The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-24


The SILVER debate in the House to-day
showed the intensity of public interest
in that great question whtoh now faces
the Flfsy-second Congress- for solution
and threatens to become a-political issue
in the Presidential campaign of the
autumn The speeches were all of.
positive character. They were the
arguments OF men. who have. stern con-
pictions' upon the sides which they re-
speotively represent and who are un-
compromising in their declarations of
the policy which should be pursued.
Gradually the convictions forces itself
upon the members that it is to be no
drawn battle; that the issue Is one
which cannot be overruled, AID that the
day Is near at hand when the House of
representatives must declare on a yea
ana nay vote Its position on the great
question of free coinage.
The gentlemen who pinned their hopes.
on the chances OF compromise at the
last have. by the substitution of a bill
providing for an International monetary
congress, are losing courage to-day, and
even the indomitable Tracey, of New
bill will have clear majority if the
nnal vote is ever reached upon it's pas
sage.
Free coinage men anticipate that
their opponents will resort to filibuster-
ing and are prepared to invoke the aid
CT the committee on rules at the very
outset in that event. Tracey an
nounces first the maxim to be made by
the opponents OF the bill at the conclu-
sion OF the debate and before any dis
position TO filibuster is manifested will
Do In the form of resolution recon-
hitting the bill to tho coinage com
mitteo with instructions to report q
substitute bill, providing for an inter
national monetary congress:for the ad-
1nstment OF the entire silver problem.
Ii it Is defeated all tho resources of
parliamentary Jules will then be in
voked to luro out friends of the bill and
to present final vote upon its passage.
The galleries wero crowded when the
Speakers gavel raped the house to.
order>at noon to-day and there was no.
aoatement from the great interest mani
tested at the opening hours of the
debate yesterday. The floor and Hobbies
OF the House, too, where we'll crowded
with ex, members and Senator's and on
q sofa in the rear of the hall was
seated Hon. A. j. Warner, well-known
as one of the fathers of the free coinage
movement In the galleries were
seated many bankers and financial ex-
perts from all over the country end
Western Union wires on the on tside
were busy bearing hasty messages that
flashed to the country the progress of
the discussion and conveyed to the
great financial centers every indication
that appeared in the political Amos
phere.
Alter some unimportant routine pro-
ceedings the silver bill was taken ur. II
desire to give motto 81" said Chairman
Bland at the opening of the debate,
that at two o'clock TO. morrow shall
demand the previous question on the
silver bill and pending amendments"
This means merely That the general de.
bate Will close at two o'clock to- m rrow,
and after that the final vote will then
be taken on The bill and amendments,
unless its opponents inaugurate series
OF hiibustering tactics.
The first speaker of the day was Rep
resentative Pierce, of Tennessee, the
able young lieutenant of Chairman
bland on the coinage committee. Mr..
Pierce made n strong speech in favor of
the bill and showed that he was thor
oughly familiar wish the subject.
Great applause greeted the closing an
nouncement of Mr.. Pierce that what
ever Messrs. Williams, Hartcr, Hoar
and other anti-free coli age Democrats
might do in the event of the passage of
this bill by the House, the Democratic
advocates of free coinage stood ready to
support the nominee of the Democratic
convention at Chicago, whet, er the
platform of that convention declared
for free coinage or not.
Mr.. Stone, Of Pennsylvania, de-
nounced the pending bill as being not
bill for the free coinage Of gold and sill
yer, but a bill for ito unlimited issue
OF paper money.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Stones re.
marks Mr.. Bland asked consent that the
debate on the free silver bill, which
would expire tomorrow night, be OK
tended until Friday afternoon at
O'Clock, but Mr.. Simpson OF Kansas, OBJ
iected on account of the failure of the
friends OF the bill to make any allot
ment OF time for the representatives of
the peoples party.
Messrs. Warner, of New York; Draw
ley, South Carolina; Hall, Minnesota:
Lynch, Wisconsin,; Fitch, New York;
Lodge, Massac nusetts; Beltzhoover,
Pennsvlvania: Perkins, Iowa. opposed
the bill, while Mr.. McKeighan, OF
Nebraska, spoke in favor OF it. The
House then took \ recess until { 30
O'Clock, when the debate was aoaiE
taken up and continued until late
hour.
MIR. McCnhan Resigns,