The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-24
WASHINGTON.
SILVER, SILVER EVERYWHERE
AND NOT A DIME TO SPEND.
Lamar's Instructions - Personal -
Ben Butler as q Silver
Advocate.
Correspondence of the Register

WASHINGTON, ~. ", JhuuhEf GZ'
In Eye olden lyme" SO the chronicle
of ancient fables tell US, two cavaliers
met at a monument which q grateful
country had erected 10 departed hero.
This monumental etiigy was made to
hold q shield, one side OF which was
golden-the other, silver. Says Cavalier
A, "What a beautiful golden shield.
Says Cavalier b, "Why, it is silver" a
insisted it was gold, and B protested un.
til these Sir Knights, in vindicstion OF
their word and honor, in tie good old
fashioned style of knight.errsntry, drew
their swords anu amply avenged The
sfiront each had received by the life
blood of the other.
Under the roof that holds
the graceful Goddess of Liberty and her
umbrella Tor whstev,r it is she has over
her hesd), this fiction is becoming his.
tory. Sir knight of Wall street, gazing
at it from perch of United States
bonds, asserts that the shield that is to
save the country is gold (or perhaps the
true way to spell it would be GouldD.
To which Sir knight of the Wabash,
looking al it from the pit into which in-
dustry is sinking, replies that it is silver,
and as neither yield they level their air.
guns and pop away st each other, with
results somewhat different from that of
the tabled knights. They lirs, but
old Indutry keeps sinking and sink.
ing deeper into the pit of bank
ruptcy, and all his friends wonder why
they don't put away their weapons
ard come to his assistance, which,
in free translation, means
that the country has heard the honorable
Senate long enough on silver, and wants
a little action. 1t is time that the Senate
should vote.
When the vote is taken, which will
probably be this week, the first vote will
be upon Conking's amendment to Stan.
ley Matthew's resolution, which is to
strike out the first words of the resolu.
ton, "Be it resolved by the Senate" &C.,
and insert IN their stead, "Be it resolved
by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States in Congress
assembled" the effect of which would be
to change the resolution from a concur
rent to joint resolution, in which case
it would require the Presidents approval
Hayes, they hope, would veto it, and
then their salvation would hang upon
the failure of both Houses OF Congress TO
give a two-thirds vote, to help the
resolution over the veto. An OBJ
servant reader will see tibet
some us stand in the way of these hope.
ful speculstions. When Conkling's cob
web is swept away the vote is taken upon
Edmunds' substitute, which is 20 the
effect tnst the debts, dues, &c, of the
United States shall be paid in gold.
After that Matthews resolution will be
voted on, which AYERS silver 10 be legal
tender for ell debts. OF course, there is
no prospect of either Conkling's or Ed
munds efforts proving successful, as it is
known that the Senate is overwhelming
ly in favor of the silver bill OF Bland.
Jones, of Florida, spoke Yesterday,
Cockrell to-day, and Lamar tomorrow.
Lamar is in dilemma, and bad one,
too. His Legislature has instructed him
10 vote for Matthews resolution. He be-
ewes in gold standard and is opposed TO
the "silver craze" as it is called, out and
out. Instructions by the Legislatures OF
States to their Senators have always
been questions of debate. The old Demo
Gratis and States Rights Wings, in ante
bellum days, looked upon the Legislature
IS the exponent of the State, and the
Senator as the representative Of that ex-
ponent. The Wings claimed that it was
only the appointing power and could not
instruct, could on ly persuade. The ques-
tion took shape in Virginia in 1886 I,
when the Legislature instructed its
Senators to introduce and vote for the
"expuction resolutions" Neither Sens
tor conscientiously could do so, believing
1t unconstitutional. Old "Tyler-too" re-
signed; Benz. Watkins Leigh declined to
do so. But to Lamar. Lamar is going
to reverse the old sdege and make
speech golden and silence silver.
He will make an snti-silver speech to-
morrow, and il ia sad, on good authority,
that he will vote for the bill when IL
comes up. 1t is rather an anomalous
position and causes considerable COM
ment, and many man who hasn't got
the remotest prospect Of either seat in
the Senate or So 600 per snnum, is sssur-
ing bis neighbors that he "be id if be
wouldn't resign first" 1t is so easy 10
Compound the sins we are inclined to
By damning those We have no mind to-
which, if not exactly in point, Is poetic
suggestiveness.
II your readers complain that this is
too much silver talk in this letter, please
remind them that it is just
as impossible 10 write from
Washington and not about silver, IS It
would be to visit the land of Tell and re-
main mute as to Alps, or glaciers, or sil.
very lakes.
have only space to add thst among
the "Montsni' l see in town, is the
handsome Governor Of West Virginia,
who is down here with several "iellow-
citizens" presumably, in regard to White
Sulphur Springs matters.
Ed, Moore's genial smile is seen rip
plng the surfsce around his eyes, from
behind the curtain that protects the
HonorsbIes in the House from a Gaping
crowd. Ned would make good consul,
revenue officer, postmaster, Cabinet off,
Ger, or Presidents private secretary,
AMI l cbearful!y give him this
open letter of Recommendation 70 Mr..
Hayes. At any rate, may he get WIS.
he Is after.
In the silver-greenbsck impromptu
caucus last night, Ben Of the cock eye
wss present and promised TO throw
bricks s, Hayes if he attempted TO veto
the silver bill. Ben hss always been sup
posed 10 have liking for silver, in any
form. They say lie is communist! he
always hsd one essentisl element 70 5
frst-class communist, viz: that other
peoples property was fair prey for him.
stagnation I'm English Money Mar.
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