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ALTGELD ALSO TOUCHED UP.
SPIRITED REPLY TO THE RECENT
CHARGES MADE BY MIR.
GROSVENOR
Passed by the House, but Interest
in 1t OvershadOwed by the Sem
satiOnnI Speeches.

passed the Indian appropriation bill to-
day and entered into the consideration
of the agricultural APPROPRIATION bill,
but all interest in these two measures
was overshadowed by two remarkable
speeches, one made by Mr.. Grosvenor,
of Ohio, attacking ex-Gov. Altgeld, of
Illinois, and the other by Mr.. Dear
mond, Of Missouri, heaping ridicule on
Secretary Morton for the recent issue
OF pamphlet entitled the Farmers
Interest in Finance" Mr. Grosvenors
observations on the ex-governor Of Hi
| nois were called forth by the latters
speech last week, in which he charged
that Mr.. Bryan had been defeated by
fraud and based his charge particularly
ON the enormous increase of the vote
IN Ohio, where, he alleged 10000 votes
were illegally cast. Mr.. Grosvenor was
very personal in his illusions to Mr.
Altgeld, laying at his door much grave
| responsibility for the result of the cleo
ton. He declared that an appeal on the
stump against Altgeldism never failed
to arouse the populace where all else
failed. He then analyized the Ohio vote
| ana explained the causes of it's in
| crease calling attention to the fact that
| the Democratic vote in the state had
| increased proportiOnately much more
| than the Republicans
| MT Dearmond replied very briefly to
Mr.. Grosvenor, but it was his subse-
| Quent attack on Secretary Morton
which created the sensation. Mr.. Dear
mOnd is Democrat, an ardent advo-
cate of silver, and therefore his attack
on Democratic cabinet official who
! had been most active on the gold side
OF the controversy excited less surprise
than it otherwise would have DONE 1t
already had been noised about that the
Missouri member intended to make an
attack on the secretary, and the mem
bers early crowded about to hear him.
With biting sarcasm and rasping irony
ne scored the secretary of agriculture,
taking as his text the recent publica-
tlon issued by the secretary and sent
out over the country under a frank.
The pamphlet reviewed the silver agi-
tation to show that poverty and litter
acy characterized the states which had
been foremost in the demand for the
restoration of silver. Mr.. Dearmond as
serted that the
DEMAND FOR SILVER
| came chiefly from the farmers, whose
interests the secretary of agriculture
Was supposed to look after, and asked
contemptuously what excuse there was
for issuing to them this Islander, this
| travesty on facts"
The Republican party is not respon-
sible for him. interposed w. A. Stone.
Of Pennsylvania.
'Assuredly not" agreed Mr.. Dear
mond, land [ can understand how
grateful you are that you are relieved
of responsibility" Gaughter9
He went on to say that there were
facts which some men lost sight of
that were known to all others, and one
OF them was that the iIliterate colored
vote represented McKinley's majority
IN most Of the states which he carried.
But, he said, no one took Secretary
Morton seriously nowadays. The world
was no longer interested in his views
on finance, although it might look with
expectation for any observations he
might make on the woodchuclz the
hedge hog or the eye Of the potato.
1t was once said of an eminent
statesman" he continued, that the
secretary stood alone; that modern
degeneracy had not reached him.. II
could be said Of Morton: The secreta
~ stood alone; modern degeneracy had
not passed him Qaughter).
Addressing the Republican side. he
appealed to them to recognize Score
tary MOrton's service, even though
they refused to accept responsibility
fOI him. "Of course" said he. won
will not keep him in his present posi-
ton, but you might put him in the
national museum"
We will put him in better place"
again interrupted Mr.. Stone Pa1.
We will send him back to Nebraska.'
'WhV ShOII16
! Nebraska?" shouted Mr. KEN pop,
Neb), amid shouts of laughter.
You int1mated that took an unfaii.
advantage of Gov. Altgeld," put in
Mr.. Grosvenor. why do you attack
Secretary Morton here, where he has
no opportunity to reply?''
Because" retorted Mr.. Dearn,ond
after pause, II knew the gentleman
from Ohio had contracted a habit %
speaking here at least once dav. and
L felt that he could speak for him. If
necessary, Genewed laughter). In
conclusion, Mr.. Dearmond again com
mended to the prayerful consideration
OF the Republicans, this curiosity of
modern political life" whose DecuIiar-
ity was that he talked when he was
not writing, and wrote when he was
not talking, and did both when he
was not thinking.
GROSVENOR ON ALTGELD
Mr.. Grosvenor got the floor during +ho
debate on the agricultural appropria-
ton bill, and, under the latitude AL
lowed, proceeded to interest the NOM,
bers with his reply to the remarks
made by ex-Gov. Altgeld at a dinner
given in the latters honor last week
The loyalty, honor and integrity of tho
state of Ohio, he said, demanded a re-
ply AS to much Of what AItgeld had
said on that occasion Mr.. Gr0svenOr
remarked, his answer would be si
Ience, but he could not pass over a
single paragraph. That paragraph Mr..
GrosvenOr had read at the clerks desk
lt called attention to partial substan-
t1atlon or the sweeping assertion that
Bryan had been defrauded of his cleo
ton, to the fact that in Ohio last fall
there was cast 10000 more votes than
in 1892. This Altgeld indicated an in
crease of population of 1000 600, where
as, he charged, the increase had not
been more than two-thirds of it. From
this he concluded that 10000 of the
votes were fraudulent.
Il do not wonder" said Mr.. Grosve
nor, that gentleman who led a vic
ferrous majority in the city of Chicago.
very recently, and then was absolutely
overwhelmed in almost all the co11n-
ties and voting precincts Of Illinois.
should select his own state as an il
lustration Of the quality Of unfairness
which had been the tndex Of this cleo
ton. Gov. Altgeld is the last person.
in my Judgment, who ought to drag
from the rapidly-closing waves of OBJ
livion the history and detail of the re-
cent election. Whatever happened in
Ohio was due to a large number of
factories, no one of which was more