Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-09-24

this resolution passes u will impair
the public credit, will shake public
confidence, will destroy the good
financial name which we have ell
joyed so long. thanks to Republics
fidelity, that it will leave no WORK.
ing balance for the great transac-
tions of the Government, if thar is
any solace or comfort in yOur aiiliC-
ton we cheerfully grant it to you (;
when he says another thing, that
this resolution means trenching up
on the one hundred millions which
is kept as a redemption fuEd foe
the legal-tender notes Of the cOun-
try, and he asks his Democratic
friends not to do it for 'he sake Of
our public credit and our financial
honor, we give you the benefit OF all
the political advantage there is in
it. 1t is your quarrel, not OURS
Yet you do it, you heed not the
warning of their own officials whom
You should trust, and in tact this
Congress seems to be given to do
ing just what the President doe )
not want it TO do. II there is any
thing upon which the majority Of
this House aud the President ar
in accord, | would like 10 know it.
Several Members ION the Repub-
lican side.) Vetoing pension bills.
Mr.. Mckinley. In that way the.i
may be a happy family.
Why, Mr.. Chairman, in the al
nual message of the President Of
the United States and the repOr I
of the Secretary Of the Treasury
this Congress was asked to do three
things: First, TO retire the green
backs, to get them out Of circula
ton, to pay them off; second, To
suspend the coinage Of silver. The
fact is the President asked that be
fore he became President. Laugh.
ter. lie could not wait until be-
was inaugurated; he so feared ca
lamity from its continuance. lie
therefore repeats in his formal mes
sage to Congress the statement that
unless this Congress shall suspend
silver coinage, the financial situa-
ton of the country will be very
much disturbed. Then finally he
asks you to revise the tariff What
have you done in the way Of carry
ing out these recommendations
You have not retired the green
backs; you have not suspended sill
yer coinage ; you have not revised
the tariff-at least YOU have not
revised it under the leadership of
my friend, Col. Morrison; | do not
know what you may do under the
leadership of "COlOnel" Randall
Laughter. What delightful sit
uation. Laughter and applause.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania
about three or four weeks ago show
ed his contempt Tor the tariff bill of
the chairman Of the Committee on
Ways and Means; and only the
other day the chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee showed his
positive contempt for the attempt
of the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania to make tariff bill. Laugh
ter. SO it goes. There is not a
single thing upon which the mem
bers of this Democratic party in
this House agree and are IN posi- |
tive accord except in getting the |
offices. Applause.
Mr.. Morrison. And we are only |
doing middling wellatthat. Laugh |
ter.
Mr. Mckinley. Yes; and in that /
particular you are getting along /
very slowly. Laughter and ap- |
plause.
But my friend from Pennsylvania |
Mr.. Randall and my friend from
Indiana Mr.. Holman impatient
with the delay in getting offices
when they had an appropriation
bill before this House a week or
two ago, undertook 20 break down
the civil-service law by "A rider on
that bill. 1t seems that the gentle
man from Pennsylvania and his
swing" are for the spoils. was
glad to find my honest and hOnored
friend from Illinois standing against
that covert attempt to nullify and
destroy a public statute. APP
plause.
Mr.. Mckinley. After what have
stated, and much more which
might state in the same connection,
is 1t to be wondered at that Secre-
tary Manning, weary OF the bur
dens of his office, indites letter to
the President of the United States,
dated May 20, 1886, in which he
says:
The reforms of our fiscal policy which
you have maintained
That is, keeping MP cue credit Of
the Government and keeping up
The surplus in the Treasury
md which have been commended to the
wisdom OF the legislative branch
None of which the legislative
)ranch has paid any attention to
lro reforms necessary to our safety, bind {
ng in honor, obligatory in the traditions I
II the Democracy, set down with promises
n our statute book
mat is what Mr.. Manning says
o President Cleveland in giving
notice of his intention to retire from
he Treasury. Listen to what the
President says in his response to
he Secretary =
have hoped that the day was at hand
the party to which we belong, in
luenced largely by faith and confidence
n You and in the wisdom off, onr views,
would be quickened--
Quickened!
n the sense Of responsibility and led to
more harmonious action upon the import
mt questions with which you have 10 .
ZEAL.
That is the way the President 4
cit May %, 1886. t
Mr.. Mckinley. How will the
President feel after this resolution n
f condemnation. this resolution Of Il,
ensure, this resolution Of disap-
this resolution OF want of o
onfdenceY AS the gentleman from r.
lew York told you this morning. >
lie can not resign and go to the o
but every one of You an ', (, T,
very one of us will go to she coun H. Ho1 Il
ry; and the issue viii then beaS
made up. # President Cleveland 81
,etoes your resolution you can 90 taI
o tho country on that. You viii da