Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
THEY GET WHAT THEY ASK.
A Clause in the Tariff Section Gives
Them Partial Victory.
THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE Is NET,
And the Complete Platform Will Be All
Ready to Report To-Day.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL JOB WINS


vention in the matter of platform were
solved this afternoon, lively time pre-
ceding the solution. Silver was the rock
upon which the committee nearly split,
with the result discord and the presentation
to the convention of a ma jorlty and mi
nority report. Silver men had their blood
up, and if defeated in the platform the COM
mittee would have asked nothing better
than square hands.up fight on the floor Of
the convention.
When the Platform Committee assembled
| pect in view, no reconcilment had been
effected in the subcommittee of five, which
had been appointed by Ex-Governor Fora
ker to consider the silver problem.
The Subcommittee on Silver of the Com
mittee on Resolutions held its first session
late last night. Nothing was accomplished,
and no report will be ready before to-mor-
row for the full committee. The silver men
consumed most of last nights session, and
they are pleased with the attention with
which their associates listened to the words,
political and economical, addressed to them.
The Mouthpiece of Free Coinage.
Senator JONES' of Nevada, spoke for an
hour, and it is said his address was strong
presentation OF his side of the question. The
Sc nator never speaks unless he is thorough
ly prepared and has carefully considered
what he will say. Last nigh. he was full of
his subject. Considerable of the argument
was devoted to the silver question per Sc,
and on this point it is we'll nigh impossible
that anything could be added to what has
been said and written during the past year.
On the political phase of the question, he
told his associates that the Republican
party could no longer depend upon the
solid support of the silver-producing States
and the far West. Things there, he said,
were in a ferment. The third party move
ment had spread to the far West, and the
people threatened to bolt both the old
parties unless either of them would grant
them more liberal silver legislation, or to
gOwith either party which would give it to
them.
A pure and simple free coinage PROPOSE
tion was put to the subcommittee and as was
expected, was lost by vote of to 2 This
was the only vote taken. Then came the
resolution prepared by the silver men, de-
claring in favor of bi-metallism, and that
the Legislature be recognized as the proper
silver measure.
Where Silver Won Its Victory.
The first matter that came before the full
committee was the subject of the tariff, and
right here was where the silver advocates
showed shrewd generalshp. They doggedly
set out to contest every inch of ground and
embafrass their opponents at every stage of
the consideration of the platform. These
bold tactics proved successful, for at 4:30,
when the Platform Committee took re-
cess, the victory was won.
Instead of free coinage platform, sepa-
rate and distinct, they had SO shaped the
tariff paragraph of the report, the first and
most conspicuous part of the document,
that it is in accordance with what is sup
posed to be the hearts desire of the So
called silver States. Free coinage was let
go by the board and in its pace silver men
gleefully accepted clause pledging the
Republican patty to the policy of pro-
tective tariff. Somuch time was consumed in
the discussion and wording of this particu-
lar substitute for free coinage declaration
that none of the other subjects before the
committee were SO much as touched upon,
and the deliberations of the committee
gave every indication of lasting until day.
light tomorrow.
The Nicaragua Job Is Indorsed.
After the second fight on the silver ques-
tion, the platform as whole looked pretty
we'll tagged out 1t was decided to take
recess this time till 8 P. NJ. Before doing
so the report of the sub Committee on Mis-
cellaneous Subjects was received. This
committee dealt with the Nicaragua Canal.
Judge Estee, of California, and Henry d.
Pierce, of Indianapolis, who spoke before
the committee as representatives of the Ex-
ecutiye Committee of the Nicaragua Canal
Congress Just held in st. Louis, were granted
all they asked The subcommittee re-
ported plank recognizing the Nicaragua
Canal as of transcendent Importance to the
United States in view of It's necessity in
time of war and its great utility in forward
ing interests of productions and commerce,
and recommending all proper steps be
taken to secure the building Of it by Amer
lean capital.
At this point adjournment to p M. fol-
lowed. The two planks already completed
were placed, meanwhile, In the hands of a
revision committee composed of Gore, of
Nebraska; Platt, of Connecticut; Teller, of
Colorado; Bracket, of Massachusetts,, and
Thompson, OF Pennsylvania.
Upon reassembling, the full committee
having apparently satisfied the silver men
with the insertion in the tariff plank of an
emphatic protest against the action of the
Democracy in singing out lead with wool
as the articles to be placed on the free list,
it was supposed that the white metal men
would subside.
A Second Point for tho Westerners.
Nothing was further heard from the
Westerners, though they stuck to their
previous effective declarations that with
lead taken care of the silver States could
be carried by the Republicans
The silver men, as soon as the committee
was fairly under way, discussing what
should be the second plank Of the platform,
trotted out free silver as fresh as ever
Another hot fight ensued and a second vic
tory resulted for the silver men, though, as
before, not what they aimed at The New
York and New England committeeman
proved far too strong for anything like
flat-footed declaration for unlimited coinage
or anything similarly radical.
The upshot was an agreement that the
second plank should deal with the silver
question. The compromise as to the Ian
guage was that the declaration should be
substantially as follows:
The American people are, by tradition and
interest, in favor of bimetallic coinage of
gold and silver, but one dollar should be as
good as another dollar; that silver should be
and that the forthcoming International
Conference is indorsed as probably furnish.
ing q satisfactory solution of this yexed
question OF financial relations.
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