The herald., 1897-01-31
FREE GARDEN SEEDS
AND FREE coinage
Furnish Food for House
Discussion
MI SEEDS ORDERED DISTRIBUTED
In Accordance With Members
Written Orders
BOLTING FREE SILVERITES
Hauled Over the Goals by Mondell Of
Wyoming
Doesn't Like the Treatment Free Silver Re.
publicans Receive
The Senate Committee Will Make Fa-
vorable Report on the General Ar
bitration Treaty, With I'm
dY1nantS
BOLTING FREE SILVERITES
Hauled Over the Goals by Mondell Of
Wyoming
Doesn't Like the Treatment Free Silver Re.
publicans Receive
The Senate Committee Will Make Fa-
vorable Report on the General Ar
bitration Treaty, With I'm
portant Amendments

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-The nominal
business of the house today was the
consideration of the agricultural appro-
priation bill, which was passed before
adjournment, but much of the time was
devoted to political discussion. Incl
dental to this discussion was spirited
speech by Mr.. Mondell CRep.) of Woming
upon the free silver Republicans Of the
west who had bolted their party in the
campaign. He declared that the bolt
ing Republican leaders had been raised
to prominence as much by their party
organization as by their own worth; had
used that organization to aid the DEM
ocratic-Populistic combination and then
after the election had been rewarded
by the treachery of their allies. He cited
the defeat in Idaho of Senator Dubois.
to whom he paid high tribute.
The free distribution of seeds by the
department of Agriculture raised an in
teresting discussion. Northway (Rep.)
Of Ohio asserted that Secretary Morton
endeavored to discredit the custom by
| procuring poor seeds, and Mr.. Bromwell
| (Rep) of Ohio charged that the seed
! firm of May & Co. Of Minneapolis had
attempted to bribe him by an offer Of
seeds free to refrain from calling the
! attention of congress to the quality Of
| the goods they furnished the department.
An amendment was offered by Mr.. Mer-
Ger (Rep) of Nebraska for free distri-
button to members of poultry, swine
and other livestock to illustrate his op-
position to seed gifts. AT the request
of the agricultural organizations of his
state, Hit of Connecticut proposed to
strike out the seeds, but his PROPOSE
tion was lost, Speaker Reed voting for
the first time this session and against
free seeds.
When the house today resumed con-
slderation of the agricultural appropri-
alton bill Dockery Dem., MOI made
point of order which was sustained,
| against several increases in salaries to
chiefs of divisions in the bureau of an
| imal industry.
Bromwell (Rep., o. referred to the at
| tack recently made by Dearmond
| (Dem., Mo- on Secretary Morton He
| had supposed, he began, that some mem
ber of the party to which the secretary
| of agriculture belonged would speak in
| his defense, but perhaps the Democrats
| thought Morton, as Danlel Webster said
| of Massachusetts, needed no defense.
He did desire to speak in defense of the
| statistics compiled by the agricultural
T uSpdI IHey IldV USGu OIL great
value in the last campaign in correcting
the fallacious theories of the free silver
men that prices of agricultural products
followed the price of silver.
Bell (Pop., Col.) protested against in
terjecting politics in the discussion Of
appropriation bills and declared that the
prices of silver and wheat ran together.
The question of the distribution Of
seeds by the secretary of agriculture
was revived by an amendment offered
to the seed section by Bromwell, Re.
publican, providing that the secretary
should be governed in the distribution
by the written instructions of senators
and members. The seed distribution
was characterized by Moody of Masss-
chusetts, Republican, as ''the biggest
humbug of the many humbugs we see in
| Washington"
| The first review by Republican MEM
| Der of the course of bolting free silver
| Republicans of the west was made by
| Mondell of Wyoming, Republican, who
| found his text in the recent defeat OF
| Senator Dubois. He referred to the
| boilers as 'men raised to their positions
| as much by Republican organizations a.
| by their own merits" and that to Join
! the enemy they must sacrifice those who
had stood by them in the past, sacrifice
the organization which had defended
them. He denied that their step in.
NolN Cd lIlol oil COuI age, lOI IL WOulu nave
required more courage to brave the
storm of denupciation and suspicion at
home than to break party ties The men
who temporarily left the Republican
party had been lauded as unselfish pa
triots by their allies, but now the scales
had fallen from their eyes.
He continued: Nowhere in any OF
these states, where the Republican or
ganiZation was used to further the IN.
terests of candidates in the Popubist ana
Democratic combine for the presidency
has there been aught but treachery and
deceit practiced upon the men who made
it possible for these creatures to WELD
the weapons of their deception. Ante
national convention pledges We're car
ried out by the opposition because there
was no way in which they could be
avoided, but wherever the silver Repub-
licans had not the immortal cinch.' the
cloven hoof of their late allies had been
exhibited. Slanderers and misrepre-
sentation had been used to tear down
from their high estate the men who
helped to win their victory"
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 COMMITTEES
was working against his reelection.
Can any man wonder that the Repubh-
| can national committee would work
| against the election of a man whom the
Democratic national committee and
mo ~ thAroof fy-,vrV f1ro ahniprn