The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30
A GOOD NATURED DEBATE
Prosperity the Theme in the
House of Represent tatives.
IT is DRESS COAT ANARCHY
Simpsons Comment on President Nc
Kinley's Speech in New York-Al-
len Enlivened the Discussion
With Witty Speech.

Washington, Jan. 29.-There seems to
be no prospect of an abatement of the
political debate which has been i'll pro-
gress in the house during the consider
alton of the appropriation bills. Again
to-day almost the entire session was
consumed in the discussion of political
topics. The controverted question as to
whether prosperity had arrived at
| tracted the most attention, and testi-
mony pro and con was offered through
out Considerable aerimony was dis
played, but as rule the debate was
good natured, both sides seeming to
| recognize that it was merely struggle
| to score political advantages.
| At the opening session of the house
a bill to permit building bridge across
the Mississippi at Coon Rapids, Mime
apoliS, was passed.
Immediately afterward the clerk of
the senate appeared and transmitted
| Teller's resolution, which passed the
| senate last night. The announcement
| was greeted with terrific outbursts of
| applause from the democratic side of
| the house. No motion was made at the
| time and the resolution remained on the
| table.
was referred and on motion of Grout,
| rep, VT, the house went into commit
| tee of the whole and resumed consider
alton of the District of Columbia BILL
| The general debate was not confined
| to subjects dealt with by the. BILL 1t
| covered a wide range. The Teller res
| olution, Cuban question, Hawaiian an
nexation, tariff and other political top
| les We're discussed. AT the conclusion of
the general debate the bill was taken
| up for debate under the five minute
rule.
/ n Y.,fc I.tlsp IN nv
offering an amendment to appropriate
$50, 900 for the improvement of the white
/ house ito make it a suitable abode for
Hon. Mark Hanna" The amendment
/, was ruled out of order.
| MIR. Simpson. pop, kas.. commented
| upon President Mckinleys speech at
| the manufacturers dinner in New
| York. saying the attempt to make all
| obligations of the United States pay
able in the dearest money in the world
4 was dress coat anarchy He said it
| was now the fashion for republicans to
sneer at "baekwoods statesmen" and
he reminded the majority that all re-
| publican heroes of the past had come
| from the rural districts The repubii-
can party, he. declared, had at last~be-
i come the open defender of plutocracy.
i Tongue. rep, Ore, in spirited reply,
1 denounced the populists and democrats
| for being responsible through passage
of the Wilson tariff bill for the depres-
i sion and poverty of the farming
classes.
The discussion became very animated
! when the topic of prosperity was
reached Mr.. Richardson, dem. Tenn,
| precipitated it, and Messrs.. Grosvenor,
rep. o.; Cochran, DEM, Mo-: Hopkins,
rep, ILL.,; Mahany, rep, N. Y, and Fitz-
| gerald, DEM, Mass, took part. The
latter again brought up the New Eng
land cotton strikes, which have played
| canciIara hIa if, tho debate
previous days. Mr.. Simpkins, rep,
Mass. in the course of his speech drew
| a round of applause from the democrat
ic side by stating that he frankly con-
fessed that, in his opinion. there We're
! likely to be more strikes under a pro-
tective than under a free trade system.
/ The applause ceased, however. and
arose on the other side when he added
| that this was because under a free
trade system men would have no work,
and when they did it would be for What
they could get.
For some time the debate was con-
fined to the business situation in Mass
achusetts. Messrs. Knox, Mccall and
other republicans of that state contest
ing the position advanced by Mr.. Fitz-
gerald that adversely had come to the
commonwealth under the Dingley law.
Mr. Hepburn, rep. Iowa, created
some enthusiasm on the republican side
when he read the Dun's Trade Review
as an answer to the democratic critics
as to the effects of the Dingley law.
| Members of the house, he said, no mat
ter what their politics, have no right,
| in attempting to score a little cheap
| political capital. to become the libelers
and slanderers of the country.
Mr.. Allen, DEM, Miss, enliyened the
proceedings with one of his witty
speeches. He said he was tired of hav-
ing Mr.. Dingley get up every day and
| explain why his bill had not met the
| expectations of the country. 1t was
very absurd, he said. but it was with
the same serious, solemn mein with
which the Jewish clothier explained to
him how he was able to sell goods be-
| low cost. In the course of some re-
marks in a more serious vein. Ar. Allen
| aroused the democrats to applause by
quoting the following from speech by
President Mckinley in the house In 1896
when the Mckinley bill was under con-
| sideration:
When merchandise is cheapest. men
| are poorest. and the most distressing
| experiences in the history of our coun-
try, yea, in all human history, have
been when everything was the lowest
and cheapest measured by gold. fol
everything was higher and dearer mea-
| sured by labor
| After some further remarks by Dins'
more, DEM. Ark; Pitney. rep, n. j.
Todd. dem, Mich, and Hawley, rep.
| Tex, the house at p. m., after COM
pleting II pages of the bill. adjourned.