The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-10

hous conferees were In some instances
personally distasteful to him. he felt
that they had been without the VIOLA
ton OF any great principle advocated
by the house and without mitigating
against the accomplishment OF the
great ends originally contemplated by
the inauguration of the war revenue
legislation.
He said the house conferees made no
EFFORT to eliminate the tax on tea, W
ing to the decisive vote by which the
senate had Incorporated 1t and
the new crop a just about to arrive,
stocks on hand were very low and the
consumption In the country amounted
to 100, 600. 900 pounds annually. Rela-
tive to the coinage of silver bullion. Mr..
Dingley explained that the provision
would result ultimately In an increase
OF circulation outstanding by the
amount OF the present seieniorage. or
about $42. 900. 900. the provision declar-
ing explicitly that the coinage should
proceed at h rate OF not less than
81. 500. 900 per month, II the dollars
should be used for the redemption of
silver certificates, which. when re-
deemed. should be Cancelled. The pro-
vision was lot materially different
from the law OF 1880.
Mr.. Simpson. pop. Kansas. attacked
the bond provision as unnecessary. A
severe arraignment Of the failure Of the
war to bring relief to the suffer-
ing people in Cuba was interjected
In the debate by Mr.. Pierce, DEM, Tenn.
Further depression from h bill was
INDUCED In by Mr.. Swanson, DEM. w.
Va, who very vigorously dissented from
any inclination to turn the war into
OF aggression to the end Of this
country holding great colonial posses
sions. He attacked the bond and
other faatrYas pntahlX the fnhQrcO hill
Mr.. took occasion to criticise
the administration on its conduct of
the war, and particularly did he antag-
onize the pending bill. conducive 10 the
interests of monopolists and the very
rich. The speech brought from MIR.
Grosvenor, rep, Ohio. an impassioned
and highly sensational response.
Had Sagasta, had Blanco. had Ger
vera been given the opportunity to
make a speech on this. occasion, they
% not have made so fncendiary an
appeal against the prosecution of this
war as the gentleman from Virginia has
uttered. / denounce his unpatriotic
I denounce his unpatriotic
and untruthful utterances."
Continuing. he referred to the Virgin
ian as representing a 'contestable" dis
trfct, and was bitterly personal in his
declarations. charging the Virginia
member with being moved by narrow
political motives.
A laugh WAS created in the midst OF
the Ohioan's terrific TRADE when he re-
ferred to the battleship oregon as hav-
ing recently sunk a confederate tor
pedo boat" He explained the mistake
by the "unpatriotism Of the gentleman
from Virginia"
Later Mr.. Swanson again secured the
foor and declared his belief that the
Ohio member would have made
the brutal attack had he been sober"
Mr.. Grosvenor. being again recognized,
declared he had attacked thess sentiment
OF the virginian's speech and not the
personality of the member.
Following the Grosvenor-Swanson cpl
sode. Mr.. Hill of Connecticut. Henderson
Of Iowa, Moody of Massachusetts,.
Payne OF New York and Mcmillan or
Tennessee spoke. y s
The vote on the conference report was
taken at IL o'clock. resulting: Yeas. 1854:
nays, 1O7. The republicans who voted
against the adoption of the conference
report on the war revenue bills were:
Brewster, Henry Comm. Hill. Littauer,
McIntire. The democrats who voted
for the report Were: Cummings, briggs.
FITZGERALD, McAleer, Mcclellan. At
ll:35 the house adjourned. 2