The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-04
JERSEY IN CONGRESS.
Jerry Simpson and Mahlon
Pitney Indulge in a
Humorous Wrangle.
sOcKLEss ONE A JERSEY MAN
Mr.. DiDgley's Hat Figures in
Financial De-
bate.
sOcKLEss ONE A JERSEY MAN
Isnecial To nThe Jersey CITY News.vl

feD. =, 1890. flouSe
| spent yesterday ostensibly considering the
Qualifications Appropriation bill. In real
fty the major portion Of the time was
consumed in the discussion of political
topics. The existence or non-existence of
prosperity in this country was again the
main question of dispute.
Mr.. Simpson pop, Kan.) again took
| up the controversy he had a few days
| ago with Mr.. Pitney (Rep., n. j. over
| the trusts, which, he said, We're organ
lied in New Jersey to prey on Kansas
| and other States. In a 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 Hes
| slams.
Mr.. Pitney had spoken of the purity
of the State Government under Republic
cans. Mr.. Simpson took exception to
this, and said that the conditions in New
Jersey were such that the State had sim
| ply changed masters.
He admitted that 10000 Democrats had
voted a Republican ticket in 1896, but the
men they elected, he said, had repealed
no trust laws. but had, on the other hand,
sent to the Presidents Cabinet an Attor-
ney General who, no doubt, will see that
| the interests of the trusts are provided
| for.
Jersey" said Mr.. Simpson, was set
tied by the Hessians Oaughter), who came
over here to fight for the British
He then read from a history of Wash
ington, and quoted him as saying that
during his march through New Jersey
49, s4lo1lx, 49, 49, fo,~,;Jab1a 70 fhn
| farmer thar to the enemy, and that at
the most critical time of the war, the
New Jersey militia not only deserted from
the American army. but captured and
took with them all the supplies of the
| army. daughter on both sides of the
House.)
$50 wrote the father of our country
about characteristics of the average .Jer-
seyman," said Mr.. Simpson. Gaughter.)
He protested thai Mr.. Pitney should
| not call any person a calamity bowler be-
cause he protests against the evils that
come from New Jersey, and affect his
State, as the trusts created in New Jersey
had affected Kansas.
Il have been asked why | don't do some
thing to stop this" continued MI. Sllnp-
SON.
III IL L4pot1S s - 49,
tning?' democratic a%pplause.)
II might as well file a bill in the Poto-
mac River as TO put it in any committee
in this House." prolonged APPLAUSE by
Democrats.)
Mr.. Pitney in reply said his ancestors
fought in the Revolution; he iended the
Standard Oil Trust because it had re-
duced the price of oil to the de-
clined to ak about the Sugar trust. ana
declared that there is no state IN the
Union where. the Courts and Judges stand
higher than in New Jersey, and that Jer-
sey justice had become a synonym
throughout the entire country ~
| 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 neignbor-
ing province of New Brunswick. He did
not mean to imply. he said. that MT.
| ed by that fact, but he asserted his pride
in his own ancestry. HIT also paid a glow
ing tribute to his State.
During the debate Mr.. Simuson maple
| some 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 the manufac-
turers put in a London trade mark to
| make the dudes purchase them, where
upon Mr.. Simpson said Mr.. Dingley was
not a dude
to talking through his hat, and ended
by denying that he Dingley) had import
ed wool before the passage of the Ding
| ley bill.
Mr.. Burke of Texas defined prosperity
| thus:-"It is like the Bible definition of
faith. The subsistence of things hoped
for-by Re~publicans-the evidence OF
| things not seen-by American people.
Democratic applause.) He asserted that
such was the condition in Texas, and as
he understood it, everywhere else in the
country. :.
He denounced those who hold that
prosperity has arrived or that there were
any indications that it would arrive
while the Dingley bill is in operation.
He said that we'll informed persons never
expected that while his bin existed any
prosperity would be discovered in
America.
General Grosvenor followed in an at
tempt to prove that the Dingley bill had
been a benefit to every State where wool
| growing is an industry.