The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-09

shou'u Ne passed. lie declared with Inuch
r leei,ng mat mere was not a member from
Vailtornia, except, possibly Mr.. Towers.
VINO, II he would express his honest ser.ti-
ments. would not support this measure. He
saio they were all afraid If a newspaper
| In San Francisco All this illumination
against the BIZ, he said, was dle to Adolph
Sutro and William r. Hearst. The men
ton Of these names seemed 10 arouse all
tne pent up ire In Mr. Johnson's nature
ana he proceeded to pour out the walls OF
his wrath upon them.
Mr.. johnson is always vigorous talker,
incllned TO use strong dicti2n. but the
members who sat listening TO him were not
| launched.
He detailed Mr.. Hearst's connection with
the San Francisco Examiner and how he
mad buiit up that paper and said the people
OF california admired 1t, He said they were
suspicious at first and knew that Mr.
iieafst was erratic in his conduct He
| then made inslnuations and allegations
against Mr.. Hearst's personal habits but
ADDED that the people believed he was
This was followed by more sensational
charges and vltuperative language.
And that is the man. he added. that
has created all this iurore in California"
He said that Hearst had intimidated the
people and created terrorism among them
with his paper. This paper had mniigned
character of the chairman, Mr.. Powers, and
the honored speaker.
Il Will not speak for myself" he said.
because | can get reasonably even with
this man before | get through with him"
He said that MIR. Hearst had issued his
edict that any man who dared to favor the
funding bill shall be driven from public
life and be ruined in private life and shall
be disgraced before the people and the
gods"
When Mr.. johnson concluded his speech
there was an ominous silence on the floor
MIR. Arnold of Pennsylvania made brief
speech for the measure. but the house was
still huzzing by the sensation created by
the California member. When Mr. Arnold
had finished Mir. Cooper (Rep) of Wiscon-
sin. one of the strongest foes OF the Pa
cific railroads now, as in the past. took
the floor.
About the first words that fell from his
lips Intensified the situation.
In view of what has been said by the
gentleman from California he said in
view of the exhibition which we saw here
as | think, one of the most disgraceful in
the annals of the legislative history of the
United States-the attacking of a man abb
sent from this place in manner known
| only to towards, blackening his name,
running 1t II it were in the power of the
gentleman from California to Auin any
body who has ever had any reputation at
all, 10 the pest Oh MS apillty, j ieel II
proper for me to say at least u few words"
Mr.. Cooper then paid a high tribute TO
Mr.. Hearst and the hard work he had done
to build up his papers, and declared that
he did not think that anything he had done
warranted any member to talk about him
as the gentleman from California had done.
Mr. Cooper turned to Mr.. johnson and
continued:
Let the CALLED jade vince. The gentle
man was in republican district He
boldly championed the funding bill, and he
is buried under majority of 5000.
THE gentleman from New York whom
he has so UNANIMOUSLY and wilfully malgned
is not responsible for his defeat. 1t is the
knowledge OF the people of the State OF
California have that the power OF the
Southern Pacific ReHroad company, whom
the gentleman from California presumes to
be championlng here on the floor in the
face of the people, has been .used to their
detriment. They know of the manner in
which that corporation has for years past
treated the people OF that State. The peo-
| pie Of California have been treated more
| shamefully by this corporation thnn any
| other commonwealth In The history of the
| United States has been treated by any cor
| poration. railroad or otherwise. They have
| destroyed or crippled enterprises; they h NJ
| destroyed the business of individuals: they
have dictated to the merchants how they
| should conduct their business. imposed
hardships upon farmers, business men,
| merchants. dry goods men, lumbermen
merchants in every class Of business. and
made felt their heavy hand on all those
who undertook to ship their freight in OPP
| position to this company"
| Mr. Cooper then calmed down and pro-
| ceeded with his argument. Throughout
his reply to Mr., Johnson the latter sat qu-
city in his seat Mt the rear of the hall.
| He made no response,
| The sensational incident growing out oil
| Mr.. Johnson's attack almost drowned in
| terest in the debate Mr.. Arnold of Penn
| sylvania followed in favor of the bill, and
| Messrs Parker tRep.) of New Jersey, Bell
| (Pop.) of Colorado and Shafroth (Rep.) Of
| Colorado against it.
| Mr.. Hepburn tRep) OF Iowa supported
the measure in an extended argument. Il:
the only solution of the problem at this
juncture. He argued that government
ownership ofNkx-oads VIC bound up in the
| defeat of the pending bill
At o'clock, at the conclusion OF Mr.
Hepburn's remarks, tho house took re-
cess until o'clock. the evening session to
be devoted to private pension bills
NO QUORUM AT EVENING SESSION.
The evening session was spent in a vain
effort to procure a quorum, which was
undertaken at the instance of Mr.. Edman
(Dem.) OF Pennsylvania. A call OF the
house was made and afterwards the SER
geant alarms was directed to arrest and
bring in absentees.
Pending this proceeding. theN were re-
peated motions to adjourn, TO suspend
! further proceedings under the call
At 10 o'clock the sergeant t-arms report
| ed the presence OF three additional mem
hers, who We're brought before She bar of
the house. and after making their ex
plantations, We're in turn excused, They
were Messrs. Stallings of Alabama, Wood
ward of North Carolina and Kleberg of
Texas.
on motion of Mr.. Thomas the warrants
issued for the arrest of absent members
were made returnable Tueeday next,
Mr.. Blue Of Kansas asked that Speaker
Reed who was absent, he excused, which
was done without objection.
The house adjourned at 1880 O'Clock.
REPORT TRANSMITTED.
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