Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-02-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

This has been a lively, attimes
actually exciting, week in con-
gress. The house started the
ball in the short discussion which
preceded the adoption of the SEN
ate concurrent resolution, express
ing the sympathy of congress for
the poor Armenians and request
ing the European powers which
are parties to the Berlin treaty to
compel the Sultan of Turkey to
live up to that treaty by glving
the Armenians the protection
thereby guaranteed them. Sew
eral members of the house spoke
in favor of taking the more radi-
cal step of sending the Turkish
minister his passports. For a few
minutes there was great excite
ment, but the cooler heads pre-
vailed, and the senate resolution
was adopted. 1t is now reported
! that President Cleveland will re-
fuse to send that resolution to the
European powers, as requested,
and will send a special message
to congress giving his reasons
therefor. Whew! If he should
Just watch for a sure enough
rumpus.
The excitement began in the
senate when Senator Tillman, of
South Carolina, during a speech
in favor of the free coinage sub
stitute for the house bond bill,
villified President Cleveland to an
extent never before heard on the
floor of either branch of congress
from man claiming membership
in the presidents own party. He
called Mr.. Cleveland bull-headed,
self-idolatrous, besotted tyrant,
traitor to his own party and lots
of other unconplimentary things.
He abused both the old parties to
such an extent that the speech is
regarded as a notice that he had
read himself Out of the democratic
and into the peoples party. He
, also jumped on the supreme court
for its income tax decision, and
predicted that if the people did
not get relief FROM corporation and
ring rule by the ballots they
would get it by bullets. Things
: continued lively in the senate all
during the closing debate on the
: free coinage substitute, which at
| times was very bitter on both
: sides. The result, of course, was
a foregone conclusion when the
substitute was reported from the
+, finance committee. Therefore
T nobody was surprised.
The Carnegie firms, which owr
the only two plants in the u. S
) for making heavy armor plate fol
vessels, may discover in the not
!. distant future that it doesn't pay
: to be too greedy. That they have
been greatly overcharging th'
government for armor plate ha:
been made plain by the investiga
: ton of the senate committee OF
naval affairs. The navy depart
1nent will soon open bids for max
= ing something like $5,000,00
worth of armor plate, and if tn
g prices submitted by the only tw'
s establishments which can bid ar
: not much nearer prices paid 70
IS the same thing by European gov
d ernments than they have hereto
} fore been, the bids will be reject
n ed and congress will be asked t
y pass the bill introduced by Sena
o tor Smith, of New Jersey, apprc
# pr1ating the money to establish
J. government plant to make arino
d plate for our vessels. In fact
y that bill may be put through any
:, way, as it has many advocates.
e In speech this week in favo
If of the Monroe doctrine resolution
,e now before the senate, which wa
IT attacked last week by Senate
le Wolcott, of Colorado, Senate
1t Thurston, of Nebraska, said:
Id can not believe that the views {
1T the senator from Colorado (Wo
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