The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-01

citizens now receive in the South at the
hands of the Democratic party in shoot
ing submission into them, forcing them
10 give up their (politicaD citizenship. ZAP
plause on the Republican side)
-If you want to learn how the consent
of the governed Is obtained in a larger
field right here at home. just read the re-
ports of the contested election cases which
come up here annually from the Southern
states. Why. sir, they vote men down
there who have been dead for five years.
They stun ballot boxes. They bulldoZe and
they adopt any measure and go 10 every
extreme to accomplish their purpose.
80 Mr.. Speaker, knowing all these facts
as / know them. | do not attach any inn
portance whatever TO the inconsistent ar
guments OF this constitutional expounder
or to the sympathy rae ket' of the oppo-
sition.n
Richardson, the minority leader, chal-
lenged some OF Statues statements rela-
tive to the advantage which the latter
claimed accrued to the country from the
passage of the Dingley war.
Richardson contrasted the appropriations
Immediately preceding the Spanish war
with thbse during and subsequent to II.
contendinH that the latter exceeded the
former BY $500, 90 900 annually. 'That sum. "
said he. represents the cost OF the empire
over the cost OF the republic"
Does not the gentleman concede that
much of the expense for the coming year
grows out OF the insurrection in the Phil
ippines7' asked Hemenway.
Il do replied Richardson. but the
insurraction grows out OF the empire"
Hemanway replied to Richardson. He
said he was surprised to hear the Demo
cratic leader denouncing excessive expen-
ditures. The Democrats had shouted for
war. he said. before It was declared: now
they were denouncing the expenses the
war entailed. Hemenway challenged the
other side to point out single item Of ex-
travaganee In any OF the appropriation
bills
In reply to this challenge Fitzgerald
Massachusetts, and Jett cited the promo
ton and immediate retirement OF high Of
fcers In the army.
Hemenway offered the record of the sol
diers 80 retired in justification.
Replying to Richardson's assertion that
the interests of the wool growers had been
disn strously affected by the Dingley law.
Hemenway said no one ever had to ex-
plain why everything went up under the
Wilson law.
william Alden Smith, OF Michigan. pro-
duced figures to show that the price of
sheep had doubled under the Dingley law
Bell declared that the extravaganza Of
the present administration was without
parallel In the history Of the country.
Fitzgerald denounced the Republican
party for not being able TO repress trusts,
which, he said were enjoying the princl-
pal prosperity existing In the country to-
day. and declaring great dividends on the
capital invested.
Lowering. reverting to Richardson's state
ment concerning the price OF wool. admit
ted that wool had been higher abroad since
the passage OF the Dingley act
"But" he said. the reason was mani
fest to those who understood the condi-
tons, Between the election In 1896 and the
passage OF the law enormous quantities of
wool had been imported In anticipation OF
higher tariff, That stock was now ex-
hansted. and the wool growers from now
on would receive the benefits OF the tariff
which the heavy anticipatory importations
| prevented"
The blu was then passed without amend
ment
resolution was adopted re-electing the
present board OF managers OF the national
soldiers home.
The minority OF the committee on mer-
chant marine and fisheries we're given until
April 20 to nle their views on the ship
subsidy bill
AT 5'o6 .. m, the house adjourned.