Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-10-27
LONGS RECORD IN CONGRESS.
He Opposed Battleships and Supported
the Corporations.

"Charge Chester, Charge" in the cam
paign of Mr.. Chester I. Long. is not
without It's significance at this time.
The people of this district are charging
him with more than he possibly rel
| ishes.
They are charging him, while in
congress, with voting to throw out
I members without hearing. See Con.
gressional Record page zI6.
They are charging him with voting
for the Dingley Emergency Bill. See
page 3z7.
He voted to help Boss Reed stife
legislation. He voted to take away
from committee on coinage, weights
and measures and banking and cur.
rency the privilege to report at any
time, thus putting in the bands of a
small clique controlled by Gear Reed.
the power of the single gold standard;
page s74.
He voted against equal rights for
silver and in favor of the gold stand
ard; page 1885.
He lodged aud did not vote on
House Bill No. 5474, which would
have given the government an oPPor.
tunity to have recovered from the
railroad by suit large quantities of
land. now illegally held by them; page
1889.
He voted to unseat John Tarsney
of Kansas City, the greatest outrage
of his political career; page 23oI.
He voted against recognizing Gu.
ban belligerency; page 1859.
He voted to unseat Congressman
Robbins; page zSoo.
He voted against action to take up
pension claims; page 28o6.
He voted to sustain the gold stand.
AID; page 1888.
He voted to censure Ambassador
Bayard; page 1894.
/ He again voted denying Cuba the
right of recognition; page 562S.
He voted against Case Brodericks' S
substitute to the bankruptcy bill: page
475e.
He voted against appropriation fol
battleships for the navy; page 5s55.
i On May 7. 1896. he voted to noncon.
cur, and thereby sat ont all chance
for pension legislation.
He voted May 7. 1896, page 1895
to give each member an annual clerk
thereby saddling larger burden or
the taxpayers, and involving a large
expense on the people.
> He voted to unseat Congressman
Underwood.
He voted on page 1874. favoring th'
consideration of the Loud bill. which
3 is measure aimed at the countr,
, newspaper, and contemplated a create
burden on the weekly paper. thu
limiting the circulation of the poor
, mans newspaper.
He was absent, see page Cos, at
call of the house to secure a quorum
for the consideration of pensions te
soldiers of the civil war.
On the consideration of the Pacifi
Railroad Funding Bill, pages 6ss ant
6So, he voted aye, although the bill
was lost.
E He lodged the oleomargarine bill
see page IT'S.
He voted favoring the unseating o
E Congressman Tucker; page 1889.
He voted to incorporate the Wash
inston and Gettysburg Railroad, al
lowing corporation a monopoly owe
the sacred ground where freedom
sons gave up their lives that the uniol
= might be preserved; page 1858.
) He voted to unseat IL democrati
congressman who were regularly elect
ed. See pages 5oI4, 6ozI. OH, 6I67
ol74. 62oS, 23oI and 1899.
. He voted to unseat Mr.. Kendall G
: Kentucky; page 1852.
r He lodged when the bill was unde
g consideration to pay the members c
= the fifty third congress back salarie
/. that had been withheld for non-at
tendance; page zIII.
= He voted to increase the circuiatio
! of the national banks; page 1856.
! He lodged voting on the bill givin
General Carr's widow a pension; pag
f47.-Wichita Beacon.
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u Our First Snow.