The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-25
Curtis and Simpson Exhibit
the Kansas Linen
To the Gaze of the World at
Washington
FOR SAKE OF PARTY.
Both Say Mean and Damaging
Things Of Their State.
Curtis Deals a Blow to the
States Credit.

Washington, Jan. 25.-In the house
! yesterday two hours were consumed in
! the consideration of District business.
after which the house went into com
mittee of the whole and resumed con-
sideration of the Indian appropriation
bill.
Speaking to a pro forma amendment.
Mr.. Simpson (POp. Kan.) commented on
an interview with the president relative
to the strike in the cotton mills of New
England where the president was quot
ed as depreciating the condition of la
Dor and as faVOring a restriction of i'm
migration. Mr.. Simpson spoke of
the report of the agricultural
department experts on the con-
uIuons OF the residents of the slums
OF New York, in which he said the ex-
pertS alleged that their poverty was
due to extravaganza. The experts, he
} said, stated that these people some
times bought beef steak when they
could get twice as much nOuriShment
out OF bananas The uDshot of Mr.
Simpsons comment was that there
should be economy in governmental af-
fairs.
Mr.. Dingley Rep. Me.) replied in
some good natured remarks in which he
twitted Mr.. Simpson on having ceased
to wall of miseries of bleeding Kansas
where.
I'VE have Populist rule in Kansas
now, and there is no longer any misery
out there" interposed Mr.. Simpson.
is not POpuliSt rule misery enough q"
exclaimed Mr.. Henderson (Rep. Ia.)
Continuing, Mr.. Dingley said he also
believed in economy, but he thought it
strange that on every proposition to in
crease expenditures, the gentleman from
Kansas (SimpsOn) had voted in the af-
frmative.
THAT is not true,'' interposed Mr..
Simpson.
I leave that to the members of the
house who have seen him filing through
the tellers, responded Mr.. Dingley, who
concluded by saying he hoped members
would follow the words, not the exam
pie, of Mr. Simpson.
Mr.. Curtis (Rep. Kan.) commenting
on Mr.. Simpsons statement about the
temperance of prosperity in Kansas,
owing to POpuliStic rule, said that in
one year of Republican rule in this
country, the farmers of Kansas had
paid off $50 900, 900 of mortgages, while
under POpuIistic rule in Kansas, every
state institution was suffering for lack
of funds, and for the first time in years,
state warrants were being stamped
mot paid for lack of funds" The peo-
pie of Kansas, he said, were proud of
the Republican party.
Mr.. Simpson, in reply, said that when
the POpulists retired from power three
years ago, they left $780, 900 in the state
treasury. When they resumed last year
the treasury was bankrupt. Mr.. Simp-
son reviewed some achievement Of the
POpulist party in his state and was met
by Mr.. Curtis with the assertion that
they had not kept a pledge they had
made.
The controversy attracted more and
more attention as it proceeded, and
gradually others were drawn into it,
Mr.. Grosvenor (Rep. % took excep-
ton to Mr. Simpsons quotations from
the alleged interview with the presi-
dent on the immigration question. The
alleged interview, he said, purported to
be what Mr.. Mckinley had said in a
private conversation. While he did not
pretend to speak by authority, he said
he did not believe the president had
given utterance to some of the alleged
expressions.
Quoting the sentence which made the
president say he would use his persona
influence with members of the house to
secure the passage of the immigration
bill, he asked if there was a member on
the floor who believed the president had
said such things.
mo! MOI" came in a, chorus from
the Republican side.
After completing seven pages of the
bill, the house adjourned.