The Portland daily press., 1898-01-28

Plowman from the fourth Alabama dis
trict The minority was given until Wed.
nesday next in which 10 file the minority
report. The House then went into rom
1nittee of the whole and resumed consid-
Grafton of the.Indian appropriation bill.
Mr. Hartman, Silver Republican, got
the floor on pro forma amendment and
made speech denouncing the Republi-
can party for It's position on the inan-
cial question. He ridiculed Secretary
Cages definition of bimetallism in the
latter's speech at Philadelphia on Tues
day. The Republican party, he said, fore
closed it's rights to use the term bimetal
lism when the St. Louis platform was
adopted. The whole drift of the purpose
and intent of this administration was
to irrevocably commit the government to
the gold standard. This position could
not be reconciled with Mr.. Mckinley S
letter of acceptance. Mr.. Hartman said
he knew that many Republicans were
opposed to the retirement of the green
backs. but" said he, Hwhat will they
do about it when the banking and cur
rencys committee report the bill to retire
the greenbacks? IL we may judge the
future by the past there is little doubt
of the result. This is no longer a House
of Representatives" he cried. sit is a
house of registers-it is house to register
| the will of those who control it.
| Mr.. Hartman described what he called
| a" miserable scene, where in 1895, when
| the bond bill was before the House. The
bill, he said, never had the endorsement
of a Republican platform or Republi-
can caucus. II was then," said he,
| Zone of band of rebels solemnly pledged
to vote against the bill. just before the
vote was taken we mum bered 70. / re-
joiced that the bill was beaten. The cloak
rooms were filled with mutterings of
rebellion against the domination of those
in control. Then suddenly the party
whip began to crack and / saw the slaves
file out of the CLOAK rooms one after an
other and vote for the bill their conscience
condemned.
''In this House, he continued, Gin
stead of taking an oath to support, pro-
tect and defend the constitution and per-
form our duties to the best of our abili-
ties, we should at the opening of each
session swear to support, protect and de-
fend the constitution, providing we can
obtain the consent Of the leading nations
of the earth and to perform our duty if
the Speaker will permit US to do.
Great laughter greeted this sally, which
was redoubled when ex-Representative
Town of Minnesota, one of the silver Re-
publ1cans who bolted the St. Louis con-
vention, fell out Of his chair into a side
aisle.
Mr.. Hartman said that he had no criti-
cism to make against Speaker Reed per-
sonally. 1t was the system he opposed,
not the man. "Jf we must have "a ty-
rant" he shouted, E'Thomas Reed is
good enough for me-"
gain Mr.. Hartman adverted to the
mutterings he had heard in the cloak
rooms against the tyranny exercised by
the Speaker. ffI have told those COM
plainants,'' said Mr.. Hartman, "time
and again that if they did not like the
tyranny of the Speaker, they should shear
him of his power"
II am afraid the gentleman from Mon
tana has got his cloak rooms Mixed"
interposed Mr.. Quigg.
(Republican laughter.)
"Perhaps have" retorted Mr.. Hart
man, s'but I give notice that those who
are mixing their cloak rooms now will
not do so in 1893 and 1900 and triumph
eventually upon the declarations of the