The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-06
THE FRIEND or THE Marines.

6bA AAh SAo A'
THE FRIEND OF THE MARINES.
Our retiring Mr.. Carter was not
paired in tn 9 closing hours of congress.
Montana's vast shipping interests were
looked after and fought for with as
much zeal and industry by our repre-
sentative as though he had been elected
of Montana, whose argosies line the
teeming wharves of Helena, Butte and
Anaconda, will enjoy many an extra
ration of grog and plum duff as the
result of our Toms generous dole to
them of millions of dollars Of the
peoples money from the federal
treasury in the form of subsi-
dies, and they will not forget him. The
New York Times thus describes the
scene in the house last Friday night in
which our representative bore SO con
spicuous a part:
The job of jobs, the pet of the lobby, the
''big steal of the season. the companion of
the Mckinley bill, which had been under
discussion in the committee of the whole OF
the house, came to a vote tonight after it
had been praised as the cure-all by its
friends and the waste-all by its opponents.
BY a majority of two III a vote OF 292, the
house refused. soon after five O'Clock, to
give the bill a third reading. This result
was soon reversed, but the friends of q
mail pay bill then interviewed to turn the
fight, and they divided the vote so as to
promote confusion. The house was in an
uproar from eight o'clock on, ringing with
points of order and occasional roll calls, the
speaker ruling against the opponents of
subsidies, and doing all that lay in his
power to secure something i'll the way of
compensation to the lobby that has been in
dustriously working for months for the bin
reported by MIR. F%arquhar.
From the time the first vote was taken
there was plenty of excitement on the floor.
Dinners had to be taken on the fly, and
some members who were engrossed in their
word did not eat at all during the contest.
The lobby was present in great force, and
was active to the verge of distraction. All
the extras who could be picked up were
4. .lpressed into the service. Messages came
to and went from the floor of the house
when the discussion was waxing hot, and
Ex-senator Cragin appeared on the repub-
lican side seated boldly in sight of the
democrats. Mr.. Rogers, of Arkansas, made
so pointed a reference to the presence of
lobbyists as to startle even the most phleg'
matte old member.
On the floor. the bill had several promi-
nently active supporters. Carter, of Mon
tana, was evidently the whip for his side,
The Montana interest in shipping has not
been very urgently pressed in congress, but
rs Mr.. Carter is the secretary OF the repub-
lican congre ssional committee he may know
of reasons that cannot be made public why
the party of which he is 80 capable a mem
Der had to work so hard ut this bill in the
very last days of the session.
Mr.. Doolery, of missouri, and Mr.. Glenn
ents. of Georgia, reminded the republicans
that they had appropriated $4,OOO,O0O more
than the last session of the house had ap-
propriated, so that the tax would be S. per
capita, and yet no heed was paid to the ad-
monition.
Mr.. McAdoo protested against the further
helping of the men who knew of nc better
use to which to put their fortunes and their
daughters than to sell them to the titled
nobility of foreign lands, and closed with q
vehement protest against ~surrendering the
keys of the treasury to a bastard %aristoc-
racy, to be looted by them.
MIR. Rogers, of Arkansas, made an attack
upon the lobby that had been working
for the bill, and read from a newspaper a
story of what WAS expected to be accom-
plished to-day.
At last tho substitute was reached, and
the first of the exciting votes was taken.
" was upon the engrossment and third
reading. The roll call WAS followed with
great interest, and as several republicans,
to the humble of sixteen, voted in the mega
tive, there was applause on the democratic
side.
But Carter's forces were held we'll in
hand and he carried the day.
AS one reads this thrilling narrative
of a great parliamentary struggle one
cannot help a fresh pang of regret that
all this ability and splendid energy were
lost to US in that tie-up with B~oatner.
But we congratulate the bold shippers
of Montana that they at least have a
gallant champion.