The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-18

favor % sulssr. He was more concerned
with the abatement that ne should take
his scat on the other side because he had
changed his position.
II claim equal honors for both positions.
I believed In 1S96 that bimctaliiem was
sacred, but events have 80 changed con-
dltions by enormous production sof gold
that the price level Tor which both the gen.
tiemen from Missouri Clark and I were
striving was raised.
Free silver II Ridiculous.
"The cause held sacred then has be-
come ridiculous. I believe II the Demo-
not be able to write single line of IMAM
cial legislation in the next six years. !
am striving to do something practicable
and helpful. II the Democratic party Ia to
live 1t must have q policy. 1t must do
something besides carping and faultfinding.
II II will adopt policy / will keep step
with It. hut II It invites me to a banquet
of carping and faultf1nding 1t will have
to excuse me-" cloud Republican APP
plausc.)
Hepburn Arraigns sulser.
Hepburn caustically arraigned sulzer for
his alleged misstatements in the face OF
Secretary Cages report. He denounced
him for alleging that Secretary Gage had
admitted violation OF the law. There ought
not to be an investigation of the secre-
tary OF the treasury. but there ought to
be a public rebuke of a member who dis
torted the truth, who distorted the facts,
and Who'll siandered honored public Of
ficials. Republican appiausc.)
Star Route Contractors.
Speaking to a pro forma amendment to
the bill itself. Norton directed attention
to what he termed the outrageous meth
DDS of certain star route contractors in
enticins ignorant subcontractors into
contracts which they could not fulhll with
out loss
He produced the documents in . case
where a young man had agreed to carry
mail over route for four years for
certain sum, under the impression that his
service was only to run six months.
Animated Colloquy Over the War.
Terry and Cannon became involved in
controversy toward the close Of the
session.
Terry denounced the war In the Philip
pines as criminal.
Cannon said the appropriation Of $45.-
100000 in the bill was to support the army
unfolding the nag, and suppress the in
surrection.
Terry said he was willing to support the
flag. His denunciation was Of the pur-
poses of the war. He tainted the Republic
cans with forever wrapping the nag about
them and crying Patriotism"
Cannon declared that defamation
amounted to nothing. II anyone was op-
posed to the appropriation for the support
Of the army, here was the time and place
to make It known. He defed anyone on
the other side to move to strike it out.
In response to this challenge Williams
replied in brief and eloquent speech.
There was not an American citizen, he de-
clared, in or out Of the house, who was
disloyal to the nag of his country. The
gentleman from Illinois. with his accus-
toned shrewdness, had issued challenge,
well knowing that there was not man
in the house. no matter how bitterly OPP
posed he might be to the imperialistic
policy, who would raise his hand against
our soldiers fighting in the field. whether
the struggle in which they were engaged
was right or wrong.
williams Believes In the Filipinos.
1T believe" said he, .that the people
out there, against whom they are fight
ing, are struggling for their liberty. but
when my country lines up for the fray l
am with 1t. He has issued a safe chai-
lenge. But am tired of this miserable
subterfuge, by which 1t is attempted to
confuse loyalty to the flag with loyalty to
the policy in which the flag Is disguised"
Great Democratic applause)
Men had a right to oppose policy Of
war He cited the example Of Burke and
Chatham, great men who had never re-
fused to vote supplies for war, but who
had stood up in the house of commons day
after day, entering their protests against
the war waged against our ancestors be-
cause they believed 1t wrong. The history
of the Old World held its lesson. AS
Byron had said, first came liberty, then
glory, then splendor, then corruption. de-
cay and death.
Whenever the people forgot that the
province of government was to make the
individual happy, to make the government
splendid and the flag glorious, the people
were on the first rung of the ladder in
their descent. There was glory of the
nag in devotion to what was free, right
and Just, and there was pseudo-glory
of the flag which manifested itself in the
worship of the flag. He would vote all
the men and guns and ammunition need
ed to restore peace. And when we had
peace he would have the great American
republic say to the poor brown people
across the seas: 1--WE will stand by you
until you are able to stand alone"
Several amendments by Lentz and 9TH
ers to increase the appropriation for ru-
raj free delivery were voted down. The
bill was then passed without division.
At $40 p. m. the house adjourned until
o'clock tomorrow.