The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1898-04-29
NAYIONRL CAPIYAL
An Interesting Letter From Our Regu
lar Correspondent
Tells What Is Going On in the Way Of
Local Gossip - What Montanas
Representatives Are Doing.

Washington, d. c.. April 90. The
annals of American politics for more
than third of century has passed
and will take its place side by side in
history with similar days of popular
clamor and legislative turbulence
which have preceded all the wars in
which the Republic has been engaged.
The high wrought state of the public
resentment against the kingdom of
Spain has, however. given to the dis
cussions, in and out OF Congress, a
more bitter tinge than they have ever
assumed before or after our foreign
wars were entered upon. while at the
same time universal sentiment has
served to unity our people in an unpre-
cedented way
The struggle in Congress between
the ultra conservatives and those who
have advocated the most pronounced
and drastic measures has been fierce
one and the long sessions in the Sen
ate at the close told perceptibly upon
the older members Of that body. The
height to which feeling rose was seen
in the personal encounter which oc-
CURED in the House and the intem
perate words that passed between Sen
ator Wellington and Senator Money
Both were dramatic in the extreme,
but so serene. solemn and dignified
are the ordinary processes aud proceed
ings of the Senate that the last may
he said to have approached the tragic.
The session at .Gight and the soft. nsel-
low light which filters down through
the illumined nanels Of the great o9il-
ing flooded the chamber, bringing out
from the shadows Of the inches the
pa1lid busts OF the statesmen who, at
one time or another, during he periods
that have pass3d away, have presided
over the deliberations OF the American
Senate. The tall and commanding
figure of Senator Jones OF Arkansas,
who had arisen for the purpose oE pro-
posing an agreement as to time to
vote, occupied the center OF the floor
Some Informal discussion followed il,
which Senator Money and Senator
Wellington Joined. The latter de-
manded an opportunity to be beard
upon the Cuban question. and added
that he had listened patiently to Sen
4ator Money after ho had returned from
Cuba as one of the agents of "a New
York Journal. The duel of words
that followed WAS short. smart and
incisive. 1t finds literal place III the
Record just as heard it. 1t is as fol-
kws:
Mr.. Money-Mr President, ! want
ITO correct the senator from Maryland.
The remark he has just made is abso-
lutely untrue.
Mr.. Welliugton-I want to sag to
the senator from Mississippi that the
journal said it's commissioners had
returned.
Mr.. Money! do not care what the
Journal said.
Mr.. Wellington-af there is any EN-
! truth in the statement, it was made
by that paper.
| Mr.. Money! ain correcting yoE,
hot the journal. say the remark
you make is not true.
Mr.. Wellington-I make the remark
as the Journal gave it.
Mr.. Money-Then make it on your
own responsibility.
Mr.. Wellington-I do make it on
| my own responsibility.
MT. MONGy-Iucu you 1ae
Mr.. Wellington-I cali the gentle
man to order. If the gentleman can
indulge IN that kind Of conversation
on floor of the Senate, can stand it
as well as he can.
Mr.. Money-Come out side and
make it.
Mr.. Wellington-Very well, then.
Mr. MOney-Come now.
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stood in the red flush Of anger. his
finger pointed sternly at his adver-
sary, while the latter turned colorless
as marble and swayed backward and
forward upon his feet, visibly trem-
bling.
So unexpected was the event and
so like shock did it come that the
galleries were struck dumb and not
sound escaped from them, except when
the word "lie''-that word SO out Of
place on the hood--drew forth quick
sybillent breath of surprise, followed
seemingy by moment of such ST.
lence as that with which, under bated
breath, one waits to see blow struck.
AS some may not fully understand
the President position and the form
of the resolutions passed by the two
houses, WulCu, sO lar dG leaSC as tnhl
passed by the Senate goes, takes issue
with him, will briefly explain.
From the first, all know, it has been
President McKinley's purpose to Sc
cure a settlement of the Cuban ques-
tion through the channels of diplo-
macy, and that in accordance with the
large discretionary powers vested in
his office by the constitution, that he
has gone to great length to maintain
peace, while endeavoring to secure
through negotiation the full measure
of our demands npon Spain. Whether
right or wrong, he has believed it to
be unwise to recognize at this time the
independence of the Republic of Cuba,
and in this view he was sustained by
the House resolutions. which declared
for intervention, but left the matter
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