St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-22


Utah-O. W. Powers.
Vermont-H. F. Brigham.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. John " DAME
West Nirginie-j. B. fancy.
Wisconsin Senator W. +. Villas.
Wyoming-George l. Beck.
CHICAGO, June 81. - Immediately
after The adjournment of the conven-
ton. the committee on resolutions met
in the room set apart for it i'll the con-
ventiOu building and organized by
eiecting the Hon. Thomas +. Bayard,
of Delaware, eX-seeretary of state under
the Cleveland administration, as chair
man of the committee, and {. ii. Jones,
of Missouri. as secretary.
Several resolutions were introduced.
but action thereon was deferred, rela-
tive to the tariff and silver questions,
the tariff resolutions being of decid-
eddy radical character, and declaring in
substance for tariff for reuenue
only. There we're half doZ-
en- resolutions introduced on the
france question, those from the
silver states and some of the Southern
states being emphatic declarations for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver;
but those from the Eastern States uSu-
ally diSposing of the subject by de-
mand for ''honeSt money"
Banking Law Alta ked.
The following resolution, sent in by
Representative Bacon, of New York.
which has beer Endorsed by the Demo
cratic members of the committee OIL
banks and banking of the national
house of representatives, of which COM
mittee Mr.. Bacon is chairman, was III
troduced and laid over for discussion:
Resolved. That we recognize that the ma
tlonal banking system under existing laws,
and partly by reason OF The diminished
amount and increased price OF the bonds OF
the United States, has become inadequate 10
the needs of the people. and we pledge the
Democratic Larty to such amendment and
alteration of the laws relating TO banking as
will afford 10 all localities the opportunity to
supply themselves with adequate banking
facilities and a safe, elastic and properly dis
tributed money.
Ii was nearing midnight before the
committee adjourned. and then their
labors were far from complete. A draft
of the platform submitted by Hon. Z.
H. Jones, Of ST. Louis, had twice been
taken up section by section in commit
fee of the whole and amendments and
substitutes for the different parts had
piled up till the council table, around
which sat the members of the commit
tee, was heaped up nearly foot high
with manuscript.
LEFT 1t TO Nine.
Half in despair, the committee re-
signed to a subcommittee Of nine the
task of bringing order out of chaos.
This subcommittee is made up as follows:
Jones. of Missouri; Villas. of Wisconsin;
Daniel, Virginia; Thompson, Calitor-
MIA; Russell. Massachusetts; Patterson,
Colorado; Bayard, Delaware; Neither
son, New Jersey; Sewell, OF Maine. Inc
subcommittee was instructed to re-
port the result OF their midnight laborS
TO the full committee at 10 o'clock to-
morrow.
The protracted sitting, beginning
with the hearing of the worlds fair
delegation and followed by the advo-
Gates sof the Nicaragua canal, was
under the Guardianship of Hon. c. ii.
Jones, of St. Louis. Mr.. Jones sue
ceeded eX-SecTetary of State Bayard as
presiding officer on the suggestion of
MIR. Bayard himself. 1t was said that
Mr. Cleveland's ex-postmaster general,
Don NJ. Dickinson, of Michigan, had per-
sonally recommended that Mr.. Jones be
thus hOnored, and this, with the fact
that the distinguished Missourlan was
known TO have given the subject OF the
platform careful study. made the pro-
priety Of his selection clearly apparent.
The Silver Plank.
Interest centered chiefly in what
would be done as to silver. Don NJ.
| Dickinson was active in this direction
and intrusted to the Michigan repre-
| sentative on the committee plank
which was understood to represent the
most liberal ideas that would be sub
scribed to by the supporters of MIR.
| Cleveland. 1t favored a bi-metallic
standard and opposed any discrimlna-
| ton IN favor of either metal, or the
placing of any burden upon either. The
| plank omitted any mention Of free
coinage.
| The silver caucus men in the commit
tee had three separate planks, varying
| in their radical nature, of which they
! proposed to get into the platform the
strongest that the committee would
stand. One was free coinage
plank out and out. Of this the Western
ers had little hope. The other two
was more conservatively worded than
| the other. They condemned the de-
monitization of silver and advocated
the restoration of the metal to the place
it once occupied. Nearly dozen other
resolutions on the subject were intro
| duced at one time or another during the
| evening.
| An Ingenious ResoIu ton.
Chairman jones' silver plank was said
| to be an ingeniously contrived CON-
promise declaring in favor of an honest
! dollar, and conceding to the silver SEN
| timent all that the Republicans Mime
| apolis platform did. This, however,
| did not by any means satisfy the pro-
| nounced silver men, though the wrath
| which they have been nursing was not
| little curbed by it.
The plank was eXpressively summed
| I'D by Senator Daniel, of Virginia, as
shining in several directions" The
| silver men, notably their leader, Pat
| terson, of Colorado, were disposed to
| be diplomatic and not belligerent-for
| the time being at least.
Besieged on All Sides.
Besides silver, the worlds fair and
the Nicaragua canal, number Of other