| Show TILT TILl IN THE SENATE aut and w Clash on 0 Pl Question estion LETTER FROM FROM t REMARKS OF OP SOUTH I l DAKOTA SENATOR r 1 New Mew York Yok Man Declares That Again Aguin Aguinaldo aldo aide Carries Carries his Government in His Hat Kat and Petti Pettigrew t Says the Ad AdminiStration miniStration Garbles Report por Debate Dehate Debate on Bill i Washington Feb 7 A lively dispute bet Mr Depew Rep Ken Rep NY N awl ai T Mr Pettigrew Pe Sil Sit Rep R S D was waS the In the tha early proceedings of the senate nate today tedey Mr D pew read a letter from President t itt hu n of ol the Philip pine commission Sally flaUy a Y contradicting statements made by Mr in ina ina a speech several days ago and com corn comm m sarcastically on the methods of oft the t 6 South Dakota senator in introducing ing the evidence of or such men as Pros Pres President ident anti and Admiral D Dewey wey through the theater of Aguinaldo Mr Pettigrew sharply repeated much that he has lisa said heretofore b but hut principally pally pl ly reiterating the statements which had called the denials of both President Schurman and Admiral AdmiralD D way Mr Mt Depew saw saM he had received a aletter alaster letter laster from Professor Schurman with regard rard to the charges of the Sauth Da Dakota kota t senator which he desired to lay l before the senate The letter stated stalled that th was absolutely without foundation foundationS S Senator ator Depew Depots in commenting on the matter said that St the time the speech of at the senator from front South Da Dakota Dp Dakota kota kotwas was being delivered President ident Pre hurman was in the city assisting in tile the preparation of the report port r of f the that Philippine commission and anti WAS com corn competent potent patent to be summoned as a a witness Quotes Dewey Admiral Dewey Dowey whom the senator quoted In support of or his was wa aJ the tha city at his residence rt and w WIt waft a most easily accessible He might have summoned both President Schurman Schurman Schurman man and Admiral Dewey and any statements they mode made with reference to the matter would be unquestionably accepted tad by the tha A American l n people as an astrue astrue true Mr Depew referred r tt to the letter of Dewey eweY presented present by Mr Lodge I denying the statements of Agui AguinaldO Aguinaldo naldo saying that both Dewoy Dewe and Schurman Shurman had absolutely denied the Katem 1 tS attributed to them Before th the statements of or Dewey and Schurman Schurman Schurman man the charges changes I of f Mr Pettigrew ati as Aguinaldo vanished be before fore the American troops This hI transaction said Mr D in J 1 conclusion oIly rs is nothing bet bett better t tat ter Wm lg government the set seat lw of which is Ig in bat hat Mr Pettigrew P who wh b had listened at attentively to Mr Depew Dep w replying said It that thai this government ithe ilie Philippine of offered fared money for to r tie the t e rifles of the InsUrgents InsUrGents gents 1 bUt ut nil rifles fled were turned tUrn d in ex en except copt ceja a I a few f V that th t 4 captured and giver tb tt f tn by Ameri Amen American can in order oder that they may be turned in iii so as to get t et the price offered for fot fa tt them em It Is s quite as welt well w n known that the n commission on of offered Aguinaldo what amounted to toS S sel a ay year ar it if he would lay down his anus anne Information is Garbled I rew continued that the facts ftH l Question ate are be being beIng belag ing lag withheld ant and what information as assent assent sent to us in iR and I charge that t I I we attacked an aa anally ally and made a com corn compact S II pact with th slavery Mr Vr Pettigrew it unfortunate for the Iori that t the whole boIe i of ot Admiral Dewey Deweys De wey letter to Sen ator dge ge had bad been PeeR published pubU h ng in It the thea admiral a he said had I admitted Just ju what he be had changed c d Mr Hoar Mass Mans s asked ked Mr Depew It If he be had understood i that i i T Pr tt Schurman did tid rot t i d das as hondet bon He A read a s verbatim ad drem dras of President Schurman hi m which said Aguinaldo was h n Mr Depew replied that Ahat he hf had no further information than was contained f Is a President letter Mr Turner Wash W ih then entered upOn a discussion of ef th the financIal bill I He that the pa the pending bill would be a deliberate deUber delibe ate te blow i ito to silver TJi was put forward he said by the Republican an party in the in iii interests 1 tere of the moneyed classes Republican