The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-11
LEGISLATIVE DODOES.
Mr.. Morrill, Addresses the Senate
on Financial Yagaries.
Likens Mr.. PETERS Bills to the
Extinct DOdO.
ALL ARE REJECTED.
The Senator from Vermont Calls
Some Uncouth Names.
Those Calling Senators Pluto
Gratis Are DOnkeys.
ALL ARE REELECTED

WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.-After the ap-
prevail Of the journal, the president pro
tenn Mr.. Harris. laid before the senate a
Communication from the acting secretary
Of the treasury; also one from the secre-
tary of war
Dir. Berry Democrat of Arkansas, pre-
sented few remarks. urging the passage
Of the bill introduced by him last week
to establish the territory of IndianOla out
of the Indian territory.
Mr. Morrill,, Republican OF Vermont.
in accordance with the notice he had
given then addressed the senate.
Mr.. Morrill, said: Having indicated
the purpose of briefly addressing the
senate today upon some marvellous
senatorial bills and quack panaceas for
real and imaginary grievances, / hold in
my hand nine senate bills which l have
been directed by the committee on
finance to report adversely and to ask for
their indefinite postponement- In order
that the senate may have conce ptiOn of
these bills, 1 shall ask the clerk to read
the list"
All the bills were introduced by Sena-
tor PETER of Kansas, and provide for the
issue Of great sums Of greenbacks for
various purposes.
The senator continued: 1T is hardly
necessary to say that these hungry bills,
Dl&s digger anu Dt8866ts nine OF lADm.
asking for nine or ten times more money
than there is now IN use by the whole
world, were unanimously reported ad-
versely by the committee on finance
Nothing more, as the committee CON
ceived, could have been expected save
brief post mOrtem obituaries. The bills,
many of them, may have been reluctant
IL introduced by request and therefore
not very tenderIy nursed even by their
able and omnipOtent godfather.
.-RespOnsi billty for such eccentricities
ought not to be asked Of senators, and
should any member be charged with their
real authorship. 1 hope, be would be able
to plead in defense an alibi. With no
reasons offered for the introduction of
these multitudiuous billion dollar bills, a
sufficient reason for the adverse report
would appear to have been that they
were all death stricken from an overdose
Of the legal tender nostrum at their
birth, administered by the accoucheur
"Figuratively speaking the bills were
all Of one brood and Of the same father,
birds Of imitation, none game, none worth
a charge of powder, but legislative do
does, unlikely ever to be seen on the
earth again.
"Some minor political parties come
and go like those diseases which affiict
nobody but once Such parties, usually
destitute of constitutional principles,
are ephemeral and are soon compelled
to hoist anv flag and set sail for 'Cowes
and a market Recent examples of such
ephemera advertised with as much
technical veracitv any patent. as the
'POpulist,' and leading a5tray many good
men, appear to have politically peck
marked aud discredited two or three Of
our sister states, but the grotesqueness of
its face is likely to prove a deterrent
agains its further domination.
..Short-lived partisans. fertile in the
invention and swift IN the repetition of
ID Ry IS n fC
defame and defeat those who happen to be
il possession of the public confidence.
BY this class of GROWERS, the splenetic
charge is made that great wealth has
been wrongly distributed especially to
senatOrs=aud has created Astounding
plutocrats or kings Of wealth. although
no entailed wealth under our constitution
Is allowed and we have no ladders here
to the upper region OF riches, not free to
all
Here the children of the wealthy,
trained not to economy, nor to labor. Of
ten exchange places in succeeding gene
rations with The children of the poor
cchooled in industry and frugality.
Persons of moderate wealth, living
generously. often have their estates
largely over estimated. From the loud
braying OF long cared donkeys many
have supposed that the senate of the
United States a selected body Of
milliOnaires, when perhaps not more than
Two or three Oh us CARuLJ OuQ members
have any valid title to that
much envied epithet of opprobrium. 1t
is probable that large majority of the
BODY would be unable to maintain their
families in Washington during the ses-
sions of congress, but for their salaries.
They have the blessing of Agur, neither
poverty nor riches
1T is also to be feared that we are over
stocked with amateur cobblers, eager in
every emergency to bring out from the
profound recesses of their vest pockets
ready made constitutional amendments,
adapted when slightly lubric 4ted, to
their own peculiar circumstances"
Mr. Morrill, then discussed the finan-
cial situation and the question of silver,
crops and prices
DR.. Prices Baking Powder is one of
the high grade articles more economical
TO use than the cheap. weak and IN
wholesome powders.
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