, 1890-07-11
SILVER LEGISLATION
The Senate Goes Back on its
Former Action,
And Agrees-39 to 26-to the
Conference Bill.
Speaker Reed Scored by
Rogers Of Arkansas.

WASHINGTON. July l0.-The senate
resumed consideration of the conferences
report on the silver bill and was addressed
by Morgan in opposition to the report.
He expected that there was to be = ,risis
in the question Of the currency Of the
United States. as much SO In regard 70
the demonstration of silver and the CON-
fning of coin to q single gold stsbdard ~
was the act of 1873. He did net know
but the effect of the vote to be taken to-
DAY IF it should result in the adoption Of
the conference bilD would not be really
more fatal to the prospect Of silver COIN
age in the future than the act of 1873.
The legislation of 1873 had been, he said,
an act OF cold blooded assassination OF the
silver dollar. 1t had been
presided over by the same
senator whose fine Italian
hand" was to be seen in the contersnce
biIl-a bill which was . total departure
from the action OF both house and senate
and was as essentially new as if It had
been . novel written by the senator from
Ohio within the last i've days. Morgan
went on to speak Of the legislation on all
important matters being nov entirely
controlled by conference committees
committees of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pro-
ceedings were secret. 20 that if such com
mittee we're bribed to the extent Of
800. OO0. 900 no enator would Be- per
mitted to 6nd it out :
This statement was challenged and
caused some side talk between Morgan,
Allison and Sherman.
Morgan resumed his argument against
the conference bill He called the atten
ton of the friends of free coinage, par
ticularly OF the senator from Colorado
(Teller), to the fact that the same fine
ltalian hand which framed the act Of
1873 operated in the conference bill tr
destroy utterly any hope Of the r~emonetiza
ton OF silver so long as ir remained unre-
pealed. He predicted that when the
others of the conferees came to realize
what they had done they would feel like
kicking themselves over . ten acre field.
The bill would monometalize the country,
you'd make gold the only thing With
which to pay debts. or buy properly. The
senator irom Ohio could not after Twelve
months consideration have fixed up = bill
that would more thoroughly destroy siivel
forever as money. /
Morgan spoke for three hours. and
closed with an appeal to the senatofs mo-
to allow the senator from Ohio (Sherman'
to thrust bis still etto again into silver. 2
Call also argued against the coufere ace
report
Plumb spoke in its favor. The con
ference bill would give the country Al
much money during the next year Al
free coinage would give. The bill is
long step in the right direction. 1t i,
Plumb's belief that il the bill becomes .
law 30 nicely and easily will it work, and
so helpful will it be to all the people o.
the United States that the next step viii
be free coinage. He would vote for the
conference bill, regrettiug that it is nc
better and that it is no worse.
After further debate a vote was taker
and the conference report agreed. to-
yeas 39, nays 26-as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich. Allen, Allison, Blair,
Casey. Cullom, Davis, Dixon. Dolpb, Ed
munds, Evarts. Farwel. Frye, Hawley,
Higgins. Hiscock. Hoar, ingalls,. Jones
of Nevada, Mcmillan. Henderson. Nit,
chell. Moody, PctuRrew, Pierce, Plat,
Plumb, Power, Quay, Sanders. Sawyer
Sherman, Spooner, Squire. Stewart,
Stockbridge. Washburn, Wolcott-39.
Nays-Barbour, Bate, Blackburn, Call,
Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Daniel,
Faulkner, Gibson, German, Hampton,
Harris. Jones of Arkansas, Kenna, Nc
Pherson. Pasco, Pugh. Ransom, Reagan,
Turpie. Vance. Vest, Voorhees,, Wal
thall-26.
The following pairs were announced:
Hale and GRAY, Chandler and Brown,
Paddock and Eustis. Teller and Berry,
Wilson OF Iowa and Wilson of Maryland