin Europe six hours. sun time. before they did actually occur. dnd then ask him to frame us a Constitution. Think you he would indite us the identical organic law under which we have lived for a century I He doubtless would submit for our approval the same fundamental principles contained in that instrument. but I imagine a latitude of construction would be allowed not now deemed admissible by those who see an infraction of the Constitution in every assumption of new power by the legislative branch of the Government. I favor a strict construction of our organic law. and I do not consider this position shaken when I say that the passage of thisbill will be the exercise of a "power reserved to the people." for I believe it is the wish of the people that it should be enacted into law.
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