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6 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. June 14, 1900 WILUE AND -I or ltti u r'- -Nt-w 0r Sore s e W?cccj or Wen's and Boys' View, Stylish Spring Clothing, Heady to Wear and Tit ail Orders Tilled. i. We know of do better ra3j to weir clothing than the Hacktt, Carbart, Michael St-ra A: Cau Hart, SrhaSr-eT A Marx and rwidj made clothing on merchant talker tsLaEA. Hi taivrir. throughout our garment is as important to you as tLc fabrics MEN'S $10.00 SUITS FOR. C4..75.--n' fin all wool clay worsteds strifsa aal ci--!. fax,cy ur.-u, aL Car. p!ain. ery6ne cassimeres, and blue sergr, ail fixe frotn Zi Si. MEN'S VERY FINEST SPRING SUITS AT $7.50, $10 and $15. Therf fcuit are- e!ciJy tu -red. U-itr twd throughout with CDOO standard psr dy silk, ikf hare ibe Myle acd character of swell raerchant tailoring and Jtt penwrtlr. Thej avrjEaai fej the Let roafiuf acturers io the world. The insides fd our fartseru arr lAitr cf-f ju'ft-ft L convinced that there is no way toilcclotfeitlVr. MAIL ORDERS FILLED. 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X fteparate department, fitted wati a ti.roujrhly ptir --ari and operating rKm. oner i-cial indntneiit to rorgtc&i nan. attd all dt.eae4 peaiiar Ui women. 1136 0 St., Lincoln, i PHONE 182. EE The Uicyele and Phon.raph z tieaduarters of the eatire 5 wet. s R E PA I R I N G Send ton EE ytmf ftsf t and o t diflicuJt re- r Iair rf . if jou ant aati-fac- EE tr jraa'at.tei at ant prices li-h have tailt optLe thelarg- t repair buIMc in the n-est. 50 J IP UR LETTER Judge Terry Put Repub licans In a Panic, WITH A LITTLE AMENDMENT Complete Victory For the Democrats. LITTLEPIELD'3 AKTITEUST BILL. In Effect It Would Have Placed La bor I'nioni at the Mercy- of the Federal Court Republican Hy pocrisy Exposed. Mark Hanna'a Relga of Terror In Congress An Able Trio In the Honae Tbe Cuban Scandal. (Special "Washington Letter. "Come up and lick salt!" was the commaud of the Democratic minority in the house to the Republican major ity on the trust question. And the ma jority came, all except eight, amid the jeers and laughter of the Democrats. The eight who stood by their guns were Amos L. Allen of Maine, Bailey of Kansas, Butler, Calderhead, Can non. Ilitt, Littlefieid and Long. It was a great historic scene the hurrying and scurrying and crowding of the Republican friends of the trusts to get into the Democratic band wagon. Bab cock of Wisconsin, chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia and chairman of the Republican con gressional campaign committee, led the break to the Democrats. Babcock has a large labor vote in his district and knows, or thinks he knows, on which Kidp. his hreail Is buttered: hence he vaulted at one leap from the low level j of the Republican trust quagmire into j the Democratic triumphal car. The j rest, except the eight aforementioned, ! followed Bellwether Babcock like little Bopeep's sheep, dragging their tails ; behind them. It was as complete a vic tory for the Democrats and as wild a j panic among Republicans as this gen- j eration has seen. The thing that de- '' moralized the Republican trust created , and trust serving majority was this I small amendment offered by Judge J Terry of Arkansas to Littlefield's anti- j trust bill: "Nothing in this act shall be I so construed as to apply to trade un- ; ions or other labor organizations or- , ganized for the purpose of regulating wages, hours of labor or other condi tions under which labor Is to be per- formed." "That fotch 'em!" j Now let's have a clear historic under- j Btanding as to the exact situation. The" : criminal features of the much vaunted.: Sherman antitrust law have never been used by the federal courts for any purpose except to punish, fine and imprison some members of a labor or ganization for striving to earn a sub sistence for themselves, their wives and little children. The chief feature of the Littlefieid bill was to so amend the aforesaid Sherman law as to in crease the penalties. Consequently its inevitable effect, if administered by the federal judiciary as hitherto, would be to sock it to laboring men worse than ever, to rivet their chains upon them more thoroughly than ever and to let everybody else go scot free. All this was to be done in the name of the great body of the people. It was a piece of shameless hypocrisy, well cal culated to deceive, but it did not work. Ilonce the haste of Bellwether Bab cock and his flock to jump the fence. BoRn Truat Smashers. The minority offered amendment after amendment to better, widen and improve the Littlefieid bill as a trust smasher, but as the Republicans are only bogus, make believe trust smash ers they voted down these amend ments with a grim and monotonous