Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-15
The White Metal Carries the
Day in the Senate.
Stewards Amendment to the
Financial Bill Accepted.
A Free Coinage Bill Then Passed
Pure and Simple.
ingalls, and Jones Make Great Speeches
on the Occasion : The Gold Bugs
Discounted.
Associated Press Dispatches.

pie, as q SUBSTITUTE Tor the nnanclal Dill
yeas, 80; nays, 27.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-In the senate
today, the financial bill Twas taken up
Immediately after the reading Of the
journal. ingalls, addressed the senate,
beginning his spec ch with a bitter de-
nunciation of the independent in pol
itics. He said there were two porten-
tous evils which menaced the safety,
if they did not endanger the existence
of the republic. The first was an ignor-
ant, ,debased, degraded spurious suffrage,
contaminated by the sewage of decayed
nations; suffrage intimidated 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
a half century there had been presi-
Dental election in this country that ex-
pressed deliberate and intelli-
gent choice OF the whole body
of the American people. The elections
bill was intended to deal with one part
of the great evil to which he alluded,
but it was an imperfect and incomplete
remedy. Violence was bad, but fraud
was no better, and it was more danger
GUS, because it was more invidious.
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 black Republican to
vote in Mississippi as it was for a white
Democrat to vote in Kansas. The Sec
1t
concentrated, centralized, conscienceless
were considering that great problem.
At the beginning Of the second CEN
tury, the American people had be-
come profoundly convinced that
the ballot was not panacea
for the evils of society; that it had not
abOlised poverty nor diminished injus-
tice. They had discovered that political
equality did not result in social frater-
nifty; that under democracy the con-
centration of greater power in fewer
hands was more possible than under 3
monarchy. George Washington, the
first president of the republic. had when
he died in 1899, the largest private for
tune in the United States. All OF his
belongings reached a sum total of be-
tween eight and nine hundred thousand
dollars. That was less than century
ago. Since that time the growth of
wealth and numbers in the United States
had no precedent in the building OF ma
tions. The people of the United States
were now first in the worlds mining and
manufacturing fifth in its farming, and
possessed a sixth of its accumulated
wealth.
He had read in the morning papers
Sherman's speech, considerable part of
which was delivered to defend the mill
ionaires. The people had suddenly
awakened to the conception of the fact
that the bulk of the property of the
country was fast passing into the hands
called by the euphonious name of the
Spectators OF the country. These men
had no politics but plunder, no princi
pie but the spoliation of the human
race. 1t was no wonder that the labor
ing and agricultural classes of this
country had at last awakened, and the
speculators must take warning.
Referring to the late election, he said
it was neither a Republican defeat nor
Democratic victory. 1t was great up
rising independent of and superior to
both political parties; it was a crisis
that might become a catastrophe: it
was peaceful revolution.
He attributed the depression of the
country, in great measure, to the de-
monetization act of 1873. He said
great majority of the people, irrespective
of party, were in favor of the free coin
age of silver, and had been
for the past fifteen years. Warn
ings and admonitions were plenty
III this debate, but he would say to
those who were arraying themselves
against the deliberately expressed judg-
ment of the American people, that there
would come a time when the people
would not be trifled with on this sub
ject. The political power of the nation
was transferred from the circumference
to the center, and the people of that
center were demanding the free coinage
OF silver. 1t was for that reason he
should cordially support the amend
ment of the senator from Nevada.
Ingalls, spoke nearly two hours, and
as he took his seat was heartily APP
densely crowded galleries.
Jones, of Nevada, next addressed the
senate in favor of Stewards amendment.
He said the senators might as we'll
make up their minds that the time was
fast approaching 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 money where
with to pay the United States for the
balance of trade which they would
owe us.
Continuing Jones said: 'I believe it
to be the privilege and destiny of this
republic to solve the great problem OF
perfect money riddle which the sphynx
Of civilization is forever putting to the
nations. AS in the case OF the enigmas
OF old, the failure to solve this enigma,
means to be destroyed"
The debate was then continued under
the ten-minute rule.
Gorman offered as an amendment the
proposition presented by Sherman on
the 18th instant, providing tor the i'm
position OF the coinage charge on foreign
silver.
After debate, German withdrew his
amendment for the present.
Sherman offered an amendment add
ing to the words making treasury certifi-
Gates legal tender, the words: Except
where otherwise expressly stipulated in
a contract" He subsequently with
drew the amendment.
Finally, the discussion on Stewards