The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
TO GET RECIPRO CITY.
Ball, of Texas, Gives the Major
ity a Pointer.

W aSnlQzl0Q, June G4.-SOIne routine
business was transacted in the house
today prior to the resumption of the
debate upon the Philippine civil gov
eminent bill. Bills were passed to es-
tablish a SUPPORT of entry at Naco,
Ariz. to appropriate So, 900 annually for
the support and maintenance of the
permanent international commission of
the congress of navigation; to authorize
the director of census to compile sta
tisties regarding irrigation.
Mr.. Ball (Tex.), the first speaker on
the Philippine civil government bill to-
day. made a general onslaught upon the
Republican policy Taking Pecksniff as
his text he charged the president and
administration with hypocrisy. If the
president would dissolve the firm OF
''Havemeyer. Root. Wood. Thurber &
Co" and strike a blow at the sugar
trust by agreeing to accept the house
Cuban reciprocity bill, ne said the bill
would pass the senate by the aid Of
solid Democratic vote in q hours The
responsib iity for the failure to do our
duty by Cuba, he insisted, rested on the
president.
Turning to the question of trusts, he
also charged the administration with
hypocrisy on that subject.
Has the gentleman read Mr.. Bryan's
comment upon the Democratic harmony
dinner in New York; asked AR. Ohm
sted Cva9
I decline to answer such an imperti-
nent question" replied Mr.. Ball amid
Republican laughter.
What is your remedy for trusts ?"
asked Mr.. Littlefield (A1e.)
To place all trust-made products on
the free list responded Mr. Bell; ITO
deny trusts the power of interstate
transportation and the use Of the mails
and to inaugurate an administration
which will resort to penal statutes and
not to injunctions in the prosecution Of
trusts"
In charging the Democrats with as
sailing the army in the Philippines, Mr.,
Ball charged that the Republicans we're
hypocritical.
Like hyenas," he said, you go down
into the grave to Islander the armies Of
the south and Of the north to try to
make the American believe the soldiers
of both armies were guilty Of the sort
OF atrocities that occurred in the Phil
ippines. denounee your statements as
caIumnies and ISLANDERS upon both arm
les
Mr. Lands. Qnd) who followed Mr.
Bali. made an earnest speech IN sup
port of the policy of retaining the Phil
ippine islands. He drew a touching pic
ture Of the deathbed scene of a soldier
Who died in his home town last October
and who said to Mr. Lands before he
died: We soldiers who served in the
Philippines do not want to have it said
in the years TO come. we followed a
retreat ting flag.
In that utterance. Mr.. Lands said,
was the true philosophy of the situa-
ton. And" he added, amid Republic
can applause. 1t viii not be said in the
years to come that our brave boys fol-
lowed a retreating flag.
THE Democrats urged on the war
with Spain and they helped to ratify
/ the treaty which gave the Philippines to
the United States"
Mr. Lands engaged in a sharp pas
| cribed Mr.. Clark, after war was de-
/ clared as charging up and down the
aisle, boasting that the Democrats had
taken the Republican party by the
scruff of the neck and dragged it into
war
This drew from Mr. Clark a challenge
| to Mr.. Lands to place in his speech the
name of the IS Republicans whom he
! described as the kicxerS and who, he
said, went to President Mckinley and
| threa tened to vote with the Democrats
to recognize the independence of Cuba
unless he sent the right kind of a mes
sag to congress.
THAT is a fiction - cried Mr. Lands,
while Mr.. Cooper (Wis) who said he
was a member of the committee that
waited upon President Mckinley, de-
MED that any such conversation occur
red. On the contrary, he said, the COM
4 mittee tod the president that they were
! willing to abide by the decision of the
! administration
/ tatement that Mr.. Clark had boosted
that the Democrats had dragged the
Republicans into the war.
That's what we did" shouted Mr..
Clark.
And then when the war came with
| its problems, consequences and respon-
| sibnities." flashed back Mr.. Lands,
| you turned your backs and ran away.
A tremendous burst of applause
greeted this reply. For fully a minute
it continued unchecked by the presiding
| officer.
There is not a word of truth in that
statement" retorted Mr. Clark when
/ the applause died away
And that is not all returned Mr..
Lands. They not only turned their
backs and ran away but they are run
ming yet" (Renewed Republican ap-
plauSe.)
That statement is not true, either
cried Mr. Clark.
When Mr.. Lands referred to Mr.
Clark's former criticisms Of Grover
Cleveland the Missouri member correct
ed him and declared, THE second cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland was the great
est calamity that has befallen the hu
man race since the fall of Adam"
Didn't you vote for him?' queriet
Mr. Lands
great laughter. and that IS one thins
I expect to pray almighty God to giv'
me absolution for on the day Of judg
ment-"
MI Lands gave description OF INT
Missouri delegation and Mr. Clark sing
ing Grover, Grover, four years mor'
of Grover and then well be in clover
Recent events had shown, he said tina
the Democratic managers were looking
for q new leader. Who was it to be
The peerless leader apparently wal
about to move from $1,000 to a $500
house and retire from public life.
1T looks very much asserted Mr.. Ian
/ dis "as though Grover Cleveland was tt
be the man. and if he is the gentleman
from Missouri again will be heard in th'
chorus Grover, Grover. four years NOR
Of Grover
cbar1az pie Married