The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-06-09
FOR FREE COINAGE,
THE SENATE CONSIDERS Mr.. STEW
ARTS BILL ON THE SUBJECT.

Up-Hin Dodges tho Issue and Irby
Did Not Vote.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-In the Sen
ate yesterday at the close of the routine
business Mr.. Morgan resumed the dis.
cusSlon Of his silver resolutions. IIo
said he wanted legislation, and, hope.
less as 1t might seem to some, he be.
lieved that If the Senators who had eX-
pressed their views by their votes
would adhere cOurageOusly to their
convictions, even before the close of
this Congress-, some conclusion might
be reached on this question. There
were mtn enough in both houses in
favor OF free coinage of silver to pass
bill entirely satisfactory to the cCun-
try. He ihdul ged the hope-notwith-
SStandlng the intimatiOns thrown out
from time to time-that the Executive
would bow to the popular will, for he
conld not conceive that the President,
who was himself an avowed bimetal.
list. and had so proclaimed himself OH
many occasions, would attempt to set
up his Judgment in the form of a veto
against the expressed will of both
branches OF Congress. He further in
Ilmated that the feeling on this subject
among tho people was so deep seated
That IT was possible that the election of
PRESIDENT might for one, or perhaps two
national conventions of the two par
Ties and be thrown into the House of
Representatives. Mr.. Morgan ex-
pressed an earnest desire that when the
present debate should have been ex-
hausttd the Senator from Nevada (Mr.
StewarO should move to take up his
free coinage resolution and press for a
vote upon 1T.
Continuing, Mr.. Morgan said we had
other PRESIDENTS to veto a silver bill.
and what had become Of them? There
was prominent gentleman before the
country, much reVered for his manly
integrity and craftsmanship. Yet the
Democratic party, because they loved
the people more than they did HIM,
would put him in his political grave
rather than give him the opportunity
to join haads with the Senator from
Ohio in giving a death blow to silver.
The Democrats of this country, if
Grover Cleveland were put at the head
Of one ticket and the Senator from
Ohio (Mr. Sherman) on the other, would
the Senator had accomplished his work
before the eX-President was recruited
In his services to prevent silver being
restored. Some man would rise up
who would represent the popular will
on this question, and who would over
turn both Of these gentlemen, in spite
of all they could do. lie (Mr. Morgan)
W. welded to the Democratic party as
few men were. He would put up with
most anything rather than be driven
O Jf Its ranks, but Jhei. "ouJd be
thousands driven out of the Demo-
cratic party II the Senate should now
show by its votes that it was opposed
to the tree coinage of silver.
Mr.. Sherman complained that the
whole morning had been wasted in the
discussion of the silver resolutions of
the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Nor
GAM lie defended the finance COM
mlttee from charges of desire to
pigeonhole this question, and was pro
ceedlng to reply to some of the state
ihents or Dir. Stewart yesterday on the
subject Of the Importance of silver by
INDIA, after the passage Of the silver
bullion law Of 1880, when the hour Of
O'CLOCK arrived, and the unfinished
business OF yesterday came before the
Senate.
Mr. Stewart of Nevada, acting on the
suggestion thrown out by Mr.. Morgan,
moved to Jay aside the unfinished bust
ness and tnke up the order of business,
No. 257l, "a bill to provide for the free
coinage of gold and silver bullion, and
for other purposes" This was bill in
troduced by him last December, and
placed on the calendar last February
with an adverse resolution upon it
from the committee of finance. 1t pro-
yldes that the unit OF value in the
United States shall be dollar Of 4l21@
grains OF silver or of 25 $40 grains OF
standard gold, and that any owner of
gold or SILVER bullion may deposit it.,
IN sums of not less than 800, in any
United States mint, to be coined into
standard dollars, without charge, and
that the Treasury should be authorized
to issue gold and silver certificates
thereof.
MIR. Morgan demanded the yeas and
nays on the motion to take up this bill,
and they were ordered, and resulted !:
Yeas 28. nays 20, as follows:
Yeas-Republicans: Allen. Jones of
Nevada, Paddock, Power, Sanders,
Shoup, Stanford, Stewart, Teller (0);
Democrats: Bate, Butler, Cockrell,
Coke. Colquitt, Harris, Jones of Ar
kansas, Kenna. Mills, Mitchell, Nor
gan, Pugn, Ransom, Turpie, Vest,
voorhees, and Walthall UO; Farmers
Alliance: Kyle and PETER (2j-28.
Nays-Republicans: Cameron, Gull
lorn, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph, Cal
linger, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Morrill,,
Perkins, Proctor, Sawyer, Stockbridge,
Wilson Q6); Democrats: Gray, Palmer,
Villas. White (D-20.
Mr.. Hill was in the Senate before
and after the taking of the vote, but
not during the roll call.
MIR. Gocman was absent and not
paired. MIR. Carlisle was paired with
Mir. Sherman.
General debate on Mr.. Stewards bill
was then opened by MIR. Teller Of Colo
RADIO He severely commented on Mr..
Sherman's statement that discussion of
the silver question was a "waste OF
time" He admitted that the discus
sion OF free coinage in tho Senate at
this time might interfere with the in
ternatlonal monetary conference. If
II did, there would be no man more re-
sPonsi6le for 1t than the Senator from
ONO (Mr, Sherman), who yesterday
made statement on the authority Vi
some nnn:Gei Senator. that silver prs
duction would be quintupled if free,
coinage were adopted-a statement
which the Sanat0r from Jou,, /.S,