The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-12
Mr.. HARTMAN'S TALK
Verbatim Report of One of The Most
Interesting Colleagues This Session.
HE HIT FROM THE SHOULDER
Several Members Tried to Break
the Montana Man Up. But
He Kept On Firing
Hot Shot.

The following verbatim report of Mr..
Hartman's criticism of President Cleve-
land is from the Congressional Record
of March s:
Mr.. Hartman-Mr. Chairman, / move
to strike out the last word Of the sub
stitute. On the Sd day of March, in the
city of New York. in Carnegie hall, at
religious meeting. the president of
the United States gave utterance, or is
reported in the public press to have
given utterance, to the language which
/ send to the clerks desk to be printed
in the Record, certain portions of which
1 desire now to bring to the attention
of the committee.
The President says:
But IL is not only as your fellow
citizen but as the chief executive officer
of your government that desire to
speak. for I am entirely certain that 1
serve well our entire people, whose SER
want / am, when 1 here testify to the
benefit our country has received
through home missionary effort and
when 1 join you in an attempt to ex-
tend and strengthen that effort
1T must also be confessed that re-
moval from old homes and associations
to a new and more primitive home has
a tendency among honest and respec-
table settlers to smother scruples and
to breed federation of evils and indif-
ference to Outstanding and elevating
agencies.
These conditions, II unchecked and
uncorrected, fix upon the new commu-
nifty by their growth and expansion a
character and disposition which, while
dangerous to peace and order in the
early stages of settlement, develop into
badly regulated municipalities, corrupt
and unsafe territories, and undesirable
states"
Mr.. Chairman, whatever may be my
individual opinion of the president of
the United States matters not, and 1t
would not be proper for me to state
IL here. For the high Office of president
Of the United States 1 have a supreme
regard. The legitimate functions of
that Office are limited to those enumer-
ated in our constitution and laws. I'm
der the constitution and laws / deny
the right of the chief executive to will
fully and wantonly, in public address
or otherwise, insult any of the citizens
or any state of the republic over whom
he has been called to preside. deny
the constitutional authority of the
president to give utterance, in public
address or otherwise, to senti-
ments favorable or adverse to
proposed legislation pending in
either house of congress. When the
president made the foregoing remarks
he knew there were pending in congress
bills for the admission of certain terri
tories into the union of states. He had
been advised that a majority of the cit
liens of those territories were antago-
nfstic to his peculiar financial and eco
nomic views, and, under the cloak of a
supposed religious address, before a
religious organization, and with gross
improperly, and for the purpose of
preventing the achievement of the
rights of statehood to which they as
pire and are entitled, he gave utterance,
as chief executive to this unfounded
Islander against those citizens and
states of the republic whose interests he
is sworn to protect and uphold.
Mr.. Powers-Mr. Chairman, I rise to
q question of order.
The Chairman-The gentleman from
Vermont rises to a question of order.
Mr.. Powers-If there is nobody on
this floor that is related to the presi-
dent by ties OF affinity or consanguin-
ity. social or political
Mr.. Hartman-Mr Chairman, want
the point of order stated. do not pro-
pose that my time shall be consumed In
this way.
Mr.. Powers-The point of order, Mr.
Chairman, is that 1t is not permissible
here to reflect upon a coordinate branch
of the government. The president is a
coordinate branch of this government,
and think the language of the gentle
man from Montana is not only
r.. H. -
upon the president, Mr.. Chairman.
am rejecting upon the sentiments
which the president utters, and 1 have
a right to do IL.
Mr.. Powers-I want a ruling on the
point of order, Mr.. Chairman.
The Chairman-The chair does not
feel that he is called upon to rule upon
that point; that Is to say. that the re
marks of the gentleman from Montana
come within the rule.
Mr.. Powers-I do not propose, how
ever, to be classed as an administra-
ton man. Gaughter.)
Mr.. Miles-Mr. Chairman, / rise TO
point of order. / make the point that
the remarks OF the gentleman from
Montana are not relevant to the matter
pending before this committee, and
call for the reading of the rule on that
subject
The Chairman-What rule does the
gentleman desire TO have read?
Mr.. Miles, do not remember the
number of the rule. but IL is the one
which requires that remarks on this
floor shall be relevant TO the subject
under consideration.
The Chairman-The chair will state
90 the gentleman from Maryland that in
the five-minute debate the largest lib
erty is accorded TO gentlemen TO discus
questions. and they are not held rigidly
20 the rule which he invOkes.
Mr.. Miles-Mr. Chairman. I desire TO
take an appeal from the decision Of the
chair This is a liberty which l do not
believe has ever been countenanced in