Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — SORT OF DIGRESSIVE [ARTICLE]

SORT OF DIGRESSIVE

It the Oratory Indulged in by tho House Theta Ante-Elec-tion Days. WILLIAMS HAS WAR PAINT ON Fierce Onslaught Upon the P. O. D.— "Trnete” Also Considered—Van Sant n “Blanket Indian Republican.’’

Washington, March 18. The dlßCUßaion In the house on the postoffice bill continues to be lively to aay the least. While criticising the proposed increase of salaries in the bill Williams of Mississippi said: “Remember this la a department that is absolutely rotten from turret to foundation stone.”

Payne of New York, the Republican leader, asked "Where does the gentleman get his Information?” “I get it from their own office,” said Williams.

Some Warm Exchange*. “Then you don’t get it at all,” hotly retorted Payne. “I do,” warmly replied Williams, “and 1 get it from their charges against themselves, and I get it from the charge contained! In the president’s message, and I get It from the knowledge that prevails in this house • • * and I believe the gentleman from New York believes that there are other divisions in it [the postofflee department] equally corrupt.” Payne said he did not believe anything of the kind and he had not seen a single man who knew anything about it. “And still,” he said, “the gentleman Indulges in this extravagant language that the whole department is rotten.”

Refer* to the Anti-Trust I-*w.

When the hour of adjournment waft at hand when Southwiek of New York, referring to Williams’ former remarks on the subject of trusts, had read an editorial from the New York World saying that the anti-trust law was framed by a Republican, passed by a Republican senate and signed by a Republican president, and that it had remained a dead letter on the statute books during the second term of President Cleveland, the Republicans vigorously applauded.

TITLE FOB GOV. VAN SANT HUsUippl Statesman 8a ye He Is a ■•Blanket Indian Republican.” Williams said he was more than delighted to see the Republican majority on the floor “cheer the hounds on to hunt down the combines and trusts of this country.” He would, he said, be even more delighted if he did not know that “you are very much like the month of March—you come in like lions and go out like lambs,” which created laughter on the Democratic sidle. He added: “I want the country to watch and see how far the applause is going to end in fruition.” One statement in the article referred to, he said, credited this administration as being the author of the prosecution. Tt happened, to be, he declared, “one Van Sant, out in the west somewhere, who started the case and for very shame, after he had gotten the case upon the docket, the administration. prior to an election, could not hold itself still.” Governor Van Sant was a “blanket Indian Republican, and he did not consult headquarters, but precipitated the litigation.” Tawney of Minnesota stirred up a hornets’ nest when he inquired of Williams if he could state ho the Democrats in the Fiftyftrst congress voted when the Sherman law was up for consideration. He declared that every Democrat voted against it. The house at once was in an uproar. Gains of Tennessee, gesticulating wildly, asserted that every one voted for the bill when it was passed in the house, and that it passed the house and senate unanimously. His remark was met by laughter and jeers from the Republican side. He stated that the first bill had been introduced by Teller, and began to give a history of the legislation, when be was interrupted by Tawney, who said that when McKinley presented the rule for the consideration of the anti-trust law the Democrats opposed it

“Ah, get out,” shouted Gaines, amid great confusion. An Inquiry from Grosvenor as to what had become of the postoffice appropriation bill partly restored good order.

BRISTOW BEFORE A COMMITTEE Talks to the House Members About the Report That Raised the Row. Washington, March 18.—Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to testifying before the house special committee on the postoffice report claimed for himself responsibility for only the first seven pages of the report which was sent to the post office committee, and said the other portions of the document were the work of other officials of the department The clerk hire section be said was prepared in the office of the first assistant postmaster general, and that part relatiing to leases by inspectors and others in his own department Bristow’s testimony practically cleared members of congress from wrong-do-ing touching the clerk hire section of the report, by saying that it was the duty of the first assistant’s office to ascertain the condition of the work In an office where an increase had

been recommended. On* csss cits* that of Kris, Kan., was referred to Perry Heath. The Came* es Cyalelan. Cynicism is never a native qnallty of the mind. It always has its birth in some unhappy experience. The young man finds that the girl who has gathered up for him all the harmony and melody of earth rings hollow at the teat, and he drops his lyrical language and becomes cynical of women. The dtlsen of Boston baa naturally grown cynical of newspapers. The candidate for public office who has been definitely retired to private life by being “knifed” at the polls distrusts party politics. A man publishes a novel and thenceforth is cynical of the publishers of novels. Yet theee misfortunes have their salutary aspect. The disappointed lover, generalising bitterly upon the sex, is not always implacable. A cooler Judgment tempers and restores his passion, gives it another object and so guides him to a safer if less gusty and emotional love. The citizen of Boston, the betrayed candidate, the blighted young novelist, all have for their condition, even though they know it not, a valuable compensation, for the very event that has brought them to this pass of reasonable cynicism has stirred their Indignation— yes, in spite of their seeming inertness, indignation Is now smoldering.— Arthur Stanwood Pier in Atlantic.