St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-28
LIVELY spARRlNd IN THE HOUSE.

MIR. Cannon Pays his Respects 10 Mr.
sulzer of New Work and Wakes Sar-
castle. .
Occasionally the debates in Con.
gress are livened by humor that
makes the pages of the Congressional
Record as interesting as novel.
Here is brief extract from the de-
bate 10 the House on Feb. II:
The general debate was begun by Mr..
Miers, Dem. Ind who used FIVE min
utes to denounce the financial bill Just
passed by the Senate and now in confer
ference. The establishment of the gold
standard, he said was a great injustice
to the people.
Mr.. Sulzer (Dem., N. W presented as a
member of the commission appointed by
| the recent Antitrust Conference at Chi
cago, the protest of that body against
the passage of the Financial bill. He
followed its reading with denunciation
of the Republican party for its subser-
vience to the money power, monopolies
and trusts, as shown in the passage OF
that bill He referred to the presence OF
former Attorney. General Monet of Ohio
at the conference, saying that he had
been punished by the Republicans for en-
forcing the Sherman antitrust law in
Ohio. He prophesied that in November.
under the leadership of that peerless
patriot and leader, William ]. Bryan, the
people would sweep the Republicans out
of power.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Rep.. Ohio) promptly
responded to Suzer. Hesaid he was not
| a candidate for the Vice-P Presidency, and
if be were he would have no opposition
is his Congress delegation. Laughter. ]
MIR. Fitzgerald Dem, Mass. )-Isn't it
true that trusts have greatly increased
within the past few years?
Mr.. Grosvenor-Well, you won't find
trusts and soup houses prospecting to-
gether. You will never see anything ex
cept poverty prospecting under a Demo
cratic Administration. Applause.
Continuing Mr.. Grosvencr said that
all the states except two which had eff
fective antitrust laws were Republican
states; the two exceptions being Mis-
souri, and Texas. AS to Mr.. Suffers
prophecy, Mr.. Grosvenor said that the
people knew that from 1892 to 1896
business languished and poverty abound
ed. 1t wasn't twenty.four hours after
the result of the election in 1896 was
known before business revived and pros
perity returned. The people would vote
for the party that brought them out o
the slough Of despond.
The incident was closed with a deli
cious bit OF satire by Mr.. Cannon (Rep.
lily: II am not exactly on all tours,
he said, with the gentleman from Ohio
| (Grosvenor.) l must confess to NOR
sympathy than he has with the gentle
i. man from New York. Perhaps he is no
informed about the operation of a grea
trust. l am in it and the gentleman fror
New York is in it. We are trying to &c
all the House in it, for it is absolutel
patent that it would be great combine
ton. Here is the gentleman from Ne,
York who was created to look like til
great commoner from Kentucky. Dea
and gone, he has been reincarnated, S
that we have my friend from New Yor
J. as foundation to go upon the ticket, t
? save the country, to save the party, an
n save the world. He comes, you know
r from Tammany; Tammany made hin
e and he jumps when Tammany pulls IL
D string, and has toIerably hard road
] travel. He has wicked colleagues VIII
] were also created by Tammany, but VIII
did not vote with him on this inferno
4 outrageous, evil begotten, damnable bill
. Laughter They have handicappe
him, in part, because, while he JUMP
:, when Tammany pulls The string an
= takes much TOR granted in getting o
this national ticket with Mr.. Bryan,
is Handicapped by these gentlemen, an
{, it is necessary for him to talk two {
" three times here and to 60 to Chicago
$ convince you gentlemen, who are not
harmony with this wicked bill, that
ic is not to blame for what his colleagu
N from New York city did. Why, this
,r the one trust, perhaps, that ought not
n come under the Sherman law or und
ID the New York law. 1t is great trus
Of 1t assemblies here in the House, it ru
over to New York, it journeys abo
,e with Bryan, it goes out to Chicago wi
n. Altgeld and Weaver and Mrs. Gouge
IS and they resolute, you know, and
bears the resolution down. Well, no
r that is necessary, because he ought to
J. on the ticket am for him on the tick'
, Applause and laughter He and ha
T. agreed about it. We are working to
: same end and l appeal to the gentlem
:, from Ohio never again to interrupt t
- operation Of this agreement"