Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-08

gress?" inquired Mr. Reed. [Grea
"Some parts Of it he may, and some part
Of it he does not, retorted the Speaker
a'The Chair does not indorse its Speaker. ;
Laughter and applause on the Democratic
side
'The Speaker of the last House begl
Chair to indorse him." replied Mr.. Reed
Applause on the Republican side
Last Word by the Speaker.
"Quite right" commented Speaker Crisp,
!aconicaly: IT was just going to say, when
interrupteds that the gentleman from Maine,
the Speaker of the last Congress, held that
the question of consideration could not be
raised against the order of business"
"Well, don't want to have anything to
do with rules of the Fifty-frst Congress, 81
said Mr., Tracey emphatically. fGreat
laughter. "The rules of the Fifty-frst
Congress should not be alluded to in this
House excepting, possibly, by the gentleman
from Maine" [Renewed laughter.
The Spesker-The Chair won't quarrel
with the gentleman about that Laugh
teri
Once more Mr.. Tracey appealed from the
decision Of the Chair, and Mr.. Warner, an-
other New York Democrat, warned his col
leagues that they were on the point, as a
Democratic House, of enforcing a more
arbitrary rule, in q more arbitrary manner,
than any enforced by the Fifty-first Con-
gress. by virtue of whose crimes the Demo-
cratic majority is here" TApplause.1
Again the yeas and nays were demanded,
and again Mr.. Tracey's appeal from the de-
cision Of the Chair was tabled-yeas 176,
nays 81.
Mr.. Tracey thereupon made motion to
recommit the resolution, with instructions
to the Committee on Rules to report it back
with an amendment changing the date for
the consideration of the silver bill from
March 70 to December IL.
An Ehormous Majority Discovered.
The motion was defeated--yeas 70, nays
202 The previous question was then or
dered upon the resolution without further
objection being made.
Mi. Williams, Of Massachusetts,, in op-
posing the resolution, said the free coinage
men would need much consolation before
the Democratic party got through explain
ing to the people why it had left free COIN
age out of the platform of 1888 and had ap-
pealed to the people on the ground that it
was opposed to free coinage, thereby Justify
ing Its administration for four years. 1t
was now proposed to give the lie to one of
its pledges In the North pledges to the
people meant something, and the pledges of
the Democrats in the North had changed
great minority into great majority. How
was that majority made up? By accessions
from the Republican party, and if those ac-
cessions were lost. it would be because the
Democratic party had been false to its
upon this question. If free coinage was
established by Democratic votes, the reform
of the tariff was at an end. The people of
the Nor tn could stand taxation under un-
Just laws nd would stand them, but they
were not yet ready to go
Into National Bankruptcy
and pay 70 cents on the dollar. The bank
ruptcy would come for those Democrats who
party out Of the Democratic party. They
would have to decide between two things
Farmers Alliance in the South, or Demo-
cratic alliance in the North. One of the
two they must give up. This question
went deeper into politics than anybody
conceived The organization of this House
had been directed toward forcing this ques-
tion upon the country. He did not know
which was more important-that Congress-
men should be returned from Georgia and
Mississippi, or that Democratic President
should be elected in 1892.
Mr.. Reed, Of Maine, cordially agreed for
once with the gentleman from Massachu-
setts That gentlemaD had pointed out
that the vast Democratic majority had been
secured by false pledges to the people
pledges that were now in process of being /
broken. Laughter. The gentleman had
singled one instance before the House, and
40 doubt the rest of his party would care
fully point out by action the other. In.
Iced, the party, all the way along, had
been engaged in the noble work of uncov-
,ring itself to the gaze of the American
people. Under the guise that it was going to
rive good currency to the country, the Dem
,cratie party had stolen march upon the
Of the North, and the gentle
nan from Massachusetts, had ftly character
zed the result. Upon the delusive and false
that improper means had been
Used in the government Of the House of the
Eifty-irst Congress, the Democrats had gone
before thepeople denouncing actions which
hey this very day surpassed. Republican
lad overriden what they had called
Tho Sacred Rights of the Minority
nth harder hoof than they had ever been
idden over before. They had deliberately
'verruled the decision Of Speaker Carlisle,
Who, in the Fiftieth Congress, had decided V
hat no business could be transacted until !!
he journal OF the House was approved In |!
heir eagerness to override the rights of the |
minority they had overriden the decision of |
he Speaker they had hitherto said they de- |
lighted to honor. Here was two-thirds of |
he capital stock Of the last election flung |
o the winds, and, as the gentleman
rom Massachusetts, well said, when the PEG
lie got up to expose them, the people would |
lady rectify the frightful mistake they
lad made in go Laughter Never since
he world was created had there been such |
n instance of the power of lying over the
ulea The gentleman from Massachusetts,
ow heard the tramp of the march of the
rand army of truth-sometimes delayed, |
ometimes defeated, but in the end eternally
triumphant lRepublican applause
Mr.. Pierce, of Tennessee, said that the
Democratic party had favored and would
yer favor bill for the free coinage of
liver. Within the last three years % Dem
cratic State conventions, in their plat
,rms, had declared for the free coinage of
liver. The Republicans In 1888 had de-
eived the people when they declared that
ley were in favor Of the free coinage of
liver. Now the Democratic party pro-
osed to keep faith with the people and per-
,rm the pledge of free silver coinage.
Mr.. Bland said the free coinage question
'as one which ought to be considered out
de and Independent Of any party exigency
with it. Mr.. Carlisle's ruling
sfcrred to by Mr.. Reed did not apply to
he present case After further debate
anticipated in by Messrs. McKeighan,
ownsend and Boutelle, the yeas and nays
ere ordered and resulted in the adoption
I the resolution-yeas, 100; nays, 81; as
flows: