Evening star., 1898-01-27
MONEY THE TOPIC
Currency Occupies the Attention Of
Both Houses.
LEWIS RESOLUTION on HAWAII
Laid on the Table by 143 to
) t; 1ol.
MR.. QUIGG AND MR.. LOUD

| LII the mousse OF representatives To-Day
| the Senate bill granting American register
| to the barkentine Sharpshooter of San
Francisco was passed.
A bill was passed making Santa Fe, N. NJ,
| the permanent capital of that territory.
Mr.. Hit, chairman of the foreign affairs
committee, reported from his committee,
| with the recommendation that it lie on the
table, the Lewis resolution calling upon the
President for the authority under the Con-
stitutfon under which he negotiated a
treaty that will bind the treasury to pay
100000 to the Hawaiian bondholders.
The democrats manifested a desire to
discuss the reDort, but the question was
not debatable and the vote was taken by
yeas and noes upon the demand of Mr.
DlnSmore (Ark), the senior minority men,
Der or the foreign affairs committee.
The report was adopted and the resolu-
ton was laid on the table, 143-101.
Money for Letter Carriers.
At this juncture Mr.. Quigg On. Y.) arose
to question of privilege to reply to Mr..
Loud's charge made yesterday during the
controversy over the appropriation for let
ter carriers that he (Quigg) stated what was
untrue when he said that the prospective
deficiency was the exact sum which the
appropriation in the current law was below
the estimates of the department. Mr.
Quigg said the highest authority in matters
or this character was the department it
sell, and he had read a letter from the de-
partment in support of his allegations.
Mr.. Loud, in reply, declared that he stood
by his statement yesterday. No subterfuge,
he said. could disguise the truth. He ap-
pealed from the letter of the department to
the printed record of the estimates.
Mr. Taylor tOhio), chair man of the COM
mittee on elections No. l, presented the re-
port Of the majority in the contested cleo
ton case of Aldrich VS.. Plowman, from
the fourth Alabama district The m ty
was given htil Wednesday next in which
to lille the mil ority report. The House then
went into con mittee of whole and resumed
the considera ton of the Indian appropria-
tion bill.
MIR. Hartman Criticises Mr.. Gage.
Mr.. Hartman (Mont.) got the floor on a
pro forma amendment. and for fifteen min
utes he held the attention of the House in
speech denouncing the republican party
for it's position on the financial question.
He ridiculed Secretary Cages definition
cf bimetallism In the latter's speech at
Philadelphia Tuesday. The republican
party, he said, foreclosed it's right to use
the term binetallism when the st. Louis
platform was adopted. The whole drift
purpose AND intent of this administration
had been ayowed and proclaimed by Sec
retary Gage before the banking committee;
ment to the gold standard. This position
he declared; could not be reconciled with
Mr. Mckinley IS, letter of acceptance. Mr..
Hartman said he knew that many republi-
the greenbacka,c
But" said ne, what will they do about
it when the banking and currency commit
tee reports the bill to retire the green
backs? If 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, 1T is a house of regis
ters-it is q house to register the will Of
fr(J
Mr. Hartman proceeded to give an ac-
count of aTechapter of history-a "misera-
bic scene he, denpmirated it, which oc-
fore the House
The bill, he said, never had the indorse-
ment OF a republican platform or a repub-
l1can caucus.
Il was then" said he lone of a little
band OF rebels solemnly pledged to vote
against the bill. Just before the vote was
taken we counted noses and numbered
q. rejoiced that the bill was beaten
The cloak rooms were filled with the NUT
terri gS of rebellion against the domination
Of those in control. Then suddenly the
party whip began to crack and I saw the
slaves file out of the cloak room one after
another and vote for the bill their con-
continued, I'VE should change the OATH
Instead Of taking an oath to support, pro-
tect end defend the Constitution of the
United States and perform our duties to
opening of each session swear to support
protect and defend the Constitution pro-
vided We can obtain the consent of the
leading nations of the earth and to per-
form our duties il the Speaker will permit
US so to do" >.
Great laughter greeted this sally, which
was redoubled when x-Representative
Towne (Minn.), one OF the silver republi-
cans who bolted the ST. Louis convention,
fell out of his chair into side aisle
Mr.. Hartman proceeded to say that he
had no criticism to make against Speaker
Reed personally. 1t was the system he
opposed. not the man. "1f we must have a
tyrant," he shouted, Thomas B. Reed is
good enough for me-
Again Mr.. Hartman adverted to the NUT
terings he had heard in the cloak rooms
against the tyranny exercised by the
Speaker. II have told these complain
ants 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" in
terposed Mr.. Quigg IN. ". Republican
laughter.)
perhaps have" retorted Mr.. Hartman,
'but give notice that those who are mix
ing their cloak rooms now will do so in
1898 and 1900, and triumph eventually upon
the declarations of the Chicago platform
ard under the leadership of William ].
Bryan" prolonged democratic and popu-
HStic applauSe.)