Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-04
JEREMIAH SIMPSON CHARGES THAT
1T WAS MADE IN LONDON.
WAS HE TALKING THRO' HIS HAT
MIR. DINGLEY SAYS THAT ONLY THE.
TRADE MARK Is ENGLISH.
The Gentleman From Medicine Lodge
Takes Another Shot at New .Ier-
sey and Her Trusts-Why
He Does Not Fight
Them.

Washington, Feb. 5.-The house spent the
day ostensibly considering the fortfications
appropriation bill. In reality, the major
portion OF the time was consumed in the
discussion of political topics. The exist
encc of prosperity in this country was
again the main question of dispute The
feature of the day was the discovery by
aIr. Simpson. the Kansas Populst, and the
exploitation of the alleged fact, that Mr..
DingIcy. chairman of the ways and means
committee, wore a London made pot hat.
Mr.. Dingley explained. that the hat was
made in New York The London trade
mark was simply placed there TO please the
angiomaniacs who always preferred things
because they We're English. All attempts
to increase the appropriations in the for
titcations appropriation bill, or to amend it
ln any respect were voted down to-day
Mr.. Simpson followed and again took up
the controversy he had a few days ago
with Mr.. Pitney, Republican, of New Jer-
sey over the trusts which. he said, were
organized in New Jersey TO prey on Kansas
and other states. In humorous vein he
said the people of New Jersey were not TO
blame that legislation in that state was
knocked down to the highest bidders as
they were the descendants of the Hessians.
When asked by Mr.. sam Smith, Republic
an, of Michigan. why he had done nothing
TO eXterminate the trusts. Mr.. Simpson re-
piled that he was helpless in the house.
In this house. said he, the speaker is
the whole thing. / had well fight Il bill
in the Potomac river as in this house"
Mr.. Pitney. in reply 10 Mr.. Simpson, re-
ferred indirectly to the fact that Mr..
Simpson was born in New Brunswick. He
remembered, he said, that. after the war
of the Revolution, many of the Tories and
traitors in New England were deported to
the neiGhborinS province of New Bruns-
wick. He did not mean 10 imply, he said.
that Mr.. Simpsons ancestry was necessar-
lily tainted by that fact. but he asserted
his pride in his own ancestry. He also
paid a glowing tribute to his state.
The political discussion was continued by
Messrs. Shafroth, Popuist, of Colorado;
Gaines, Democrat. of Tennessee; Mccall,
Republican, of Massachusetts; Green, Pop
uliSt of Nebraska. and King, Democrat.
of Utah.
Mr. Foote Republican, of New York.
then devoted some time to the criticism
of the fortifications bill. At the rate of
appropriations provided in this bill. he
said, il would require fifteen years to carry
out the plans of the Endicott board. He
asserted that on the South Atlantic and
gulf coasts there was not a gun that could
be fired in defense of the harbors.
Mr.. Hemenway. Republican, of North
Dakota, in charge of the BILL denied that
these coasts Were defenseless. AT Charles
guns, one ten-inch. and eight mortacs. If
the coast was in the condition represented
by the gentleman from New York, he said,
he would be willing to appropriate $40, 00O, =
Co. Mr.. Hemenway declared that the coast
was fairly well protected, not as Well as
he would like TO see IL. or il would be.
The pending bill carried every dollar which
the government could afford to appropri-
ate at this time.
Mr.. Livingston, Democrat, of Georgia,
read some statements from Southern pa
pers charging that. in the distribution of
munitions of war. New Orleans and other
Southern ports had been neglected. Mr..
Livingston said he had no knowledge on
this point. but he proposed to make in
Quiry of the proper authorities and If the
allegations should prove true, he warned
the house that provision would have to be
made for Southern ports.
Al o'clock the general debate closed
and the bill was taken up for amendment
under the five-minute rule.
MIR. Mcclellan. Democrat, of New York,
offered an amendment to increase the ap-
preparations for guns and mortar batteries
from $l,0o0,e00 to $5.o00.000. 1t was voted
down.
During the debate Mr. Simpson made
SINE humorous remarks about Mr.. Ding
ley's hat and said it came from London.
Replying, Mr.. Dingley. said that the hat
was made In New York. and that the
manufacturers put in a London mark to
make the dudes purchase them. whereupon
Mr.. Simpson said that Mr.. Dingley was not
a dude.
Mr. DinEley said that Mr.. Simpson was
given TO talking through his hat. and ended
by denying that he Dingley) had imported
wool before the passage of the Dingiey bill.
The whole episode caused a great deal of
amusement in the house.
A bill WAS passed to-day appropriatinS
$1,000 for survey and report on the prac-
channel in the Southwest pass of the Mis-
siSSjppi river,