The Red Cloud chief., 1896-02-21
MADE THE SPARKS FLY
nall and DrArrnond Have u Duel of Words
In the House.

uah anu DfSrthofu nave " butI bf NOfhs
In the House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. - There vas
q clash in the House Yesterday
afternoon on the silver debate
between DcArmond and Hall OF Mis-
souri,. The gentlemen had paid their
respects to eacl, other before during
the debate, but each In the absence Of
the other. Yesterday Mr.. Hall opened
10y referring to the fact that Mr.. De
Almond lad mentioned the names of
BENEDICT Arnold and Judas IScariot
without the apparent courage TO
make a personal application Pro-
ceedinG. lac Indignantly denied chat
he had been II Washington convert"
TO the cause of sound money and adj
vcrted To a standing challenge he had
posted in Missouri last summcr to dis
cuss the issue ou the stump. He also
denied that he intended to charge his
free silver friends in tho House with
| personal corruption.
"Why should the gentleman feel
tina. he has been hit?' he asked, turn.
ing to MIR. DE Almond. IL do not
know. unless the solution is found in
the old adage that the bird which
has been hit i!uttcrs."
Mr.. Hall, continuing, replied to the
charge that he had been posing as the
author Of the income tax. Bv this
time the House was intensely inter-
cstcd aud the members crowded about
the combatants.
Mr.. he Almond had fire il his eve
when he arose to reply. He did not feel,
he said, that anything the gentleman
had said had struck him. but he felt,
AS n of the Representatives. from
Missouri. that when the newest con-
vert from tina. State to the so.callcd
sound.moncy doctrine saw proper in
making his platform To class the
Chinese, people from the East Indies
and the depths OF Africa and the lower
animals in the category Of those who
did not change their opinions, that
perhaps it might no. hc inappropriate
to suggest hat there might be
changes of opinion that would evil
dcnce no tremendous eNaltation above
those referred to. tLaughterL
As to the income tan business, he
said, the gentleman had allowed him
SELF to be paradcd as the author of the
bill when he knew he was not. ale
sad he had been Informed and be-
licvcd that eight senators who hau
voted for free coinage continued Mr..
DE Almond, had said they believed
IL would bring bankruptcy and ruin
to the country. lie did not identify
them: he did not name one; he never
will do il. II eight senators. or one
senator, made n such remark. lie
merely did what the gentleman him
self does not and dare not deny that
he has done.
ANY man has n righ; to change his
opinion. but my impression was, and
ii has been greatly strengthened, that
when Il man changes his opinion and
departs from his old associates, he
ought hardly to pirate at the first op-
~portunity about the courage which
led him to do it, or talk about the
'cowardicc' without Identification or
specification that resides in those who
do not DO likewise, or talk about the
Chinese and the lower animals as
being typical of those who do not
change when he does. OLaughterl. AS
to the g~cntleman's reference to people
'feathering their nests do not know
just what he meant, but l venture to
say that IL the feathers are to be had
for the asking, or the plucking. the
gentleman. If he is around, will get
his full share" daughter ami APP
plausc.)
Mr.. Hall sprang to his feet when
MIR. DcArmond sal down. IL do not
wish. to emulate the gentleman in
billingsgatc,' said he botly: II do not
expect TO equal him in il. But | wish
to reply TO some pertinent matters
that he has referred TO. lie says l
don't represent my constituents. ! de-
sire To call his attention to the fact
that we have five Democrats here from
Missouri instead of fourteen in the
Flfty.third Congress: hat Of those five
Democrats three Of us arc sound
money men %(applnuse) and that the
leader of the q to | idea in the United
States Is now at home upon his rocky
farm in saclede county, unless he is
still lecturing to his onc-man audi
cnce in the South. daughter and APP
plausc.)
Il propose to go back to my district
and make thc fight for sound money.
(Applausc.I lie will go to his and
make the tight for silver monomctal-
lism. Let the roll call Of the Fifty
fifth Congress show which is right. /
have unlimited confidence in the hon
esty. the uprightness, the integrity
and the brains Of my people. | be-
lieve they will sustain me: ! believe 7
shall receive their Endorsement, and
that the gentleman vii! come back Gf
he come back at all with less than the
i33 majority he received in the last
election" tApplause.l
WARNER A CANDIDATE.