Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-24
MUST co ON RECORD.
Chairman Bland Gives Notice
That He Will This After
noon Force a
VOTE ON THE SILVER BILL.
Opponents of the Free Coinage Meas
ure Preparing to Filibuster.
PUBLIC INTEREST Is INCREASING.
Expectation That the Question Will Be the
Issue in November.
VOTE ON THE SILVER BILL.
PUBLIC INTEREST is INCREASING.
ANOTHER FLOOD OF FERVID ELOQUENCE

dav showed an intensity of public 1nteres
in that great question which now faces tn
Fifty-second Congress for solution an
threatens to become a political issue in tn
Presidential campaign of the autumn. Th
speeches were all of strongly positive
character. They were the arguments o
men who have strong convictions upon tn
sides which they respectively represent
and who are uncompromising in their dec
larations of the policy which should be pur
sued. Gradually the conviction is forcin.
itself upon the members that it is to be n,
drawn battle; that the issue is one that can
not be averted, and that the day is near a
hand when the House of Representative
must declare on yea and nay vote it,
position on the great question of free coin
age.
The gentlemen who pinned their hope!
on tine chances of compromise at the las
hour by the substitution of bill providing
for an international money congress are
losing courage to-day, and even the indom.
liable Mr.. Tracey, of New York, comedies
that the free coinage bill will have clear
majority if final vote is ever reached upon
its passage. Just what he and his anti-free
coinage associates will do to avert this final
vote he has not vet announced, but Chair
man Bland and his friends fully expect fill
clustering tactics tomorrow on the part of
their opponents, and already rumors are
rife that the Committee On Rules sill be re-
quested promptly to report a rule naming a
day and hour for taking a final vote. In
this manner only can intermiEable filibus-
tering be prevented and the free coinage
men are preparing to demand the remedy
on the very first manifestation of need for it
First Move Of the Opposition.
Mr. Tracey announces that the first
motion to be made by the opponents of the
bill at the conclusion of the debate and
before any disposition to flibuster is mani
tested will be in the form of resolution
recommitting the bill to the Coinage Com
mittee with instructions to report a substi-
tute bill providing for an international
monetary congress for the adjustment of
the entire silver problem 1t is believed
that this motion will receive the support
of manv gentlemen who will otherwise feel
compelled to vote for free coinage, and that
it is therefore the strongest motion that can
be made by the opponents of the bill Ii it
is defeated all the sources of parliamentary
rules will then be invoked to tire out the
friends of the bill and prevent final vote
upon its passage.
The galleries were crowded when the
Speaker raped the House to order at noon
to-day and there was no abatement from the
interest exhibited at the opening hour of
the debate yesterday. The floor and lobbies
Of the House, too, were well crowded with
ex-members and Senators, attracted by the
great interest of the occasion, and on a sofa
in the rear of the hall was seated Hon A.
j. Warner, well known as one of the faith
ers of the free coinage movement, and
during the day the Hercuiean ex-member
held frequent consultations with Repre-
sentatives Bland and Pierce and other &C
tive leaders in the cause of free silver. In
the galleries were seated many bankers and
financial experts from all over the country
Forcing the Issue to a Vote.
81 desire to give notice." said Chairman
Bland at the opening of the debate, "that at
9 o'clock tomorrow 1 shall demand the pre-
vious question on the silver bill and pend
ing amendments"
This means merely that the general de-
bate will close at 2 o'clock tomorrow and
that vote will then be taken on the bill
and amendments unless its opponents in
augurate a series of filibustering tactics.
The first speaker of the day was Repre-
sentative Pierce, of Tennessee, the able
young lieutenant of Chairman Bland, who
said:
In a discussion of the pending measure,
if didn't believe that the free and unlin.
tied coinage OF silver was for the best inter-
ests of the people Of the whole country
should not SO warmly support this measure
1t is only by going back to the past upon
this question of bimetallism that we can
nndarSfonh
for the question of to-day is whether we
shall have bimetallism or monometallism
Going back to 1876 beginning with the
action of the great nations of the world
upon this question, we find that great indus
trial England was prosperous anG happy
until she struck down silver and discarded
it as one of her coin metals. The voice of
la Dor then as now was unheeded and the re-
suit was the next three years witnessed a
period of depression, distress and suffering
hitherto unknown in the kingdom of Great
Britain; This is matter of history and
cannot be controverted. By the expansion
of the currency resulting from the discover
les of gold in California and Australia in
lS4O to 1850, labor in every commercial nation
was affected, advancing 45 per cent. The
spirit that is dominant to-day among finan.
clers and capitalists throughout the world
S that scarcity in money is thing to be de-
'ired.
The Doctrines Of Chevaljer of France.
1t has not been many decades since Chev-
alier of France taught that the ovef-produc-
ion of gold along in the fifties made it wise
% adopt monometalism with silver-not
yold-as the standard. Germany in 1857 &C.
'epted the teachings of Chevalier. and de-
nonetized gold and established q single sill
yer standard. Why? Simply because they
thought they were going to have too much
money in the two metals. Limitatio of
honey no sHan and scarcity OF eurrenoy was what
opponents tell US that gold must not be mo-
ested, that gold is the only sacred metal,
hat gold is king. What is it that gave to
And it is only by legislation that the great
wrong can be righted. [Applause.l
Up to the time of the demonetization of
ilver in 1873. the silver dollar was never
worth less than 100 cents. When demonet-
zed it was all the time at premium of 81
yer cent. Why did they demonetize it, then?
The same spirit OF avarice and greed that
truck it down in England dominated this
and silver was murdered at the in.
crest of the great banking and financial in
erests of the country; and the agricultural
nd laboring people from that time to this |
ave been paying the profits in their sweat |
nd toll. tApplause.1 |
There are gentlemen of New England who
ay TO US tnat ii we pass a free silver bill in |
his House, New England will send an un- |
'roken body of Republican Representatives |
O this hall and that they will give us the |
orce Dill. L want to say to you gentlemen |
rom New England that we Democrats of /
liD SOuoh anu une w est measure our aCt1On /
" the Democratic rule: and Thomas Jeffer- |
on, the father of Democracy, having said |
has the cardinal principle Of Democracy |
ras submission to the will of the majority |
airly expressed, we in the South and West, /
Ghen majority speaks, bow to it and sup |
ort the nominee and the platform that the |
majority present. [Applause.l
Afraid That the Gold Cure May KILL
That is our kind of Democracy. We do |
OF recognize as a Democratic expedfent |
his new remedy, which, believe, they call |
the gold cure"-a remedy which, it ap- |
ears, is lately killing so many people who |
re undertaking to save themselves by it,