The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-05
WELL, He GUESSES NOT
Sentiment in Kentucky Shovels
No Snow With Lindsay.
HE DOESN'T GIVE A DARN
He Has No Intention of Resignine a
Good Thing and the Legislature VIII
Oblige Him by Going to Sheol
as Soon as Possible.


question of personal privilege in the
senate to-day, Mr.. Lindsay, DEM, Ky.
commented sharply on the motives OF
the authors and promoters of the reso.
luton recently passed by the legisla
ture demanding his resignation as a
senator. Mr.. Lindsay, after defining
his attitude on the financial question
made 1t clear that he was the repre-
sentative of the whole people of Ken.
| lucky, and in no sense the agent of the
| kentucky legislature. Above all he
was, he said, senator for the whole
| American people, and as such would
| perform his duties and cast his vote in
accordance with his convictions and
| with the dictates of his conscience.
| NO business of Importance was trans
| acted in the brief open session. After
| the executive session OF three hours
the senate adjourned until Monday.
A bill providing for the erection of a
public building at Beaumont, Tex, at d
cost not to exceed 100000 passed.
Lindsay took the floor TO speak on
the resolution of the Kentucky legsla-
ture asking him to resign. He had the
| resolution read at the clerk desk and
| then said:
| While this processes to request my
| resignation, 1T is couched in language
| which disregards the ordinary ameni-
| ties of life, and is in effect demand
| that l shall surrender my place in or
| uer 10 create vacancy, and thus make
| room here for some one holding politi-
cal views in harmony with the authors
ana promoters of the resolution. ! de-
sire to protest against this usurpa tion
of ungranted power, and 1 propose to
give 1t place on the records of the
senate, and to make such comments as
l deem necessary and proper under the
circumstances
The substance of the complaint is
that i am opposed to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
10 to l. and | opposed the. election of
the nominees of the late Chicago con-
Vention, and by SO doing betrayed the
trust imposed in me by my constltu-
ency. My constituency is made up of
the people of Kentucky, and that peo-
pie voted against those nominees and
IL out of 13 electoral votes of Kentucky
were registered against them.''
The senator reviewed his votes
against silver in the extra session of
1888 which repealed the purchasing
clause OF the Sherman act, and contin-
ued: In the discussion of the bill l
declared / would vote for no amend
ment which merely experimental with
change of ratio, or that did not pro-
vide a reasonable safeguard to insure
the maintenance of the parity of gold
and silver dollars. / stand to-day pre-
cisely where l stood when l received
that unanimous Endorsement of the
democrats in Kentucky for senator If
those who were in accord with me four
years ago are not so to-day it is be-
cause they have changed their opinions,
while | have remained steadfast
cfiticise no one for changing his opin-
ion, but ] protest against being de-
nounced as betrayer of my trust be-
cause my views remain unchanged
i deny the right Of self seeking poll
teal changelings who We're with me in
opposition TO free silver when free
coinage was unpopular, and are not
with me now when free coinage seems
to meet with democratic approval in |
Kentucky, to sit in judgment on my de- |
mocracy or to call into question my |
fealty To the constituency ] represent | |
will inform those who voted for the |
resolution that ! am not the mere agent !
of the Kentucky Legislature. l do not |
exercise my senatorial duties subject |
to legislatural supervision, nor hold |
any place at the legislative will. / rep
resent not merely party or faction,
but all the people of Kentucky. Ny I
term of service is fixed by the constitu-
ton of the United States. 1t cannot be
abridged by the action of the Kentucky
and an attempt by certain /
of that body to abridge it is
the assertion of a right which does not
exist. and could not exist without i'm
IjelllllS the independence OF this great |
branch of the federal legislature |
am senator from Kentucky. but | am
also a senator of the United States
In questions local to Kentucky am
always ready to serve her interests to
the best of my ability, consistent with
the obligations of honesty and fair
dealing. When great public interests
alike every portion of the
public. are to be acted upon they are
to be considered from the standpoint
of the broadest patriotism, and this l
propose to do. no matter who may con-
denim my action or who may approve
L. There are occasions when consider
atoms of local favor and party disci-
pline must for the time give way and
+ senator who acts upon that princi-
pie is TO be driven from his place by
his state Legislature whenever he may
eontravene local sentiment or tempo
rary passion, the dignity of the senate
will soon be thing of the past
"A scrupulous regard for the division
1f powers between the state and fed
eral governments and the careful OBJ
'ervance of the boundary line which
separates these powers is a cardinal
doctrine of Jeffersonian democracy. vet
We have here the spectacle of a control
ing majority of a state legislature
ooldly oVerstepping that line. and in
he name of the party, demanding that
shall surrender my commission. be-
ause, IN their estimation | have ceased
o he democrat. They seem ignorant
Il the underlying principles OF the his
ORC democratic party. or else regard
ess IN their eagerneSS to observe those I
principles. Their right to impeaeh NV
emocracy or to put me on the defense
f my record as a democrat I utterly
nd absolutely repudiate This much
have thought il proper to say. and
sith these remarks I dismiss the So
allied legislative request for my resig-
ation."
At 1928 the senate on motion of Da-
is. went into executive session. and al
:: 10 p. m. adjourned until Monday.