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Show DOLLIVER DEFENDS INSURGENTS Denies Emphatically That He Is, Against the Republican Party. Washington. Senator Dolliver answered an-swered the critics of the "insurgents" on Monday in a speech delivered in the senate during the discussion of the provision of the sundry civil appropriation ap-propriation bill providing $250,000 to enable the president to gather information infor-mation 'bearing upon the operation of the new tariff law. Beginning with the declaration that the tariff discussion discus-sion had been revived because of the tariff law, Mr. Dolliver declared there was no longer any freedom of conscience con-science or of opinion, such as had once made the Republican party strong. Referring briefly to Speaker Cannon's declaration, "that the insurgents insur-gents should be hanged," he declared he would not treat that remark seriously. ser-iously. Hereafter, said Mr. Dolliver, it was evident that men entering congress must become either understudies under-studies or Ishmaelites. "I reject the terms and shall contend con-tend for independence within the party.1, I do not fight to destroy the party, but to upbuild it," he said. |