The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-21
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER,
THE BILL PASSES THE SENATE BY A
DECISION VOTE.

Substituted for the Finance Bill and
passed-InSalls has AN Awakening and
Votes for il.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Accordlng
to the arrangement made yesterday the
Senate proceeded to the consideration
of the financial bill immediately after
the reading Of the journal.
Ingalls, took the floor and said that
there were two portenous evils which
menaced the safety, if they did not en-
danger the existence, of the republic.
The first was ignorant, debased, de-
graded and spurious sutfrage-a Tester
ed suffrage-a suffrage contaminated
with the feculent sewage OF decayed
nations-a suffrage intimidated and
suppressed in the South-a suffrage
impure and corrupt, apathetic and in
different in the great cities of the
North-so that it was doubtful to his
mind whether for a half century there
had been presidential election in this
country that expressed the deliberate
and intelligent Judgment of the whole
body of the American people. The
election bill was intended to deal with
one part of the great evil to which ne
had alluded, but it was an imperfect,
partial and incomplete remedy. Nlo-
lence was bad, but fraud was no better,
and it was more dangerous because it
was more insidious. There could be
no safety and no stable and permanent
peace in this country and under this
government until it was just as safe
for a black Republican to vote il Miss
!ississippi as it was for White Demo
crat to vote in Kansas.
The second evil to which he had ad-
verted was the tyranny OF combined,
concentrated, centralized, conscience
less 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 sentlmentt
of mankind was aroused atthe unequal
distribution of wealth and the unequal
diffusion of the burdens and the bene-
fits and privileges of society. we were
accustomed to speak Of ours as "the
land of the free and the home OF the
brave" and it would soon be the home
of the rich and the land Of the slave.
1t was no wonder that the laborlng
and agricultural classes of this country
had at last awakened: and spectators
must take warning. Referring to the
late election, he said that it was neith-
er Republican defeat nor Democrat
ic victory. 1t was a great uprising, IL
dependent of any, superior to both, po-
litlcal parties. l. was a Crisis that
might become catastrophe. 1t was a
peaceful revolution. He attributed
the depression in the country in great
measure to the demonetiZation Act OF
1878. He did not claim that that Act
had been passed fraudulently. His on
ly explanation ofitS passage was that
both houses of Congress and the Presl-
dent had been hypnotiZed by the money
power. He had not the slightest doubt
that the great majority Of the people,
irres pective of party, was in favor ofthe
free coinage of silver, and had been for
the past fifteen years. They had been
"paltered with in q double sense" and
their will had been thwarted, de6ed
and contumaciously trodden under
foot.
Warnings and admouitions had been
plenty in this debate; but he would say
to those who were arraylng themselves
against the deliberately expressed ludg-
ment of the American people-he would
say to the Senate. to the House and to
the Executive-that there would come
a time when people would not be trlfed
with on this subject. Some time the
people would elect a House OF Repre-
sentatives, Senate and President who
would carry out the party pledges and
executive the popular will. The poltl-
cal power of the nation had been trans
ferred from the circumference to the
centre, and people Of that centre were
unanimously demanding the free coin
age of silver. It was for that reason
be should cordially support the amend
ment of the Senator from Nevada. In
doing so he would not only follow the
dictates OF his own Judgment. but
would carry out the wishes of the great
majority Of his constituents, irrespec-
tive Of party or political affiliations.
ingalls, closed at quarter past IL,
having spoken little over two hours.
AS he took his seat he was heartily ap-
plauded, as well from the floor as from
the densely crowded galleries.
Jones, of Nevada, next spoke In sup
port of Stewart'S amendment, conclud-
Ing his speech with these words: 81
believe it to be the privilege and destl-
ny of this republic-the evangel OF hu-
man liberty-to solve the great prob
lem of perfect money, the riddle which
the sphinx of civilization is forever
putting to nations. AS in the case of
the enigmas of old, the failure to solve
this enigma means to be destroyed. Its
solution will be hailed with loud ac-
claim wherever the foot Of mao treads,
wherever the heart Of man beats. 1t
is my conviction that when the
science OF money comes to be thorouh-
" mastered, its true philosophy under
stood and the teachings of that science
and that philosophy practically applied
oyer the whole earth, more will have
been accomplished for mankind, more
to promote justice. to relieve pain, to
assuage grief, to Sooth woe, to llghten
care, to brighten hope, and to bless and
human life than can be ac-
by any other discovery or
development Of civilization"
At the close Of Jones remarks it was
stated by the Fice-President that Cab
son and Hiscock did not desire to ad-
dress the Senate except under the ten
minute rule.
The general debate haying closed,
Mr.. Aldr ch offered a substitute for
Stewards amendment. He said his
was a transcript OF the
law as it existed from 1858 to 1873. The
effect was to restore the law to what
it had been, substantially from 1884 to
1879, and identically from 1853 to 1873.
1t provided system Of charges for the
coinage OF bullion, gold and silver, for
private parties.
German was the first to speak under
the ten minute rule. In conclusion he
offered as an amendment proposition
presented by Stewart on the 18th in
slant, as an alternative, providing for
the imposition OF coinage charge on