The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-07
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-After the pre-.
liminarr morning business Mr. Morgan, at
$780, called up his silver resolutions offered
yesterday and yielded to Mr.. Wolcott who
proceeded Immediately to address the Sen
ate on the subject of silver, beginning with
the blunt statement that the silver bill had
been put to sleep in the House and the SEN
ate might as well get the truth on the
silver equestion. Apparently the subject
has lost interest for the public for although
the Senators listened with their former de-
gree of attention, the galleries contained
the usual number of scattered spectators
Wolcott soon launched an attack upon the
administration. He admitted that the
silver men had suffered defeat in both houses
and charg that it had been comprised by
the administration, the first great force
which had left no stone unturned in it's
efforts to defeat the silver bill. 1t appeared
to desire to avoid the embarrassment of
action upon The question before the ma
tiODal convention was held. He asserted
that the Republican party with negative
unanimity would reG ominate the present
executive because no other man of greater
stature could be found to stand because of
the blow that struck silver aside. 1t be-
came equally manifest that the Democratic
party would present its apostle of tariff
reform, whose vision saw no other issue
and who was willing 10 be consecrated
again to public Office so the greatest people
were unrepreseDted by any party. He
(Mr. Wolcot!) charged that the administra-
lion had cracked the party lash and had
succeeded, put there would be a to morrow.
II was humiliatlng spectacle and the ad-
ministration should have at least allowed
Congress to express its opinion without
duress.
The necessity of vote had to be pre-
vented if possible. and so the miserable
work began Offices had to be parceled
out; the party lash was cracked and wavcr-
ing members joined The work apparently
had been effectively done, and yet there
was al ways a to- morrow. Nobody was de-
ceived, but that would be graceful act, in
the outgoing President to have permitted
the two houses of Congress to have voted
according to their own inclination on a
measure of national Importance. The
spectacle, humiliating as it was, showed
that it was but an amazing change of
fronta by great section OF the Democratic
party During the last session that party
stood manfully to its party traditions of
hard money clear majority of it's mem.
bers had taken the stump before election
and pledged members to vote for free and
unlimited coinage. The sudden change
would be ridiculous if its results were not
tragic One prophet of the Democracy
announced that tariff reform was the
slogan, another insisted that being Demo
crat was the test.
Wolcott wound up his speech with an
eloquent peroration and was applauded
by Senators and spectators. Mucn atten-
ton was paid to the eloquent speech which
was delivered with great force, although
mostly from manuscript.
The Senate chamber was much fuller
than usual and every Senator gave Ia most
unusual thing his undivided attention to
tho speech. at its close MIR. Morgan's reso-
lutions went over without action They
are still on the calendar and the Senate re-
sumed consideration of the Indian appro-
priation bill 1t was addressed by Voor-
hees, who went over the circumstances of
the Sioux outbreak last wear attributing it.
on the authority of General Miles, to