The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
STORMY SCENE
IN THE HOUSE
Currency Bill Consideration
Closes With Sensation.
REPUBLICANS BLUFF
CALLED BY DEMOCRATS
We're Dared to Offer a Free Silver
Amendment.
In an Instant the Floor Was Alive
with White Metal Men Anxious
to Accept the Challenge-Not Per-
mitted to Do So by the Chair
Clark of Missouri Refers to the
Theft of the Presidency by r. B.
Hayes.


yesterday, and today the bill was read
for amendment under the five-sninute
rule. Upon a pro-forma amendment
Mr.. Grosvenor (Rep., o. got the floor
to reply to some of the statements
made by Mr.. Bailey yesterday. He
had read a quotation from a speech
made by Mr.. Bailey during the. debate
on the Dingley bill. predicting that if
that bill failed to bring prosperity the
Republicans would not live long enough
to secure an audience from the people
upon the proposition that they could
be made happy by increased taxation.
In view of that prophecy, Mr. Gros-
venor thought the Republicans could
view with equanimity Mr.. Bailey S
forebodings of yesterday.
Mr.. Clark (Mo.) made an amusing
speech poking fun at the Republicans
for their efforts to secure consolation
from the late elections.
Mr.. Mahon Pa-) criticised Mr.. Bailey
for not frankly admitting, as Mr.. Sib-
ley (Pa.) had done, that the return of
prosperity was due to the restoration
of the Republican party to power.
! Mr.. Levi On. W announced his inten-
ton of voting for the bill, although he
| did not agree with some of it's provi-
sions.
Denounced Banking Feature.
Mr.. Fitzgerald On. W announced his
intention of voting for the bill, but bit
terly denounced it's banking feature.
He gave it as his opinion that the en-
actment of the bill into law would be
i of incalculable service to the Demo-
cratic party in removing the money
question from politics for at least six
years.
Mr. Norton (O.) expressed the belief
that the pending bill was the culmina
ton of gigantic money trust. This
| trust, he declared. was at the founda-
! ton of the alliance between Great Brit
ain and the United States which existed
at this hour. The Republicans jeered
| this utterance.
Y.) a round of applause when he an
nounced that he would keep step with
| the national Democracy and vote
against the bill. There were, he
| thought, some good features in the bill,
which he would vote for if he could
do so. But as aawhole he would vote
against il. B., ',,f,sr. e
Mr.. Grow (Pa.), in speaking of the
bill, gave an interesting resume of the
history of the national debt to show
that the pledge of the government TO
pay its bonds and redeem the green
backs in coin meant gold.
Mr.. Carmack (Tenn.) said he did not
believe it was ever intended by this
bill to strengthen and reform the cur
rency. The real purpose was to make
all government obligations payable in
gold.
Crime of ex-President Hayes.
The debate was enlivened at this
point by a bout between Mn Brown
(Rep., o. and Mr.. Clark Oem.. MOI
The former resented what he regarded
as slight put upon the memory of the
late President Hayes in some remarks
made by Mr.. Clark earlier in the day.
Mr.. Brown paid a glowing tribute 10
the memory of Mr.. Hayes.
In reply, Mr.. Clark declared that Mr..
Hayes was a counterfeit president.
for whom he had a supreme contempt,
even though he was dead.
He stole the presidency" said he.
the greatest crime in the tide of times.
l wish he could have lived forever and
borne the scorn of decent men to the
end of the world. His sepulchre should
bear the words: This man was guilty
of the monumental crime against hui
man liberty.
Now" concluded Mr.. Clark, as he
retired to his seat, IF they can make
anything out of that, let Them
Mr. Clark's words were received in
silence on both sides of the house. The
debate. then lapsed into dizziness for
an hour.
Later Mr. Lentz CDem.. o. charged
that the pending bill had been prepared
by the $500 national banks, a secret
cennbinat ton that welded more infiu-
ence than the Masonic fraternity, the
Odd Fellows and the Red Men combin-
ed. The bill was intended to increase
the powers of the national banks. All
the rest that was in it was already in
the law.
AS he proceeded. Mr.. Lentz's remarks
became sensational.
Shooting Down Liberty.
1--WE are in favor of nominating Will
liam Jennings Bryan" said he, land
we will put in a plank against trusts,
we will put in a plank against impe-
rialism, and we will put in a plank
against the British alliance, an ALI
ance that is now open and apparent.
Applause on Democratic side) They
are shooting down liberty in South
Africa while you are shooting il down
in the Philippine islands. applause on
the Democratic side)
That IS evidence sufficient that both
governments are operating upon paral-
lei lines. The first blossom of liberty in
the Orient to be cut off by the Repub-
lican party of the United States. the
first substantial struggle for liberty in
Africa to be moved down in its in
fancy by the Queen of England. with
the car asking for a peace confer
ence.
IF things are not inside out, how
can the Republican party stand impo
tent and silent while England has been
shooting TO death a republic in South
Africa and while under the military
and inperialistic powers that patron
age has delivered to the president here,
the crime of crimes is being committed
under the stars and stripes of the
Union
That One Small Tribe.
'.Tie president at Madison, Wis, said
one small fraction of one small tribe
resists our authority in the Orient
Aye, my. friends. with an army there
and on the way of $4,000 men. to sub
due one small fraction of one small
tribe. an army larger than Sherman
needed to march to the sea, an army
larger than Grant needed to take
Vicksburg, is now called into requisi-
ton. and kept there for nearly a year
to subdue one small fraction of one
small tribe. Is that the course of |
their prosperity Is your Egan PEN
sion of s75 for being reduced. degraded
and dishonored: is your beef trust that
murdered 4, 800 men while the Spaniards
only killed $50. is that the source of
your prosperity? applause on the
Democratic side.).
'Is your humiliation and subordina-
ion of the men who won the most mag
nificent naval victory that the world
has ever seen. Winfield Scott Schley. !