The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-20
The War on the Presidents Silver Opinions
Two Native Indiana Senators.

Two Native Indiana Senators.
Special to the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The war that is be-
ing made by the Western and Southern.
Representatives both in the Senate and
House of Representatives, against the opin-
ions of the President upon the silver ques-
tion must by this time mean something.
Beck in the Senate before the holidays,
Reagan, of Texas, the House on Tuesday,
and Coke, of Texas, in the Senate yesterday
is formidable array of silver talent coming
up from the States which are SO violently
opposed to the stoppage of the silver coinage.
Bland, of Missouri, is also preparing
a silver speech which he is to- deliver
in a day or two. There are hosts of voters
Democrats and Republicans alike-who will
also make get speeches. In truth, the whole
atmosphere around the Capitol building is
loaded with silver opinions-but no silver.
IftIe President and Secretary of the Treas
ury seek to go farther in their attempt TO
influence Congress to stop the coinage of the
silver dollar there is likely to be precipitated
a bold and vigorous warfare upon the admin
istratiom on IL is subject. One man said to
me tonight that if this course was pursued
further by the President it would result in a
split in the Democratic party, which might
take years to heal up.
TWO NATIVE INDIANIANs.
There are but two Senators in the Senate
who were born in Indiana. They are Mil
Ter, of California, and Spooner of WiscOn-
sin. The former was born at South Bend
and the latter at bawrenceburg. Spooner is
said to be the youngest Senator, though he
fails to give his age in the Congressional Di-
rectory. A great many people IN Indiana
still remember his father, whom, / am told,
was at one time leading lawyer in the lit
tie town of Lawreneeburg. He was known
there as John Phillip Spooner. Young
| SpOoner is nephew of the late
General Ben Spooner, who all re-
member as the bluff United States
Marshal of Indiana when the Office was
worth perhaps $4,000 a year yet; heard
| the other day he died without having laid
by anything for his family. General Ben
Spooner might have been leader in the
Republican party of the State had it not
been for his bulldog nature. He drove men
away from him rather than draw them to
| hin. Senator Spooner is said to be good
corporation lawyer, having for some time
been the Attorney for the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad and also the Wiscon.
sin Central, and this 1 am told is
his strength in the State which sends
| him here. He is a Northwestern
| Senator with corporation attachments
Like the majority OF young men who enter
| public 'life his head has gone through the
iahation process. He is quite youthful in
| appearance, and wears a heavy head of
| brown hair, with the ends pushed out as if
to say he had his hands in his hair more of
the time than in his pockets. He has so far
been modest, spending about one-third of
the time in his seat, while the balance
! is whiled away in the lobby on the
/ Republican side. He has evidently warm
friend in Malone, as the two are often seen
| together. think he has some metal in him,
and will prove a good man in the right
! place. At any rate, Indiana should feel
proud that a son so young should be honored
as this.yOung Indianian has been.
Senator Miller is still very sick and the
chances are he will not recover