THE ROLL CALL

...McKinlay is a member of the House committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries...

...McKinlay had before coming to Congress found favor with the System organization in California, and was appointed Assistant United States Attorney at San Francisco...

...Hence, Mr...

...In the first session of the Sixtieth Congress he stood with the Wall Street forces in the House to pass the Vreeland currency bill...

...His service in that office will be remembered because of his refusal to prosecute indictments which had been found by the grand jury against officials of a railroad for fraudulently obtaining public land...

...As already suggested there was little in McKinlay's previous record to commend him to the Progressives...

...When the Sixty-first Congress convened for the revision of the tariff, little remained of McKinlay's pretences at progres-sivism...

...They determined to rid the House of a one-man control, of domination by a machine leadership headquartered in the Senate and saturated with System philosophy of rolitics and statecraft...

...This motion was made in order to cut off a possible motion from the Progressives or the Democrats that the bill be recommitted with instructions to reduce certain schedules...

...It was not the purpose of the Payne-Cannon-Aldrich combine to allow the House to vote on such a motion...

...He voted with Cannon, Payne and Dalzell against reducing the duty on hides, and he voted with the organization to pass the Payne bill, as made by the organization...

...They began their work with a careful study of the rules and of their operation in order to determine upon a course of action which should be right and which should be directed against the salient and vital points of the system of House misrule...

...Although he had the advantage of having been with the insurgents "behind the scenes," the people had no time to listen to McKinlay's "exposure of the insurgents...

...McKinlay has even promised to introduce a subsidy to grant the shipping combine greater subsidies than those proposed in the Humphrey bill...

...He contented himself with voting on it with the House regulars...

...He was found voting with the regulars of the House machine and with the Tammany Democrats to put through the fake reform of the House rules embodied in the resolutions presented by Fitzgerald, the leader of the Tammany Democrats...

...During the recent fight in the House i.i which revision of the House rules was forced upon the Cannon organization and in which Cannon himself was nearly ousted from the House Czarship, McKinlay was absent...

...it won't do...

...He voted for the interests engaged in exploiting mineral resources of Alaska to permit the consolidation of Alaskan coal entries...

...There was in the past record of this Congressman little to indicate progressive sympathies or a profound concern for the representation of the people in Congress...

...And so the Payne-Cannon-Aldrich upward tariff revision became the law...

...It was much more on the order of the "wet blanket" progress, culminating at Iola, Kansas, where, after a band had been hired and a hall rented, the committee wired McKinlay—"Don't come to Iola...

...And they signed their resolutions with feelings akin to those said to have been expressed by Franklin to his associates when they signed the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together or we will all hang separately...

...There were perhaps some confidencas which it was deemed unnecessary to communicate to this professed convert from California...

...The important legislation of that session was the so-called Hepburn rate bill.' McKinlay did not participate in the discussion of this measure...

...But it wasn't...

...McKinlay voted with the House machine to allow Cannon to pack the Pinchot-Balunger investigating committee...

...He voted in the interests of the Steel Trust to defeat the appropriation for a government foundry in the Washington navy yard...

...A "whirlwind campaign" the papers said it was to be...

...But evidently he has thought better of this matter and the McKinlay subsidy bill may not be introduced until after election...

...He "paired" in favor of ship-subsidy but he voted for an increase in the salaries of the members of Congress...

...In the second session of the Sixtieth Congress he voted to defeat the Roosevelt conservation program tc create a national forest reserve in the southern Appalachian and White Mountains and he joined the Cannon-System machine in the voting to put through an ocean mail subsidy of eight million dollars a year for the shipping combine...

...It might have been adopted by the House...

...There was much to warn them that he was coming among them as a spy for the Cannon machine...

...Early in the present session of Congress this committee, by steam roller methods, reported for passage the so-called Humphrey ship subsidy bill, after a hearing which lasted only two hours, with no opportunity accorded for the cross-examination of the witnesses heard and while the majority of the men who appeared before the committee in opposition to the bill were denied an opportunity to testify...

...It was a mission for Cannonism and the System...

...He voted again with Payne, Cannon and Dalzell against striking out the duty on sawed lumber...

...Whether the insurgents were entirely deceived then,— they have been entirely undeceived by events which have transpired since...

...Then followed the fight upon the readoption of the old Cannon rules—the fight in which the Cannon organization saved itself only by a deal with Tammany Hall...

...On the roll-calls on the bill, he was found voting with the regulars and voting with them for the bill on final passage...

...He had been sent into the districts of the progressive congressmen to make reactionary speeches...

...His ownership of a coal claim in the Greene group in Alaska, which constitutes part of the subject-matter of the PiNCHOT-Ballinger investigation may have its influence in determining his attitude upon conservation of natural resources...

