The age-herald., 1900-02-18
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 STAR PERFORMER House Passes Legislative and Ju- diCial Appropriation Bill. SULZER ATTACKS TRUSTS His Remarks Referred to by Grosvenor as Political Garbage"-Accused
 Sulzer of Having Been. on
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SULZER ATTACKS TRUSTS

ternoon the house passed the legislative and judicial appropriation bill, after hav- ing 1t under consideration four days. A spirited colloquy between MT. Sultzer dem ocrat of New York, and MT. Grosvenor, re- publican of Ohio, was the feature of the days session. Fresh from the antitrust conference in Chicago, MT. Suzer directed the attention of the house to the "monster monopolies," which, he said. were being fostered by the republican administration. He adverted in passing to Ohio politics.
 These utterances drew the fire of General Grosvenor, who referred to ''political, gar bage'' which MT. Sulzer had brought back to Washington after his "hippodroming tour'' through the west as a. vice-president- ial candidate. The civil service appropria- ton which was stricken out of the appro- priation bill in the committee of the whole, was restored in the house by vote of n to 12s.
 When the house convened the speaker an- nounced the appointment of James H. Davidson, of Wisconsin, as chairman of the committee on railways and canals.
 The house then resolved itself into committee of the whole and resumed con- sideration of the legislative appropriation bill.
 In order to present his views upon trusts and the financial bill which is now in con- ference, MT. Miers of Indiana, offered an amendment. He antagonized the provision of the financial bill which authorized na- tonal banks to issue currency, and de- nounced the fastening of the gold standard upon the people as a glaring iniquity. He declared that the retirement of the green backs and the placing of national banks above the government was the completion of the most wonderful thunder of the age.
 Thirty O oir Trusts
 Afr. Miers declared that after the passage of the Mckinley tariff law, thirty -four new trusts were organized and Since the Me Kinley administration had assumed power and the Dingley law had gone into effe1t 200 of such monsters" had raised their heads in the country with a capital ag5gre- gating seven billion dollars.
 MT. Mier's remarks precpftated a lively political deIoafe, participated in by MT. Sul- ger, of New York MT. GrosNenor, of Ohio, and MT. Cannon, of Illinps. MT. Sulzer, after directing attention to the recent anti-trust conference held in Chica- go, deohared 'thdt the trusts lwere not only doing irreparaibe injury, butiwere doing it through the backing of a republican admin istration.
 ''The administration, !" sa.d the, "is respon- sible for the trusts It stands sponsor for them, and refused to do anything to sup press them. The greatest of all these trusts is the money trust, and the confer ence att Chfcdgo nnarianfbdsly 9eondenned the gigantic iniqutty.'' t iF
 MT. Sulzer then had read 'the resolutions passed by the antitrust conference. He said: "I desire to say to the gentleman CMr Grosvenor) that the chairman of that conference was a former attorney general of Ohio-Mr. Monett. wi1o was turned down by the republican boss Mark Hanna, be- cause he had the courage of his convictions and instituted action against the Standard Oil company. If the attorney general of the United States was honest enough to do his duty every trust in the country would be broken, and if Mr. Monett had been backed by his party, the Standard Oil monopoly would now be out of the business" In conclusion, Mir Sulzer dared the re- publicans to pass the financial bill. It would be signal to the American people to rise up and put in the White House "that peerless statesman and man of ire proachable character, William J. Bryan" Grosvenor Replied Humorously Mir. Grosvenor, of Ohio, replied in hu- morous vein, adverting to MT. Sulzers as- pirations to the vice presidency, and saying bhat after MT Sulzer 'fhad been hippo droming about the country he had come back to Washington loaded with lot of political garbage"
 In answer to question of MT. Sulzer,
 
 mated for attorney-general of Ohio be- cause he had already served two terms, and stepped aside in answer to an un- written law of Ohio republicans. He re- ferred to MT. Monett "a very bright young man." and declared that Senator Hanna had not had the slightest thing to do with what MT. Sulzer had termed MT. MoneItts turning down. The Ohioan paid a tribute to AttorneyGeneral Griggs, declar- ing that a ''better lawyer and a clearer hog led ad drnin nj Str tnr of inc 1,od been known in the department of justice"
 He closed by saying the democrats had ample opportunity between 1892 and 1896 to enforce the antitrust law, but had failed to do so.
 ''The American people know that" he said, "and they know, too, that between 1892 and 1896 business broke down, people starved and everything in general went to the devil"
 In reply, MT. Sulzer said: 'sThe Ameri- can people will not accept the brutal dic- tation from the gentleman from Ofiio Grosvenor, and his master, Mark Hanna"
 MT. Cannon poured oil on the troubled waters in an amusing spev.h, in which he appealed to the belligerents to permit little public business to be transacted to fool the people" CLaughter).
 MT. Cromwell, of Ohio, offered an amend ment providing that the head of any de- partment upon whose rolls the name of any employe or clerk permanently incapacitated from performing service appears shall re- port the names to the civil service commits sion in order that an employe or proper ca- pacity may be designated for the service The amendment was adopted.
 An amendment was offered by Mr Hit, of Illinois, providing that permission be given to G. D. Richardson, representative . from Tennessee, to compile, edit and puib- fish the state papers and diplomatic corre- spondence of the late Confederate States, and 1t was adopted after an explanation that no expense attached. to the govern meypt d fze
 The committee then rosea and the bill was favorably reported to the house. The amendments were agreed to with the ex- ception of bhat striking out the arpropria- ton for the civil service. On rising vote the amendment was defeated by q vote of s3 to 4s The yeas and nays were ordered
 The amendment was lost by 2 vote of T 10 123. The 6ill was then passed without division. At 3:55 D. m. the house ad- journed.
 Judge Buckner Dead