Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-18
93 ALEXANDRIA, VA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL

remarked Mr.. Allen, sarcastically.
Eyes, that's better" replied Mr..
Hill.
Mr.. Allen then went on to tell the
Senate how he had voted first for Lin
coin, then twice for Grant. whereupon
Mr.. Gear arose and congratulated him
on being right that far in his political
career.
Mr.. Chandler called Mr.. Pefer's at
tention to the wide latitude the discus
sion was taking by saying that the
Senate was patiently waiting until Mr..
Hill should exhaust himself so that it
might vote on the pending resolutions,
but that Mr.. Allen was delaying the ac-
tion desired by his own party col
leagues.
Mr.. Gear sought to reply briefly, but
Mr.. PETER objected.
Mr.. Hill, who had carefully wrapped
up his documents, arose with the re-
mark: "I have the floor, and yield
to the Senator from Iowa; the Senator
from Kansas has nothing to do with
| it."
Mr.. Gear again congratulated Mr..
Allen upon the fact that he had been
right in at least four Of the votes he
had cast for the presidency. So
far as Mr.. Weaver was concerned,
he was simply confscationist, and
believed in confscating the railroads,
telegraphs, telephones and other great
works that belonged to private indi-
viduals or corporations.
Mr.. Allen replied with intense EN-.
phasis that MIR. Weaver was one of
the most distinguished citizens of the
United States, and he denied that he
believed in the doctrine OF confsca-
ton. That statement of the Senator
from Iowa Mr.. Allen characterized as
false.
Mr.. Gear retorted that Mr.. Weaver
stood in that campaign, and stood to-
day, on the Ocala platform. He be-
lieved in the right of the government
to seize all railroads, telegraph lines
and telephones and other public works,
and pay for the same with an unlimit.
ed issue of money.
That, Mr.. Gear said, vas nothing
short of confscation; it was confsca-
ton. Mr.. Gear said that Mr.. Weaver
was citizen of his (Gear's) own
State, and he had heard him make
such declarations, and the statement
that the Senator from Iowa now made
was true. He would leave the Senator
from Nebraska to dispute the matter
and the Interpretation of the Ocala
platform with Mr.. Weaver himself.
sNo," said Mr.. Allen, fercely and
bitterly, 81 will not dispute with James
B. Weaver himself. dispute with the
Senator from Iowa. He is in the cham
Der. I am his equal here and else
where, for that matter. He cannot
stand here and utter falsehoods of that
kind against one of the greatest and
most illustrious citizens of the United
States because he happens to be pop.
ulist and 60 unwhipped of the rebuke
his language justly and necessarily de-
serves"
Instantly, upon the delivery of these
words, Mr.. Hoar jumped to his feet,
called Mr.. Allen to order, and demand
I'd that his words be taken down.
Mr.. Faulkner moved that Mr.. Allen
be permitted to proceed in order,
whereupon Mr.. Hoar made the point
of no quorum and call of the Senate
ensued. The words above quoted were
read from the desk and then, upon q
renewal of Mr. Faulkner's motion, Mr..
Allen was permitted to proceed in
order.
He yielded to Mr.. Gear, who said
that he was willing to leave his record
and his political conduct to the people
of Iowa who best knew him. He was
sorry, however, that he had been
drawn into this alteration for it only
verified the truth of an old adage that
you could not touch pitch without being
defiled.
Mr.. Allen resumed his remarks at
the point where they had been inter-
rupted.
AS Mr.. Allen was proceeding along
these lines he was interrupted by
laughter in the chamber and severely
denounced such conduct. "We are
not laughing at what the Senator says"
replied Mr.. Chandler with apparent
sincerity, "but at the way in which he
says it,"
Mr.. Allen yielded to Mr.. Chandler
on a motion to proceed to executive
business, but Mr.. Hoar, as he did not
expect to be present when Mr.. Hill
concluded his speech, or when vote
was taken on the resolution, asked
leave to make a few remarks on it.
He thought the resolution perfectly
proper and supported it.