The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28
TO RETIRE GREENBACKS
MANY REPUBLICANS OPPOSE
BUT ARE POWBRuESS.
HIS SARCASTIC HITS AT SPEAKER REED
The Slaves Of the Speaker During the Misera-
Bile Scene Of the Bond Bill Measure
in i894--DoIIiver in Reply
Licks Reeds Boots.

| House today finally succeeded in pass
| ing the Indian Appropriation BILL ant
| the political debate which has beer
raging since Monday was transferred
to the District of Columbia bill, which
followed it. The only two Important
changes made in the Indian bill, as
passed, were the elimination of the
provisions for the leasing of the Gilson
lite mineral lands of the Uncompaghrt
reservation in Utah, and the coal lands
of the Kiowa, Commanche. Apache an(
Wichita reservations, both of which
went out on points of order.
When the House went into Committee
of the Whole for the consideration oil
the Indian Appropriation bill, Mr.. Hart
man (Silver Republican, Montana), got
the floor on Il pro forma amendment
and for fifteen minutes he held the at
tention of the House in a speech de
nouncing the Republican party for its
position on the financial question.
He ridiculed Secretary Cages defini
ton of bimetallism in the latter's speech
at Philadelphia on Tuesday. The Re.
publican party, he said, foreclosed its
right to use the term bimetalIism when
the st. Louis platform was adopted.
Mr.. Hartman said he knew that many
Republicans were opposed to the retire
nnent Of the greenbackS. But" said
he, what will they do about it when
the Banking and Currency Committee
report the bill to retire the greenbacks +!
Ii we may judge the future by the past
there is little doubt of the result This
is no longer House of Representa-
tives," he cried in stentorian tones, 1T
rs House of registers-it is House
to register the will of those who control
it." Mr.. Hartman proceeded to give an
account of a chapter of history, mis-
cradle scene,7 he demominated it, which
occurred in 1894, when the bond bill
was before the House.
The bill, he said, never had the en-
dorsement of a Republican platform or
Republican caucus. Il was then,
said he, zone of little band of rebels
solemnly pledged to vote against the
bill. just before the vote was taken
we counted noses and numbered ~.
| rejoiceti that the bin was beaten. The
cloak rooms were filled with the NUT
terings of rebellion against the domino
ton of those in control. Then suddenly
the party whip began to crack, and |
saw the slaves file out of the cloak
room one after another and vote for
the bill, their consciences condemned.
I'm this House." he continued, I'VE
should change the oath. Instead of
taking an oath to support, protect and
defend the constitution of the United
States and perform our duties to the
best of our abilities, we should at the
opening of each session swear to sup
port, protect and defend the constitution,
provided we can obtain the consent of
the leading nations of the earth, and to
perform our duties if the Speaker will
permit Ills so to do"
Again Mr.. Hartman adverted to the
mutterings he had heard in the cloak
rooms against the tyranny exercised by
the Speaker.
Il am afraid the gentleman from Mon
tana has got his cloak rooms mixed, y
interpOsed Mr.. Quigg, rep, n. W
Perhaps | have" retorted Mr.. Hart
man. but / give notice that those who
are mixing their cloak rooms now will
do so in 1898 and 1900 and triumph
eventually upon the declarations of the
Chicago platform and under the leader
ship of VIM. j. Bryan" prolonged Dem
ocratic and Populist applause)
Mr.. Barrett, (Rep., Mass), followed
with some criticism of the House rules
under which he asserted the legislative
functions of the government had been
transferred to the Senate end of the
capitol.
Mr.. De Almond, Dem, MOI, criticised
the Cuban policy of the administration
and with fine sarcasm ridiculed the Off
cial explanation of the visit of the battle
ship Maine to Havana harbor This drew
from Mr.. Dolliver ,(Rep., Iowa., an
eloquent reply.
1.-THE question of Cuba" said Mr.. Dol
liver, sis not a new question. For seven
years the administration of Grant was
called upon TO deal with an Instruction
in nearly every respect on all tours with
the resurrection of to-day, and at the end
of that time, seven years of response
bility, seven years of anxieties. of w0r-
ry, in a message sent to this House, he
vindicated this policy of the administra-
ton and warned the country that any in
teryention in the affairs of Cuba would
be not only rnwise, but injurious"
Replying to the charge that the Repub-
loans were always slaves Mr.. Dolliver
said:
SIT is true we have leadership in
this House, and / for one have very Of
ten felt a certain sense of satisfa ction,
that / have not possibly expressed, that
we have a leadership of brains and char
acter that men may follow and follow
without any loss of self-respect. The on
" leadership the Democratic party in this
House has had is the leadership of it's
own party"
The bill then passed.
After the passage of the Indian Ap-
propriation bill the House took up the
District of Columbia Appropriation bill.
The bill carries $5,509106, being So
474.417 lesst han the estimates and $751;
954 less than the current law.
The general debate on this bill drifted
onickly into the question as to whether
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