Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-05
MORGAN IN EARNEST.
He Intends to Tear the Mask From
Several Reticent Senators.
PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS TO SUFFER.
Sherman Objects to the Gentleman From
Alabama Monopolizing
TINE THAT MIGHT BE BETTER SPENT

wAsH1NGToN, April 4-The expecta-
tion of an interesting discussion on the sill
yer question based upon Mr. Morgan's
resolution instructing the Committee on
Finance to examine and report on certain
phases of the subject seemed to have no
particularly attractive power on the gen.
eral public, for the galleries had even less
than the usual number of spectators when
the session OF the day began.
The Vice President having laid before the
Senate Mr.. Morgan's silver resolutions,
that Senator expressed his willingness to
let them 60 over until tomorrow, so as not
to stand in the way of the Indian appropria-
tion bill, on condition. however, that he
should be allowed to call them up to-mor-
row and address the Senate
Mr.. Sherman remarked that under the
rules of the Senate, the Senator might call
up his resolution and discuss it, but that
when the discussion was interrupted at
o'clock the resolutions would have to 60 on
the calendar and could then only be taken
up on motion. That was the rule; and if
the Senator from Alabama asked that by
unanimous consent the resolutions should
stand in the way of another morning busi-
ness for so long as any Senator desired to
speak on the prolific topic of silver he had
respectfully to object
Objection to Being Shut Up.
Mr.. Morgan-I most respectfully object
to your taking me off the floor SO as to get
your bill before the Senate "a bill which
Mr.. Sherman had asked to have taken from
the calendar and acted on, Tor a uniform
standard of classification and grading of
wheat, corn, oats barley and rye.
Mr.. Sherman-The bill which I ask the
Senate TO take up is one to which there is no
objection.
Mr.. Stewart-I object to your cutting off
the discussion on the silver question.
Mr.. Dawes-I do not desire to stand in the
way of the universal courtesy of the Senate.
Therefore, if the gentleman from Alabama
resolution now, will not interpose the In
dian appropriation bill.
Mr.. Morgan thereupon took the floor to
address the Senate, but yielded to Mr.. VOL
colt, who gave notice that he would address
the Senate on the silver question on Wednes-
day next, and to MIR: Gallinger, who gave
notice that he would address the Senate
very briefly on Monday next on the joint
resolution for a commission to select a site
1or the establishment of a national sani-
tarium for pulmonary diseases.
Mr. Wilson objected to any arrangement
that would Interfere with bills on the calen-
dar
Mr. Morgan informed him that he was not
proposing to speak under any arrangement
but under the rules of the Senate. He knew
the subject was one which struck the atten-
the people of the United States were very
earnest IN their desire to have some relief
from the existing financial condition and
embarrassment. He knew that Senators OF
both parties stood in the way of free ex-
preston of opinion in the Senate on the
question of the free coinage of silver. He
proposed to strip the mask off the faces of
these party men and to make them look the
matter dead in the face.
Opposing Views of the Law OF 1890.
Mr.. Morgan criticised the silver act of
1880, and Mr. Sherman remarked that there
was not the slightest doubt as to what was
meant by the act of 1890
Mr.. Morgan-I know that when the Con-
ference Committee made its report that
act L rose and wanted to know what we were
doing, but was told that 1 must not in
Quire into the secret performances of the
committee. What lingering reservation the
Senator from Ohio, who made the confer
ence report. may have had for the purpose
OF qualifying it do not know. All ! can
common sense in the United States who
would not believe that it was the purpose of
Congress that the two metals Should be kept
in parity in their circulating form.
Mr.. Sherman-Undoubtedly The lam
guage of the law is SO plain that l don't sec
how anybody can doubt it. 1t declares that
the Government of the United States will
maintain the parity of gold and silver coin.
Mr.. Stewart-oh, no-gold and silver
metals.
Mr. sherman-wen, gold and silver
metals.
Mr. Teller-very different things.
Mr.. Sherman-They are not different
The act also provides that for every dollar
certificate issued there shall be behind it a
dollars worth of silver, and that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury shall not coin this
silver into dollars except as they are
needed.
Mr. Morgan-That clause is not in the law,
by expression or intendment or inference
or the guess OF any man, although it may
have been understood by the Senator from
Ohio.
Mr. Sherman-I understood it.
Mr.. Morgan-You may have understood 1t.
CIeveland's Nomination Predicted.
The colloquy between Mr. Morgan and
Mr.. Sherman continued at some length. Mr..
Morgan, in the further course of his argu-
ment, remarked incidentally that one of the
consequences of the defeat of free silver leg
islation would be the nomination OF Mr..
Cleveland; but Mr.. George interposed the
remark that he had his doubts about that
He also referred to Mr.. Sherman as being
in the lead of a large fraction of the
Democratic party of the United States,
well as of the Republican party.
At2 O'Clock, the presiding officer, Mr.. Platt,
laid before the Senate the unfinished bust
ness, being the bill in relation to courts of
appeals, but Mr. Morgan was permitted to |
go on with his address. In the course of it
ne referred TO MI. ClevelanQ as having come |
to the Presidency with a sort of a Wall
street congestive chill upon him, as COM
mencing to prophesy and to prophesy evil,
and as throwing the whole weight of his ad- |
ministration against silver, beginning with |
a letter which he addressed to members of
Congress before his Inauguration, in which
he begged them by all the saints in the cal
endar TO suppress and destroy silver COIN
age. He brought up the charge that Mr..
Sherman was responsible for the demoneti-
zation of silver in 1873; but Mr.. Sherman was
probably not in the chamber at the time. At
all events he paid no attention to this So
often-repeated and so-often-de denied charge.
Candidates Should Be Forgotten.
If, continued Mr. Morgan, Senators could
only forget Cleveland and Hill and Carlise
and Cullom and Allison and other great and
good men who were aspiring to the Presi-
dency of the United States, and the honor
able Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman), if he
had not discarded all such pretensions-if
Senators could discard their fIiendliness for
these aspirations and would come together
and lock their han ds on the silver question
and say that they would do all that wisdom
and devoted love of country suggested.
there would be no more trouble about the
silver question. Then the Senator from
trary to his will, at being led up to such a
high position.
As soon as Mr.. Morgan resumed his seat
Mr.. Sherman rose and said that he did not
intend to enter on the discussion of the gill |
yer question, but he wished to have the
sense of the Senate whether Senators were
to have q silver debate: and in order to have
that ques tion settled definitely he proposed |
to move to lay the resolutions on the |