Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-01-16
WASHINGTON.
PRITCHARD AND T L
North Carolina Senators Have a Til
With Senator Hill.

Free Cuba Presented. Pension APP
preparation Bill Reported
to the House.
SENATE.
Washington, Jan, 13.-In pre-
senting numerous petitions in
favor of recognizing Delligerent
rights in the Cuban revolution
Call, of Florida, Democrat, asked
to have them printed las a public
document, with the names of the
signers. stating that 1t was inns
portant for Congress to be made
aware of the feeling of the PEG
pie on any great public question
like the war in Cuba; but objec-
ton was made by Mr.. Plat. of
Connecticut, Democrat. who
stated that all the petitions were
on the same printed form and
that there was a rule of the Sen
ate forbidding the printing Of
names III such cases. The Vice
President ruled in accordance
with Mr.. Platt's views, and Mr.,
Cali withdrew his request.
Nh. Kyle, of South Dakota.
Populist, introduced concurrent
resolutions empowering and dis
recting the President Of the
United States to receive such
persons as may present them
selves, satisfactorily accredited,
to act on behalf of the Cuban pa
triots, and, on the production of
evidence showing that they have
established a seat of government
on the Island of Coba, and that a
majority of the native-born res
idents Are actively supporting
and defending it with arms, or
are in sympathy with the cause,
extend belligerent rights to the
Cuban patriots.
The resolution was referred to
the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions.
Mr.. Pritchard, Of North Caro-
lima, Republican, replied to the
criticism INDUCED in by Mr..
Hill, Of New York, Democrat. a
few days ago against two North
Senators, who, though
chosen at the same time and by
the same combination. stood on
directly opposite sides Of the
tariff question. He reviewed
Mr.. Hills speech and votes on
the Wilson tariff bill, referred to
the fact that d of Mr.. Hills
political supporters in Troy was
now counting, in Sing Sing, the
hours that were to elapse before
his electrocution, and suggested
that the difference between his
colleague (Mr. Butler) and the
New York Senator was that the
former left the Democratic party
because its abuse could not be
corrected inside Of the organiza-
ton, while the latter had been
out and branded as a
traitor"
Mr.. Hill said that he was not
that he had said, the other
day, anything that called for such
an elaborate speech as that just
made by the Senator from North
AS to his (Mr. Hili's)
having been kicked out of the
Democratic party" he said 1.-The
Democratic party has met with
some r%everseS within the last
two or three years. That is true.
But still | fattcr myself that [
am a lively member of what is
left of that organization"
Laughter. AS to Mr. Pritch-
illusions to BAT" Shea
and John Y. McKane, Mr..
Hill explained that Mr.. Shea had
got into a row at a local election
fight in the city of Troy, which
lad started at a Republican pri-
mary, and that at the time of his
(dill's) and his colleague (Mr.
Murphy's) election to the Senate
Mr.. McKane was a Republican.
But" Mr.. Pritchard inter>
rupted, "McKane never got into
the penitentiary until after he
joined the Democratic party"
Laughter.
Mr.. Butler, of North Carolina,
defended his political
course and his political position
on the tariff question, CONTRAST
ing both with those of MI. Hill.
Mr.. Hill commented upon Mr..
Pritchard's statement tie the eff
feet that North Carolina was Re
publican and has 6een Republi-
can ever since the war, if there
had been fair elections there, and
upon the fact that the other
North Carolina Senator (Mr.
Butler) had acted with the Dem
ocratic party all the time that
party was charged with being so
corrupt. He could not under
stand why Mr.. Pritchard should
have made $50 vicious an attack
upon his colleague" He was
inclined to believe that they had
had pretty fair elections down in
North Carolina; and that in 1896
the people Of North Carolina
would be still for the true, not
the spurious principles Of Thos.
Jefferson ard Andrew jackson,
which the two North Carolina
Senators were so fond of allud-
ing to.0
Then" said Mr., Butler, .'it
will have to nominate a man for
the Presidency who does not fa-
vor a single gold standard"
"Still harping on my daught-
err" Mr. Hill quoted, amid
laughter. Every discussion