The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-15
CongressDoD Shows How His
Colleague Is SoiliDg Under
False Colors.
Inside History Of House Proceedings GVeD at
the Great Republican, Rally at
Redwood City.

tor Gear of Iowa, chairman of the Com
mittee on Pacific Railroads in the Sem
ate, offered this amendment, framed upon
an understanding between men in that
body irrespective of party. AS soon as
1t was offered Senator Hale, in charge of
the bill, arose in his place and raised the
point of order upon it for the reason
which l have previously stated. Senator
White then got up and said: :.
Mr.. President, l hope the Senator will
withdraw the point of order, for can
assure him that there will be no objec-
ton made to it and that there will be
no debate upon it.
Senator Hale replied that 'ff the Sena-
tor from California who has in days gone
by opposed measures similar in charac.
ter TO the amendment will assure me that
there will be no objection and no debate
then l will withdraw the point of order.
The point of order was withdrawn and
not single negative vote was cast
against the amendment as offered.
L ask in all candor whether it is rea-
sonable to assume that there is more
honesty, more wisdom and more acumen
in Mr.. Mcguire than in the ninety Sena-
tors representing the different States
throughout our country?
L call attention to the revenue cutter
now lying in San Francisco harbor, which
was built under authority of an act in
troduced and passed by me within three
months after l first took my seat in Con-
Now what were the facts about that
case? On October 3d. 1893, about three
months after Mr.. Mcguire took his seat,
this way: Mr. Mcguire had introduced
bill providing for a revenue cutter for
San Francisco harbor and an appropria-
ton of $4,000 to build 1t. This bill went
TO the committee on interstate and for
elgn commerce and one day, Mr.. Mallory
of Florida called UP a bill reported by
TOR the Great Lakes Immediately rose
in my place and offered as substitute to
that BILL the bill introduced by Mr.. Ma
Dor. While the fight, which was bound to
be successful, was in progress Mr.. Ma
guire came in, and coming up to me-. said
AS this is my bill, and this is Demo-
cratic Congress, | ask you to withdraw
the substitute and let the bill providing a
cutter for the Great Lakes pass.
/ had been in Congress longer than he
and | begged him to seize this opportunity
to secure the cutter. He was insistent and
| was forced, as the record plainly shows,
to withdraw the substitute. This bill subse-
quently passed Congress and became a
law, but the record shows that Mr. Ma
guire was not present when it did pass.
Mr. Mcguire has referred to the meas
ures providing for the preliminary sur
veys in connection with the distractions
in the harbor of San Francisco. While
am willing to admit that Mr.. Mcguire
may have brought this matter before the
river and harbor committee, yet l know
that when the order of survey was made
in the Senate the language of it very
much resembled measure introduced by
another party.
He refers also to the resurvey of the
harbor but the record conclusively proves
that that was commenced In 1S92-the win
ter of 1S92-before Mr.. Mcguire went to
Congress-
Then he refers to the postofflce appro-
priation and the revision for the re-eX-
animation of the Postoffice site. In rela-
ton to that l will say that the Postofffce
| appropriation for San Francisco was
made in 1886, before either he or I went
to Congress.
I would like to ask the people of Cali
fornia If there are not some questions
Whlch TO them are more Important than
even the survey Of San Francisco har-
Dor or the passage Of any bill of local
character. l would like to ask where the
party or parties which he represents
stand upon other. questions at issue to-
day. Are they trying to fool the people of
the State of California, or do they intend
to carry out their promises when elected
The old Democratic party has stood for
| sound money and sound finance from its
inception. Another party has been
formed. whose fundamental principles are
| the grinding out of money from the
treasury irrespective of amount and ir-
redeemable in character. Another party
calling itself the Free Silver Republican
party believes that every ill that flesh is
heir to can be healed by issuing 16 to 1
dollars. But believe that this combina-
ton of parties is for public plumber and
not for public principle
Mr.. Loud then referred to President
| Mckinley as follows:
Mckinley is a Republican in full ac-
cord with the Republican party recon-
| mending to Congress the legislation
which that body had enacted. The oppo-
| sition condemns the party, but applauds
It's leader, commencing him who is almost
the party itself. The Democratic party
approves the acts of our President, but
| attempts to strike from his reach the
very means by which these acts are per-
| formed. to remove from him the means
| through which the great work before this
nation to-day must be accomplished
Consistency. thou art a jewel'
| n r McKinIav followed 4, n b,;oe
address, in which he discussed the is
sues of the campaign and predicted a
grand victory for the entire Republican
ticket on November g.