St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-22
Opponents Of the Bill Mani
fest an Intention to Talk
1t to Death.
Washburn and Other Sup
porterS Of the Measure
+ Alarmed.
Senators Daniel and White
Occupy the Session in
DenunciatiOn.
Allegations That It Would
q Fail Of It's Purpose if
!, Enacted.

UCsuu HIS SPEECH Oh Tie dnCl-OpblON Dill
In the senate today with the statement
that in view of the extreme Importance
of the subject he felt called upon to
discuss it with deIiberation and thor
oughly.
Mr.. Washburn WINGED visibly, for he,
as well as the other friends of the bill,
recognized the covert threat that the
bill was to be talked to death if possible.
That was the general understanding
when the senate adjourned. Mr.. White
pleaded exhaustion and secured an adj
Journment without finishing his speech.
He is powerful man physically, and
will doubtless be ready to resume the
thread OF his argument tomorrow at 2
O'Clock and carry the bill we'll along
toward the hour Of adjournment. Other
speakers are ready to follow him.
FOLLOWING an ancient tradition the
senate rarely refuses to suspend the
regular order long enough to allow
senator to make a set speech on any
subject near to his heart. Therefore,
they may hear Mr.. Mccall. who has al
ready given notice of his intention to
speak on the word-provoking subject of
the relations of the employer to the en-
ploye. prompted by the Homestead
trouble. He is good for one day.
Then MIR. Aldrich wants to sound the
Keynote of the Republican campaign in
tariff So eech which will undoubtedly
provoke reply from Mr.. Carlisle. All
of these may carry the options bill along
we'll into next week. Meantime the
conferees on the sudry civil bill will
be hard at work. and once they report
an agreement nothing is likely to hold
congress in session another day. That
is why the friends of the anti-option
bill felt depressed when the senate ad-
journed this afternoon.
A Roast by Daniel.
Mr.. Daniel resumed ahis speech
against the bill. He said the most mis-
chievous of the evils from which farm
erS suffered were not covered by the
bill. The engrossment of the market
by the accumulation of vast quantities
OF grain iii elevators and the cornering
of the market by capitalists was not
only not prohibited, but would be aided
by the machinery Of the bill, which
would enable such persons, through the
! agency of the internal revenue officers,
to spot" everybody who would lie a
| rival to them.
He regarded the bill as an abuse of
| the power OF federal taxation, and, in
connection with it, he should offer an
amendment at the proper time to repeal
another abuse of taxation which had
existed for twenty-five years, namely,
the tax OF 10 per cent upon the circula-
tion of state banks. He cOntended that
| the national banks had fulfilled their
funafiOnS and tho TINA haI la,
the national government ought to re-
| store to the states the rights to use such
banking facilities as they could devise
for domestic purposes.
1t was impossible. Mr.. Daniel said.
for the Southern states to procure a
sufficiency of capital through the
national banking system. That system
had fulfilled its function. 1t was going
out of existence eX necessitate rel.
The time was ripe and the hour had
come when the government ought to
restore the rights of the states to use
such financial facilities as they could
themselves invent for purposes of
domestic use.
Red Hot Arrai@nment.
Mr.. White addressed the senate in
opposition to the bill. In his Judgment
there had never been more pernicious,
constitutional piece of legislation
brought before the senate. There had
never been a piece of legislation be-
fore the senate more calculated
10 undermine and DESTROY the
very foundation of the government or
more calculated to do untold, and un
tellable harm to the American people
1t was full of gross financial and bust
ness heresies. Its effect would be to re-
duce the price of agricultural products
to every producer
White said) had moved to strike out the
twelfth section, but would retain the
thirteenth section so as TO keep vested
in the officers of the government the ar
bltrary powers of search and inYestiga-
ton. The purpose of the bill was to
strike down contracts entered into un-
der the segiS Of state law. If it did not
assert that power it did not assert any
power.
The Constitutional Point.
The only semblance of constitutional
authority which the bill had was, Mr..
White said. the twelfth section: and
yet the senator from Minnesota had
climbed up that tree under which the
senator Thought trade was to be pro-
tected, but under which he (Mr. White)
thought death and destruction to trade
and business lurked, and had let him
self down by saving off the only SEM
blance of constitutionality in the bill.
The senator from Minnesota had put on
his foreign glasses and had turned to
the American people and proposed 10
put on their limbs foreign sliackles in
regard TO all those great rights which
were theirs-theirs today, tomorrow
and forever.
ing in futures were prohibited in boards
of trade it would break out in the
bucket shOpS.' and the bill would have
to be modified by making it read, AN
act to stimulate gambling in agricultural
products and 10 encourage the opening
of bucket shops by forbid ding gambling
in four or five products and licensing it