Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-01
MUST GO ON RECORD.
Senator Morgan Wanted His COL
leagues to Show Their Colors
ON THE FREE SILVER MATTER.
residential Candidates Must Soon Come
From Under Cover.
PEOPLES PARTY SNUBBED BY CRISP


his fellow Senators of being in his seat al
the opening OF to-day's session. The junior
Senator from New York was also present
The general attendance, however, was very
slim.
In reply to a direct question proposed tc
the Committee on Foreign Relations touch
ing petition presented by Mr.. Allen or
the subject of the Nicaragua Canal, Mr.
Sherman, Chairman OF the committee, stated
that the work of the Nicaragua Canal was
progressing favorably under a private
corporation chartered by Congress
that the company was making favorable
progress; that Congress had done nothing
whatever to aid it; that bill for that pur.
pose was reported last session, but was not
acted on; that that bill was now under
consideration by subcommittee on foreign
relations, which was now taking testimony
in regard to the present condition and
future prospects of the canal, and expected
TO report as soon as possible. If the CON-
mittee were hopeful that Congress would
respond to its recommendations, its men,
bers were much more willing to serve as
they were now doing-taking testimony. He
port to the Senate on the subject.
Morgan stirs Up the Animals.
Mr. Morgan offered series of resolutions
instructing the Committee on Finance to
inquire and report as to the effect of the
silver act of 1890 on the price of silver
bullion, as to the issue of legal tender notes,
etc, and instructing the committee to report
promptly on the matter, inasmuch as great
anxiety existed among the industrial classes
as to the causes of depression OF prices and
the paralysis of the market
The resolutions having been read Mr..
Morgan started discussion by stating that
it was his purpose to call them up to-mor-
row and to bring about, if ne could, some
discussion of the financial situation of the
United States. He wished to ascertain the
opinions OF Senators in regard to the neces-
sity and propriety of the free coinage of
silver He wished to ascertain whether on
either or on both sides of the chamber there
were Senators who permitted the shadows
of coming heroes and Presidential combat
ants to come between their duty to the
people and their votes on ques-
ton of the highest possible impor-
tance. 1t did not make any material
difference whether Mr.. Harrison or any,
body else was to be the Republican candi-
date for the Presidency, or whether Mr..
Cleveland or anybody else was to be the
Democratic candidate. Senators should
march straight up TO their duty and correct
the evil he had referred to, as they know
how. Free debate was the duty of every
Senator. Senators had no right to shrink
from the full discussion of the situation, or
from free and manly performance of their
duty. So far as he was concerned, what
ever effect it might have on any political
party, he intended to bring the subject for
ward and to have il discussed and voted
upon.
Sherman Talks in Business Way.
Mr. Sherman said that if the silver ques-
tion was to be projected upon the Senate,
pending the present condition of the pub
lie business, it should be done on some bust
ness proposition-on some distinct subject
matter, on some idea that had been consid-
cred and discussed by the people of the
United States-not on complex and alb
struse resolutions involving every variety
of theory and of fact and every subject in
the whole range of financial legislation.
He hoped, therefore, that the Senator from
Alabama would put in the form of a bill
some proposition which he desired the Sem
ate to act upon-something that would give
relief to the people of the United States.
In that way the Senate would have some
thing to pass upon, and that would be much
better than engaging in the business of
debating school at this period of the session.
Mr. Morgan wanted to know what the
great Finance Committee of the Senate had
10 recommend as to the silver act of 1890,
which was attacked by some gentleman on
his side of the chamber and by some prob
ably on the other side.
Morgan's Object in a Few Words.
In the course of his further remarks an
allusion by Mr. Morgan to the effect of sill
yer legislation on Democratic aspirants for
the Presidential nomination drew from Mr.
Teller the suggestion "and on some on our
sIde.' Mr.. Morgan replied:
will not accuse the Senator from Ohio on
that point, because he has made up his mind
to die without being President-muah to the
When the Senator from Nevada, Mr.. Ste-
wart, calls up his motion next Monday, to
take his silver bill from the calendar, the
Senator from Ohio will not allow him to
utter a word on the subject. The rules for
bid it. We have got to vote AYE"
or mo viii in he dumb ah,s silence sn Sixs tho
reasons for his votes; but he will be able to
give any reason he pleases elsewhere and
before the people. Therefore, do not pro-
pose TO furnish any cover Tor these gentl e.
men. want the people of my State, at all
events to have the right to know the votes |
on the subject of Senators who aspire to the
PresloencN. want IL co De known WneJner
they are in Iavor of the free coinage of sill
yer or whether they are against it on its |
merits That is what l want to know. We |
may boast that we have got bonds upon
them as strong as ropes of steel to hold
them to their party allegiances, but these
bonds will be cobwebs when we undertake
to bind them down on what they believe to
be their Constitutional rights. They are
not going to be held down. Gentlemen are
reckoning entirely outside OF the horoscope
of possibilities when they imagine that the
people of th United States can be deceived |
any longer by their douging the question. |
And so / have brought forward these resolu- |
tions for that purpose. |
Chance to Come Out From Cover.
He asked that the resolutions should 90 |
over till tomorrow. He asked it in the |
hope that some Senators who felt as he did |
would come to his support and sustain him |
in it; SO that while, under the rules, they |
could not express their views on Mr.. Stew
arts's motion next Monday Ito take up his |
silver bill), they would have an opportunity
to do SO on his resolutions, and to extract
from other Senators their opinions on the
subject
The resolutions were accordingly laid on
Republican Senators who are recognized as
foremost among the advocates of silver leg
Teller and Wolcott-were
to be seen in eager conference with Mr..
Morgan, as il to assure him that he would
not be without support when his resolutions
came UP for discussion.
The indian appropriation bill was taken
nm. and the vote was taken without further
on the House provision for the
assieument of army officers to the duties of
Tha /