St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-06
KICKS ON GROVER.
HARTMAN MAKES A BITTER PER-
SONAL ATTACK ON PRESI-
DENT CLEVELAND.
THAT SPEECH ON MISSIONS,
IN WHICH HE MENTIONED THE
NEEDS OF CHRISTIAN WORK
IN THE WEST,
THAT SPEECH ON MISSIONS,
is MOST BITTERLY RESENTED.
Messrs. GrOsVenOr and SulZer I'M
prove the Opportunity to Ex-
change Pleasantries.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-The house
! today Wrangled for four hours over the
| salaries of United States marshals and
! the other features of the amendment to
the legislative appropriation bill to
abolish the fee system in the cases of
| United States attorneys and marshals.
Interest in that debate was complete
! ly overshadowed by a sensational at
tack made upon President Cleveland
by Mr.. Hartman (Rep., Mont.), who
! felt himself personally aggrieved by
! Mr. CleVeland's utterances at the Pres
byterian Home mission meeting in New
York on Tuesday, and who seized the
opportunity allowed by the latitude of
debate on appropriation bills to repel
the idea that the Western states were
the home Of evil influences Mr. Hart
man sent to the clerks desk and had
read the following extracts from Mr..
| Cleveland's address: "The toleration
of evils and Indifference to Christian
izing and elevating agencies" In the
new states of the West, which, "if
unchecked develops into badly regulat-
ed municipalities, corrupt and unsafe
territories and undesirable states'
Whatever my individual opinion of
the president" said Mr.. Hartman. mat
| ters not 1t would not be proper for
me to state it here. For the high
office of the president of the United
States [ have a supreme regard The
legitimate functions of that office are
limited to those enumerated in our
constitution. Under the constitution
and laws l deny the right of the chief
| executive to willfully and wantonly, in
public address or otherwise, insult any
OF the citizens Of any state of the re-
pubic over whom he has been called to
preside. I deny the constitutional au-
thority of the president to give ut
terance in public address to sentiments
favorable or adverse to proposed legis
lation pending in congress. When the
president made the foregoing remarks
he knew there were pending in con-
gress bills for the admission of certain
territories into the Union of states. He
had been advised that a majority of the
citizens of those territories were an
tagonistic to his peculiar financial and
economic views, and under the cloak
of supposed religious address before
religious organization and with
GROSS IMPROPRIETY
and for the purposes of preventing the
achievement of the rights of statehood.
to which they aspire and are entitled.
he gave utterance as chief executive to
this unfounded slander against those
citizens and states of the republic
whose interests he is sworn to protect
and uphold"
Mr. Powers (Rep., VT jumped to his
feet and called Mr.. Hartman to order.
If there is nobody on this floor" he
SAID, addressing the Democratic side.
VINO is related to the president by ties
of affinity or sanguinity, social or DO
littcal-"
State your point" demanded Mr..
Hartman, interrupting him.
The point of order, Mr. Chairman ="
continued Mr.. Powers. 'is that it is not
permissible here to reflect upon a CO.
ordinate branch of the government"
L am not rejecting upon the presi-
! uent,. SAID Mr.. Hartman. 81 am re-
nectlng upon the sentiments which the
| president utters, and 1 have a right to
do So"
MI. Hepburn (Rep., Io.) who was in
! the chair, said he did not feel called
| upon to say whether the remarks came
within the rule, whereupon MIR. Miles
! (Dem., Md came to the support of
the president, but he was promptly
! oVefruled, Whereupon he appealed from
the decision OF the chair, adding that
Mr Hartman had taken a liberty which
had never been countenanced In the
American congress before. The chair
however, was sustained, and Mr.. Hart
man proceeded:
| Cons
'The percentage Of crime in those
! states and territories will not exceed
that found in the state of New York
where the president seems to think ali
virtue resides. The per capita Of
wealth of the citizens of our state ex-
ceeds that of any other state in tbe
Union, save one. Our educational fa
cllities are equal to those of any sec
ton of the Union. and if some of
the patriotic principles of the people of
the West had been possessed bv the
president and his friends, the citizens
OF this republic would not have been
called upon to witness the national
humiliation of hauling down the Amer
lean flag at Honolulu, of begging the
bankers of Wall street and Great Rrit-
ain TO save us from financial ruin and
under the behests of the powers be-
hind the throne, of denying to the on
pressed citizens of Cuba the recogni-
tion which the dictates of humanity
and common right demand. (Applause
1t is true, we do not get our patriot
ism from Wall street, where the nresi-
dent gets his Naughter) 1t is true.
none of our citizens has possessed that
particular style of patriotism which
would enable them to save by thrift
and strict economy five times as much
as their entire incomes amount to.
and it is also true that the patriotism
of these corrupt and unsafe territories
and undesirable states has never vet
been able to rise to that lofty plane of
supreme wisdom and
SHORT AND SHARP TILT.
AT this point, Mr. Hartman's five
minutes expired and Mr.. Grosvenor
(Rep., o. undertook to help him out
by the parliamentary expedient Of Sc
curing recognition and including his
time back to Mr.. Hartman.
Il think" said Mr.. Crosvenor, chat
my friend from Montana overlooks
one very important fact When we
get on our feet in deep religious