Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-02-06
58TH CONGRESS.
Senate Passes St. Louis Ex-
position Loan Matter.
Matter Of the Distribution of Seeds
Heard in House.
Representative Powers Presides Part
of Time in Lower Branch.

debate in the Senate on the proposed
loan of $i.GO0.0G0 to the st. Louis Ex-
position. which has been in progress on
q point of order for the past three days
came to a close, today, through a vote
which left the provision in the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill which
was passed.
Patterson, Colo, made speech in
which, while he charged the panic of
| 1893 to the anti-silver agitation in this
and other countries, announced that he
| was not in favor of another Democratic
prCnouncement for silver.
After the vote on the deficiency bill
| speeches in support of the Panama ca
nal treaty were made by Mallory of
Florida and Hepburn of Idaho. Sew
eral bills were passed.
In his prayer at the opening of the
| Senate, today, the chaplain, Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, made reference
| to the illness of Senator Hanna, say
ing:
Father, we ask for those who are
| i'll great sorrow; we ask for those who
arc on the bed of sickness, we ask for
| those who minister to thenl-that
Thou will give them life, light and
love-"
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill was laid before the Senate the pro-
vision for the st. Louis Exposition
loan being the immediate question
under consideration and Mr.. Patterson,
Colo, took up the political phase of
the question making especial reply to
Mr.. Foraker. He said that having
noted the want of prosperity on the
part of the trusts and syndicates the
Ohio senator had introduced bill
which if should become a law would
supply that deficiency. Mr.. Patterson
contended that prosperity was not so
much dependent on tariff laws or the
balance OF trade as most people be-
lieve. On the contrary, he found tnat
good times depended more on the vol
ume Of currency than on other causes
decade from 1880 to 1890 to the extern
sive coinage of silver in that period.
This speech covered Mr.. Cleveland's s
first term but Mr.. Patterson declared
that when Democrats contended that
his second term covered a prosperous
period they did violence to the facts
of history. The panic of 1891 had been
the result of the crusade against the
greater circulation of silver both in
the United States, and elsewhere. He
declared that Mr.. Cleveland's last
term was not Il Democrats admins
tration in fact, but that it presented
the spectacle of Democratic, presi-
dent putting Republican politics into
execution.
Mr.. Patterson declared that success
full fight on silver to have been the
forerunner of the CoXey army, and
the other phenomena that followed
the panic of 1898.
Aldrch said that he judged Pat
terson would not look with great favcr
upon another term of Mr.. Cleveland
and Patterson replied that he Ger
tainly would not. in view of the fact
that Mr.. Cleveland had been false both
10 his party and his country" He ad-
ded that Mr.. Aldrich and his party as
sociates should be under lasting obli-
cations to Mr. Cleveland, but that
Democrats could not be expected to
share that feeling. Speaking of the
present era Mr.. Patterson declared
that it had brought prosperity to the
the creation not only of milliOnaires.
but of billionaireS. at the expense of
others. He spoke in strong terms of
admiration of President Roosevelt's
action in connection with the anthra-
cite coal strike and his suits against
the railroad managers, but declared
that in the prosecution of trusts the
Presidents action had been far short
of promises inasmuch as only two or
three actions had been BEGUN. He COM
pared the offenses of Whitaker Wright
to the conduct Of J. p. Morgan and Mr..
Schwab and then entered into the de-
tails of Wright's trial by a British
court and his subsequent suicide, .ad-
ding that there would not Be many
tears shed if some of the great finan-
cial lights who find their habitation in
the United States, should seek the
same ending and from the same cause.
Recurring to the silver issue, Mr..
Mr.. Patterson said that even the people
Of Colorado realized that the issue of
1G to l had been decided against them
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