The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-10
RIDING FOR 4 FALL.
Republican Record Ridiculously
Weak and Vacillating.
II IS welded TO GOLD
0upsosD Failure Of Cage md the Bank
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No. lll8 q street y. W.
Waohlngton. April 6-It is probable
tat little business will be transacted
u congress from this time until the
passing Of the war cloud that does not
pogtain to foreign relations. There is
- 1oubt that congress- will adjourn as
~ - international serenity IL re-
oooged. and the republican party will
oDooal to the people In fall elec-
t1nns On the record as made up. II 50.
u win Be riding for . fall with a ven-
gsencs. for the record OF the dominant
usty has been ridiculously weak ana
vasillatin0. 1t has achieved one of
~ things to the accomplishment Of
which II was pledged in the platform
adopted At d. -Louis-except that its
leaders have permitted themselves to be
t~Tevocably committed to the gold
otondard-there has been a AMI fall
ure even in Q legislative demonstration
y loyalty to the money power. The
008o currency plan died a-bornin'. and
nothing else worth mentioning has been
considered by the banking and cur
rency committee. In fact. the utter in-
ability OF the banking and currency
committee to get together N agree
upon any legislation has Disguised even
Joseph II. Walker. the typical Yankee
capitalist who presides over the COM
mtttee. why don't your committee re-
port some currency bill?" he was asked
by the correspondent of h Standard.
Agree on anything!" he said. with
great scorn. why. that committee
can't even agree TO adjourn. The only
way we ever close a meeting IL by
enough members getting up n going
away to break a quorum. Then We have
to Quit"
The failure of the committee and of
congress to pass any legislation ac-
ceptable to h money lords of the
country 10 not. however, to be taken as
In b slightest degree Indicative of "a
failure In loyalty to them. The bankers
n stock brokers have moi been able
to get an greement upon any legislation.
but II II because they could not agree
among themselves as to Just what they
should demand. Thus. with all the will
ingness Of the republican to
serve fts money masters by direct leg
islation on the currency question, moth
ing has been or will be done In that d.
rection.
In many respects the second session
Of h Fifty-ffth is doing
nothing as strictly as did the first ses-
sion, during which congress simply met
when Reed was willing. and adjourned
whenever he ordered. There has never
been a house OF representatives that
was as petty n -pusillanimous as the
present one. II belongs absolutely to
Reed and wears his collar with both
pride and satisfaction. Even on the
great question OF national honor in
volved in our relations with Spain the
republicans of the house proudly pa
raded their shackles.
II IN pleasant to reflect that the new
consress h almos certain to be over
whelmingly anti-republican. Ex-Gov-
ernor Osborne Of Wyoming. of the DEM
ocratic congressional committee, tells
the Standard correspondent that the re-
publican party will be obliterated west
Of the Mississippi this fall. He say
for democracy than the solid South. He
predicts from so 10 so democratic ma
jority in the Fffty-ffth congress.
Senator Lee Nantes speech on the
Cuban question was n of the best that
has been delivered on that subject in
the senate. He took advanced grounds
In the matter. n was one of the first
senators to openly advocate actual in
tervention- Senator Mantle said:
II desire to place upon the records OF
his body the overwhelming sentiment
which exists among the people of the
state which i have the honor in part
to represent.
II am in hearty accord with the hu-
name and patriotic sentiments which
have been SO eloQuently and forcibly ex-
pressed by many distinguished mem
bers of this body in avor OF %recogniz-
ing the independence of the heroic peo-
pie upon IN island of Cuba who for
years have been engaged I'm a death
struggle against tremendous odds In the
effort to achieve their liberty and to Sc
cure for themselves the G~od-given right
Of self government. ! give my unquali-
ned Enforcement. and shall gladly give
my vote. for a resolution authorizing
and directing the president OF the Unit
ed States to employ the armed forces oi
the nation and all its that
may b. necessary for the purpose OF