St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
Advocates Restoration Of
Silver Coinage.
Restriction Of immigration
and a Ship Canal Are Pro-
posed.
The Roll Call Of States Brings
Out Various Commend
able Resolutions.

OOHllueICldl COUgI6SS WAS present IulS
morning when President Francis called
the second days session to order.
The subject under discussion was
general business and agricultural
depression. causes and remedy.
On the subsidiary topic of general BUSH
ness, F. J. Skiff, of Denver, read paper
on population and Raw Material" EX-
Gov. Click, of Kansas, spoke for about
half an hour. His talk was principally
on the fact of great depression, and he
said that while his people might be called
calamity howlers, they would keep up
the howl till such time as the causes for
depression were discovered and re
moved. He felt assured that the whole
trouble lays in the position held by the
political matters. p. II. Elder, eX-
speaker of the Kansas house of rep
resentatives, attracted much attention
on account of the stand which he
took during the sessions of tina
body. His idea was that much
of the trouble was caused by the
booming of towns and cities of the West
on bonds and then creating a debt
which was now bearing hard on the peo-
pie. In addition to this the farmers
were depressed by the high-f1own ideas
of their wives and daughters, who spent
the money for tinery and thus depleted
the husbands pocket and made de-
preston which the bad crops only made
greater. Dr.. Parsons. of the agricult-
urai department, Washington, was
called upon next. Owing to the alb
sence of U. S. Hall, Dr.. Parsons was
sent by Secretary RuSk to represent the
department. He said: 1T has been
said that
We Have Not Money Enough.
[ will not discuss this further
than to say that if you want
market you must have the goods
that are in demand and then you
Will get the money. The reason mar
kets are not open is on account of the
condition of things in other countries
and not altogether due to causes
in this country" On the money queS-
ton he said: IF you make silver and
gold coin as plenty as huckleberries, it
will be cheap as huckleberrieS." At
the afternoon session, letters of regret
were read from Edward 7. Atkinson, of
Boston, and Senator William Stewart,
of Nevada. Senator Stewart, in his
letter, says he was in full sympathy
with the Western States Commercial
congress, and realized the ne
cesSity for united action of the
West and the South to resist the absorb
ing avarice of the gold contractiouiSts
of the commercial centers of Europe
and the United States. 1t was admitted
that enterprise must anguish, business
be curtailed, and progress and develop
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recommendation. But such was the pol
Icy dictated to our government by the
money changers. Silver had been de-
monetized, and there had been no ma
terial Increase in the volume of gold
coin in the commercial world.
The Output OF Gold
had been absorbed for non-monetary
purposes. Population, business and
credits had expanded enormously, while
gold for ultimate redemption had re-
manned stationary or declined. An oil
garchy of gold mOnometalliStS, either
owned or controlled. by the bonds they
held, every dollar of gold coined in eX-
istence. He advocated that the people
break the corner by the restoration of
silver. TO lis proper place as money, and
thus free themselves from the hard con-
ditiOns imposed upon them.
The committee on rules presented
report that each delegate present
should be permitted to vote on all mat
tiers to come before the congress. There
was desire OH the part of the states
that had not sent full delegations to
amend the report so as to give each
state represented one vote, but an
amendment to that effect was voted
down and the repot of the committee
was adopted. The roll of states was
then called for the introduction Of reso-
lutions. which We're referred to the
committee on resolutions as follows:
By Loulsiana-For the improvement
of the Mississippi river: also. resOlu-
ton on immigration. The latter reSo-
luton suggested that only those foreign
immigrants who desired to become nat
uraliZed, and who would make good
citizens, should be permitted to enter
the country. The introduction Of this
resolution was
Greeted With Great pplause
and much cheering. A resolution of a
similar character was offered by the
state of California. The resolution
asked congress and the various states to
enact laws providing that membership
in the Malta organization shall be fell
Ony and that each member shall be held
in the law to be an accessory before the
fact of each of the crimes of the organ
iZation. This resolution was also en-
Enthusiastically received by the congress.
By Hon. W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska.
that part of the revenue necessary
for the support of the national govern
ment should be raised from a graded
income tax; that all legal money of the
United states should be made full
legal tender for all debts. That no
an Mt iAn II
people from the system OF reciprOc-
ity as at present prepared, but we
regard as essential to our welfare freer
commercial intercourse with those ma
tons which buy the products of our
farms; that coal, iron ore, wool, salt,
lumber. binding twiue and cotton ties
should be placed upon the free list:
that the
Tariff on the Necessaries
of life should be greatly reduced, and
that the luXurieS should be made to bear
the heaviest burdens.
By MiSsouri-Urging the improve
ment of the Mississippi and other West
ern navigable rivers and favoriI.g the
construction of q ship canal to connect
the Mississippi river with the great
lakes.
By Mississippi-TO abolish ticket
tDlOhFlS diiti oCdlpcIS. tIlN ~ lOItt tut
railroads to redeem unused portions of
tickets.
BY Minnesota-Fayoring bimetallism
and the Tree coinage of silver and gold
and the maintenance of a parity be-
tween gold and silver money; holding
of an international monetary conyen-
ton; the construction of ship canal to
connect the great lakes with the Allan
tic ocean, and a single tax on land
values.
By MISUNDERSTANDING with delight
the renewal of friendly spirit between
the North and the South. and the COM
mercial union between the South and
che West.
BY Kansas-Favoring the issue by
the government of legal tender treasury
notes, based only on silver reserve,
sufficient in amount to carry on the
increased business of the country.
Speaker Elder, of the Kansas house of
representatives, offered a resolution
strongly commencing the conduct of