Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-26
THE ARTFUL D0DGER.
Senator Hill, Again Fails to Vote
Either For or Against Silver.
SHERMAN STANDS OUT BOLDLY
And is Attacked by southerner Who Calls
the 0hioan Down
AS A STANDING CANDIDATE FOR oFFICI

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offered by Senator Morgan on the 31st OF
March directing the Committee on Finance
| to make an examination and report in rela-
| tion to currency and coinage and as to the
effect of the act of July, 1890, on the prices
| of silver bullion, was taken up to-day in the
| Senate.
Mr.. Morgan called for the yeas and nays
on the adoption of the resolution. Mr..
| Morrill, moved that the resolution be re-
ferred TO the Committee on Finance. Mr..
Morgan demanded the yeas and nays on the
motion to refer. The motion was defeated
yeas, II; nays, g. The Democratic Sem
ators who voted yea were Messrs Gray,
Palmer and Villas. The Republican Sen
ators who voted nay were Messrs. Allen,
Mitchell. Paddock, Pettigrew, Power, San
ders, Shoup, Squire, Stanford, Stewart,
Teller and Wolcott. Mr.. Hill entered the
Chamber while the vote was being taken,
but did not vote
Out-and-Out Silver Legislation.
Mr. Morgan modified the resolution by
adding a new paragraph instructing the
Finance Committee to report supple
mentary act providing for the coinage of
gold and silver bullion on equal terms as to
each metal, and authorizing depositors of
gold or silver bullion to receive coin certif-
Gates for it at Its mint value.
Mr.. Sherman said it seemed to him that
the approaching political conventions had
more to do with the resolution than the
Senate had. Unless the Senator from Ala
bama desired to obtain the opinion Of some
particular Senator with reference to the
silver question, he (Mr. Sherman) did not
see what object was to be accomplished by
the resolution. This ne thought was
subject, especially when the Execu-
tive authorities were engaged in
movement for an international conference
to establish the parity of gold and silver on
a certain basis. The additional proposition
made by Mr.. Morgan to-day meant, Mr..
Sherman said, the free coinage of gold and
silver. 1t meant that the bill (such as out
lined in the amendment) should be reported
without any examination by the committee.
The inevitable effect of the free coinage of
silver would be to lower the standard of sill
yer, to
Cheaper the Wages of Labor,
to despoil the pensioner, to in lure every
deposition in savings bank, as well as to as
sail the accumulations of the rich and to
disturb all the business of life And all for
what? Simply to substitute silver instead
of gold for coinage. The proposition
seemed to him monstrous He believed
that the free coinage of silver, instead of
being a measure of relief for the people,
would be the severest and saddest load ever
placed on the shoulders of those who de-
pended on their labor for their daily bread.
He was as much in favor of silver as any
Senator who represented the silver mines of
the West, but the only way in which to
make gold and silver work in harmony was
to put them on a ratio fixed upon market
value.
Mr.. Stewart was opposed to an inter-
national conference until some of the |
powers to be represented had expressed in
an authoritative way that they would re-
habilitate silver on some terms. The United |
States Government had not done so. The
conference was to have no power except to
advise. He was therefore opposed to it. 1t
was a mere makeshift and fraud. 1t was
'tgood enough Morgan till after the elec-
ton"
Sherman Attacked by Morgan.
Mr.. Morgan spoke in favor of his resolu-
tion He referred to Mr.. Sherman as having
headed the march for the utter destruction |
of silver, and said that he was now, will |
lingly or unwillingly, candidate tor the |
anQ therefore QeSlreO TO make !
friends of what he (Mr. Sherman) consid- |
cred to be 'the mammon of iniquity" by |
saying that he was in favor, if possible, Of |
the equal coinage of gold and silver, while
1t was his hand that struck silver to DEATH
Mr.. Sherman said he had not had the
slightest care or interest in the passage of
the anti-demonetization act of 1873. The
story had been repeated over and oyer
again. And when the Senator from Ala
bama said that he was responsible for that
act he did him (Mr. Sherman) gross in
ustice
Mr.. Morgan said that he was willing to
rive the Senator from Ohio in his ex-
oected campaign the benefit of his denial,
f it would do him any good, but he did not
hink it would.
Mr. Sherman with an air as if brushing
side the suggestion as sfrivolous)-That will
lot do.
The matter went over without action and
he bill to provide for the punishment of
'iolations of treaty rights of aliens was then
AIKEN up. Without disposing of the meas
ire the Senate adjourned.