Financial Plank Mr Turner T ridiculed the efforts eff of Republican statesmen to claim the au authorship authorship authorship of the financial plank of the St Louis platform I would as soon have the credit of oC a smooth and successful confidence man he be said as to be known as the author oL e money plank in ip the last Republican lican licen platform If It a bunco game gam was ever played it was when the people were induced by that plank to vote rote Mc McKinley McKinley Ic Kinley into the presidential chair He praised the Democratic national platform of 1896 1 and declared the Jea leader ler of the convention of that year was him himself i self an inspiration and a platform and that the next campaign would be that thit of 1886 over again Mr Ir Bate Tenn followed in a speech in favor of Dr bimetallism and in opposition tion to the proposed opo p gold standard Mr Allen who spoke next next said MId the money question was the most momen momentous momentous tous tons before the people today and de tie declared declared his adherence adhereD to free coinage at atthe atthe atthe the ratio of 16 1 to 1 THE DAY IN m THE TB HOUSE Speeches Made Ar ie on Philippine and I Transvaal Subjects Subject Washington Feb 7 Th house fin I t diplomatic vi d dpI and consular ap appropriation hia W today tOO pawing K Jt aub uh as u it come onie from the commit committee committee tee i I There w tj some desultory di ion ms lon of ot the question and aRd the war I j i I in Snut Sou the principal feature j being ng lb h of Mr in lii i 1 fayer of ot in the war wr under the of The Hague H u treaty Th The bill hill as passed i j i Although general eral debate dehate closed ed yes yesterday j I by ur r e Mr Sh t roth Cote Cole was allowed in which h to complete a 1 made mad Cek week in jo favor of by the States in the South SouthA African A war W r rUnder i Under The Hague Hape I e treaty he he contend contended ed ed England could not ton neider ider an offer of mediation an unfriendly act In re xe reply reply ply to questions he insisted the South African Republic was an inde independent independent I pendent government notwithstanding Great claim of suzerainty While the British h were demanding relief in 11 l the South African republic he be bemid said mid Dutch Dutch Duck reSidents re of British Guiana bon borr up upon m British soil epil who are not allowe to bold hold official positions po in the executive or Judicial branches of the colonial government were peti petitioning petitioning for tor relief Their eases cases a were al almost almo almost most mo t analogous to those th ee of the Outland Outlander er er ens in the Transvaal yet Great Britain Britan l to listen to the Dutch in her awn own coon Mr S said he did not ot avo aho advocate rate cate ate armed intervention intel or even et n media mediation me ia tion Uon but only the tender of our good offices a under section 3 of The Hague HIlo ue Mr Grosvenor 0 p replied br ft to Ir saying the of or orbe The be be Hague treaty have not been i e n ex tX dhan He said Mh be he sympathized d with Til any people pt ole struggling for liberty He Het set t in a roar with the he suggestion tion tio waft thai a committee of or members at salaries salaried of O 00 each b be appointed to rosin roam roam over the earth to discover where wrongs wron have been com committed committed fl and to report to the house in ORiel order that ht the tile United States might go goto goto goto to war evee time we the kin kinor ot any of our constituents were BY A VOTE on Bill For Election of Senators Washington Feb 7 A minority re xe report repOrt port has fias been made to the house on the bill WH for tor the electiOn of senators b by bythe the people It concurs with the prin principle ciple of OIl the but bill but urges urges direct elec Olee elections elections lions without awaiting ap approval j for a change of system sst m as pro proposed posed pored po d by the majority j The report states that there is 15 wide widespread widespread widespread spread public tot for the el election of senators in by a n sense of righteous indigestion aroused by ac accusations j n of or a ked methods some sometimes sometimes times employed by bi whose ambitions lead them to seek reek a seat in inthe inthe Inthe the United States senate Under such circumstances es Rucker Bucker and nd Zeigler who sign the re report re report report port say the time has come when the exalted position of or United States Staten sena senators senaI tors tots shall shaU not be open to the th suspicion I of being purchasable ble |
