The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-15
FREE COINAGE GOES.
The Senate Passes Stewart's
Amendment.
A VOTE OF FoRTY-TWo TO THIRTY
Democrats for it-Senator Vests
Substitute.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE financial bill
was taken up Immediately after the read
ing Of the journal. ingalls, addressed the
Senate, beginning his speech with bitter
Remuneration of the independent in politics.
He said there were two portentious evils
which menanced the safety, if they did not
endanger the existence of the republic.
The first was the ignorant, debased, de-
graded, spurious suffrage, suffrage con-
taminated by the sewerage of decayed ma
tions, a suffrage inundated and sup
pressed in the SOUTH suffrage impure
and corrupt, apathetic and Indifferent in
the great cities of the north so that it was
doubtful to his mind whether for half a
century there had been presidential cleo
ton in this country that expressed the de-
llberate and intelligent judgment of the
whole body OF American people. The cleo
tlon bill was intended TO deal with one part
OF the great evil to which he alluded, but it
was an imperfect, partial and incomplete
remedy. Violence is bad but fraud is no
better. and 1t was more dangerous, because
more insidious. There could be no safety
and no stable and permanent peace III this
country and under this government until
it was just as safe for black Republican
to vote in Mississippi as it was for white
Democrat to vote in Kansas.
| The second evil to which he had adverted
was the tyranny OF combined, concentrated,
| centralized, constituencies and incorDo-
rated capital, and the people were consid-
| ering that great problem. At the begin
| ming OF their second century the American
people had become profoundly convinced
| that the ballot was not panacea for the
| hot hoC NJ OH cha1
poverty, nor diminished Injustice; they
had discovered that political equality did
not result in social fraternity; that under
| q democracy the concentration of greater
power in fewer hands was more possible
than under monarchy. George Wash
ington, the first President OF the republic,
had, when he died in 1919, the largest pri-
vate fortune in the United States. All his
belongings reached a sum total of between
S500,00 and 5000, 000 That was less than a
century ago, Since that time the growth
in wealth and numbers of the United States
had no precedent in building nations. The
people of the United States now form one
third Of the worlds mining, one-fourth OF
its manufacturing, one-fifth of its farming
and possessed one-sixth Of its accumulated
wealth.
He had read in the morning papers Sher-
mans speech, a considerable part of which
was devoted to a defense of millionaires
The people had suddenly awakened to g
conception of the fact that the property oil
the country was passing into the hands OF
those whom the Senator for Ohio called
by euphemlsm, the spectators of the coun
try. These men had no politics but plumber
and no principle but the spoiation of the
human race. 1t was no wonder the labor
ing and agricultural classes of the countr,
had at last awakened, and the Spectator:
mist take warning.
Referring to the late election, he said i
was neither a Republican defeat nor {
Democratic victory. 1t was great upris
ing independent of and superior to both DO
litical parties 1t was crisis that nigh
become a catastrophe; it was a peaceabl,
revolution. He attributed the depression
OF the country In great measure to the de
monetization act OF 1878. He had not tn,
slightest doubt great majority of the PEG
pie, irrespective of party, were in favor O
the free coinage of silver, and had been TO
, the past fifteen years. Warnings ant
debate, but he would say to thos
who are arrayilg themselves agains
the deliberately expressed Judgment of tn
American people, there would come q tim
when the people would not be trlfied wit
on this subject. The political power of thi
nation was transferred from the circum
| ference to the center, and the people o
= tudo CeHleE were uSuldHulnB Uno Tree coin
age of silver. 1t was for that reason b
should cordially support the amendment O
the Senator from Nevada.
ingalls, spoke for a little over two hours
AS ne took his seat he was heartily ap
5 plauded, as well from the floor as from tn
i denSely crowded galleries.
: Jones, of Nevada, next addressed th
Senate in favor of Stewards amendment
Senators might as well make up tnei
minds that the time was fast approaehin
when the question of the world would bt
what is the money of the United States (?
and when the effort of the world would b
; to obtain some of that money wherewith t
pay the United States for the balances G
trade which they would owe US. 81 believ
1t to be the privilege ana destiny of thi
republic to solve the great problem of
J. perfect money, riddle which the sphin
= of civilization is forever putting to the n;
: tions. As in the case of the enigmas
3 old, failure to solve'this enigma means
q be destroyed" The debate was then COZ
tinued under the three minute rule
German offered as an amendment th
proposition presented by Sherman on th
18th inst. and providing for the impositio
of coinage charge on foreign silve
5 After debate German withdrew ais amen,
: ment for the present.
d Sherman offered an amendment addin
It to the words making treasury certificate
: legal tender, the words Except wheJ
% otherwise expressly stipulated in the col
: tract" He subsequently withdrew b
a amendment. Finally the discussion c
Stewards amendment closed and the Sci
ate proceeded to vote on it. 1t was agree
to, yeas AZ, nays 30, as follows: