Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-01-18
MADE AN AT TACK ON HILL
Three Republican Senators Made
Uncomp|mentafy Speeches.
SHERMAN WAS ALSO sC0REL
~cnator Morgan Described the Chic
Statesman AS Il >apo.con Of FL
nance Nearing LN!'e.

| Washington, Jan. 13.-The vice pres
ident today laid before the senate {
letter from the secretary Of the treas
ury, in reply to a resolution of inquiry
| presented by Senator PETER, as t(
whether the hundred million dollars il
gold had at any llme been set apart
from the other funds. The secretary
states that this has never been done
| there being no provision of law author
iZing it.
Senator Call Of Florida submitted a
| number of petitions regarding Cuba
and asked that they be printed. OBJ
| lection was raised by Senator Platt of
Connecticut.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon had pass
ed bill allowing settlers on forfeited
railroad grants to hold the land by
fencing and improving it, and making
actual residence unnecessary.
Senator Pritchard made an address
defending himself against the charge
of Inconsistency on the tariff question,
made by Senator Hill last week, and
attacked Senator Hills record for CON
sistency, saying he had been repudiat-
ed by the democratic party.
Senator Hill, in reply, expressed sur
prise at having brought forth 50 elabor-
ate statement, and said he believed
that he was an active member of the
democratic party, or what there is of
it." as anyone. He said il was true he
pI SCI IL
reasons for voting against it.
He believed in tariff reform, but not
in that way. The democrats were all
travelling toward the Democrat heav-
en, but in different ways. The other
side was travelling in the other direc-
ton.
The debate at this point drifted away
to John Z. Mckane, Senator Hill saying
that for many years Mchane had been
a republican.
Senator Pritchard retorted that Nc
Kane had never got into the penitenii-
aly until he joined the democratic
party.
Senator Butler also took up Senator
Hills statements concerning the poll
tics Of the south, and asserted that the
cause Of defectioDs from the democrat
ic ranks in the north was the betrayal
Of the party on the great financial
question: and to the opposition to All
income tax, in which opposition the
New York senator took a most active
part.
Senator Hill was again on his feet
at the close of Senator Buffers brief
remarks and replied sarcastically.
Senator Allen sought to question
Senator Hill, Whereupon the latter Gre
ated a laugh by remarking: Still an
other Richmond in the field"
Senator Allen proceeded to say that
the democratic nators We're divided
on the financial question, on the tariff
ana on the income tax. Seventeen SEN
ators now sitting on the democratic
side ought to be sitting on the other
side said Senator Allen
Senator Hill responded that the Ne
braska senator ''scattered worse than
an old shotgun" He pointed out that
if these gentlemen (Allen and Butler)
wanted an income tax they ought to
proceed to have one; let them introduce
a bill Senator Hill closed with a glow
ing tribute to the grand old democrat
ic party"
THE SILVER BOND BILL.
At 2 o'clock the personal controversy
closed and Senator Morgan took the
floor on the silver bond bill. He re
ferred to intrigues before national con-
ventiOns and the wind shaken plat
forms of these bodies. IN his judgment
the emergency tariff and the bond bills |
were construed merely as a part Of the |
platform to be laid before a national |
convention next summer, and not with |
any purpose to enact them as laws.
Senator Morgan criticised the tinan-
cial course Of Senator Sherman, while |
the latter sat across the aisle giving |
close attention to the remarks. He re- !
ferred TO Sherman as the Napoleon |
Of finance" but this Napoleon was rap
idly nearing his Waterloo and his exile !
to st. Helena
Senator Morgan enumerated in detail |
the financial burdens which the legisla- |
ton urged by the Ohio senator had inn |
posed on the people. They We're evils
which brought misery and want to the |
whole people. It had worked more mis- |
cries than those pictured in the apo
caIpsse. His (Sherman's) garment was
varie gated lines of the party to which !
he belonged. At the present time the
Ohio senator and the president were
together in their financial views, both |
equally obliviOus to the constitutional |
requirements that metals were to be on |
equal terms. 1t was the Ohio senator |
who originated the evil Of selling bonds
to a syndicate. Proceeding, Senator
Morgan said:
'The senator from Ohio is the author
Of the five new measures of finance that |
have given the people and the govern
ment more trouble in handling the lit
tie remnant Of $346, 000,0 900 of greenbacks |
than it did to pay 10000, 100000 of an !
nual expenditures for the support Of |
the government and more than $3OO0,- |
900, 900 of principal and interest Of the |
debt.
"TheSe measures are the demOnetiZa-
ton Of silver in 1878, the sequestration |
Of the gold reserve in the treasury in |
1878. the power given to the secretary |
Of the treasury in 1890, to preserve the |
parity between the metals the power to |
sell bonds a t private sale and the power |
to enable persons by contract to dis
pense with the legal tender laws in
their transactions
Senator Morgan spoke of the admis- |
sion Of rich Jews-Baron Rothschild !
and Lord Beaconsfield-to the nobility |
Of England. 1t was a tendency the |
world over toward feudalism. That
system existed to pay as much as in
years gone by, concentrating power
and wealth in the hands Of feudal gold
DaronS.
DECISION AGAINST lHE PULlMAMS |