regularity, because they believed there was a chance of doing enough able bodied lying about their meaning to humbug the people once more. But when the little amendment above set forth was offered Bab et id omne ge nus couldn't stand the pressure and1 i rushed to cover pellmell. helter skelter. They realized that they were up against it hard. Now, having been : whipped into voting for it except the ; eight above named they will swell up like toads and swear that they were ! for it. It's a lie! j Let's examine the facts. The repre I sentatives of organized labor begged i the judiciary committee to incorporate ' that amendment into the Littlefieid Mil, which the Republican majority of ' that committee superciliously and in j sultingly refused to do, thereby pub i lishing to the world that Republican servants of the trusts believe that a laboring man has no right which Re- j publican congressmen are bound to re spect. The Republican majority of the j Judiciary committee having refused to j Incorporate the labor amendment in j the bill, the Democratic minority of ! that committee brought it into the j house, offered it as an amendment to the bill, secured a roll call on it and drove the Republican double dealers Into supporting it all except eight. Twas a famous victory for labor and for Democrats under the leadership of Judge Terty of Arkansas. When Judge Terry offered that amendment, the following brief but pregnant colloquy took place: George W. Ray of New York, Republican chairman of the judiciary committee, said: "Against that provision I raise the point of order that It Is not in or der, not being germain to this sectlan. In that historic sentence Mr. i Ray showed the cloven foot of the trusts. To Ray's objection Speaker Hender son replied, "The chair overrules the point of order because, although the chair would have held the provision oufof order as "an original proposition, the order adopted by the house makes It In order." A Trust Agrent. No doubt' Mark Hanna would pay a "big pile of money if the Ray-Henderson colloquy above set put verbatim et literatim could be expunged from The Congressional Record and from human memory, as It will perhaps cost the' Republicans half a million votes. And after all after raising the point of order against the labor amendment, thereby giving the Republican snap away poor Ray was forced to vote for the amendment and. for the Littlefieid bill as amended. .- j Only one Republican. ' Mann of Chi cago, dared vote against, the amended bill. : " As Ray figures a good deal in this matter, it is proper to record here the description given of him by Hon Wil liam Sulzer of New . York on the floor of the house, which words are found on page C928 of The Congressional Record. Ray having made an attack' on Sulzer, Mr. Sulzer said: "He (Ray) knows I did not do it, and he knows that when he said that he told an untruth, and when he makes that mean, contemptible, insinuating charge I repel it and characterize it as it ought to be characterized. ' I say that no one on the floor of the house, except a trust agent such as he is, a tool, a i machine man, an automaton, would make that kind of a statement." Back of the Littlefieid bill and pre ceding it in order of business was the famous hypocritical, bunko amend- j ment to the constitution taking away j from the United States the power to j regulate, control or Kill trusts, it was a grand stand play pure and simple. As it takes two-thirds of each house to submit an amendment, the authors and j promoters of this precious piece of demagogy knew beforehand that it j would never be submitted. They never expected it to be submitted. Two self respecting Republicans could not be dragooned into voting for ! such a transparent fraud Loud of Cal- j ifornia and McCall of Massachusetts. ' To show what a reign of terror is ex- ; ercised by Republican leaders over the : rank and file of Republican members ; and how they muzzle free speech I j here record the astounding fact that j the Republican managers would, not give McCall, the representative of the ; Harvard district, even five minutes in i which to express his dissent from that reckless and brazen piece of dema- gogy. He had to apply to Judge Terry. Democrat, for time. He got It, imd this is the vigorous and classic way In which McCall stated his views: "I in- tend to vote against this proposed i amendment to the constitution, which ; at the most will keept flie4 word of prom- j ise to the ear, but "break it to the. hope, i In my judgment, it confers 'upon" con- ! gress the power to strike a"mot dead- j ly blow at individual liberty." A Danxerou -Mcaanrc. In that last sentence Mr. McCall hit the bullseye and no mistake. Repub-' licans the majority of them on this ' occasion, led by the