Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-06
DELEGATE TOOLE'S SPEECH.

ACAOVu " 0eeO1 uVAuS WHO AS OuAAVA IA
attention to Col Sanders and the Reput
lican party, and exposed the insinccrit,
and duplicity of the one and the hostilit,
to Montana's interests Of the other.
If Mr.. Toole, spoke as effectively in tn
eastern and northern portions OF the Ter
ritory in his canvass al he did at Helena
the Republican leaders will regret they in
upon purely national issues. He turnet
their TANKS and routed them at ever.
point. In a very few words Mr.. Tool
spiked one of the principal Republican
guns used in the campaign. 1t has beer
iterated and reiterated, that if Col. Sand
ers were elected, that by the power of hi
persuasive eloquence, his cutting earcasm
his biting ridicule and penetrating wit, hi
would put to flight all opposition to thu
admission of Montana as a state, anG
- that, during his term this great Territory
would be clothed with all the habiliments
of statehood. The declaration has a very
pleasing, catching sound, and many who
take stock in the invincibility Of the "wal
horse" and who fully appreciate the hui
initiation OF living in a state Of territorial
vassalage would probably feel like trying
the Colonel just once to see il he could sue.
coed where others have failed.
Mr.. Toole dispels this charming hallucina.
ton in a very few words. Speaking OF the
difficulties which surrounded the admission
of Dakota as a State Mr.. Toole saids
"a bill providing for the admission OF
Mnnkono uvo a1Sn nfforod in fho 2onofo
and from the day it was suggested up to
the time of the adjournment of that Con.
gress, although had persistently applied to
that committee to present the reasons why
this territory should be admitted I was
never ever allowed to appear before the
committee on Territories for that purpose,
but for the purpose OF testing the Senate
on hat question and to ascertain whether
or not they were controlled by purely party
and partisan considerations, Senator
Voorhees, introduced an amendment for
the admission Of Montana which was not
subject to any objection, n when it was
considered the amendment vas rejected by
a party vote. The people OF this Terri
tory can see that the Senate of the United
States makes no objection to our popula-
tie0, to our constitution, or to essen-
tial qualifications OF statehood"
The objection rests upon other grounds.
Among the opposers to the amendment
were such cool, long-hesded, astute, old pc.
litical stagersa as Senators Edmunds, Logan,
Hoar, Dawes, Frye and others in the Re-
publican majority Of almost equal promi.
nence. Now, in all candor we would ask
of what avail would be the froth and fun.
merry and diarrhea Of words of Colonel
Sanders in the presence OF those old SEN
atorial icebergs. They would simply give
him n look, ask him If they raised chest
nuts in Montana, and then 60 out and
take a drink.
Mr.. Toole made a very happy hit by stat
ing that if old Sparks should happen to
die this fall all the thunder of Colonel
Sanders would be destroyed. He
then briefly but satisfactorily explained
the part he took in securing q modification
of Sparks order concerning the cutting of
timber Upon the public domain, and that
o no one in Montana is restrained from
obtaining what wood he wants upon gov
eminent lands. Concerning the part he
took in the passage of the bill restricting
Territories in certain. matters, Mr.. Toole
said:
'lf there is any man in Montana, who, in
my judgment, ought to keep his lips scaled
as silent as death upon the question, it is
the war horse OF the Republican party.
applause, and a voice-We'n seal 'em.)
There is no one in this place, the distin-
guished Chairman OF the Republican Cen
trail Committee, whom l see here, probably
alone excepted, but knows OF his record
him to the time OF the first organization of
this Territory and trace his record all along
down the line and you find him advocating
at one time a subsidy OF $4,000. 900 as a
loan to the Northern Pacific Railroad COM |
pany; you find him afterwards advocating |
a subsidy of 81, $50, 900 to the Utah and
Northern Railroad; you find him after. |
wards coming in and asking an exemption
from taxation Of the property OF the Utah
& Northern Railroad for the period of Is |
years; and all along down the line we see
the fine Italian hand OF the war horse" in
all these special acts of legislation, and I |
not surprised at his protest now. I see
that even the Governor OF the Territory, in
the report which he sends to the Secretary
the Interior, also inveighs against this
l am entirely satisfied that he
h have his opinions upon that subject
and l claim the same right, so far
as l am concerned. l don't know what
there is in view now that calls for special
legislation. Perhaps there is som scheme
by which the people OF this Territory are to
another subsidy fastened upon them
hat will hang like a mill stone round the
'eck Of this town, or of this territory"
= + Il Il Il
"Why, the people of this Territory were
allied upon to consider just such a propo. I
dtion as that. Their constitutional con.
,entaon was held here; they adopted a con- /;
'tltution and they inserted in it Just such !
PROVISIONS or substantially such as were I
nan in that onvention Republican or Dem r
'crat, who gave a single vote against that
roposltlon, and when the bill came up
n the Congress OF the United States. al
'hough there were delegates there from Ter d
itories that were Republican in political +
entiments, there was not a solitary vote y
asst against it in either branch of Con- y
ress, and | say, with that law L am entire p
Y content" O
Here is another prop knocked from under t
hat great Jumbo platform, another charge o
efuted that these restrictive measures was t
broth cooked in the DEVILS kitchen by 1
Not a Republican in either e
OF Congress voted against the bill. "
Vill our Republican contemporaries still G
arp upon that string? Continuing, Mr.. ls
DOLE referred to the TACT that a Republi. c.
In administration had turned over to tt
'asping railroad corporations 191, OOO,- 5
90 acres OF the public domain of the N
nited States, and considering that Justice hi
the people demanded that these railroad er
nds, when surveyed, should be subjected Of
taxation, the same as lands. owned by N
farmers of the country, he introduced I'll
bill providing that they should be taxed.
ere is what Mr.. Toole said: th
'And say it tonight, and trnst that I TT
it with ~pardonable pride, that I had tn
e honor to introduce into Congress the tb
st bill that WAS ever introduced there
aking to the taxation OF the land grants
these railroad companies. (Applause.)
re result OF it was this, that there was la'
800, 600 ncres Of this land, ard which, tn
assessed at the mere nominal price of of
.25 per acre. would add over $500 to NJ.
G assessment roll of tnis Territory. It -,
ans more than that: it meant that the 'n
company which had by it's solemn Gel
in the form Of a circular issued gee
the citizens OF this Territory, declarin a. E
1T the lands occupied by the citizens ~
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