Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-31
congress to enact into law the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.

congress to enact into law the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
REAGAN's HORSE SENSE.
Reagan spoke in favor of free coinage,
and against the pending measure; also
speaking in opposition to the elections
bill and the proposed cloture rule.
rELLER's TEN STRIKE.
Teller made vigorous speech. He
said there had been an attempt on the
part of the friends of the elections bill
to bring it to a vote. Now the senate
was to be met with a new rule, which
was to overthrow practice which had
been in vogue eighty-four years. In the
section of country he represented there
had become fixed notion that this bill
was kept before the senate for the pur-
pose of staving off much needed and
much demanded financial legislation. If
the senator from Massachusetts (Hoar)
did not wish the bill to stand in the way
of legislation, he should put the senate
in position to vote on amendments be-
fore he offered or allowed to be offered a
rule which would cut off debate from
amendments. Whether he (Teller)
would vote for this bill or not, depended
upon the condition of the bill
when it came to vote, and
he wanted an opportunity to
vote for amendments. He did
not believe the people of the United
States were prepared for this cloture
rule, and for one he was prepared to re-
sist by all proper methods its adoption
until the senate had an opportunity to
vote upon all the amendments. He un-
derstood that the rule was to come up
Tuesday next. There were more i'm
portant bills pending than the elections
bill. The great minds of the country
told us we were on the verge of finan-
cial panic. The bankers of New York
were saying everything is lovely. They
dare not say otherwise. Ii the people
could awake to the real condition, there
would be danger of financial ruin to ten
thousand men, absolutely solvent today.
If the friends of the elections bill were
in earnest, they could pass it without
the cloture rule. 1t was the duty OF the
senate to meet the great question of the
day promptly.
HALE CENsUREs HOAR.
Hale said the time had come when the
senator from Massachusetts should find
out what ought to be done. The senate
should not spend weeks more in the
manner in which it has been spending
the past weeks. The great financial
question would not down. The great
appropriation bills necessary for the gov
ernment must be considered. Nothing
was being done to put the pending mat
ter out of the way. Ii the 4th of March
comes with no appropriation or financial
bill passed, the senators might we'll take
into mind the fact that the Republican
party was discredited because it had
done nothing.
Hoar replied sharply that the bill
would have been six months ago dis
posed OF, if his counsel had been fol-
lowed.
Hawley said he was for anything short
OF an absolute despotism to get vote
on the bill whenever the majority of the
senate thinks it is ready to vote, closure
or no closure. The attempt of the MIN
ority to say there should be no vote, was
nothing short of revolution.
THE RIGHTS OF A MINORITY.
Teller replied that the minority had a
right to object, to debate and amend,
and it will be sorry time for the Amer
lean people when the majority shall say
debate must close whether the repre-
sentatives of independent states are
ready to close it or not. He (Teller),
was in favor of the majority ruling, but
he knew there was nothing more des-
potic than the tyrannical action of a
majority. A minority is absolutely in
dispensable to the preservation of lib
erty in any country. The minority has
right to be heard, and when it has
presented every objection it can present,
then it is its duty to yield, unless it be
some extraordinary occasion. He had
seen the entire Republican side OF the
chamber retire when there was Demo
cratic majority, because they were re-
sisting what they believed to be an i'm
proper measure. That was the right Of
the majority then, and it will be the
right OF the minority now, if the pend
ing bill be of such a character as would
Justify its opponents in resorting to it.
After executive session, the senate
adjourned.