The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-31
SEEDS OR No SEEDS
The National Law Makers La
boring With the Problem.
MORTON GOT BAD SEEDS
AND THE SECRETARY GETS AN
+ OTHER TONGUE LASHING.
DUBOIS is TALKED ABOUT
His Former Republican Associates Re
ioice Over His Defeat Because
He Stood for Silver.

He Stood for Silver.
Washington, Jam. 30-The normal
business of the House to-day was tine
consideration of the Agricultural appro-
priadion bill, which was passed before
Adjournment, but much of the time was
devoted TO political discussion. Incident
al to this discussion was a speech by Mr..
Mondcn, (Rep., Wyomingl upon the free
silver Republicans of the West who had
boqted from their party during the cam
paign.
The free distribution of seeds by the
Department OF Agriculture raised an
interesting discussion. Mr. Northway,
Rep, Ohoil, asserted that Secretary Nor
ton endeavored to discredit the custom by
procuring poor seeds and Mr.. Bromwel
(Rep., Oilio), asserted that Secretary Nor
Of May and Company of Minneapolis,
had attempted to bribe hfm by an offer Of
seeds free 10 refrain from calling the at
,szssion of Congress TO the quality of
the goods they furnished the Department
An amendment was offered by Mr..
Mercer, (Rep., Nebraska), for free distri
BUTTON 10 members of poultry, swine and
other live stock, to illustrate his opposi-
tion TO seed gifts. At the request of ag-
ricultural organizations Of his State, Mr..
Hill (Rep., Connecticut, proposed to
strike out the seed items, but his PROPOSE
ton Was lost, AZ to 20, Speaker Reed yot-
ing for the first time this session and
against free seeds.
The question OF the distribution Of seeds
by the Secretary Of Agriculture was re
viyed by an amendment offered to the
seed section by Mr.. Bromwell. (Rep.,
Ohiol, providing that the Secretary
should be governed in the distribution by
| the written instructions of Senators and
members.
The seed distribution was characteriz-
ed by Mr.. Moody, fRep., Massachusetts,,
as ''the biggest humbug Of the many
humbugs we see in Washington" All
of his agricultural constituents consider
| ed as waste of money, he declared.
Then Mr. Mondell took the floor and
| found his text in the recent defeat of
| Senator Dubois, of Idaho He referred to
fhe bolters as men "raised to their posi-
tions as much by Republican organiza-
tons as by their own worth" and said
| that to join the enemy they must sacrifice
those who had stood by them in the past
acr3fce the organization which had
defended them. He denied that their
step involved moral courage, for it would
have required more courage to brave the
storm Of denunciation and suspicion at
home than to break party ties. The
men who tmeporarily left the Republican
| party had been lauded as unselfish pa
| triots by their alies, but now the scales
had fallen from their eyes He con-
| tinued "No where IN any of these
States where the Republican organiza-
Il q ~ {b.xv. -
the candidate OF the Democratic and
Populistic combination for the presi-
dency, has there been augld but treachery
and deceit practiced upon the men who
| made it possible for these creatures to
| wdeld the weapons OF their decapitataon.
Anti National convention pledges were
carried out by the opposition, because
there was no way. in which they could be
avoided, but wherever the silver Re
publican had not the immortal cinch,"
the cloyen hoof Of their late allies has
been exhibited. SANDER and misrepre-
sentation had been used to tear down
from their high estate the men who help
ed them to win their victories.
Speaking OF Senator Dubois he said:
1T will be claimed in extenuation OF the
perfdy of the men who defeated Dubois
that the Republican National committee
was worlamg against his reelection. Can
amy man wonder that the Republican Ma
f1onal committee should work against the
election of a man whom the National
Democratic committee, every member
thereof from the chairman down claimed
TO be moving heaven and earth to elect.
They who make this excuse In extenta-
tion should remember that by so doing
they are not only branding the members
of the combination in the legislature who
voted TO defeat the election of silver
Republican to the Senate as guilty. not
only of the heinous crime Of ingratitrfsge,
but open to suspicion Of exercising their
high preroga tiyes influenced by a money
consideration"
Senator Dubois, whose eloquent tom
que and active brain made ham a power
for the accomplishment Of results for
which the combination was made was
thrown down, unhorsed, defeated by the
men he made in favor OF man profess
ediy lacking in all the qualifications that
would render HIM OF service bo the cause
which these hypocrites claim to have at
heart. The dispatches this morning
bring us the news that the gentleman
who succeeds him will go into the Demo-
cratic caucus OF the Senate of the United
States and this is the Reupbl:can State
Of Idaho turned over, boots, body and
breeches, to minority representing less
than ten per cent Of her total vote and
thus is the true animus of the campaign
for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT under the
gnise Of devotion to the silver cause ex-
posed to the execration of the nation"
Increases of salaries Of weather bu-
reau officials aggregating 5000 were
stricken from the bin on point Of or
der raised by Mr.. Dockery Dem,
Missouri, the bill was passed by the
House
Bills to astahlish ifa arirn stn tiona