The herald., 1897-01-29
IN THE HOUSE
Progress With Appropriateness
Very Spicy Speeches


WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The house
\sassed the Indian appropriation bill to-
hay and entered upon consideration Of
ehe agricultural appropriation bill, but
all interest in these two measures was
overshadowed by two very remarkable
speeches, one made by Mr. Grosvenor of
Ohio. alta cking eX-Governor Altgeld of
Illinois and the other by Mr. Dearmord
heaping rdicule upon Secretary Morton
for the recent issue of pamphlet en-
titled The Farmers Interest in Finance
Mr.. Grosvenors observations On the
governor or Illinois We're called forth by
the latters speech last week, in which
he charged that Mr.. Bryan had been de-
feated by fraud and based his charge
particularly upon the enormous increase
of the vote in Ohio, where, he alleged,
SO, 900 votes were illegally cast Mr..
Grosvenor was very personal in his al
lusions to Mr. Altgeld, laying al his door
much grave responsibility for the result
of the election. He declared that an ap-
peal on the stump against Altgeldism
never failed to arouse the populace
where all else failed. He then analyZe1
the Ohio vote and explained the cause
of its incrase. calling attention to the
fact that the Democratic vote in the
state increased proportionately much
more than the Republican.
Mr.. Dearmond replied very briefly to
Mr. Grosvenor. but it was his subsequent
attack upon Secretary Morton which
created the sensation Mr.. Dearmond is
O Democrat. an ardent advocate of sill
Yer, and therefore his attack on Dem
ocratic cabinet official who had been
most active on the gold side of the con-
troversy 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 men,
bers eagerly crowded about to hear him.
With biting sarcasm ard rasping irony
he scored the secretary of agriculture,
taking as his text recent publication
issued by the secretary and sent out over
the country under a frank. entitled The
Farmers Interest in Finance. The
pamphlet reviewed the silver agitation.
to show that poverty and illteracy char
acterized the states which had been
foremost in the demand for the restora -
tion of silver. Mr.. Dearmond asserted
that the demand for silver came chiefly
from the farmers. whose interests the
secretary of agriculture was supposed
to look after. and asked contemptuous -
ly what excuse there was for issuing to
them this slander, this travesty on
fact"
The Republican party is not responsi-
BILE for him, interposed Mr.. W. a. Stone
of Pennsylvania.
-Assuredly not" agreed Mr.. Dear
mond, "and | can understand how CRATE
full you are that YOU are relieved of re-
sponsibility." Haughter)
He went on to say that there We're facts
which some men lost sight of that Were
known to all others, and one Of them
was that the illiterate colored vote rep
resented McKinley's majority in most
of the states which he carried. But. he
said, no one took Secretary Morton seri-
ously 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 woodchuck, the hedgehog or the eye
of the potato.
1T was once said of an eminent states
man." he continued. that the secre-
tary stood alone-that modern degener-
acy had not reached him
ut could be said of Morton. the Sec
retary stood alone: modern degeneracy
had not passed him"
Addressing the Republican side. he
appealed to them to recognize Secretary
Morton's service, even though they
refused to accept responsibility for him
'Of course" he said, you viii not
keep him in his present position. but you
might put him in the national museum -
we Will put him in better place. +"
again Interrupted Mr.. Stone of Pennsyl-
Vania we Will send him back to Ne
ibraska''
"Why should you desire to punish Ne
Ihraska?" shouted MIR. KEN of NebrasIla
Popuist amid shouts Of laughter
You intimated that / took unfair adj =
vantage of Governor Altgeld" put in
Mr.. Grosvenor. why do you attack Sec
retary Morton here where he has no op-
portunity to reply"
Because" retorted Mr.. Dearmond,