Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-15
tration of Grover Cleveland would take
out and pay the government demands" "
Mr. Randall-''I am

out and pay the government demands
Mr. Randall am
REeINNrNa IN THAT DIRECTION NOW .
[Applause
Mr.. MeKinley--"Yes, you are begin
ming, but it is sixteen months after your
Administration has failed TO do it. Laugh
ter. You haveno got very far along yet.
Suppose this resolution passes the House;
suppose it passes the Senate; togive 1t any
sort of force it must have the approval OF
the President of the United States.
GIaughter You are asking by this reSO-
luton that the President shall do what for
sixteen months he has refused to do. He
will lay down the pen, which with him has
been mightier than the sword, Laughter,
and he win use that pen for another pur-
pose. Your own Secretary of the Treasury
solemnly tells the Chairman Of the COM
mittee on Ways and Means that If its res
olution it will impair the public
credit, shake public confidence and destroy
the good financial name we have enjoyed
50 long, and he says another thing that
this resolution means trenching upon the
500, 900, 900 which is kept as redemption
fund for the Greenbacks Of the country,
and he asks you not to do it, and yet you do
it, This Congress seems to be given to do
ing Just what the President does not want
pone Ifthere Is anything on which the
majority of this House and the President
are in accord, would like to know it.
daughter, during which Republican
suggested that they were in accord on PEN
sion vetoes. In his annual message the
President asked you to do
" THREE THINGs.
He asked you to retro the greenbacks, he
asked you to suspend silver coinage, and
finally he asked you to revise the tariff
What have you done? You have not re-
tired the greenbaeks; you have not sus-
pended silver coinage; you have not revised
the taritf-at least you have not revised 1t
under the leadership of Col. Morrison. /
don't know what you may do under the
leadership OF Col. Randall. What n de-
lightful situation it is. Renewed laugh
ter. The gentleman from Pennsylvanis
about three or four weeks sgO showed his
contempt for the tariff bill Of the chairman
of tho Committee on Ways and Means, and
only the other day the distinguished chair
man OF the Committee on Ways and Means
showed his positive contempt for the at
tempt of the gentleman from Pennsylvania
to make tariff bill Laughter. Aud
so it goes. There Is not q single thing upon
which the Democratic party agrees and Is
in positive accord, except getting the
offices. Not one. daughter.
Mt MOrrison-"And We arc getting
along
ONLY MIDDLING
at that Renewed laughter-
| Mr.. McKinley--'Y and you arc get
ting them very slowly, but the gentleman
| from Pennsylvania and Indiana (Messrs.
| Randall and HOlman) undertook to break
down the civil service law by rider upon
on appropriation bill. The gentleman
from Pennsylvania and his wing are for
the spOils / am glad to find my honest
friend from Illinois standing against that
covert attompt"
Mr.. McKinley-Then quoted from the
letter written by Secretary Manning to the
President ON May 20 last, tsndening his
resignation of his office and from the Presi-
dents reply thereto From the latter let
ter he quoted the following sentence:
81 had hoped that the day was Mt hand
when the party TO which we belong, ill.,
fueuced largely by faith and confidence IN
YOU, and in the wisdom of your views,
would be quickened on the sense of re-
I spOnsibility and led to 4 more harmonious
action on the. important questions with
which you had to deal. That, said
Mr.. Mckinley, "was the way the Prcsi-
dent felt on May % How would he feel
after this resolution Of ccnsure, this resolu-
ton of condemnation, this resolution of
disapproval, this resolution of want of
confidence? He cannot resign and so to
the country" said Mr.. Mckinley, but
each ore of you will go to the
country, and each one of us will go to the
country, and the issue will be made up.
Mr.. Morrison closed the debate in sup
port of the joint resolution. He denied
that the resolution was condemnation OF
{ the Administration.
The general debate then closed and five
minute debate began and ran on without
interest for half an hour
The amendment offered by Mr.. MOrri-
son this morning was adopted without diyi-
sion. The amendment offered by MIR. Me-
Kinley WAS rejected.
A number of other amendments were
offered and rejected The Joint resolution
WAS then passed, yeas POI, nays 81 1t now
goes to the Senate. Adjourned.