St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-22
STEWART ON SILVER.
The Nevada Senator Enthusiastic
for the ArgentiferOus.

for the Argentiferous.
WASHINGTON, May 21.-In the senate
to-day the vice president presented a
communication from Mr.. Canaday, SER
geant-at-arms of the senate, rendering
his resignation of the office, to take
effect June 80 next. Laid on the table.
Mr.. Blair, at the request of the Wage
Workers alliance of Washington, DC,
introduced a bill depriving any state
which denies equal protection to all
within its jurisdiction, of one-holf of its
representation in the house of repre-
sentatives. Referred. Mr.. Wilson, of
Iowa, made an effort to have the bill re-
lating to liquors imported into prOhib-
itOry states taken up and considered;
but he was forced to yield to the prior
claim of the silver bill, which was
then taken up, and on which Mr..
Stewart proceeded to address the
senate. He argued that the demOne-
tizing of silver had depressed prices of
commodities from so to 40 per cent; aud
its reconciliation would produce good
times again. The object of the silver
men was to furnish more money to stop
contraction; to relieve the debtor and
producer, and to preserve to the people
their rights of property and liberty.
The friends of silver had been misun-
derstood. They had been represented
as silver baronS, desiring to unload
their product on the government. If
silver was not needed as money, the
sooner that fact was known the BETTER
because the
Supply of Silver
on hand for other purposes was suffi-
cient for fifty years. The Republican
party had incorporated in its national
platform declaration in favor of both
gold and silver and condemning the
policy of the Democratic administration
in its effort to demOnetiZe silver. What
was the meaning of that declaration? 1t
meant Gf it meant anything) that the
Republican party would make no dis.
elimination between gold and silver
and would receive given quantity of
silver in exchange for coin on the same
term, on the same terms that itreceived
gold. The bill recommended by the sec
rotary of the treasury and supported by
Senators Sherman and Dolph was cum
ming device to stop the present coinage
of 100000 month in silver under the
Bland bill. 1t was cuttle-fiSh trick.
blackening the water so as to escape
observation. In conclusion, he said
that there was no middle ground in the
contest between usury and justice. The
decentralization of silver was a crime
against civilization, and nothing but the
fall restoration of that metal to the
place which it occupied before the
crime was committed could redress the
wrong, or
Redeem the Pledge
Of the Republican party. Mr. EustiS
asked Mr.. Stewart whether his inter
probation of the silver plank in the Re-
publican party platform Chat it meant
free coinage of silver was the recOg-
nized Interpretation of the party. Mr..
Stewart replied that it could have no
other Interpretation, and he added that
he himself h ad drawn that plank.
Mr.. Farwell-I was a member of the COM
mittee on resolutions at the last national Re-
publican convention, and desire to express
my dissent to the opinion given by the sena-
tor from Nevada. No such Interpretation
was considered by that committee.
Mr.. Stewart-What does it mean?
Mr.. Farwell-That the party was in favor
of silver money at the market price OF silver.
| drew the resolution, as the senator well
knows, and it was perfectly honest and fair.
1t meant that the government should buy
silver and coin it at the rate at which it
should cost the government
Mr.. Stewart-That is mere bubble.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, gave notice of
an amendment which he would offer,
providing that the treasury notes to be
issued for silver shall be legal tender
for all private debts within the United
States. Mr.. Farwell also gave notice of
an amendment providing that the GER
tificates shall be receivable for customs.
taxes and public debts, and shall be
legal tender for all public and private
debts. The silver bill was then, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, laid aside
and the bill
In Relation to Liquor
imported into prohibltory states was
again taken up. Mr.. Evarts argued i'll
support of the bill, and in answer to the
constitutional objections urged against
it yesterday he asserted that whatever
state police regulations can be exercised
within a state are outside of the juriS-
diction of the general government.
Even if such regulations could be re-
duced or Overriden it was not within
the province of the general govern
ment to take them up and execute
them. There was nothing high
er or greater or more impOr-
tant or more essential than the
recognition, Within a state, OF its abSo-
lutte police authority. The police regu-
lations of state could not be bonn
barded from the outside, under cover
of the exclusive power of congress over
commerce. MIR. Wilson, of Iowa, read
a telegram published in to-day's papers
as to the activity of the ''original
package" business in Des Moines, and
said that bill was intended to meet the
new condition which had arisen. MIR.
Hiscock opposed the bill, saying that
the vice of it was that it might be used
as measure of protection to the brew
ers or distillers of one state as against
the brewers or distillerS of the other
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