The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-06

-ssolu.son. sayksg * ret with his full sp-
rraysl Call gave notsce that ne would call
M shs resolution as socn as he could secure
tha attention os the senate.
wilson's hai was passed 10 extend the
mineral land laws TO the north half OF the
Ccsvlle Indzan reservation.
The most caUsic utterance heard n the
senata since Tillman's sensational speech
was that OK Vest en- Hansoroughs seed
resolution. arralgnlRg Secretary OF Agrs-
ruIrura Morton The general satire and
rsaie,,ls directed against the secretary ard
the aIiusions 70 the president maie the
snaeeh hardly Tess notaisle thar that which
recently startled The senate. Vest referred
ae~Is.vely TO the colossal intellect deal
lng with cannsges At one point he SEN
atar sad: The secretary Of agriculture
charges from his Office. reminding us II
what Cicero says Of Catal.ne's fight from
tho senate. .Ahlit. excessits eyasst. erupit,'
NE has left. gone OF, escaped, broken
away.) When the secretary OF agriculture
hears OF silver lunatic he is like the war
horse Of job. his neck IS closed with ths'n-
der. You might go further and say: He
saith among the trumpets. Ha. ha; and he
sneIletal the battle afar off. the thunder Of
fhs captains ard the shouting
Vest severely criticised the practice Of
furnishing costly flowers from government
greenhouses for receptions at the execn-
tive mansion. and aided: Sir, / would
rather give twisss the amount OF this ap-
propriation 10 assist some poor man n: a
distant county OF the West who is fighting
the hard battle Of life. would rather give
him something that would make his cheer
less home comfortable and bring light to
his fires.de; would rather pat one f,ower
In the sick room OF a noble working girl or
matron, than to have Ii said that had
voted a hundred and odd thousand dollars
.x@.1a
eeptsons and banquets OF the officials of this
government. where the chandelier flashes
its light across the red wine and ne air is
fragrant with perfume like the spicy breeze
OF Araby the biest-"
Vest referred to the "bugie blasts. from
the secretary as 10 the congressional ex-
travaganee in distributing seeds .sThe
Democratic party has been most unfortu-
nate said the senator. emphaticaly
not only as TO it's internal discords.
but also in the fact that the government
has owed us a grudge and paid il in a
secretary OF agriculture. The secretary
has" continued Vest, put the Democratic
party in antagorism TO the great agricul-
tural interests Of the party. although that
party has always stood as the close friend
OF agriculture. THO gigantic intellect Of
this secretary Of agriculture has daily
gone outside of his legitimate duties, and
why did 1t not discover some Of the really
fiagrant abuses? This secretary assumed
to run the entire government. He has
been practically the secretary CT the
treasury. flooding this country with re-
ports and pamphlets denouncing the silver
iunatIcs and unfolding the single gold
standard"
Vest said the senator from South Caro-
lima (Tillman) had been called commun-
list because he had sounded a warning in
the senate. He compared this with a New
York publication threatening revolution
unless senators and representatives cud-
died 10 the gold standard. THE trouble
is" said Vest, that the secretary of agri-
culture is a monomaniac on the god
standard. He sees only god, gold. red
gold, and he thinks any man who does
not see as he does is lunatic."
Vest closed shortly after o'clock with
a remarkably sarcastic and bitter perora-
ton. He referred to the useless seeds
which 1t was asserted the secretary had
properly refused to buy. But, added the
senator, there was one seed not men,
toned. 1T was" he proceeded. smiling
maliciously. ''the Aurifer feniculum canes
Mcrtonae, or in palmer words, Morton's
golden dogweed. This would flourish waile
this secretary. sYinfzr5 his golden censor
at the executives ff1ahston, shonted his
TIcly. holy, art thou, on. Grover, king Of
kings and lord OF lords %
Vests speech had proceeded beyond
o'clock. thus disposing of the Quay resolu-
ton today. The resolution to distribute
appropriation bills among the several
committees was again taken up. Teller,
Rep, Col. took occasion during the de-
bate 10 refer to the success of the bond
issue. Large as the offerings were. they
would have been larger IL the secretary
of the treasury had received bids at a
fixed price for the bonds. Clumsy and
awkward az this bond submission had
been lacking the essential features OF a
popular loan, yet II completely answered
those who had talked OF the necessity of
locking 20 foreign syndicates TO sustain
our credit.
The debate on the distribution OF appro-
priation bills ran through the entire after
noon, and was not concluded when at $50
o'clock the senate went into executive
session and at $50 o'clock adjourned until