The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-04
THEIR ACTION
Remarks by the Democrats Who
Voted for the Bonds.
SOME SEVERE CRITICISM
Lewis Jumps on Cummings. Who Retail
ates With illusions to Lewis
Dude Clothes-Clark Roasts
the Cleveland Outfit.

to be an uneventful and uninteresting
denly, after three hours of considera-
ton of private bills. into a session of
spirited speech-making among demo-
cratic members hat savored at times
much of acrimony. The storm was
precipitated by Mr.. Lewis. DEM. Wash.
who referred in the course of a speech
to the recent vote of Mr.. Cummings of
New FORK in support of the war reve-
nue. bill. with its Incorporated bono
feature.
He made reference to Mr.. Cummings
assertion that this period was a time
for placing country above party. init
mating that the New York
had served the republican party, and
perhaps contributed to the satisfaction
of unpatriotic m~onopolists and capital
lists. This brought an impassioned and
patriotic speech i'm reply from Cum
mings, interspersed with some sarcas-
tic comments that intensified the inter-
est and called an outpouring of men,
bers from the cloak rooms. Mr.. Clark,
dem., Mo-. entered the debate and pro-
ceeded to criticise unreservedly the six
democrats who had voted for the reve-
nue. bill on it's final passage and ques-
toned their democracy. Messrs. Fitz-
gerald of Massachusetts and McAleer
of Pennsylvania, two other democrats
who voted for the bill. were heard in
defense of their votes and I'm REPUTATION
of the imputations of the Missouri
member. Just before the recess Intil
the night session was k the leader
of the democrats, Mr.. Bailey of Texas,
spoke briefly in depreciation of the
speeches of the democratic members as
being subject to demonstration in
dicative of more serious differences
within the party than really existed.
He read the record to show that no APP
preciable ground for such construction
existed.
In his prayer to-day the chaplain
ga thanks for the victory won by the
fleet, and prayed that il might be the
means of leading to an early end of the
war; that peace might bring a prevail
ence of a broader and more Christian
civilization. The house passed the
senate bill with ar amendment for the
sale of public lands in Missouri. The
house voted to insist upon It's amend
ments to the bill providing for the or
ganization of the naval station in the
District of Columbia and agreed to IA
conference. The speaker named Messrs.
Hilborn. Foss and Meyer as house con-
ferees.
The house then, under a previous or
der, began the consideration or private
bills. Mr.. Lewis. DEM, Wash, recog-
nized during the consideration of a pri-
vate pension bill. addressed the house.
cautioning it against freely removing
diss bilities from those who participant
ed in the civil war, and, proceeding.
spoke generally in Remuneration of
men and corporations who would seize
upon the existence of war as an oppor-
tunity to form trusts and use the ex-
tremity of h government to secure
improper profits. Mr.. Lewis cautioned
the house against yielding too readily
to the cry of patriotism as a justifca-
ton of the passage OF the so-called
emergency measures. He declared
patriotism was being used where rea-
son did not exist to force u~nmeritorious
propositions through the house. He
referred to members who speak mag
n~iicently and vote unhappily.' and
begged the house not to forget to look
always to the fundamental principles
and questions underlying the PROPOSE
lions.
During his speech Mr.. Lewis referred
to a statement from Mr.. Cummings.
DEM, N. Y, i'm speaking of his vote OH
the g measure, that now was a
time to place country above party, and.
continuing, that Mr.. Cummings was
ready to nut country above the demo-
cratic party, but not above the repub-
lican party.
Mr.. Cummings. replying. declared with
much force that he was i'm the time Of
the country's need and at all times an
American and a democrat. Il admire"
said the New York member. good-hu-
moredly, I gentleman from Wash
ington. His raimen is spotless. his
hirsute adornments are exquisite. and
even his spats are effulgent, all in de-
lightful accord with the finished bril-
liancy OF his intellect"
Proceeding he declared il was the
duty of members intent upon asserting
that the governments agents were cor
rupt in administration first to produce
their evidence and lay IL before the
house. and not rush to an indulgence in
bald assertion without the substance OF
a basis. and of the government.
either by direct assertion or i%nsinuation.
was too serious an occupation to be en-
tered upon lightly. Speaking of his
supper of the revenue measure en-
bodying the bond provisions. Mr.. Cum
mings said II was to authorize the
president to issue the bonds in the ma
ture of a popular loan. rather than to
deny him express authority and addle
the country in a war with
a bond issue probably unavoidable and
subject To the absolute dictation of a
syndicate later on.
Mr.. Lewis d~isavowcd any purpose to
reflect seriously upon the patriotic mo
tives of the New York member. He
said that his references to him were only
incidental. and his criticism had been
directed at the monopolies which the
press had declared had already used.
and expected to use. the war emergen-
cy as a source of unholy profit.
Mr.. Clark, dem. Mo, made quite a
vicious attack upon ex-President Cleve-
land, and denied that he was a demo-
crat. In speaking of Mr.. Cummings
speech. Mr.. Clark said IL was the most
outrageous that had been made on the
floor of the house. He characterized the
votes of Mr.. Cummings and other dem
ocrats. who voted for the bond bill. as
objectionable. He said that they should
be read out of the party. He said Mr..
Cleveland was not made by the demo-
Gratis because they thought he was the
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