The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-14


between Mr.. Desmond and Mr.. Hall.
tho Missouri Democrats, on different
sides Of the financial question.
The gentlemen had. paid their respects5
to each other before during the debsteF
but each in the absence of the otheE
Today the encounter was at close quar-
ters. Mr.. Hall took the initiative, bit
he met an adversary worthy of his steeR
No man in the House wields a keeDsr
blade than Mr.. Dearmond, and his point
is always tipped with bitter sarcasm.
Mr.. Desmond had criticised the LAM
guage Mr.. Hall had used in announcing
his conversion to the cause Of sound
money" (Mr. Hall in the last CongressN
voted for free ooinsge).
To-day Mr.. Hall opened by referring
to the fact that Mar. Dearmond had
mentioned the names Of Benedict
Arnold and Judas Isosriot without the
apparent courage to make personal ap.
plieation." Proceeding, he Indignantly
denied that he had beena "Washington
convert" to the cause of sound money
and adverted to standing challenge
he had posted in Missouri last summer
to discuss the issue on the stump, He
Also denied that he had intended TO
charge his free silver friends in the
House with personal corruption. why
should the gentleman feel thst he has
been hit?" he asked, turning to Mr..
Dearmond. II do not know. unless the
solution ia found in the old adage that
the bird which has been hit futteis."
Mr.. Hall, continuing, replied to the
charge that he had posed as the author
of the income tax. He described how
he had agitated the question in the
House when the mem oerB were spa.
| thetic, how he had printed magazine
oil ND \ L.
| fore the Cabinet. By this time the
House was Intensely interested and the
| members crowded about the combat
| ants.
Mr.. Desrmond had fire in his eye
when he arose to reply. HE did not
feel," he said, that anything that the
gentleman had SAID had struck him, but
he felt, as one of the Representatives
from Missouri, that when the newest
| convert from that State to the so-called
sound money doctrine saw proper, in
making his platform, to class the
Chinese and people from the East Indies
and the depths OF Africa and the lower
animals IN the category of those who
did not change their opinions, that per-
haps 1t might not be Inappropriate to
suggest that there might be changes OF
opinion that would evidence no tre-
mendous eXeltation above those referred
to. (Ganghter.)
"As to the income tax business" he
said, "the, gentleman had allowed him
self to he paraded as the author of the
bill when he knew hs was not. He
agreed that Mr.. Hall had spoken in
season and out Of season TO this man
and every man who would give his at
tention: he WAS plenteous and prompt
with HE advice; he was held alofs by
| n M a hn 0er,on Il ia ! IL
country. but in this wide world, who ad
read everything and-studied everything
upon the income tax, and who knew
that he WAS the one man upon whom the
progresE of the income tax legislatio
must rest"
"Re said he had been Informed and
believed that eight Senators who voted
for free coinage" continued Mr.. Dear
mond. "had said they believed they
would bring bankruptcy and ruin to the
country. He did not identify them; he
did not name one; he dare not do it; be
never will do it. If eight Senators, o.
one Senator. made any such remark he
merely dic,whst the. gentleman himseE
does not and will not dare deny that he
has done. The gentleman in his re.
msrks said something about Judas
Iscariot and Benedict Arnold. do not
defend those historic Characters. Let
them go. Nhe gentleman talked about
Gladstone. i might, If 1 had chosen,
have commented upoz the exquisite
modesty that resides in my colleague
when, in talking about Ills own CONVEX
sion, Ills oMn elevation, his own pro-
gress, heithrnst into such close conneo-
tion that little incident about the
change in the opinions of Mr.. Glad
stone. &araatisughter.)
LAS to the gentleman's, references to
people 'feathering their nests I do no,
know juSt what they meant, but j
venture to say that If shesteathers are
to be had for the asking or for the
plucking the gentleman, ifHe Is around,
will get hts dnll.share." daughter and
applause.}
Mr.. Hall spraug to his feet when Mr.
3iDesrmond sat down. IT don wish ca
emulate this gentleman in Billings
gaze" said he, hotly. II dosros expect
so equal him in It. But wish to re-
ply to some pertinent MASTERS that he
has referred 70. Eesays [ dc not rep
resent my constituents. deaire to call
hic attention to the fact that we have
but five Democrats here from Missouri,
instead of fourteen in the Fifty third
Congress-; that OF thoSe five Den ocrats,
three OF uB are sound money men zap
playse). and that the,leader of the six
teen 80 one idea In the; U nised Sta .es is
| now at homo upon .hiC rosky farm In
LacleGe county, unless he Is still leo
turing to his one man audience liz the
South. daughter and applause
my statement with cegard 10 the
United States Senator'S WAS made Cor
the purpose of iliMstreune kacsd