Asheville daily citizen., 1892-07-14

ruleu against kced. lie based his dCCi!
ion on the ground that Reed could NO
make any motioL when he did not hav
,. the floor, and he could not obtain III
floor when the gentleman from MiSsiS.
ippi had recognition.
Mr.. CatchinGS was accordingly rccou
nizcd and yielded the floor to Chairma
Bland, of the coinage commttc tor fiji
teen minutes, but before Mr.. Bland couI,
speak Mr. Burrows, of Michigan takin!
prompt advantage of of a slight paI liza
mentary iniormalitv on the part O
CatchinEs, made the point that al
CatchnGs had done was to report tn,
resolution, and that therefore the re
port, like any other report, must .,
over tor the day. Burrows was tcchnic
ally correct, but was ovcrrucd. Blanc
was therefore recognized and in accord
ance with the program of the silver men
offered an amendment to the resolution
having for its object the opening OF I;
pathway for an amendment to the Stew.
art bill to meet he alleged legal detects
in 1t, and also to apply the cloture rule
to the bill. lie paid his respect to the
members who, he knew, were going to
oppose his program on the ground of am
tagonism on principle to the cloturc rule
and declared that cloturc lin the form of
the previous question: was fifty years
old. This remark was received with ap-
plauSc by the republicans.
Bland i'll closing said he would vote
against the previous question and that
whatever might be said the vote on the
previous question would align squarclv
the friends and enemies of free coinage.
Inexpedient.
Bartin, of Ncvarda, leading the free
silver republicans, spoke in the same
strain as Bland. Mr.. Clark, of Ala-
bama. then spoke on the other side. de
! claring that he was still earnestly in fl.
vor of free coinage, but recognized the
lnexpedicncy Of trying to pass bill now
which couldn't, by any possibility, be
come law.
He was followed by Mr.. Foreman. OF
Illinois, who said he would stand bv the
national platform and vote against the
resolution. Mr.. Patterson, of Tcnncs.
sec was the next democrat tospeak. He
has hcrctotor been classcd as a free coin
age man, but he came out against the
Stewart bill and it was evident that 'on
one ground or another Bland's previous
supporters were slipping away from
him.
MIR. Pattcrson!placcd his objection to
the Stewart bill and to the resolution
on the ground that the democratic party
was squarely opposed to the republican |
party on the taft and force bill and he
would cast no vote that would bring
forward another issue. IIcwou!d march
under the banner that "publjc office is a
public trust"
Mr.. Catchings, of Mississippi, was
anxious that the republican side should
take hand in the debate, instead of
listening to his democratic opponents,
and he now yielded fifteen minutes to
MIR. Reed who was slow to accept the
time and sarcastically said he should
feel obliged ii the man from Mississpp
would wait till somebody had spoken in
favor of the bill. He didn't want to
start with negative. lie was com.
peIcd to do so, MIR. Catchings insisting
hat the republicans should now be
heard from.
The Funny Man.
Reed in his usual effectively sarcastic
tylc, Sincerely congratulated the demo
ratio party on its attitude of repcn-
ance," remark which launched him
nto speech with the attention of the
whole house. He said that his mind was
occupied bv the picture of the dcmocatic
,arty as minority in the last congress.
lc remembered how fierce they were
hen for free coinage. He remembered
he announcement by the distinguished
Gentlemen who had since become the !
Presiding officer of the house (Crisp)
hat one thing which the democratic ,
'arty yearncd for (and Reed put a s
trong accent on the "yearned") was free ,
liver and that declaration followed in !
he record by "[applausc on the demo-
ratio side. ]" (laughter.D He rcmem-
ercd how many democrats said how
ard vigorously they were for !
rec coinage and for the moment it actu- +
lily seemed that they had struck a level {
which might possibly be called a level of ,
lLauehter.) But Mr.. Pat r
erson had cleared it all up and cx- :,
lained the real principle of the party, i
My he had embcllishcd the principle in i
rider to make quotation. That gen. i
eman had said the great principle was =
public office" and added that it was a r
public trust declaring thereby prin- +,
pie and making quotation as well. i
This thrust was received with loud :
'ughter and all oyer the house there !,
ere smiles when Mr.. Reed said he did +,
OF mind "the halting language and S
voices of the sinner returning +
ONE" Reed then cndeavored to score +
point for the republican party by de- |
airing that it existed for principle c
which remark the democrats jecrcd), n
nd saying it had taken the lead IN this :
sht and would enable the democratic h
ouse to do better service than the re- l.
lblican senate had done. +,
Pop Gun Tariff Bills. fc
Reed was followed by Abner Taylor, of n
inois, who spoke against the silver \
II as measure providing tor the de- h h
lsement of the currency. nj
MIR. Pierce, of Tennessee, then followed II
the free coinage men in frank speech =
hich attracted attention. He declared SN
at the democratic parey was a free S,
vcr party and he agreed with the re- Ii,
ark of the gentleman from Maine that Il,
the last house all except seventeen W
mocrats had voted for free coinage T
'ud applause on the republican side.) W
len he paid his respects to the demo- SC
ats who were now opposing the pas A
&c of the flee silver bill under the clo- SC
re rule because it cannot now become ar
aw, by exclaiming (amid loud cheers 70
d laughter on the republican side): in
Why then did you shoot those pop-gun co
riff bills through under suspension of Sc