The San Francisco call., 1896-03-06
All Attempts to Check the Mon
tana Statesman Are
Made in Vain.
SUSTAINED BY THE CHAIRMAN
Laughter and Applause Greet the
Assertion That the White House
Needs Missionary.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 5.-The
dry routine of debate on the question
of fixing the salary of Federal
Marshal was interrupted to-day by a
| rather violent scene precipitated by a
| speech from Hartman (R.) of Montana
| resenting President Cleveland's remarks
! in his Carnegie Hall missionary speech
Tuesday night in which he spoke of cor
| rupt and unsafe States and undesirable
| Territories in the West. Hartman de-
MED the right of the President, as he said,
| to insult these sections of the country and
the citizens thereof.
He had not proceeded far when he was
called to order by Powers (R. OF Vermont,
who said he did so because there was no
| body on the Democratic side related to the
President by affinity or consanguinity
who seemed sufficiently interested to act.
The chairman, Hepburn {R.) of Iowa,
ruled that the speaker was proceeding
within the rules, and Hartman proceeded.
| Inspired by Powers, Hartman's remarks
were loudly opposed by Miles CD of
MARYLAND, and Sulzer CD of New York,
but they could not tear him off. The for
mer appealed from another decision by
Chairman Hepburn, ruling that Hart
mans remarks were not obnoxious to
objection under the rule requiring debate
to be germane to the subject under dis
cussion, but all the Republicans and some
Democrats voted to sustain it, the appeal
being overw helmingly defeated.
| In the course of the incident, Grosvenor
(R.) of Ohio, who was endeavoring to get
| time in which Hartman could finish his
remarks, became involved in colloquy
| with Sulzer. The latter objected to Gros-
| venor taking part in the affair, because in
speech the other day he had admitted he
had no religion, and therefore Sulzer con-
| tended he was not qualified to discuss the
matter.
Grosvenor responded by denying that he
had said he had no religion, but he be-
lieved he would rather stand under that
imputatlon than not to possess the slight
est modicum of common sense. This was
greeted with laughter on both sides.
| Hartman finally concluded his remarks,
resenting, both on behalf of the maligned
and slandered States, the Presidents
statements and asserting that they de-
monstrated that the greatest need for the
schoolmaster and missionary was in the.
| White House. The Republicans gathered
about Hartman's seat while he was on his
| feet and applauded him loudly, while the
Democrats encouraged Miles and Sulzer in
the efforts to prevent him from continu-
| ing his criticisms upon the President.
The bill making National military parks
public fields for military maneuvers and
drill grounds for the regular army and State
militia, under regulations fixed by the
Secretary of War, was passed.
| The rest of the day was spent in further
discussion of the fee and salary amend
ment to the legislative. executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill, most of the time
upon the section fixing salaries OF district
Marshals. But one change was made in
the schedule proposed by the committee,
that of the Marshal of the Eastern dis
trict of Michigan, being increased from
$4,000 to $4,000
DingIey (R.) of Maine offered an amend
| ment reducing the general maximum COM
| pensation of the field deputies from $500
| to $500 with authority to the Attorney
General to pay $2500 for certain special
| cases.
Mines (R.) of Michigan proposed as
substitute for the section fixing the
salaries of district Marshals a provision
that all Marshals should be paid Uniform
salary of $4,000. except those of the dis
tricts of Connecticut, Delaware, Southern
| Georgia, Idaho, Eastern and Western
| Louisiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey. Rhode Island and Vermont, who
should receive $4,000.
| Before considering the substitute the
comm ittee discussed various amendments
| to increase the salaries proposed, none of
| which was successful, except in the case of
| the eastern district of Michigan, where
the amount was changed from $4,000 to
$4,000.
A substitute for the section offered yes
terday by Ogden CD OF Louisiana was
read. Itmakes two grades of Marshals,
other $4,000. Ogden's substitute received
but two affirmative votes.
| Mines (R.) of Michigan urged the adop-
ton of his substitute in brief speech.
which was followed by sensational and
| entirely unexpected incident.
Hartman (R.) of Montana, getting the
| floor, made formal motion to strike out
the last words and said: "On the third
| day of March, in the city of New York in
| Carnegie Hall, at a religious meeting, the
President of the United States gave utter
ance, or is reported by the public press to
have given utterance, to language which is
| on the clerks desk to have printed in the
Record, but certain portions OF which
now read and bring to the attention of the
| committee:
| "'But it is not only as your fcilow-citi-
zen,' (quoting the President), but as the
chief executive officer OF your Government
that desire to speak. for l am entirely
certain that serve we'll our entire people,
whose servant / am, when l mere testify
| to the benefit our country has received