The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-01-18
SHERMAN WAS ALSO SCORED
Senator Morgan Described the Ohio
Statesman AS a Napoleon or FL
nance Nearing Exile.

presented by Senator PETER. ss to
whether the hundred million dollars in
gold had at any time 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 Plat Of
Connecticut
Senator Mitchell of Oregon had pass
ed a 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 so elabor-
ate a 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
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 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 Y. McKane, Senator Hill saying
that for many years McKane had been
a republican.
Senator Pritchard retorted that Nc
Kane had never got into the penitenti-
airy 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 defections from the democrat
ic ranks in the north was the betrayal
of the party on the great financial
question" and to the opposition to an
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
ated a laugh by remarking: still an
other Richmond in the field"
Senator Allen proceeded to say that
the democratic senators were divided
on the financial question, on the tariff
and 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 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 finan-
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 i'm.
posed on the people. They were evil:
which brought misery and want to the
whole people. 1t had worked more mis-
cries than those pictured IL the apo
CALYPSO. His (Sherman's) garment wa.
one of many colors, in keeping with tn,
variegated lines of the party to which
he belonged. At the present time the
Ohio senator and the president were
together in their financial views, botl
equally oblivious to the constitutional
requirements that metals were to be OF
equal terms. 1t was the Ohio senator
who originated the evil of selling bonds
TO a syndicate. Proceeding, Senator
Morgan said:
1.-THE senator from Ohio is the autho,
of the five new measures of finance tina
have given the people and the govern
ment more trouble in handling the lit
tie remnant of $346, 900, 900 Of greenback
than 1t did to pay $4,000. 100000 of an
nual expenditures for the support o
the government and more than $1,000,
- O0O. 900 Of principal and interest of tn
\ national debt.
"These measures are the demonetiza
ton of silver in 1873. the sequestratio
of the gold reserve in the treasury 4