Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-05-09
SATURDAY. MAY 8. 1896

move to manufacture campaign material
on the eve of a presidential campaign.
The senator yielded long enough to per
nit Senator German = give notice of an
! amendment to the pending resolution. pro
| vidins that the inquiry into the bond is
sue be conducted by the finance commit
tee instead Of by a special committee of
five senat tors as originally proposed
Senator Hill, resuming, said that one
of the means OF meeting the persecution
| and mudslingins at the secretary of the
| treasury he would introduce the affidavit
| of Mr.. Carlisle in the suit brought by
| William Graves to secure $i.3o0 900 bonds
| The affidavit was read at great length.
I At another point Senator Hill read from
| Il Philadelphia newspaper, saying it ought
| to be good authority, as it represented
| the views of Mr.. Quay 'recent candidate
| for the republican nomina ton for ,he
! presdency.' He said it was not that he
| cared anything for Mr.. Carlisle or for
| the administration, but if these bond con-
tracts We're to be paraded on the stump in
| the coming campaign, he proposed TO
place the Sherman contracts alongside
the Carlisle contracts, showing that the
former We're With the same bankers. "the
same j. Pierpont Morgan that You are
throwing in Cleveland'S face.
Petti.rew Interposcd.
Senator Hill yielded the floor temporari-
y to Senator Fettigrew for a speech On
tariff and finance. The speech was a
succinct record of the government trans
actions for the last five years. Sena tor
Pettigrew asserted his belief that recent
financial scares had been purposely work
ed up by the present administration in
order to force congress to pass adminis
traton measures. and after that to com
pei financial transactions to ''enrch The
favorites of the president, if not the presi-
dent hmself.' There had been. he said.
q deliberate conspiracy on the part OF the
administration to break down the gov
ernment's credit.
Senator Pettigrew spoke of the part
taken by a former law partner Of Grover
Cleveland in negotiating the bond con-
tract with the Morgan syndicate. The
senator believed in a searching inVestisa-
ton which would lay bare" the secret
| features of the bond transactions.
| A sharp controversy occurred between
Senators Pettgrew and Hill as to what ,he
| course of Secretary Carlisle should have
| been in awarding forfeited bonds. Sena
tor Pettigrew asserting that the award to
| Morgan & Co was ''rotten and dishonest
| to the core
| The bond resolution was laid aside, Sen
| ator Hill still retaining the floor, Senator
| Pefer having concluded not to press for
a vote tonight.
| Senator Allison asked when vote on
the bond resolution could be expected.
| |Certainly tomorrow, answered Sena-
| tor Peffer.
| Then let time be fixed for tomorrow.
| said Senator Allison.
Senator Mitchell was quickly on his
| feet again. 1T would be impossible, ne
| remarked. smilnsly, ito fix date now for
| a vote
| Many pension bills We're passed, as We're
| also bills to amend the act granting
| right of way public lands for reservoir
| and canal purposes by extending the law
| to electrical purposes, also to provide tor
| the eNaminatio and classification of Ger
| tain lands in California and oregon.
| AT & O'Clock the senate adjourned.