The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-07

Washington, February 2.-The post
office appropriation bill was still u1I-
der consideration when the House ad-
%journed today. There was a renewal
of yesterdays discussion over special
mail facilities on trunk lines, The pro
A mild sensation was created by M.
Baker, Of New York, who said that
the voting of mail subsidies was tie
way to kill the Democratic party. MI.
Baker denounced certain members of
his party for having foisted Judge
Parker upon them as their candidate.
for President, saying that his candi-.
dacy had been initiated and manipu-
lated by monopOlists. Mr.. AXE said
the Republican party was showing TO
day h shreWdest politics it ever
showed. "It is" he said, amid a
storm of Republican applause, "giv-
ing rope to the Southern Democrats
and they are hanging themselves" He
declared that the only reason they
were members of the House was be-
cause of the negro question.
Mr.. Baker said that Thomas F.
Ryan wEnt into the Southern States
and told the Democrats that Bryan
a prevented the Democratic party
from winning for eight years, saying:
Come with us and we will deliver the,
goods" Other m~OnOpOlists of the
Democratic party sang the same siren
song, and the Southern Democrats
listened and became responsible for
the results of the last election.
DO o mean to d]enounce Judge
Parker as a m~onopolist p" asked Mr..
Pou, of North Carolina.
Il say" responded Mr.. Baker,
that Judge Parker's candidacy was
initiated and manipulated by monop-
Olists.'
The proposition for special mail
facilities from Washington to Atlanta
and New Orleans was warmly sup
ported by Mr.. Bankhead, of Alabama,
who contended hat the phenomenal
development of the South was attr:b-l
utable in large part to that provisicnI
of law. Quite the contrary view, how
ever, was taken by Mr.. Gaines. of
Tennessee, who charged that the peo-l
pie were paying he fiddler, while the
railroads were doing the dancing. I'M
his opinion it was subsidy and beside
was not needed.
In supporting the provision, Mr..
Richardson, OF Alabama, took issue
with the statement of Mr.. Moon, OF
Tennessee, made yesterday that it was
Southern railway subsidy Democrats
who wanted special mail facilities and
enquired of Mr.. Moon if he by i'm
plicatiOn charged hat those favOring
the idea did so because it was a gift
to the Southern railway. MI. Moon
disdained to answer, but instead yield
ed five minutes to Mr.. Hamlin, of Mis-
souri,. who in denouncing the aprro~
priation said it meant the hurryins
of patent medicine advertisements tol
the Southern States. Messrs. Norris,
of Nebraska, Finley. of South Caro-
lima. and Moon, of Arkansas. spoke In
similar vein. the former injecting 0r1e
humor INTO the discussion by STATING
that if the Southern railway was an
eIeemosynary railway institution, ire
appropriation might be called phllan-I
thTOpV; II it was q bankrupt II HtiSiit
be called charity, and if it was a re-
ligious corporation it might be called
a contribution for missionary pu"-
poses. But, he said, by whatever
name it may be called there was no
necessity. for it.
Mr.. Finley objected to the item be-
cause other roads were not granted
similar appropriations and because he
said the service was a hindrance to the
general distribution of the Southern
mail.
on being put to a vote the molten
OF Mr.. Morris to strike out the pro-
vision was defeated II to 115.
Mr.. Payne. of New York. discuss-.
ing trade with Cuba, said in answer
Ito Mr.. Finley, of South Carolina, that
all reciprocity treaties We're not bad
out he would say they all had been
kJug-handIed.
The House adjourned until tomor-
row.
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