Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-07
WOLCOTT HAS HIS SAY.
THE JUNIOR COLORADO SENATOR
is A HARD HITTER.
He Lampoon the Administration For
Throttling the Silver Question He
Warns President Harrison That the
People Have it in For Him.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-After the pre-
liminaries Of the morning business in
the senate today, Morgan, at 1890.
called up his silver resolution offered
yesterday, and yielded to Wolcott, who
proceeded Immediately to address the
senate on the subject of silver, begin
ming with the blunt statement that the
silver bill had been put to sleep in the
house and the senate might as we'll face
the truth on the silver question.
Apparently the subject has lost inter-
est for the public, for, although the
senators present listened with fair
degree OF attention. the galleries con-
tanned the usual number of scattering
spectators only.
Wolcott soon launched into an attack
upon the administration. He admitted
that the silver men had suffered defeat,
both in the house and the senate, and
charged that this had been compassed
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 en-
barassment of action upon the question
before the national convention was held.
He asserted that the Republican party
would unanimously renominate the
present executive because no other man
of greater stature could be found to
stand because of the blow that struck
silver aside. 1t had became equally
manifest that the Democratic would
present its apostle of tariff reform, whose
vision saw no other issue, and who was
willing to be consecrated again to pub
lie office. So the great mass Of the
people were unrepresented by any party.
He (Wolcott) charged that the admin
istration had cracked the party lash and
had succeeded, but there would be to-
morrow. 1t was humiliating spectacle,
and the administration should at least
have allowed congress to express it's
opinion without duress.
The necessity of vote had to be pre-
vented, if possible, and so the miserable
work began. Offices had to be paraded,
the party lash cracked, and wavering
members gained. The work apparently
had been effectively done, and yet there
was always a tomorrow. Nobody was
deceived, but that would be graceful
act in the outgoing president to have
permitted the houses of congress to have
voted according to their own inclination
on a measure of national import
ance. The spectacle, humiliating
as it was, showed that it was
but an amazing change of front by a
great section of the Democratic party.
During the last session that party stood
manfully to it's party tradition of hard
money. A clear majority of its mem
bers had taken the stump before the
election and pledged the members to
vote for free and unlimited coinage. The
sudden change would be ridiculous if it's
results were not tragic. One prophet of
Democracy announced that tariff reform
was the slogan. Another insisted that
being Democrat was the test.
Wolcott wound up his speech with an
eloquent peroration, and was applauded
both by the senators and spectators.
Attention had been paid to his whole
speech, which was delivered with great
energy, although mostly from manu-
script. The senate chamber was much
fuller than usual, and every senator
gave Ia most unusual thing) his undi-
vided attention to the speech.
At the close of Wolcott's speech, Nor
gan's resolution went over without ac-
tion, and the senate resumed considera-
ton of the Indian appropriation bill.
The senate was addressed by Voor-
hees, who went over the circumstances
Of the Sioux outbreak last year, attrib-
uting it, on the authority Of General
Miles, to hunger.