Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-09
AT TIE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Sibley of Pennsylvania Makes 8
 Sensational Speech ON THE PENDING HOUSE BILL Makes a Dig at the President. The Senate EulogizeS the
 Lamented Colquitt.
ON THE PENDING HOUSE BILL

to incorporate in the sundry civil bill a
 paragraph transferring the Fort Leaven-
 worth prison from the war department to
 the department of justice was agreed to.
 The house then went into committee of
 the whole on the currency bill, and MT.
 Sibley, democrat, of Pennsylvania, opened
 the debate with a sensational speech in op-
 position to the bill. He spoke of the pas
 sage of the bill to repeal the purchasing
 clause of the Sherman law and it's failure
 to improve the financial and commercial
 conditions, despite the assurances to the
 contrary of it's advocates, and expressed his
 belief that the pending bill would likewise
 prove failure.
 Referring to the published reports tn at
 the executive department of the govern.
 ment in the person of tho secretary of the
 treasury was using it's power to influence
 votes for the bill, MT. Sibley said:
 tMr. Chairman, If l have read the con-
 stitution of the United States correctly it
 defines the powers of the chief executive as
 it does of the membership of the house;
 and tell you that if ever rebuke was
 needed to one who has trampled down the
 prerogatives of the people it is to that man
 who has used his influence to create In
 himself the sole governing power of this
 nation. It has come to a time when to be
 
 it requires something more than com.
 bination of brains, belly and brass" ,"
 Sensation and applause.
 Mir. Sibley continued at some length to assail the administration for it's attitude toward and upon financial measures. The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, he asserted, had been seized by the use of improper influences by the administration, and if the padlocks were taken off the mouths of the represeu tatives of Gyo uunnId firm biQ Qfqta- ments.
 The question of the length of time he was to speak having been raised, MT. Sibley said that every agent of the big gold trust had spoken all he had to say. When pressed by Mir. Outhwaite to tell who put paddock upon his (Sibley's) lips, he said; ''Let me tell the gentleman that l am not talking today to men who believe in going to hell in hand cart instead of to Heaven, supported by truth. Let me tell him also that am not addressing men to believe more in bob-tail flush than con- trite heart.o
 MT. Pence, populist, of Colorado, asked
 unanimous consent that MT. Sibley be per mitted to conclude his remarks, put MT. Outhwate objected.
 Recurring to the action of the adminis- tration, MT. Sibley said that, paraphrasing Junius, it is believed that the merits of an l administration might bs judged by the condition of the people. "Look upon the
 
 he said, ''and you can tell the merits Of your administration.
 MT. Sibley declared that by the standards of the fathers he believed be was demo- crat; he loved Jefferson and Jackson. But If he was to be carried in a conveyance labeled Democracy, guided by an op- stnate driver, over an unknown road, with precipices and chasms yawning on all sides, he was going to jump out; and he
 was not particular as to where he lit.
 MT. Sibey's thrusts at the president seemed to be enjoyed by quite number, and when he concluded there was round of applause. While he was speaking Sen- ator Stewart came into the house and re- | mained to hear him.
 Mir. Bland and Mir. Johnson also spoke | in opposition to the bill, aided by Messrs. Coffin and c. M. Stone. The only speech | in it's favor was made by MT. Cox. demo. l crat, of Tennessee. Mir. Cox said that if | MT. Sibley knew of any member who had sold his vote for patronage or anything | else it was his duty to expose him. MT. | Cox was the last named on the list of the 1 chairman who wanted to speak in favor of | the bill, but there remains quite number who had asked to be heard against 1t. MT. Beltzhoover, democrat, of Pennsyl- | vania, gave notice of an additional section | he should offer as an amendment to the | bill, authorizing the secretary of the treas- ury to sell $500, LOCO, GOO of per
  retire the greenbacks and the treasury l notes and fund the floating indebtedness of | the government.
 At o'clock the house took recess until So'clock, the evening session to be de- | voted to a reading of the qualification of pen- | sion laws, which it is proposed to enact | into one general statute.
 NIGHT SESSION.
 There were fifteen members of the house, | including Speaker Pro Tenn. Bretz, demo- crat, of Illinois, present at the evening l session. The bill codifying the pension | laws, which was introduced into the house | in the last congress and again early in the | present one, was read a first and second l time, and several amendments suggested | by the committee onjthe revision of laws, | in order to bring it dowG to date, were read for information, and at 9:10 o'clock l the house adjourned.
 IN THE SENATE.
 l A resolution was offered by Mir. Morgan and agreed to calling on the president for l copies of reports and documents relating to | the enforcement of the regulations repress- l ing further seal hunting and to the claims l of the British government on account of 1 the seizures of sealing vessels in the Beh- ring sea. The conference report on the | military academy appropriation bill was l presented and agreed to.
 l Mr. Lodge's resolution as to the with | drawal of vessels of war from the Ha- 1 waiiau islands was laid before the senate. l Senator Palmer took the floor to oppose 1 the resolution and his speech bristled with l sharp and pointed sayings. Thus, after l arguing that it was absurd for the senate I to demand resolutions for the presidents | action unless it had also the right to com l pei an answer, he declared that organized | curiosity was often simply organized im- l pertinence, and he asserted that the presi- dent was maintaining the most rigorous non intervention in the affairs of the l Hawaiian islands. As to the existing gov l erument in those islands, he said that it l was an infinite impudence to characterize it as republic. l was an aristocracy l based on wealth.
 | Just as Senator Aldrich took the floor to
 criticize the presidept's recent ntterances l in the interview furnished to the Southern Associated Press, the morning hour ex- l pised, and the resolution lost it's place of l precedence and was again rsmitted to the 1 calkndar.
 | Rseofutions were offered by Mir. Pugh | expressing the senate's proToecd sorrow at
 th1 death (last session) of Senator Co.,, :.i.. | cX Georgia, ,and suspending the business oi kkhe senate to pay tribute of regard to his 1 high character and distinguished public