The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-14
THEY ARE PERSONAL
Senator Hill Has His Hands Full for
an Hour or Two.
SULTRY DAY IN THE SENATE
Morgan Entertains Sherman. the
"Napolean of Finance lin the
House the Pension Appropri-
alton Bill Is Considered.

Washington, Jan. 13-The vice presi-
dent to-day laid before the senate
letter from the secretary of the treas
ury. in reply to the resolution of in
| quiry presented by PETER as to whether
one hundred million dollars in gold had
at any time been set apart from other
funds. The secretary states this has
never been done, there being no provi-
sion of law authorizing it.
| Call, democrat, Florida, submitted
number of petitions regarding Cuba
and asked that they be printed. OBJ
lection was made by Platt. republican.
Connecticut
| Mitchell of Oregon, had passed a bill
allowing settlers on forfeited railroad
grants to hold the land by fence and
| improving ii and making actual resi-
dence unnecessary.
Pritchard made an address defend
| ing himself against the charge of in
| consistency on the tariff question made
by Hill last week and attacked HilPs
record for consistency, saying he had
been repudiated by the democratic
party. Hill in reply expressed surprise
at having brought forth so elaborate
statement, and said he believed that
he was as active a member of the dem
ocratic party, what there is of It, as
anyone. He said it was true that the
voted against the Wilson bill. He had
reasons for voting against it. He be-
lieved in tariff reform, but not in that
way. The democrats were all travelling
toward the democratic haven, but in
different ways. The other side was
travelling in the other direction.
The debate at this point drifted away
to John Y. McKane, Hill saying that
for many years McKane had been a
republican. Pritchard retorted that
McKane had never got into the peni-
tentiary until he Joined the democratic
party Butler also took up Hilrs state
ment concerning the politics of the
South, and asserted that the cause of
the defections from the democratic
ranks in the South, was ''the betrayal
of the party on the great financial
question" and the opposition to an in
come tax, in which opposition the New
York senator took a most active part.
Hill was again on his feet at the close
of Buffers brief remarks, and replied
sarcastically.
Allen sought to question Hill, where
upon the latter created a laugh by re-
Ollll IN
the field" Allen proceeded to say that
the democratic senators were divided
on finance, on the tariff and on the in
come tax. Seventeen senators now sit
ting on the democratic side ought to be
sitting on the other side, said Allen.
Hill responded that the Nebraska
senator scattered worse than an old
shotgun" He pointed out that if these
A
an income tax they ought to proceed
to have one; let them introduce a bill
Hill closed with a glowing tribute to
the grand old democratic party"
At O'Clock the personal controversy
closed, and Morgan took the floor on
the silver bond bill. He referred to the
intrigues before the national conven-
tions and the wind shaken platforms"
of these bodies. In his judgment the
emergency tariff and the bond bills
We're constructed merely as a part of
the platform to be laid before a nation
al convention next summer and not
with any purpose to enact them as
laws. Morgan criticised the financial
course of Sherman while the latter sat
across the aisle giving close attention
to the remarks. He referred to Sher-
man as the Napoleon of Finance" but
this Napoleon was rapidly nearing his
Waterloo and his exile to st. Helena.
Morgan enumerated in detail the finan-
cial burdens which the legislation
urged by the Ohio senator had imposed
on the people. They were evils which
brought misery and want to the whole
people. 1t had worked more misery
than those pictured in the Apocalypse
III
many colors, in keeping with the varie-
gated lines of the party TO which he be-
longed. At the present time the Ohio
senator and the president, were togeth-
er in their financial views. both equally
obllvious TO the constitutional require
ments that the metals were to be on
equal terms. 1t was the Ohio senator
who originated the evil of selling bonds
to a syndicate.
Proceeding, Morgan said: THE SEN
ator from Ohio is the author of the five
new measures of finance that have
given the people and the government
more trouble in handling the little rem
nant of 1916. 100000 of greenbacKs than
it did to pay IL billions of annual ex-
penditures for the support Of the gov
ernment and more than three billions
of principal and interest OF the national
debt. These measures are the demon
etization Of silver in 1873, the seques-
tration of the gold reserve in the treas
ury in 1878. the power given the secre-
tary of the treasury in 1890 to preserve
the parity between the metals the
power TO sell bonds at private sale and
the power TO enable private persons by
contract 10 dispense with the legal
tender laws I'm their transactions
Morgan spoke Of the admission of the
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