| Show BAKER TELLS WAY TO KILL DEMOCRACY says republicans ara showing shrewdest politics in the history of their party washington feb 2 the post office appropriation bill was still under consideration when the house adjourned today the provision for a special mail facilities on trunk lines was in the bill A mild sensation was created by mr baker N Y who sall that the voting 0 mall subsidies was tho way to kill the democratic party air daker denounced certain members 0 his party for having foisted judge parker on them as their candidate tor president that hia candidacy had been initiated and manipulated by following the pas jage of a number of bills of minor importance the post office appropriation bill nas taken up and of the subject of special neail facilities was resumed in supporting the provision mr richardson ala took issue with the statement of sir moon tenn made yesterday that it was southern railway subsidy democrats who wanted special mall facilities and inquired of mr moon it he by implication charged that that those favoring the idea did no because was a gift to the southern railway mr moon disdained disdain ed to answer but instead yielded five minutes to mf hamlin mo who in denouncing the appropriation said it meant simply hurrying of patent medicine advertisements to the southern states morris neb fanley S C and macon ark spoke in a similar vein the former injecting some humor into the discussion by that it the southern railway was an eleemosynary institution the appropriation might be called if it was a bankrupt it might be called charity and it it was a religious corporation it might be called a contribution tor missionary purposes mr overstreet ind in closing the debate declared that any man who voted for the bill on its passage was compelled to vote tor subsidies because the bill was full of them gentlemen be said cannot afford to take umbrage at the word subsidy then turning to mr morris neb who yesterday moved to strike out the provision for special facilities mr overstreet er reminded him that every rural tree delivery route was a subsidy the motion of mr morris to strike out the provision was defeated 77 to mr biker N Y demanded tellers he could muster only ten supporters among them mr williams miss the minority leader finding that tellers had been refused mr baker shaking his alst at those democrats who biad not voted with him and raising his voice to the highest pitch shouted that is the way to kill the democratic party his utterance provoked laughter mr baker attacked alie democratic party and judge parker its candidate baat year he said the republican party was showing today the shrewdest politics it had ever showed it Is he said amid a storm of republican ap giving rope to tho southern democrats and they are hanging themselves he declared that the only reason that the democrats acro members of the party was because of tho negro question referring to judge parker mr baker spoke of him as having been foisted on the party by men like those who supported hu subsidy mr baker said that thomas F ryan went into the southern and told the democrats that dryan had prevented the democratic party from winning for eight years saying come with us and we will the goods other monopolists of the democratic party tang the bame singsong and the southern democrat listened and became responsible for the results of the last do you mean to denounce judge parker as a monopolist asked mr pou N 0 1 I say responded mr baker that judge parkers candidacy was initiated and manipulate dy monopolists when mr baker concluded the house voted down a motion to strike out the provision for special facilities from kansas city to newton kansas on a point of order the provision of to bo paid to the oceanic company tor carrying malls to tahiti was stricken out after a protracted debate an amendment was agreed to allotting out of the appropriation for transporting malls for carrying the mails from san francisco to tahiti un der contract M pay no N Y challenged come figures given by mr overstreet regarding t e trade with cuba and thereby provoked a brief discussion of the subject of reciprocity replying to questions mr payne openly asserted that he did not know of any country that was ready to make a fair and equitable reciprocity treaty ath the united states consideration of the post office bill waa not completed during the day balla were passed aa follows amending the law so us to reduced the amount of bond required of agents acting for on imported goods providing for the construction 01 irrigation and reclamation in certain lakes and rivera in oregon and granting certain lands alth in the flathead indian reservation montana to certain catholic societies for religious purposes authorizing an Amer clan register for the steam lighter pioneer at honolulu at S the house adjourned |
