The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-12-09
GORMAN ROASTS THEM.
Senators Who Advocate the Force Bill
Made Unhappy.


WASHINGTON, Dec. SIN the senate to-
day there was long discussion on the
joint resolution appropriatlng 5000 for
an investigation of the Indian outbreak.
1t was finally referred to the committee
on Indian affairs.
A resolution calling on the secretary Of
the treasury for statement OF moneys
paid Davenport, chief supervisor Of cleo
tons, each year since 1871, etc, was
agreed TO.
Hoar moved to proceed to the consid-
Grafton of the elections bill, but on the
suggestion that Gray was temporarily
absent he withdrew the motion and asked
unanimous consent TO have the time fixed
as Friday next for taking the final vote
on the bill. Gray meanwhile came in
aud the bill was taken up.
Gray yielded TO German, who argued
against the proposition to fix the time for
taking vote. He recalled the statement
Of Hoar at the last session that If the
election bill was not then taken up and
disposed of there would not be time TO do
so in the short session. II had been the
firm conviction of the democratic side
that after what had occurred at the last
election, the senator from Massachusetts,
would not press the bill; so the senators
OH his side had not prepared themselves
to discuss il intelligently.
German continued: We stand to-day
on a volcano. We have heard the
discussion as to the starving Indians,
but take no note of the fact,
that the farmers Of the land are meeting
and resolving there is danger and trouble,
if not starvation, among them. The faces
of bankers and merchants are blanched
with fear. No man can tell whether. to-
morrow or next day, every bank in the
great centres OF commerce will not be
closed by Suspension of payment. And
now, in the midst Of such state Of af
fairs, we, who come here flushed with vic
tory, had hope that the majority party
would give us an opportunity TO join with
! il in preventing the wreck which is now
impending. Lay aside this bill, which
the country has pronounced against
and let us take up matters
which all classes Of our fellow
citizens are looking TO us to consider. II
you do not, IL you persist in the course
marked out by the senator from Massa
chusetts, the responsibility must rest will
the party in power. II the senator from
Massachusetts forces the consideration o.
this partisan measure, while bankruptc,
and ruin are going on, when he goei
back TO Boston he will find that the mer
! chants and bankers and men of affairs
as well as the farmers and laborers viii
tell him while he is attempting hostil,
legislation against section of the eoun
try, that IL il had not been for the prod
ucts of that section, II il had not been fo
the moving of the cotton crop, ther,
would not be a bank in Massachusetts
able to pay its depositors. The only thin.
that has saved them has been the fac
that they been able TO draw on III,
cotton crops and on the oil.n
Hoar replied that for four days the sen
ate has been listening 10 democrats
speeches, etc., made for mere delay AM
obstruction. IL the senator from Mary
land had another measure which h
thought would allay the panic or menac
TO the commercial prosperity of the coun
try, which had beenn when the election
were declared in favor of the democrati
party, the country having been befor
that III a position of unexampled pros
perity, why should he not. after fal
and proper statement of hi
reasons for voting against the elec
ton bill, let the senate vote upon il
The election bill was a measur
whose sole purpose was 10 submit 10 tn
judges of the courts Of the United State.
against whose integrity and official homo
no man could bring charge. the que
ton of who had primd Joeie title to a sea
in the house Of representatives, instead c
having il declared boy ruiiianism, fraud @
violence, as was often the case in IN
past.
Gray spoke briefly in line with German
remarks. Then he concluded his arg
meut against the bill.
Berry obtained the floor. and after
short executive session. the senate al
journed,
short Session
WAsHISCToY, Dec. s.-McKinley r,
/ h.