The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-02-09

reverence for her nag wherever her colors gre
my eye. ! would rather see that flag iowere
AMI tramp,sd upon than raised as = pirates e.
Seerlng demagogue TO nse-not as an emblem {
honor, but IA an instrument OF terror Q d 81
-ression 70 the helpless and enfeebed races
Money Of Mississippi.said the only thing b
regretted was that Mr. Willis had not cease
Az negotiations after President Dole cent Ii
| insulting letter to him. "A letter. he d.
clared, (which was an affront to the head o
YOUR government and OF mine, and yet whe
1t was read here, you on the other SIDE o.
oiauded every insult Of the sentence"
Culberson OF Texas. made . vigorous de
Tense Of the presidents action. All the evi
desce, be said, showed conclusively that NJ
stevens was q revolutionist and . conspira
tor, and that the troops were landed to max,
possible ne success OF usurpation. Lions
AFTER the defamer OF tho president shall have
been forgotten he said, "the courage, patri
otism and devotion of Democratic admins
tration VIII stand as q monument to the hon.
or OF the United States, and the enlightened
Justice Of the world"
For the Republicans Hit contended that the
Uo,ted States had no right to inquire into the
justice 4 political revolutions. our own re.
pubic, said be, originated 10 violence and
partly through the Intervention OF q foreign
power. II the ideas of Mr. Cleveland had
prevailed, they would hive justified Bona
p8rte IN seeking to put down the American
republic on account of the previous courses
OF Louis XVI (Republican applause.)
Bnutelle charged the president with carry.
Ing out an unparalleled policy Of trickery
and deceit to wards friendly power" He
divided bis indictment into three counts |:
"rhe assault upon faithful rfficial Of the
government, Mr. Stevens; second, Mr. CIeve.
iand's uncomfortable policy of treschery, and
third. bis usurpstion of the powers OF the
American congress-. Referring t. Minister
Stevens be said: THE only charge against
bin IL that bis prejudices and svmpathies are
with the American people. No one could
bring such an accusation against the Presi-
dent OF the United States or the secretary of
state" This ding was received with much
applause on the r. publican side.
up to March 1893. an American minister
could carry his authority from this Covert
ment to any civilized people without blush.
Hereafter, In countries where this Covert
ment has any Interest an American minister
will be received with suspicion" He
de- lared that the president had sent a
minister to President Dole. bearing in one
hand letter expressive OF friendship and
good will, and In .he other an order of assas.
sinati m, He had no words to suitably ex-
press such treacherous policy of duplicity,
and deceit, nor to hold 1t up to public OBJ
loquy as be would like to do. He declared
that the order to ''haul down tbs American
flag" was nsti'utionsl land the man who
wrote 1t made himself liable to impeachment
at the bar Of the house.
Blair Of New Hampshire argued for an.
nexation because Hawaii was necessary to
the dominion Of the United States In the
Pacific, and II we allowed II to fall into the
hands Of an antagonistic military power Il
could control our entire Pacific coast and
could interfere with our Pacific CONNER CO."
Gen. Stokes of New York created some
hing OF sensation Tuesday by coming out
against the president, and the committees re.
,ort. the only democrat who did so openly.
N plain English. he said, "the committees
tatement declares for q protectorste. We
rave held the same view for years and all |
lations have accepted our Lotice and kept |
heir hands off. Does the committee pro-
,ose to renounce this policy? 1t would
eem 30, because 1t says that 1t is the sense of
hawaiian Islands to our count y or the as.
umption of protfctoruts over them by our
government is uncalled for and inexpedient.
stall not vote for that declaration" Gen.
tick les said be took the view held BY Gov
Isrcy as long ago as 1854 that the Sand wich
stands must never belong to any other
over, and that in the course OF events thew
| d.,
In not gooh Democratic doctrine" said be.
10 follow Marcy and Buchanan and Polk and !.
ierce, then l must 20 back to New York ,
I'D learn my Democracy over again.
There was rather an amusing bout Thurs. : :
" of last week when Gen. Catchings of the =
,mmittee on rules cub ftted the order for
q debate and vote with allusion to Boutelle's
lsnta.iic, bs amite gsrations on the floor" :
DuteIIe was mad, there was fibustering and = =
q men almost coma to blOWe. y
WheUsthe hour fer voting was reached !.
nesday score or more Of Democrats delib. :
ately walked nut Of the Hail. and the Reput- = :
ans by refraining from voting we're able TO :
eak quorum. Only 160 votes could he =
ustered after the sharpest effort where 10 9
ere necessary, and after two hours OF y
acted time McCrary and bis supporters bad q
adjourn. But Wednesday enough Demo. .
ats were got IN to bring the vote up to 1T, n
i there 1t stuck, and 1t seemed impracli- =
BILE to yet single additional Democratic -
to-. This led Mr.. Springer to fall back Oh u u
9 Of ex-Sneaker Reeds rulings, to the effect 20 20
It msjoritv of the actual membership of -,
, house constituted quorum rather than q n
jority of the nominal membership Of the n
use. VIII b. IN view of existing vacancies. =,
'uld make III quorum of the house. Mr.. ~ ~
ringers CITATION of Mr.. Reeds decision 9,
hered Mr.. Reed, who proceeded to explain h,
But Speaker Cr'sp did not take advantage a,
1t. holding the question In obey snce while 81
'ther roll call was had, having Dpen In
heen voting would vote In order to make
uorum. Six of the Popullsts voted In the
,ative on this roll cal 81 their names were er
led. thus giving quorum, so that bout so fu
publicsns felt al liberty to record their II
es 10 the negatlve, the others Withholding OF
lr votes TIL the end. And the resolution nj
n passed III to 30. Bsutelle's counter res Ms
ions we're then easily rejected. ca
It the quorum disappeared when Chairmsn er
nd of The coinage committee tried to bring in
bis silver seigniorage bill. The silver men wi
I'd IN solidly for the motion, but-the ound e1
lev r publlcans and OF the sound money ca
noerats n Trained from voting and the re- th
was III IN the Affirmative against II In CO
ne ,ativa Of
ns senate passed til 2 bill for the repeal of on
elections law Weinesdav, sitter several Gu
} OF debate by vote OF 80 to %. All the be
ulist senator's voted with the Democrats In
av0r. SrIator Chan Her made dramatic
'al to Ssnator Stewart of Nsvads not to
'ciate the legislation Of which he WAS the f
'or 10 1870. but Mr.. Stewart replied that
legislation was the result of tine war and thY
the time bad now come when 1t WAS no lar
or needed. The strong speeches of the de. far
on the two sides were by Hswley Of DEF
neticut and GRAY of Delaware. Hawley 4.
this ground: "Whtle Modification of the vi,
of suffrage was. In some sense, trtum- wo
u 10 the south, It was progressing In the III
b, and the federal election laws were just so
uch needed In certain sections of the the
a % they had ever been nseded 10 tbs Nc
b. There had been as audac'ous crimes III
INST the suffrage committed within the LAST lett
vesrs 10 the north "a In the SOUTH Gray Th,
ed that not onlv did the election laws ''dt- did
me states, but they also buttressed up lars
'ery fraud which they were professediy she
lded to destroy. From the inherent vice the
len structure they had been, necessarily, bee