Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-11
A SPIRITED, BITTER DEBATE
Richardson Accuses the Republican Party
ofselling Out to the Sugar Trust-A
Brilliant Reply Was Maae By
Grosvenor.
The Porto Rico bill passed the House
by vote Of 159 to ISL as amended by
the Senate.

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concluded, Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylvania
one of the leaders of the majority and
member of the committee on rules, pre-
sented a special order as follows:
Resolved, That Immediately upon
the adoption of this resolution, the COM
/ mittee of the whole of the house on the
state of the union shall be discharged
from consideration Of house bill No.
S245 porto Rico bilD and the senate
amendments thereto; that the same
shall be considered In the house until
p. m. Wednesday, April II, when, with
! out delay or other motion, vote shall
be taken on the motion to concur in said
senate amendments in gross. All men,
bers shall have leave to print on the
subject of said bill and amendments for
ten days from the adoption of this
rule"
Upon demand of Mr. Dalze1l the pre-
vious question on the adoption of the
rule was ordered. This gave twenty
minutes for debate on each side under
the rules. Mr. Dalzell said what the
country desired was not debate, but ac-
ton. Mr.. Richardson, the minority
leader, called attention to the fact that
the rule would permit the house to vote
only upon q single proposition.
'If 1t had been possible for the senate
to add to the iniquity Of the original
bill levying Is per cent Dingley duties
on goods going into Porto Rico," Mr..
Richardson said. ut has done so, In the
so-called civil government amendment,
under the guise Of civil government for
the people Of the island" He drew ap-
plause from his Democratic colleagues
by characterizing the president, in the
language Of ex-Speaker Reed, as EN-
peror of Expediency.' Why" Mr.. Rich
ardson asked. had the president. the
secretary of war and the Republican
party changed front upon this whole
question:" For reply he read the state
ment of Professor Schurman. of the
Philippine commission, that trusts had
gone down to Washington and grasped
the Republican party by the throat
He also recalled the statement printed
a short time ago in local newspaper
by Republican member Of the house,
who said that In return for the passage
Of the bill a large contribution was to
be made to the Republican campaign
fund. Mr.. Richardson said that the
newspaper man who wrote the inter-
view was reputable correspondent and
worthy of credence.
Mr.. Babcock of Wisconsin. chairman
Of the Republican congressional cam
paign committee. indignantly resented
the charge of Mr.. Richardson that the
Republican campaign committee re-
ceived money consideration for the
Porto Rico tariff bill.
kept his side in almost continuous ap-
plause. 1t was glorious thing. he said,
to witness the anxiety Of the Democrat
ic party and the mugwump press lest
the Republican party should destroy it.
self. He adored the Democratic party
for making opposition to this bill test
of Democracy. Allegiance to this bill
was now, he said, a shibboleth Of Re-
publicanism. He hurled back in Rich
ardson's teeth the charge of bribery,
which was a lie.
Mr.. Dalxell concluded the debate on
the rule.
The rule on the Porto Rico bill was
adopted--yeas 1853. nays 142; present and
not voting II. This was regarded as
test vote indicating the passage Of the
bill.
The Republicans who voted against
the rule We're: Crumpacker Of Indiana,
Heatwole Of Minnesota. Lane Of Iowa,
Littlefield Of Maine. Lorimer of Illinois,
Mccall of Massachusetts. H. c. Smith
Of Michigan and Warner Of Illinois. The
only Democrat voting for the rule was
Stbley Of Pennsylvania.
It was decided that the time remain
ing. three and half hours. be equally
divided between the two sides, Messrs
Payne and Richardson to control the
time Of their respective sides. Mr.. Wat
son OF Indiana opened the debate.
Mr.. Jones of Virginia made an argu-
ment against the civil government fea-
ture Of the bill. Mr.. Maddox Of Geor-
gia and Williams Of Illinois also op-
posed the bill. The latter charged that
the majority had abdicated to the su-
gar trust. H. c. Smith OF Michigan and
Mr.. Warner of Illinois opposed the bill
on the ground that It was breach Of
good faith which the people would not
tolerate.
Messrs. O'Grady of New York and
Hamilton of Michigan, Republicans,
supported the bill. Mr.. Lorimer (Rep.)
Of Illinois opposed It in speech which
elicited frequent applause from the op-
position. Mr.. Mccall (Rep) Of Massa-
chusetts was the last Republican who
spoke against the bill. He quoted from
the speech by Grosvenor in support Of
his position. Mr.. Mccall said the indig-
| nation over this bill transformed the
whole country into a Boston tea party.
He was followed by Messrs. Swanson Of
virginia and Newlands Of Nevada in
opposition to the bill.
SENATE.
Warrington, April n.-A resolution
was adopted calling upon the president