The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-25

house on the immi gration bill printed in
a New York paper today. They had
been made TO favor the bill, and were
opposed to it.
I suggest that the roll be called. .
exclaimed Mr.. Cannon (Rep., Ills.) and
the poll corrected"
The chair thinks the jurisdiction of
the house does not go beyond the Con-
sressionaI Record muttered the
speaker dryly.
Two hours We're consumed in the con-
sideration of district business, after
which the house went into committee
of the whole and resumed consideration
of the Indian appropriation bill.
Speaking TO a pro forma amendment
Mr.. Simpson pop. Kan.) commented
on an interview with the president rel
ative to the strike in the cotton mills
of New England, where the president
was quoted as deprecatinS the condition
of labor and as favoring a restriction
of immigration. Mr.. Simpson spoke of
the report of the agricultural depart
ment experts on the condition of the
residents of the slums of New York,
which he said the experts alleged that
their poverty was due TO eXtrava-
gance. The experts, he said, stated that
the people sometimes bought beefsteak,
when they could get twice as much nu
triment out of bananas. The upshot of
MI follllDSoll > GOullltEl vas llldl THERE
should be economy in governmental af-
fairs.
Mr. Dingley (Rep., Me- replied in
some good natured remarks, in which
he twitted Mr.. Simpson of having
ceased to wall the miseries of bleeding
Kansas and was now looking for mis-
cry elsewhere.
we have Populist rule in Kansas,
and there is no longer any misery out
fhare - int
rs not POpulist rule misery enough ?'
exclaimed Mr.. Henderson (Rep., la
Continuing, Mr.. Dingley said he also
believed in economy, but he thought it
strange that on every proposition to
increase expenditures the gentleman
from Kansas (Simpson) had voted in
the affirmative.
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 ne hoped the
members would follow the words, not
the example 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 $4,000 600 of mortgages, while I'M
der PopuliSt rule in Kansas every state
institution was suffering for lack of
funds, and for the first time in years
state warrants were being stamped,
Not good 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 S5O0,0 in the state
treasury. When they resumed last
year the treasury was bankrupt. Mr..
Simpson reviewed some achievements
of the POpulist party in his state and
was met by Mr.. Curtis with the aSser-
ton that they had not kept a pledge
they had made. The controversy at
tracted more attention as it proceeded.
and gradually others were drawn into
it. Mr.. GrosvenOr (Rep., o. took ex-
ception to Mr.. Simpsons quotations
from the alleged interview with the
president on the immigration question
The alleged interview he said, purport-
ed 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 al
legged expressions. Quoting the sentence
which made the president say he would
use his personal influence with men,
bers 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.
No no. came in a chorus from the /
Republican side.
After completing seven pages of the 1
bill the house adjourned.