The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
SILVER LEGISLATION.
The Senate in Night session Transacts I'm
portant Business

The Senate in Night session Transacts I'm
portant Business.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-According to
the arrangement made yesterday the sem
ate proceeded to the consideration OF the
financial bill Immediately after the read
ing of the journal
Mr.. Ingalls, took the floor and said that
there were two portentous evils which
menaced the safety If they did not endan-
ger the existence of the republic. The
first was ignorant, debased, degraded,
spurious suffrage-suffraga contaminated
by the sewers of degraded nations; suf-
frage inundated and suppressed in the
South; suffrage impure and corrupt,
apathetic and indifferent in the great
cities of the North; so that it was doubt
full TO his mind whether for half n CEN
fury there had been a presidential cleo
ton IN this country that expressed
the deliberate and intelligent judgment
of the whole body of the American peo-
pie. He then referred to the newspaper
interview had with him several months
ago in which he had said that the golden
rule and the decalogue had no place in an
American campaign. 1t seemed superflu-
Gus to explain that in that utterance he
was not intoxicating a doctrine but de-
scribing a condition. His statement was
a statement of fact; not an announce.
ment of faith.
The election bill was intended to deal
with one part of the great evil to which
he had alluded but it was an imperfect, a
partial and incomplete remedy. Violence
was bad but fraud was no better and it
was more dangerous because it was more
insidiOus.
The second evil to which he had ad-
verted was the tyranny OF combined, con-
centrated, centralized, constituencies and
incorporated capital, and the people were
considering that great problem now. The
conscience of the nation was shocked at
the injustice of modern society. The
moral sentiment of mankind had been
aroused at the unequal diffusion OF the
burdens, benefits and privileges of So
ciety.
He had read in the morning papers Mr..
Sherman's speech, considerable part Of
which had been devoted to the defense of
millioaaires, who had been spoken OF as
the ''froth on the beer"
Mr.. Sherman-"Not millionaires, but
spectators"
Mr.. Ingalls-'They are nearly the same,
for the millionaires are not the producers
and laborers of the country. They are
arrayed like Solomon in all his glory,
but they toll not, neither do they spin. !"
One man in this country. the Midas of
the century, at whose touch everything
turned to gold had in a lifetime acquired
out OF the aggregate OF the nations
wealth, earned by the labor of all, sum
that exceeded the assessed value of four
OF the smaller states, and which was many
times more than the entire wealth OF the
republic when it was founded.
Mr.. Jones (Nev.) next addressed the
senate in support of Mr.. Stewards amend
ment. Senators might as we'll make up
their minds that the time was fast ap-
preaching when the question of the world
would be: "What is the money of the
United States?"-and when the effort of
the world would be to obtain some of that
States for balances of trade which
they owe u.s. The hating and
hesitating monetary policy of this
government for some years past
was well expressed by the line OF Emer-
son: 81 am the doubter and the doubt"
To which, in the words of the supple
mental line he could hear the genius OF
this republic answer, They reckon i'll
who leave me out"
And so they did Mr.. Jones thought
The United States could not be cleft out"
of the worlds estimate III they were it
would be so much the worse for the
countries which American statesmen and
fnanciers called ''the world"
The debate then continued under the
ten-minuie rule.
Mr.. German offered as an amendment
the proposition presented by Mr.. Stewart
on the 18th inst providing for the imposi-
ton OF a coinage charge on foreign silver.
After debate MIR. German withdrew his
amendment for the present.
Mr.. Sherman offered an amendment
adding to the words making treasury GER
tifcates legal tender the words except
where otherwise expressly stipulated in
the contract" He subsequently with
drew the amendment. Finally the dis
cussiOn on Mr.. Stewards amendment
closed and the senate proceeded to vote
on it. 1t was agreed to, yeas AZ, nays 80.
as follows:
Ysas-Messrs. Allen, Barbour Bates Berry,
Blackburn. Butler. Call, Cameron. Cockrell.
Coke, Daniel Eustis, Faulkner, Gibson, Cor
man. Hampton. Harris. Ingalls,. Jones. (Ark.)
Jones. New Mcconnell, Henderson, Mitchell,
Morgan, Paddock, Pasco, Psyns. Plumb. Power