...When the bill had passed the House and Senate and had been referred to a conference committee appointed by Cannon on the part of the House and by Aldrich on the part of the Senate, and when the bill came again before the House in the form of a conference report, a motion was made by Chairman Payne of the House committee to recommit the bill to the conference committee...

...In this contest McKinlay was recorded as voting against a modification of the rules of the House similar to that embodied in the insurgent resolution in which he had joined the previous session...

...The Pacific Steamship Company is a very Special Interest with McKinlay when it comes to ship subsidies and he is naturally opposed to legislation which might interfere with its employment of Chinese crews...

...They went about the work of restoring the House of Representatives as the democratic coordinate branch of the legislative department of the government, even as it was created in the Constitution...

...But he professed and was welcomed, for help and votes were needed...

...The people know the insurgents and, by the same token, they know McKinlay...

...He voted with Cannon, Dalzell and Payne against free timber...

...And to this game of railroading legislation for Special Interests, McKinlay gave his support, and his vote in the committee...

...His first speech was in favor of tariff concession to the Philippines in order to promote Pacific coast trade with the Orient...

...When the tariff was under consideration McKinlay got into the record with a set speech which was about equally divided between a plea for high tariff, to protect American labor, you know, against the competition of Cooley labor in the manufactories of Asia, and a plea for a shipping subsidy to promote American trade in the Orient...

...And he came and went among them unchallenged and joined with them in signing the resolutions...

...Upon the few schedules of the tariff upon which the House was allowed to vote, McKinlay voted consistently with the regulars, with Payne and Cannon and Dalzell...

...He is out-spoken in his antipathy to the Pinchot kind of "fanatic...

...McKinlay was one of the 46 who voted with Cannon to preserve the petroleum tariff for Standard Oil...

...The session opened with the election of a speaker and McKinlay voted for Cannon...

...He was absent on a mission...

...They were a mere handful, these patriots, but they were men of understanding and -purpose...

...His votes in favor of shipping subsidy commended him to Speaker Cannon for appointment on this committee...

...For they have learned that their plans and their conferences and the things that they said and did were being reported to the leaders of the House machine...

...In the defeat of this motion lay practically the last hope of honest tariff revision...

...But the Cannon-System machine had the votes to carry out its program—the votes of Payne, of Cannon, of Dalzell, of McKinlay, of their kind...

...They labored together to formulate their specific demand for the revision of the rules, and when they had concluded they embodied the results in a set of resolutions —a declaration against machine control of the House, a challenge certain to invoke reprisals at the hands of the ruling autocracy...

...He spoke also for an increased appropriation for the geological survey because, as he explained, perhaps one-fifth would be expended in California...

...There were perhaps among the insurgents some who were not entirely deceived...

...For McKinlay is one of those statesmen who believe that the proper way to promote American industries and American trade is to make the American people pay American Special Interests...

...Payne himself made the motion to recommit without instructions...

...Meanwhile a bill is pending in that committee, with every likelihood that it will continue pending there, the purpose of which is to accord to American seamen protection against the imposition of involuntary servitude in the American Merchant Marine, and to prevent the manning of American vessels with inadequate and unskilled crews...

...He voted again with them against admitting free lumber from North and South and Central America and on two other roll calls against striking out altogether the duties on lumber...

...True, the undemocratic power of the Speaker and the vicious House rules had been exposed and deprecated by other men in the past, but these men—this mere handful of patriots—who were brought together by the election of the Sixtieth Congress, proposed to do something to bring about re-form...

...And so McKinlay returned to Washington, to serve Cannon and the System in Congress...

...In the second session of that Congress he voted again with the regulars to pass the railroad employee hours of service bill in such a form that it would be incapable of enforcement...

...In his first session in Congress McKinlay delivered in the House a few set speeches calculated to appeal to California sentiment...

...Democrats and Progressive Republicans voted against the Payne motion...

...The well-being of American seamen is a fine argument for voting the people's money to the shipping combine, but it is not worthy of the consideration of this committee, of which McKinlay is a representative member, when it is sought to be secured in legislation framed directly to that end...

...There came among these men and was admitted to their conferences, expressing sympathy with their views and loyalty to their undertaking, a Congressman from California...

...They were men who saw clearly the subversion of the people's government by an autocracy representing Special Interests and resting upon a foundation of parliamentary rules and customs such as never before reproached a legislative body supposedly democratic...

...Such a motion to recommit with instructions might have embodied tariff revision downward...

...It may present an issue between the conservation of the resources of the people and the conservation of the resources of McKinlay...

...They know now that Duncan E. McKinlay came among them, "A Greek bearing gifts...