Bismarck daily tribune., 1902-06-25
DEBATE D. ! ON PHILIPPINE BILL
The Administration Comes in for
Severe Roast at the Hands Of
Representative Ball.
Sharp Passage Between Mr.. Lands of
Indiana and Mr.. Clark Of
Missouri
New York Retail Butchers Getting
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washington, June 25.-Some rou-
tine business was transacted in the
house prior to the resumption of the
debate upon the Philippine civil gov
ernment bill. @ l34e.
Mr.. Ball (Tex.), the first speaker on
the Philippine civil government bill,
made general onslaught upon the
Republican policy. Taking Pecksniff
as his text he charged the president
and the administration with hypocrisy.
II the president will 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, he said, the bill
would pass the senate by the aid of
solid Democratic vote in twenty-four
hours. The responsibility for the fail
ure 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 and in an
swer to Mr.. Littlefeld's question: s..
What is your remedy for trust?" he
said:
ITO place all trust-made products on
the free list, to 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 injunctions in
the prosecution Of trusts"
/. MI. Lands Ind), who followed Mr.
Ball, made an earnest speech in sup
port of the policy of retaining the Phil.
ippine islands.
Interesting Political Passage.
He engaged in sharp passage with
Mr.. Clark (Mo.). He described Mr..
Clark, after war was declared, as
charging up and down the aisle boast
ing 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 eighty-fve Republicans whom
he described as the kickers and who,
he said, went to President Mckinley
and threatened to vote with the Dem
ocrats to recognize the independence
of Cuba unless he sent the right kind
of message to congress-. d. VI. II
That is a fiction cried Mr.. Ian
dis, while Mr.. Cooper (Wis.), who said
he was member of the committee
that waited upon President Mckinley,
denied that any such conversation oc-
CURED. On the contrary, he said, the
committee told the president that they
were willing to abide my the decision
of the administration Mr. Lands
thereupon repeated his statement that
Mr.. Clark had boasted that the Dem
ocrats had dragged the Republicans
into the war
That's what we did, shouted Mr..
Clark. IT,.
And then when the war came with
its problems, consequences and re-
sponsibilities, flashed back Mr. Ian.
dis. "you turned your backs and ran
away. 5s@
A tremendous burst of applause
greeted this reply. For fully a minute
1t continued unchecked by the presid-
ing officer. 4 ....a y T. -ia..ss ss.r:.+. g.,r<
p There is not a word of truth in that
statement" retorted Mr.. Clark when
the applause died away. Il.
+ Says Democrats Are Still Running. Z.
"And that is not all, returned MI.
Lands, they not only turned their
backs and ran away but they are run
ming yet" Renewed Republican ap-
plause1. ...s5 "
statement is not true either"
cried Mr.. Clark. 4 =, ,xs
\ When Mr.. Lands referred to Mr..
Clark's5 former criticisms of Grover
Cleveland the Missouri member cor
rected him and said s'the second elec-
tion of Grover Cleveland was the great
est calamity that has befallen the hu
man race since the fall of Adam. - T..
8 Didn't you vote for him?" queried
Mr.. Lands. Il. &
Yes, z responded Mr.. Clark, amid
great laughter, and that is one thing
expect to pray Almighty God to give
me absolution for on the day of judg-
ment. III
Mr.. Lands gave description of the
Missouri delegation and Mr.. Clark
singing, Grover, Grover, four years
more Of Grover, and then we'll be in
clover" Recent events had shown, he
said, that the Democratic managers
were looking for a new leader Who
was 1t to be? The peerless leader ap,s
parently was about to move from a
SIS, 700 to a $4,000 house and retire
from public. It looks very much, 7,
asserted Mr.. Lands, "as though Grover
.Cleve veland was to be the man, and if
he is, the gentleman from Missouri
again will be heard in the chorus.
Grover. Grover, four more years Of
Grover. = n, s
Change Of Wind Saved Town.
Salida, Colo. June 25.A forest fire
Is raging near the mining town of Gar