St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-18
Representatives Of Western
States Score a Great
Victory.
The Unfriendly Attitude Of
the Administration Toward
Silver Exposed.
Opinions Differ Widely as to
What the Lower House
Will Do.


passed free coinage bill an over
whelming majority. The senate passed
the house bill constituting Irondequoit
bay, N. Y, a navigable water of the
United States, and the house bill to
amend the act for the erection of an
appraisers warehouse IN New York,
and agreed to the conference report on
the senate bill for public building at
Salina, Kan. The limit of cost is $751;
600. The house silver bill was taken up,
and Mr.. Wolcott addressed the senate.
He protested against the intimation
made Oh the floor of the senate that
senators living in the silver-producing
states held sOrdid and unpatriotic Opin-
ions. The country seemed (particu
larly in the NOrth) to have fallen on
days when politics were rated at COM
mercial value alone. The people of the
West. who depend chiefly OH the prod
uctS of their mines, were asked at every
session to stand by the tariff formu
lated by the East. and when they asked
that silver should be protected they
were called sordid and unpatriotic. Mr..
WOlcOtt criticised the unfriendly atti
tude of the administration on the silver
question, and said that when MI. Harri-
son was nominated
His Record Was Searched
in vain for any noteworthy act or say
ing. The Latin sentence Stat magni
nominis umbra' applied to him. The
Republican leaders of the West had
secured the success of the ticket, and
their awakening had been rather rude.
He ventured the opinion. that if the
presidents position on silver had been
announced before the election. not a
state west of the Missouri river would
have given him Republican majority.
An open foe was to be preferred to a
secret enemy. Mr.. Wolcott said he
thought the act of 1878 was infinitely
preferable to the bill recommended by
Secretary Window. He criticised the
ten-years limitation recommended for
the bill by the finance committee. Mr..
Wolcott's speech was loudly applauded.
At its conclusion the senate voted on
the amendment as reported by the
finance committee. The proposition to
strike out the provision making the
treasury notes issued for the purchase OF
silver legal tender was reJected--14 to 80
The amendment to strike out the bull
ion clause was agreed to, 81 to Z, the
nays being Chandler. Frye, Hiscock,
Hoar, Morrill, and Sherman. The prop
osition to strike out the section for free
coinage when the price of silver was 81
for 43714 grains pure silver was rejected,
16 to 46. The amendment to limit the
act to ten years was rejected,4 to "a; the
yeas being Messrs. Chandler, Edmunds,
Morrill, and Sherman. Mr.. Blair offered
fn ~ n
silver coined to Sc, 100000 month. Re-
jected, - to 46. Mr.. Plumb submitted
the following amendment as subSti-
tute for the first section of the house
bill, and after some debate it was adopt
ed, 43 to "a: "rhat from and after the
date of the passage of this act the unit
of value in the United States shall be
the dollar, and the same may be coined
of 4121s grains of standard silver, or OF
25 $40 grains of standard gold, and the
said coins shall be legal
Tender for All Debts,
public or private; that thereafter any
owner of silver or gold bullion may de-
post the same at any mint OF the United
States to be formed into standard dol
lars or bars for his benefit, and without
charge; but it shall be lawful to refuse
any deposit of less value than 500, or
any bullion so base as to be unsuitable
for the operation OF the mint" The
vote was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blair, Blodgett,
Butler, Call, Cameron, Carlisle, Cockrell,
Coke, Colquitt, Daniel, Eustis, George, Glib
son, German. Harris, Hearst, ingalls,, Jones
derson, Mitchell, Moody, Morgan, Paddock,
Payne, Plumb, Power, Pugh, Ransom, Rea-
gan. Sanders, SQUIRE Stewart, Teller, Turpie,
Vance, Vest, Voorhees,, Walthall, Wolcott
Nays-Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison,
CASEY, Chandler, Cullom. Dawes, Edmunds.
Evarts, Frye, Gray. Hale. Hawley, Hiscock,
Hoar Mcpherson, Morrill,, Pierce, Sawyer,
Sherman. Spooper, Stockbridge, Washburn,
Wilson (of Maryland)-24.
The following pairs were announced:
Messrs. Dixon, Hampton, Dolph and
Brown; Stanford and Wilson, of Iowa :
Higgins and Pettigrew, Mcmillan and
Blackburn, Pasco and Farwell, Quay
and Faulkner. Mr.. Plumb moved a
formal amendment agreed to- making
the provisions of section 3 of the act OF
1878 applicable to this act. During the
discussion of the substitute offered by
Mr.. Reagan for three of the sections in
the bill, providing the denominations of
munds took occasion to disclaim all re-
sponsibility for the pending measure,
and said he was willing to deliver the
management of the finances of the
country to the Democratic party for the
time being. During a sharp debate
which followed, Mr.. Edmunds said that
the Democratic party. which was now
without responsibility, was endeavor-
ing to
Lead the Republicans Astray,
as they had done in 1877 or 1878, when,
by appeals to the worst instincts and
unhappiest solicitudes of the people
of the United States, they had passed
through the Democratic house of
representatives free coinage bill. He
spoke of Mr.. Cleveland as brave enough
to tell his Democratic supporters ''that
that sort of delusion could not be carried
into practice" Mr.. Edmunds said
further that during the four years of the
Cleveland administration the Demo
cratic party (for wonder) had remained
quiet. This statement was denied by
Mr.. Reagan and Mr.. Vest, and allusion
was made to the administration sill
yer speech made in the senate by the
late Mr.. Beck at the beginning of the
Cleveland administrator. MT. fluIuD
spoke of Mr.. Edmunds' speech as the
same sort of Jeremiad which the senate
had heard from him in 1878.
when the silver coinage bill was
passed. Mr.. Reagan's amendment
was adopted, and Mr.. Teller
offered an amendment, declaring the
silver certificates to be used legal ten
der. Mr.. Teller's amendment was OPP
posed by Senators Blair, Gray and
Evarts, and defended by Senators Nor
gan and Daniel. 1t was modified at the
suggestion of Mr.. Eustis by adding the
words, "And all silver certificates al
ready issued;" and as so modified it
was agreed to-yeas "a, nays Gas fol-
lows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Bate, Berry, Butler,
Cameron, Csckrell, Coke, Colhuitt, Daniel,
Dolph. Eustis, George, Hearst, ingalls,. Jones,
Arkansas; Jones' Nevada; Kenna. Mitchell,
Moody, Morgan, Paddock, Plumb. Pugh,
Ransom, Reagan. Sanders. Squire. Stewart,
Teller, Turpie, Vest VOORHEES,, Walthall,
SaysESsssrs. Aldrich, Allison, Blair,
Blodgett. Carlisle, Chandler Dawes, Ed