The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-14
THE PROCEEDINGS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The vice
president today laid before the senate
letter from the secretary of the treas
ury, in reply to resolution of enquiry
presented by PETER as to whether a
hundred million dollars in gold had at
any time been set apart from other
funds. The secretary states that this
has never been done, there being no
provision in the law authorizing it.
Mr.. Call (Dem.) of Florida, submitted
a number of petitions regarding Cuba
and asked that they be printed. OBJ
lection was made by Mr.. Platt (Rep.)
Of Connecticut.
The controversy between Mr.. Hill
and the North Carolina senators oc-
cupied the senate till 2 o'clock, when
the free silver measure was advocated
by Morgan of Alabama.
Mr.. Mitchau (Rep.) of oregon, had
passed a bill allowing settlers on for
feited railroad grants to hold land by
fence and improving it and making &C
tual residence unnecessary.
Mr.. Pritchard CRep.) of North Caro-
lima. made an address defending him
self against the charge of inconsistency
on the tariff question made by Mr..
Hill of New York last week and at
tackled Mr.. Hills record for consist
ency, saying he had been repudiated
by the Democratic party.
HILL SURPRISED.
@xr. Hill in reply expressed surprise
at having brought forth so elaborate
a statement, and said he believed that
he was as active member of the
Democratic party, what there is of
it, as anyone He said it was true
that he voted against the Wilson bill.
He had reasons for voting against it.
He believed 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, Mr.. Hill saying
that for many years McKane had been
a Republican. Mr.. Pritchard retorted
that John Y. McKane had never got
into the penitentiary until he joined
the Democratic party.
SOUTHERN POLITICS.
Mr. Butler (Pop.) of North Carolina,
also took up Mr.. Hills statements
concerning the politics of the south
and asserted that the cause of the de-
fections from Democratic ranks in the
south was "the betrayal of the party
on the great financial question" and
the opposition to an income tax, in
which opposition the New York sena-
tor took most active part.
Mr.. Hill was again on his feet at the
close of Mr.. Buffers brief remarks,
and replied sarcastically.
Mr.. Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska, sought
to question Mr.. Hill whereupon the
latter created a laugh by remarking:
HCfiII another piabp1Ond tho fol1
Mr.. 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 Mr..
Allen.
Mr.. Hill jocularly responded that the
Nebraska senator scattered worse
than an OLD shot gun" 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. Mr.. Hill closed with
a glowing tribute to the grand old
Democratic party"
MORGAN AND SILVER.
At 2 o'clock the. personal controversy
closed and Mr.. Morgan took the floor
on the silver bond bill. He referred
to the intrigues before national con-
ventions and the wind shaken plat
forms" of these bodies In his judg-
ment the emergency tariff and the
bond bills were construed merely as a
part Of the platform to be laid before
national convention next summer and
not with any purpose to enact them
as laws.
Mr.. Morgan criticised the financial
course of Mr.. Sherman while the lat
ter sat across the aisle giving close
attention to the remarks He referred
to Mr. Sherman as the Napoleon of
finance" but this Napoleon was rap
idly nearing his Waterloo and his ex-
lie to st. Helena. Mr.. Morgan enumer-
ated in detail the financial burdens
which the legislation urged by the
Ohio senator had imposed on the peo-