Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-28

dltlOn oil cars Oh y uic o'' A"N"'
resolution was adopted.
Hemcnway UndD, from the comnllt-
tee on appropriations reported Il re5o-
luton requesting the secretary Oh va.
for Il statement showing the amount
of money distributed by his department
in promotion of flying machine expert
ments and construction whether uiiuei
, the direction of Professor ). L. Lang
, ley or otherwise, with recomlfielod-
ton by the committee that 1t De idiu
upon the table The committee III It's
report said the information sought was
fully given in the report OF the poafu
ordnance for Notifications.
H,menway had read the law con-
corning the admiration for expert
ments under the board of ordnance
and fertilization. Hitchcock (Nep.),
,Ithor of the resolution contcndec
against extravaganza. He asked why
, D.. modern Darius Green should be cs-
| tablished at national expense, ana III
sisted that the information sought IN
his resolution should be furnished the
| House.
| Robinson. Ind, said:
| 1--WE should strike directly at that queer
| scheme of aerial navigation whereby d
scientific promoter, encouraged by eNccu-
tive officers if not by Congress. raised
! the high expectation of the pubic ana
his demand for money We're granted only
To have the venture ran ii'st IT,, :, tbo hand
of wasteful adventure and strike down
| such costly bubbles.
| Continuing he SAID: we should frame
| our appropriation bills so unSuspecting
| government officials susceptible to hEp-
motto influence dreams may not be led
laStray''
| was laid on the table.
The House went into committee or the
| whole and resumed consideration OF the
urgent deficiency bill.
| Burkctt Ncb.. speaking on party ISSUES
said the Democrats would know whether
| they will talk free silver or the gold
standard until after their convention at
p, St Louis and they learn who is To con-
troll the par;y-the gentleman from Ne
| brasla or the rcorgdniZers
| Asked if the Republicans We're going to
stand for the prosecution of trusts Burk-
EFT declared that every anti trust law on
| the statute books had been enacted by
| Republicans and every prosecution con-
Quoted under Republican adminiStration-
| Asked how much of the $J00.tNo had been
Iurkrtt said all that was necessary.
C. T.. Lands. Ind. remarked that it was
81 11 more than had ever been expended
hy Democrats for that purpose.
Cochran, Mo. in a brief reply to Rurllctt
paid his respects to j. i'ierpont Morga n.
IThc financial policy inauguratcd by PrCSi-
dent Cleveland. he said. cmanatc,i from
| no political party but from IL cotefic nj
| gentlemen who then and since then had
been the advisors of Presidents. and who
| had, by their vicious financial logisla-
| ton of 1885 and up to 1896 brought upon
this great continent the deSolation of a
| desert. and have now followed 1T up by
Numbering every man of small means and
every small investor in their ne;shbor-
hood.
1T should be remembered that if any
| man more than any Other WAS moro con-
| spicuous in further promoting the finan-
| cial policy of Grover Cleveland it was
John licrpont Morgan. Il man who has
| sunk from the condition of advisor of
| Presidents and inventor of financial leg
| iSla ton to the level of the man with Il
| gold brick to sell or Il confidence man
with three cunning little shells at a coun-
ty fair
| Hardwick Ga, speaking on the race
| problem. rejoiced at tn" happy relation
| now existing between the North and the
| South.
| Reviewing the voting qualifications i'm
| posed by constitutional action in South
crn states. IIardwick said it was not be
were in conflict with tn" 18th amendment.
| He said the negro must stand on his
| merits as d citizen. There never had been
any disposition in the South to deprive
not he political equality, he added. He
quoted statistics and said it was shown,
| that as illitcracy decreased among the
| race. criminality increased. from which he
| deducCd that education was detrimental
| rather than beneficial to the negro.
| Reference to election methods i'm South
| ern states precipitated numerous COLO
| ouieS between Lands and Williams. Miss,
| and several others on the minority side.
| In closing IL political speech. Lands
| Ind. said:
| Il do not lay claim to having been the
| original Roosevelt man, Years ago ] an
tagonized him and his ideas and it came
| to he a habit with me to say harsh things
| about. But | have changed my mind
| with reference to Theodore Roosevelt.
know how fCarfully l had misJudsed him
| when | read bulletins which told how
| he. the target for hundred SharpshOot-
crS had given a modern exhibition of that
| heroic valOr which has compelled all ma
tions to subscribe to the verdict that the
American volunteer is the greatest SOL
dicr on earth.
lit is said that he intorfered in the an
thracitc coal strike He did A coward
| in the White House would not have spok-
en-. brave man was there and he spoke
and sacrificed some of the dignity of his
| office but won the thanks and confidence
OF his countrymen.
And his conduct in the Panama affair
will place him so far beyond the reach
| of the plottcrs in the Democratic party
| as to absolutely insure his vindication in
November"
At the conclusion of IandiS' speech the
| House adjourned until tomorrow.