aforesaid Ray, were doing their best to serve the trusts and to place the laborers of the i land absolutely in their power. Mr. McCall continued in this vigor- ! ous fashion: j "So that this amendment involves ' practical control of all the capital of the country: it involves control of all i the labor organizations of the country ! and of any copartnership or union of two or more men for any business pur- , pose whatever. j "Now, the wealth of this country to day is nearly $K(XK),000.000, most of it in some form of combination or oth- er. And then there is that far more 1 magical and potent capital which is found in the brains and bodies of our people, and we propose and it seems ; to me it is an amazing proposition to confer upon the congress of the United ; States full and complete jurisdiction over all these productive energies. Even with these enormous interests dealt with in 45 different capitals and dissi- ! pated and scattered throughout the j country they are yet strong enough too'i often to break down the resistance of j human nature and produce corruption, i And what will be the effect if we con- i centrate upon one body of men more ' than one-third of all the capital of the ; world and these other tremendous In- J fluences? j "Why, Mr. Speaker, is there a gen-' tleman here who does not believe in his heart that if this power is confer- red upon congress the most corrupt. ' the rottenest place in the universe, will be found right here in the 'city ofl Washington? Mr. Speaker, it will be ' time enough to talk about constitu-1 tional amendments when we shall lave : employed all those weapons against ; trusts that no w exist in our constitu-; tional armory. I think we are bound to use our best judgment in a matter t of this importance. I think that we j who begin the process of amending the ! constitution are just as much charged ; with responsibility as they who end it, : and even more, because, having cast ; our votes for it, there goes with our votes the influence of our example. I j find myself, therefore, unable to con sent to put in our organic law this pro posed amendment, which; if finally f adopted, would; it seems to me, have ! the effect of ultimately overturning j free institutions in this country." Short, but Good. In my Judgment, the best one minute speech ever delivered in congress was that by Amos J. Cummings, the prince of Tammany Democrats, who followed McCall and who In discussing the con stitutional amendment said: "Mr. Speaker, I trust I am old enough in political life to know a wolf In sheep's clothing. There Is one here more ravenous than, the one that at tacked the child of Llewellyn. , Under the guise cf an effort to destroy the trusts this is really a measure drawn In their interests. It is being used to tide over a presidential election. The house will pass it, and the senate lay it away until after the, election.. I know that William J. Bryan is alleged to have advocated a constitutional amend ment to down the trusts, but this in its terms no more, resembles his than a deck of cards- resembles a Bible, . I would as soon drink a, cocktail made out of nitric acid under the guise of a soda cocktail as to vote for this resolu tion. ' No man in his right senses, it appears to me, can eat asafetida and fancy it molasses candy. I stand by the action of the Democratic caucus." That is an oratorical gun worth whole reams of ordinary speeches. Amos Cummings is a Dandy, spelled with a big, big D. The WIMiama Trio. Shakespeare asks, "What's In a name?" and answers his own ques tion as follows: "A rose by t another name would smell as sweet." Wheth er that is true I shall not now under take to say. However it may be, the name of Williams is popular among house Dem.icrats. Three young men on our side bear the name of Williams. They arc all strong, capable, faithful, rising John S. Williams of Mississip pi, serving his fourth term; J. R. Wil liams of Carmi, Ills., serving his third term, and William Elza Williams of Pittsfield, His., serving his first term. John S. of Mississippi is frequently and favorably nentioned as a Demo cratic candidate for the speakership; J. R. Bob. as heis popularly called is frequently and favorably mentioned for vice president, and William Elza, though a new hand, is rapidly surging to the front In the house. John S. and Bob are universally recognized as two of the ablest debaters on the Demo cratic side, and William Elza is ad mitted to have made one of the very best campaign speeches delivered in this congress by a new member, or, for that matter, by any sort of a member. The man who can manage to make an interesting speech and win the ap plause of seasoned veterans on a sub ject dry as a powder house Is a rara avis. That's precisely what William