Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-09
POLITICAL.
senator German on the Elec.
ton Bill.
JBE COUNTRY BORDERING on A PANIC.
which HOar Says Results
From n Democratic
Victory.
POLITICAL.
w,sp~u's ruTILE EFFORTS.

WASHINGTON, ID. g., Dec. 9. Tht
cabinet met today. II IL un Ter
s,,,d that the financial situation
v,s the priucipie question consider
3D. The President and other
sxprcssed satisfaction at the success.
or SEC. WINDOWS efforts toward n.
neying the money stringency.
IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, d. G., Dec. O.
Yesterday Senator German ar.
rue, against the election bill. II
had been the firm conviction on the
democratic side after what occurred
At the last elections, that the sena.
for from Massachusetts would not
pr 81 the bill; 40 the senators on his
side had not prepared ihenselv - To
discuss 1t intrlligently. Gorn,ai.
continues:
OK A VOLCANO.
ave stand TO day on n volcano.
We have heard u discussion as 10
starving, but take no note Of the fact
That the farmers of the laud AR.
meeting aud resolving. There ls
danger and trouble, if not starvation,
among them. The faces Of the
bnkers aud merchants are blanched
with fear. No man can tell whether
tomorrow or next Gay, every bank
IN the great centers OF commerce
will not be closed by suspension Of
payment, aud now, ia the midst Of
such state Of affairs, We. who come
here flushed with victory, had
hope that the majority party would
give us an opport rtunity 10 join with |
1t in preventing the wreck which is
now impending. Lay aside this
bill, which the country has pro-
nounccd against aud let US take up
the matter which all classes of our
fellow -citizeds are looking 10 US to
consider.
II you do not, IL you persist In the
course marked out by the senator
from NJ ,ssAchusetts, the responsible
ity must rest with the party In pow
er If the senator from Massachus-
etts force the consideration of this
partisan measure, while bankruptcy
and ruin ARE going on, When he goes I
back TO Boston he will find mer-
chants aud bankers, and meu of
affairs, as well AS farmers and labor
urs. will tell him that while lac ia
attempting hostile legislation agaiust
o svctiou Of country, that if il had
not been for the products OF that sec ,
ton, il IL had not been for the uIov- .
ing Of the cotton crop, there would ,
not w n bank in Massachusetts able
to pay Its deposi,ors. Tne only
thing that has saved then, has been ,
The fact that they have been able to
draw on the cotton crop and un tie
oil. 4
HoAR REPLIES. II
lloar replied that for four days the {
The senate had been listnng Ia dem. !
ocraiic speeches, etc, made for mere
delay aud obstruc.,ou. 1f the sen. ,
ator from Maryland had another
n-asure which he thought would
allay the panic, or menace 10 the
commercial property Of the country,
which had begun when elections
were declared IN favor Of The demo-
cratic party, the country having
been before that in position Of uu-
exanipled prosperity. why should he
not, alter n fair aud proper state
meut Of the reasa'iis for voting
against the el-ctiun hill, let the sen- I
ate vote upon II.
The election bill was u measure I
whose sole purpose was to submit
10 the judges Of the courts Of the
United States, against Whose integ-
rlty aud official honor no man could
bring charge. tie question Of who
had prina facie title to n seat In the
the house "f representatives. instead
Of having It declared BY ruffianisni.
fraud or violence, ~ was NO often
the case iu the past.
CLEVELAND WANTS TO BE PREsI.
DEKTIN '92.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. g.
special from Sioux Falls, S. OAK:
). Leslie Tho0,proD, one Of the
wheel horses Of South Dakota dem
ocrscy has just returned from Ne~
York. where had AL interview with
ex-President Grover Cleveland.
Cleveland said he would surely be
presidential candidate In 1902 aud
wanted South Dakota friends to
stick by him.