The morning times., 1897-02-11
OPPOSED To THE BULLETINS
Senators Vest and Chandler
Criticised Secretary Morton.
SOME OF HIS ALLEGED ABUSES
They Objected TO the Printing of
the Secretary's Views on Finan-
c!al Questions at the Expense
of the Government Arbor
Day Speeches.

Senators Vest and Chandler took another
fall out of Secretary Morton and his bui-
Ietins yesterday Afternoon. The Agri-
cultural appropriation bill was pending,
and Senator Vest opposed the proposed
Increase in the ppopIiaticn for tie Pub
licat.on Of the department bulletins. He
Called dttent on 10 the abuses which had
gown up unGcT Secretary Morton, who
had hiS views on financial LurstiOas and
tad speeches on Arior Day printed and
circulated at the expense OF tie govern
n.ent Il ask. SAID Mr.. Vest addressing
Senator Gallinrer, ii you think that is
pio. .er expenditure cf tie Euhlic EIofey:'
II co not said senator Galiinscr Il
think that il is a IeTyrts.on, and should
Ia rrbuked.''
Senator Vest thea went on TO discuss
th" a,t On Of Secretary MortDn, in pint
in his own speech on rtor Day, and Illus
trating il with Il picture OF his own IaiatiaI
and IuxUT IS home in Nebraska. This
Is such an eXtri ordinary illustration Of the
kind OF houses that The prosperous farmers
lac tells so uJch about have said Sen
ator Vest, that I viii ask tie Senate to
Waste Il little more uf The public money
m repro iUcinc his picture in The EeColG."
Then tie Seuaio-, proc eetIng to cescnhe
Morson's humble agricultural retreat" q"
qtu1ed FROM The Lady OF Lyons Mel
I O uc's rhapsody about his Castle IN Lake
Colio. "AH this refinement and luxury
] sup ose the farmers might reach,' he
said. If they but .oIlcw in the footsteps Of
tie Secretary" Mr.. Y est c.osed wiih a
fF1Ss
this way.
linen Senator Chandler took an inning
he objected to the recent bulletin, IN
which Mr. Morton INDUCED in correspoaa-
ence with the Suatistician Of his own
bureau. and gave extensive tables en-
deavuring To demonstrate that the mint
age value of silver could not be raised
abns-c its Commercial value Mr.. Morton,
according to the Senator, got lean haII
for "A large net He was endeavoring
10 prove JhaJ it could hot lie, but the
talICS themselves made a m0st powerful
argument for free silver. Tie Senator,
however. prote>,el again>t any such his
use ot the government appropriation, which
should be expended in disseminating gen.
uiue information concerning agriculture
and not TO personal pamphIeteering by the
secretary
senator CuIlom took occasion to say
that il WIS entirely safe to continue he
appropriation. for we are soon going TO
have d real farmer for Secretary Of Agri-
culture, who knows what it is to live,
think and act like farmer III thought
he would Continue in the footsteps Of
Secretary Morton I would vote against
the appropriation myself
The Senate then adopted the paragra ph.
II is an interesting facy tnat the Morton
tables. which Senator Chandler discovered
to he such a powerful argument for free
silver. were prepared by Henry A. Robin
son of Michigan, himself very ardent
free silver man. 1t was Robinson that
Secretary Morton joked some months ago
Toy paying him off in silver dollars. Ac-
cordiug to Senator Chandler, Robinson
has now given the secretary in return
q silver brick in these computations.