The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-05
CLEVELAND ANp EREE sILvER.

How Mr.. Bill Ia Having His Revenge
Threc.fourtls OF tho Democracy not IN
Harmony with the Candidates.
Ner York Advertiser lind. DeH,)
So extraordinary proceeding as the
passage Of the silver bill in the senate
on Friday is not to be accounted for un'
der the ordinary, if somewhat vague,
rules that are supposed to apply to nc
cidents. An accident is a result from
causes that have escaped human obser.
walton; nevertheless, there is body Of
causation to which accident is related,
And in the parliamentary phenomena
that attended this amazing act Of the
senate, there may be discerned what,
after the fact, is called an explanations
before it, the cause.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, unwit-
tingly furnished a clew to this Demo
cratic accident. 81 am informed" said
the senator, "that before reached the
senate this morning, some discussion
was had about the change Of time for
taking vote on. the silver bill, and that
it was suspended on account OF my alb
sence." As he proceeded with his state.
ment he came down to asenator whose
action ia not without interest to the
country in relation to any Of the serious
issues of the campaign. II have been
informed" he continued, that the
junior senator from New York Mr..
Hill desired to speak on the bill. ]
asked him. and no said no could not say
he had any such desire; but if it were
postponed he probably might speak on
1t, but he did not desire tho bill post
poned FOR that purpose"
Mr.. Hill next appearance in this dis.
cussion was "by unanimous consent"
1t is true that the chair ruled that de-
bate was in order; but Mr.. Vest OBJ.
tanned unanimous consent for Mr.. Hill
ITO proceed" and he proceeded. He
declared his intention of voting against
the motion to recommit, not on parlia-
mentary grounds, but because believe
that the motion to recommit is in viola
ton Of the unanimous consent given to
take vote on the bill and amendments
at 2 o'clock"
Mr.. Hill, in other words, stretched a
point, or,waived right, II one chooses
to say SO, in order to accelerate dis
position of the question.
In which direction? In the direction
of tho policy explicitly outlined in the
Democratic platform, which declared
against a fuctuating currency and in
favor of a silver dollar Of the intrinsic
value of gold dollar2
Not at all. His vote showed the d.
rection in which he hoped to cxpediate
vote. With sixteen other Democrats
he voted for free silver.
But the Democratic candidate, Mr..
Cleveland, is VIGOROUSLY committed to
the silver policy outlined in the plat
form of the Chicago convention. Mr..
Hill and his sixteen brother senators OF
the Democratic party substituted, in
practice, the free silver policy for the
honest-money principles which Mr..
Cleveland processes.
That such piece Of legislation must
embarrass the candidate on the intrinsic
value platform needs no pointing out to
be apparent
The accident OF the vote which placed
him in defensive position in relation to
his partv's action in the senate seems
to have been designed with great care.
A presidential candidate in direct op-
position to nearly three-fourths Of his
party in the senate, does not seem to
be in exactly harmonious relations
with it.