The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-31

toraey, to limit the amount OF the fee that
these men should exact from tho pension-/
ers when they had got the pen sion for
them, and prescribed the way in which
they were to be paid. Now, that bill On
the 18th of February, 1885. came up IN
this way; The question came up In the
House whether it would proceed to its ccn-
sideratien; and you see that IL Is the l1th
of February, 1885, in the short session, the
session only extending to the 4th of Marchs
it WAS Senate bill, and had been til rough
the Senate and stood there in the House
ready to be passed. On the 18th of Feb
ruary the motion was made to proceed to
its consideration, and that motion was
lost, Howey voting in the negative. That
vote is found in Sixteen Congressional Re
cord. page, 1860, and that vote killed the
bill for that session.
That is Mr.. Howsys record so far as /
have been able to learn in the short time
t u have had an opportunity to examine
1t. think it is entirely sufficient to give.
him enough to answer on Wednesday
next, and if he will take up those votes, the
votes that have given-I give him refer
ence to it SO that he can turn toit--I don't
make this general charge, as they made it
against me, but give it here, day and date
with the record.
/ want now to notice another charge that
has been made against me. The New York
Tribune (hisses), has sought to antagon-
ize the farmers against me, on the g=eEaA.
as they say, that voted against the oleo.
margarine bill
THAT oL7oMARGARINE BILL.
Mr.. Joseph Fl. Real, president of theA
American Agricultural and Dairy Associa.
ton, arraigns me for opposition to it, and
he says the Oleomargarins Bill was sup
ported and yeted for by IT'S of the best and
ablest men in Congress, and by a majority
of the Senate; end, il the face of all oppo-
sition, was adopted and approved by the
President. But the limit of mendacity is
reached by Mr. Phelps in his speech be-
fore the Republican Convention, when he
alludes to me as man who, tor the sake
of pleasing his clients in New York, dared
to vote in Congress in the interest Of lard
rather than butter, and who houted the
dairy and agricultural interest by declaring
his preference for oleemargarine to butter.
have no right to complain, and do not
complain about any fair criticism that may
be made upon my Congressional or public
record. tits my public act, and when it is
truthfully stated any body is at liberty to
make any comment upon it which he sees
fit; but when man falsifes the statement.
and not only does that, but imputes to me.
in my Congressional actionS improper or
cram the lie down his throat whether he
were the greatest man Of the time or only
tho banged bufoon of the convention.
Phelps has been 50 long in the Blaine
movement that he cannot tell the truth
(Applause.) During the last Presidential
campaign we had number Of new fangled/
lies; we had the colossal lie and the contN
mental lie; now, this last one of Phelps'9is
a double-barrelled lie. The left hand one
is untrue because have no such clients in
New York, or elsewhere, as he suggests,
and the other part of the charge, viz, With
reference to that vote when the tax was
limited to two cents, is shown to be false.
for among the 175 best and ablest men in
Congress who voted for the passage Of
that bill you find the name of Robert 8.
Green, and there is the record. (Applause)
have here the Congressional Record Of July
"a, 1886, and at page 1910 you see the
vote.
HIS RECORD AS A LAWYER
I am trespassing too long on your time.
There is one suggestion, however, that is
made with reference to me that want to al
Jude to. They say that am corporation
lawyer. Well, l know no reason why lawyer
should not try case for corporation if
q corporation pays him for his services.
know OF NO reason why man who is skill
full engineer should not drive an engine for
a corporation if they pay him for his SER
vices; have tried cases for corporations
and have tried cases against corporations.
The significance of the charge is, if there's
anything in it, that my feelings, that my
leanings are toward corporations. Well, now
any lawyer in the world will tell you'll
mean any lawyer that has any practice
not q lawyer like William Walter Phelps.
q lawyer that never had q case. enever
opened his mouth in court, whose name
does not appear in the reports, who never
had client, and who never earn@d
dellar in his life by honest labor-I don
mean that kind of lawyer, mean q \
lawyer that ever had any practice, why y
they would thousand times rather try & A
case against corporation than in favor Of 8
one; ] have been employed on one side
and the other, but 80 far as any identif. "a
catien with corpsrotion is concerned.
they cannot put thar finger upon it. NJ
When try case for corporation and II
the case is over, they and I are quits, and
the next day will take q case against
them. It ia question of how your inter-
est carries you. And this charge is made by
whom2 It is made by director of one Of
these railroad companies that makes the
poor man along the line of travel, as Ihaye 4
seen it stated, of that railroad pay dollar
ton more for coal than they have to pay
in New York.
RECORD ON RAILROADS.
New l have little record on rail-
roads, and have got little record on
corporations. Although not member of
the Legislature when the contest took
place in the Legislature of New Jersey
between every corporation in it and the
people, whether we should have general VI
railroad law, take back seat to 40 man I
in the efforts that made to have thxt
general railroad law become law, and az I
a member of that constitutional cone6nis-
sion offered the clause which is xow in
the constitution which provides that the
Legislature shall pass NO special act con-
ferrinR corporate poWera but that IL shall