The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-25

| ton bill in the house to-day, Mr.. john
son, rep, Ind, who fortnight ago
made several notable speeches violent
| ly attacking the policy of the admins
tration during the consideration of the
army reorganization bill, returned to
the assault and delivered against the
president and some of his advisers the
most scathing philippe heard in The
house for months. He sneered at the
president and the influences which he
alleged controlled him, impugned his
motives, questioned his sincerity and
likened him to Dickens most contempti-
BILE character; charged his secretary of
war with incompetency and predicted
that the president would in the end be
engulfed by adverse public sentiment
Although his utterances We're far more
sensational those those in his former
| speeches and dazed some of his audi
tors by the impetuosty with which they
were delivered, the speech did not
raise about him the storm of his for
mer speeches.
Mr.. Landie. one of his republican col
leagues from Indiana, briefly stated to
the house that Mr.. Johnson's colleagues
| had repudiated him, and the two men,
| bers had wordy duel. Later in the
day Mr.. Marsh, rep, ILL.,, replied to some
of Mr.. Johnson's structures. but the re-
publican leaders had evidently decided
| to ignore the attacks of the lndianan
and no general reply was made to mis-
| speech to-day.
The army appropriation bill to-day
was lost sight of in the general discus
| sion of the policy of the government
! relative to the Philippines and several
nota bic speeches were made, especially
4 that of Mr. Settle, DEM, KY General
debate on the bill closed to-day, and to-
morrow the bill will be taken up for
amendment under the tive-minute rule.
| When Mr.. johnson arose for his re-
| marks he at once attracted the atten-
| ton of the house.
| A Hit at Alger.
"A few evenings ago." he began, "the
Home Market club of Boston gave
| banquet, at which the president was the
principal guest. From the newspaper
accounts of the affair, it was an exceed
| fngly elaborate one. The secretary of
war was in attendance, he whom the
, Boston populace had Kissed upon the
! street a few hours before. ere they
| turned to greet with rapturous applause
the chief who had bestowed upon him
i his official character We can hardly
blame them, though for this. Mr. Chair
man, for they were only following The
precedent set for them by some of the
leading republican newspapers of the
country, which for months past have
been fiercely attacking the secretary
| and have lacked the courage to lay their
axe to The root of the evil and censure
the gentleman who, to reward him for
his political services and disbursements
ha MI, ion n
to his present position and has main
tanned him there ever since notWith-
standing his incompetency and against
the righteous complaints that have been
made against him.
THE secretary of the navy also
| graced the occasion with his presence
and so far forgot his usual courtesy, so
far beled his New England training
and associations as to repeat the stale
and untruthful charge that those who
opposed the ratification of the infamous
| treaty of peace with Spain We're respon-
sible for the boodshed that occurred in
the Philippines.
when the chief magistrate had
| ceased speaking, another member of
his official family, the gentleman who
| presides over the postoftice department.
arose in his place, and proceeded to
| load his chief down with an eulogy
| so fulsome and so extravagant so alb
no individual not wholly eaten up with
vanity could possibly have endured it
without nausea and disgust.
1.-The newspapers further inform us
that among the other decorations there
were suspended over the entrance to
the banquet hall three portraits. one
of Washington, one of Lincoln and one
of the president himself, and that be-
meath this was the word Liberators.'
Now, George Washington fought with
his sword for eight long and bloody
years to establish the right of a people
to govern themselves and in his fare
| well address he counSeled his country
| men to live on terms of amity with all
| nations and to enter into entangling
alliances with none.
Studious Misstatement.
abraham I.incoln's whole political
| life was a contention for the rights of
| men, and it was his kindly hand which
penned the immortal emancipation
| proclamation that struck the shaclSles
from the limbs of millions of bondsmen.
| One would think, sir, that the gentle
man who has just then engaged in the
prosecution of a bloody war against
| poor and defenseless people in the
| Orient engaged in the unsavory task OF
Christianizing them with the sword and
| civilizing them at the mouths of
| cannon, would naturally have felt some
! little embarrassment as he gaZed upon
| these portraits and read the significant
inscription below. Possibly his excel
lency did not see them. He may have
turned his back upon them just as he
has turned his back upon the Declara-
ton of Independence. Be this as it
may, sir, the president does not appear
| to have been at all abashed by this in
congruous circumstance, but he arose
| from his seat and there. within the
shadow of the monument of Bunker
| Hill, where Warren fell fighting for
! liberty and within a stones throw of
! Faneuil hall where. time and time
again, the true sons of the Old Bay
state have sent forth to the country