Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-06-28
Ix THE HANDS OF THE PHIL.
IsTINEs.

Speaker Reed is one Of the most des-
perate partisans Of the times. There Is
nothing that he will not do to carry his
point. Being opposed to free coinage he
boldly and outrsgeously referred the
Senate bill TO the House Committee on
Coinage, which 10 q goldbug committee.
The bill was properly in the possession OF
the House, and under a fair construction
of the ordinary parliamentary proceed
ure, il was in order to take it from
the Speakers table for immediate con-
alteration. There was q great struggle
to get the bill back from the committee
with . view Of placing il on its passage.
The Democratic members almost to .
man, aided by . few scattering Republi-
cans from the Far West, made the battle
for silver snd the people. A solid Repub-
lican party stood with the goldbugs and
against the people. The Silver State
has the following editorial article on the
general situation:
For the first time since the passage OF
the silver demonstration act OF 1873,
the debased metal has proportionste!y
more friends in the Senate than in the
House Of Representatives. The Upper
House seems freer from Wall street and
Administration influences than the so
called popular branch Of Congress. Sen.
stors care less for the displeasure Of
Harrison than the men who were elected,
as he was, on . platform which he de-
clar ed meant the equal use Of gold and
silver as money. In violation of this
pledge the House passed a bill drafted
by Secretary Window, the self-styled
friend Of silver, and approved by the
President, TO further demonetize silver
by stopping it's coinage at the mints and
making silver certificates issued for bull.
ion redeemable in bullion. This bill
was amended by the Senate by provid-
ing for the free coinage OF silver, and
returned to the House. There, under
the Infamous rules, which give the
Speaker autocratic power. and enable
him and 9 majority Of q committee to
lcgislate for the country, it was con.
signed TO q hostile committee, which has
the option Of reporting it in a day or
keeping it to the close Of the session.
The demand of Democratic Representa-.
tives, that the bill be laid before the
House for consideration and disposal,
was utterly ignored and the record falsi-
fed to conceal the infamy of the ma.
jority. The assertion that under the
Constitution, the journal should be kept
by the House, not by the Speaker and
clerks, was derisively laughed at and
opposition to the Administration pro-
gramme. was silenced by the gag. So
long as the despotic rules were used by
the ~tyrannical Speaker for silenoing the
minority on matters of . purely parti-
san character. many Nevada Republicans
~oheld them, but now that o measure,
In wsiah they, as we'll as Democrats are
interested. is jeo~pardizsd by those rules.
tney roundly ~asnounce them, aud admit
that 1t is wrong to aaopt the methods Of
dsspots in legislating for a free people.
The silver bill is now in the hands Of
the Philistines. and q caucus will proba.
bly, decide what disposition ~ m.ke u
it. As the caucus will doubtless be CON.
trolled by the mandates Of Harrison. IL
10 not probable that the bill will be
passed. though with the Democrats, al
most, If not entirely unanimous, in its
favor. fifteen or twenty Republican votes
ought to give it q majority.