The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-11
THE SILVER BfLL PASSES.

Morsn.'s Speech Against tho sIcnsurs.
WAsnISdToS, D. O., July 9.-The
Senate resumed consideration Of the con.
ference report on the ailvcr bill and was
addressed by Mr.. Morgan in opposition
to the report. lie expected that the day
was to be crisis in the question OF the
currency OF tho people OF the. United
States as much so in regard to the de.
monetizstion oi silver and the coinlns
OF silver TO the single gold standard as
was the act Of 1873. The legislation Of
1873, had been (oe sail) an act of cold
blooded assassination OF the silver dol.
lar. 1t had been proved go by the same
Senator whose sine Italian hand" was
to be seen in the conference bill; bill
which was total departure from the
action of both the House and the Senate
and was us essentially new as il it had
been q novel written by the Senator
from Ohio within the last five days.
Mr.. Morgan went on to speak OF leeis.
lation on all important matters being
now entirely controlled by conference
: committegs, committees OF arbitration
whose proceedings were secret; 30 that
il such a committee were bribed to the
extent OF q hundred million dollars, no
Senator would be permitted to find it
out.
Mr.. Allison remarked that there was
no necessary secrecy about conference
committees.
Mr.. Morgan replied to tha: remark by
saying that in this very discussion Mr..
Sherman had declined to answer ques.
ton as to the proceedings in the confer.
ence committee on the ground that such
proceedings were secret. r
Mr.. Sherman said he had never denied
to the Senate any information as to what
took place in conference. He had been
nsked what particular conierte had Of
Tered a particular proposition; and he
had fel. that he was not at liberty to an
swer such question.
Mr.. Morgan resumed his argument
against the conference bill and called the
attention OF the friends Of free coinage
particularly OF the Senator from Colorado
{Mr. Teiler)- Ito the fact that the same
fine Italian hand" which had fulfilled
the act Of 1878 had operated in the con.
ference bill to destroy utterly any hope
OF the lemonetization of silver 50 long
as it remained unrepea!ed.
He predicted that when oths rs OF the
conferees came to realize what they had
done they would feel like kicking them.
selves over ten acre field. The bill
would monomeial;zs the country, would
make gold the only thing with which
to pay debts or buy property. The craft
OF the Senator from Ohio could not
(aiter twelve months consideration)
have fixed up bill That more thorough.
ly destroys silver forever as money than
!. the conference bill would do.
Mr.. Morgan spoke for three hours and
closed with an appeal to Senators not to
allow the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sher.
many TO thrust his stile,to again into
silver.
He was followed by Mr.. Call, who also
a,gued ailsl The conference bill.
w. After fuitner debate the vote was taken
and the conference report was agreed
to-yeae, 50; nays, %, es follows:
Yeas-Nlpssrs. Aldrich, ALLEN. ALI
son, Blair, Casey, Culiom, Davis. Dawes
Dixon, Dolph, Edmunds, Evar,a, Far
well, Frye, nawley, Higgins, Hiscock
Uoar, Ingalls,, Jones, Of Nevada. McMil
Ian, Mandelson, Mitchell, Moody, Petit
grew, Pierce, Plat, Plumb, Power
Quay, sauders, Sawyer, Sherman, Spoon
or, Squire, Stewart, Stockbridge. VOL
cotl-39.
Nuys-Barbour, Bate, Blackburn Call
Carlisle. Corkrell, Coke, Colqustt, Dan
iel, Faulkner, Gibson, Gormun, Hamp
ton, Harris, Jones; Of Arkansas, kenna
Mcpherson, pasco, Pugh, Ransom, Rea
gan, Turpie. Vance, Vest, Voorhees,,
Walthall-2a.
n The following pairs were announced
Chandler aud B'own, Hearst and Stan
q ford, Hale end Gray, Morrtl! and Nor
gan, Paddock and Eustis, Teller ant
+ Berry, Wilson, OF Iowa, and Wilson o.
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