Elza did to the surprise and delight of his audience. "The Alaskan code and territorial government" bill was up, and William Elza got the floor. Pled&ea 1'nrcdcemed. For about ten minutes in a mcdest sort of way he spoke on the bill. The bill was a bore, the house was drowsy and a lazy sort of attention was given to that part of his speech. All of a sudden he hopped on to the Republic ans about their capers in Cuba, and everybody pricked up his ears and lis tened. Reading the Republican plat form pledge as to Cuba, he turned to the Republicans and said: "What have you done to redeem that pledge? Goaded on by the Democratic minority in this house, you "were forc ed to declare war against Spain, as the people supposed when they gave it their support, for the freedom of the people of the island of Cuba. A glo rious victory was won, decisive battles were fought and a treaty of peace signed. Have you redeemed your pledge and promise? Tell me why it is that Cuba is festering under the cor ruption lately developed in the officials appointed by this government, equal ing the looting conducted by the offi cials sent over from Spain to govern them prior to the treaty of peace?" Mr. Clark of Missouri Under a car petbag government. "Yes, carpetbag government, and that is what the Democratic party op poses. We oppose sending these men to govern Alaska, to govern the people of Cuba. You say, my friends, in your platform declaration, that these people are entitled to their independence, and yet you refuse and deny it to them. You send carpetbaggers there. Y'ou send postal officials there. For what purpose? To govern these people against their consent and against their will. Yoti have sent army officials there and given them double salaries. In ad dition to the regular salaries provided by the laws of this country and with out authority of congress, they have put into their pockets an equal amount received from the revenues of Cuba, paid by the people of that island. Pertinent Questions. "Your officials go there to conduct the postofSce department, and today not less than half a dozen of them are under arrest, charged with spoliation, with looting, with stealing, with theft as bad as was ever perpetrated by the officials sent there by Spain to govern these people. Answer me, gentlemen, why is it that you have not redeemed your platform pledges? The promise you gave to those people was that they should be free; that they were entitled to their independence. Why do you hold them down as a subject people? Why enforce military occupation? Why maintain a carpetbag government there? Why do you send men to rob and prey xipon them and deny them the independence which you proclaim ed in your platform of 1S06?" William Elza's pertinent and far reaching questions have not been an swered to this day by any Republican. He then read an account of the enor mous thefts of Neely, Rathbone & Co.; also an editorial from the London Times prals'ng McKinley about his friendliness for the English in the Af rican war. With these texts he pro ceeded to flay the Republicans alive or. as Governor David A. Ball of Missouri would say, "to limb, skin and jayhawk them." It was a fetching speech for Democracy, and his remarks were re ceived by his Democratic brethren with cordial and uproarious applause. mszm J. M. STEPHENSON Or. Williams' Pink Pills for rale are made from the formal of a regular physician and prescribed for all diseases arising from impure or impoverished blood or weakened ner vous system, such as Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Kidney Trouble, Ner vous Prostration, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, etc They are indorsed by physicians and praised by thousands of people who have been cured. At all druggists, or direct from tha Dr. Williams receipt of price, 50c Mark Hanna: "I am afraid that testimonial will be a boomerang:." Chica go Record. 6 ALL ABOARD FOR PHILADELPHIA. The old 1896 coat shows signs of World. Binding' Just received a carload of Deering Binding Twine (best made) Will meet Sears 6z Roebuck, Montgomery Ward 6z Co., or any other firm on prices. Don't buy until you see us. Deerine: Binders and Mowers. HUMPHREY BROS, atnpK. PK1CL8 Tfes Westers "Tbe 1 ls.! . q o . n Mr. J. M. Stephenson, of the New York Life Insur ance Company, Buffalo, N. Y., says: -I tra advised by a phytician in Ltbanon, Jnd., to take Dr. William Pink Pill for Pale Peoplt for rheumatism and head' , , . , , ache, and am glad to $tat . .. thatlwa completely ebred. This was four yeart ago, and 1 have never felt any symptoms of the return of eitlter trouble." J. M. STBPHaif SOK. People per box ; six bo: )xes, S2.6& wear, but it will have to do. New York Twine! . . 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