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<br />SPEECH <br /> <br />OF <br />lION. HENRY M: TELLER. <br /> <br />RIGHTS Ob' THE STA'l'F.S. <br />~dl'. TI'::LLll~H obtaiued tlle floor. <br />.Mr. Nl()WLANDS. {llf'l.l{ the Senutor from Cnlomdo whether <br />he. will .yield 10 me for the llUl'po!;e of making n motion that <br />the Sennte 1)l'oc~Cl.I to 'tbe immediate COIlsillerntioIl of fl bill <br />w.hich 1mB JlIIHSl..'{l the. House, which has been reported with <br />umendnlcnts from tlu.' Committee au Commerec of the Sell,lte, <br />namely, the bill (1I. It. ZU;!)!)) pl'ovidlng for Ule Ullvointmellt <br />of fin Inlnllll Wnll'l'wnr~ Commission with tlle "ie", to tlIe Im~ <br />IH'o"ClIlcnt and llenl]olllllent of the inlluHI watel'wnYl:l of the <br />United Stnlel'!. <br />Mr. 'l'ELLlom. 011 the 25th of April I introdnced n 1'e801u- <br />tlon nm] IefL it to ]h~ 011 the tnble. witll the statement thut I <br />wOIIl<l enUlt up wilen I SllW fit. I desire to cnll it up now find to <br />uwl.;e l.l few relllfir[u, I'll it. [CRn Hot yit'lll for the P\1l'l)Ose <br />sll~g-eRte(l by, tljC Bmmtor froll1 ,Nenldll. <br />T fisk that lhe I"cflolutl'on S\1hlllitted bv me be read. <br />The VICE-rR]ilSlJ)lU~'l'. The l'l;'l"oltltion will he rend, <br />, The Recl'ptnry rt'fltl the resolution suhmitted by 1\1r. TELLER <br />April 25, HJOR, as follows: <br />He8011~C(lJ 'l'lIut the mnilltcnllucc of the principles pt.onHllg"ntell In the <br />D(lclul'nllon of ImlepellrleUCe'll.nrl emuodied III the Ferll."i'al CODl'titutioa <br />Qrc eSi'J"lltlul to the Iwcsel'vntion of 0\11' I'epubllcan institutions. and <br />tbat thc Fadcl.fl.1 CODRlttntlon, the' I'ir;lits oC the Stnte~, aod the union <br />of the Stntes mm:;t he p\'e~(,l'ved. <br />'I'lmt the mnlntennnc0 InvlQlatr of the rIghts ot the States. find <br />espcc1aJl,\' the rl,2;lIt (If f'l\ch State to OL'der and contl.ol it!:! 0\\'0 dOlllE.~ttc <br />tni'JtltntlollR nc{"ot"dlll~ to it" own .1udgDH"nt exclusIvely, Is essential to <br />~hl\t bnlnDce or power on widell the pea.fectlon and endumuce of OUL. <br />polltlcnl fllhl'le depends. <br />1\Il'. TF.T.JLJl1lt, MI'. President, ordinarily in the closing hours <br />of a se-ssion I should feel liI{e npologi:r.ing for tal,iog any of the <br />time' or the Seozlte with anything I might be ahle to suy, but <br />~n ,'iew of whnt has occmred iu tile Senate dlll'ing the last <br />Ihon!h 01' six woel,s. and jHlrticuJarly ill ylew of what occurred <br />,;ycslcrday, I tbluk we Illny pl'otitahly spend n litLle time in ex- <br />nmiuilllJ whnt 01lL. rellltlon:-. II1:\Y be as n Geneml Goyel'nment <br />to the Stntes and of the Stntp~ to the Genernl Government. <br />I\Ir, Pl'esldcllt, I Imye qlloterl once be-fore, and I Wflnt to ((\late <br />ng-nin, a pfovi!-iioll from tile C:OIlStitUtiOtl of Mn~sa('hnsctts, I <br />nll("~l'gtnJ1d It 1m3 been ill the constitution of l\Ins::::Hchusettl:l <br />~hH~C the first coustttlltlOll was made, :md in all of the re. <br />VrSiOllS and correction they hnye never left tIlis out. It was <br />read hc!'e by the Sel,l(l.tQl' fr91Q Georg,ia [MI'. BAcoNl the other <br />2 ," 44406--7816 <br />