The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-17
IT WAS HILLS TURN
de Had on His Roasting Clothes All
Day Yesterday.
OH, THE POPS DID GET IT
AFTER They We're Rasted and Turn.
ed over Again and Again. He
Paid his Compliments to Nc
kinley and His COOLERS

Washington April 16.-Morrill open.
ed the proceedings of the senate in a
speech urging additional quarters col
the national museum. Gray then re-
sumed his opposition to the claim OF
| Dupont to a seat in the senate GRAY
closed at 2:15.
PETER was Immediately ON his fee,
asking that the agreement to take up
the bond resolution be executed and a
| wrangle ensued, Messrs. Villas, Cullom
| Platt, Hale and Allison wanting prece-
dence for the appropriation bills.
Finally the opposition conceded the
matter and the bond investigating reso-
luton was read in full. Hill address
ed the senate in opposition to the bond
resolution.
This is a populist resolution" de-
clared Hill, and is properly urged by
the senator from Kansas (Peffer) 1t
has its inspiration in the populist par
ty. 1t has its inspiration in the popu-
listic opposition to all bonds" Hill
said this resolution was presented with
out formal charges, without specifica-
tions, without allegations of wrong do
ing, irregularity or corruption. 1t was
a mere concession to public curiosity.
1T was fiasco. 1t was belittling to the
senate that it should at this time seek
to cast doubt as to the action of the
treasury in issuing bonds. The farmers
or the senate-the senators from Kan
Sas (Peffer), from Nebraska (Allen).
from South Carolina (Tillman)-these
farmers had asserted that the farmers
were denied authority to issue bonds
He Insisted that the senate could not
go into the private affairs of the bond
bidders and the public transactions
were already known.
What senator dare rise in his
place, asked Hill, land utter the SLAM
der that the secretary of the treasury
or some of his subordinates have re-
ceived some compensation, some re-
ward? There is no answer. There is
mean, contemplate insinuation, not a
ulrect charge. Because senators differ
with the secretary of the treasury and
dlffer with him at times, must they
drag In an insinuation of dishonorable
dealing against the secretary? What
II offered resolution to investigate
the senator from Kansas"
Peffer
Hill said such a resolution would
carry an insinuation against the Kan
sas senator. Hill declared that the
courts were open If any wrong had been
done on the bond issue
Allen interrupted remarlSing that this
subject seemed to make him ''as mad
as a massasauga in August"
He said the New York senator knew
perfectly well that a suit at law
against the secretary of the treasury
was not permissible under the law.
"On the contrary, 1 will assert and
show" claimed Hill, that this resolu-
ton is in aid of a. speculative law suit:
that the suit was instituted in the
courts here on the very day when it
was expected this debate was to begin
in the senate" Hill went on to ask why
Of
really believed their insinuations, did
not propose impeachment. Instead of
an investigation, the secretary of the
treasury should have a vote of thanks
from the senators for sustaining the
credit of the government.
Stewart interrupted frequently, at
last asking: rs the administration op-
posed to this Investigations"
Il am not authorized to speak for the
replied Hill. II oppose
these resolutions because they embrace
silly, foolish. unworthy propositions.
would oppose it whether a republican
or democratic secretary was in
Before he got through, Hill went on.
he would examine other low, contempt
BILE Investigations and charges made
against other secretaries of the trea-
sury and which had fallen to the
ground. He would speak of the course
of men who had accused the then sec
netary of the treasury now sitting +
there, pointing to Sherman, which ac-
cusations. in the light of history, were
weak and thin and dissipated. Hill
arraigned the populist senators in
'cathing terms. He first described
hem as the 'Tailors of Tooley Street"
who got together and solemnly said 4
We, the people of England" He char 1
lctertzed them as "deserters" from the /
I'D parties who had pooled their griev- /
lnces." They had offered their votes
or sale, or rather for exchange on the
ariff question when ii came here.
they were men of no fixed ideas, said
lie. They are the advocates of disor-
Ter and scandal. The populist party
hrives on scandal. Their main pur-
'ose is to throw mud at the democratic
md republican parties, "and the time
las come" declared Hill. for the old
'arties TO make common cause against
hese men,"
The senator caused great amusement
y reading letter he had received
rom Mississippi, asking him to have
he senate investigate the loss of a sill
er dollar sent in the mail. The writer
aid, in the course of the letter: II am
4 favor of you for president in 1896"
IS Hill read this, there was a ripple of
pplause in the galleries. and the sena-
Or added, jocularly: That man has
ommon sense" The letter proceeded:
But l am opposed to the election of
Irover Cleveland in 1896" and there
as another ripple in the galleries.
At this point Hill exploded a distinct
He said the prevalence of .
harges of Irregularities and wrong ,
as shown by the recent public allie
ations of Senator Chandler that the
lends of Mckinley We're conducting a
Doodle campaign" Hill said he had
othing to say against Mckinley. He
dmired him for his courage. He says ,
e is candidate. instead of saying he
in the hands OF his friends Hills
Iperience was. he said. that a man
no started in the hands OF his
lends" wound up "in the hands OF the 1
lemy." I had supposed Mckinley {
as making an honest canvass" pro- I
.eded Hin. until l read the Chandler ]