The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-04-08
NATIONAL CAPITAL
An Interesting Letter From Our Regu-
lar Correspondent.
HERsEY PENS ENTERTAININGLY
Tells What Is Going On in the Way of
Local Gossip - What Montana's
Representatives Are Doing.

wise and temperate diplomatic action
OF by armed conflict, the most revolving
chapter of all history, that which
marks the monstrous reign of the bar
barous SpaDiard in the western hemis-
phere, is rapidly reaching its close
Too late now for either nation to turn
backward, the controversy between the
United States. the representative upon
the one hand Of the noblest aspirations
and achievements of modern christen-
dom, and the faltering old kingdom of
Alfonso which, on the other, still con-
tin es to nationalize and vivify the
bigorty and the fanaticism of the
worlds worst centuries, must go on
until the unmatched and moving hor-
rors that have been transpiring with
out license and unrebuked for nearly
three years among helpless people
within so miles of our shores, have
cceased and ceased forever So dank
and weed-grown is the Spanish under
standing that it fails to recognize the
world wide detestation with which the
national colonial policy IS viewed as
we'll as the wicked warfare now wag.
ing in an unholy defense of perishing
despotism against people driven to
desperation by expressions. compared
with which the wrongs resisted in the
struggle from Lexington to Yorktown
were as benefits and blessings. Moth
ing but defeat, and ignominious defeat
at that can awaken nation SO insen-
sible to and out of accord with the
spirit and progress of the age in which
it exists as an organized and living an
achronism and it is time that the last
dwindling apex of the shadow of its
menacing dominion should be driven
from the new world into the cngulfng
seas, if not, indeed, from the land
where it finds it's last retreat and
whence its cross bearers have sailed on
their mission of rapine. assassination
and slavery for the past four hundred
years.
The throngs that have filed the capi-
tcl every day this week have been so
vast that entrance to the galleries
could only be gained by reaching the
doors at an early hour and standing in
line until the time for the opening.
So great has been the demand for seats
that many senator's wives and other
prominent and Official people have
been unable to gain admittance. On
Monday fully 5000 persons Of all ages.
sexes and colors clamored for seats in
the galleries of both houses and long
after the business of receiving the re-
port of the naval board and it's refer.
ence to the proper committees was com :
pleted the corridors were packed with
an impatient multitude supplicating
for standing room. Those who had
expected sensational developments
were disappointed the speaker refused
even to recognize parliamentary in
quiry and an adjournment was taken
Immediately after the motion for refer
ence OF the report to the foreign affairs
committee was made. In the senate,
Money. of Mississippi, presented still
another heartrending account of the
conditions in Cuba and held the close
attention of nearly full senate and
the densely packed galleries for an
hour or more.
What the next few days may develop
mo man can say, but it is almost the
universal opinion that crisis must be
reached very shortly. OF course there
is much impatience, but the democrats
seem to have agreed to await the ne.
gotiations pending between the two
governments looking to a peaceful set.
tlement.
Hartman attempted to make a speech
in the house on Friday last, but was
refused the necessary time by the COM
mittee in charge of the naval appropri.
alton bill. He began by reading sup.
posititious platform for the republican
party and was taken off his feet on a
point of order. The rules of the fifty-
fifth congress have gone step or two
farther than heretofore in limiting de.
bate, Speaker Reed having decided
that remarks made in the committee |
Of the whole on the state of the Union !
when working under the five-minute
rule should be confined to the subject
under consideration. This was in
voked to cut off Hartman's speech.
The most stubborn fillibuster seen since
the stormy days Of the fifty first con-
gress followed, led by Bailey, McMil.
Ian and Richardson in Hatman's be-
half.
The Montana member defied the re-
publican opposition with strong words