St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-07
WICKED Mr.. W0LC0TT
The Colorado Senator Ar
raigns the Father-in-LaW
OF Mr.. Mckee.
Administration influence Said
to Have Been Freely Used
Against Silver.
Contemptuous illusions to
Harrison Elicit Smiles or
Approval.
Ex-President Cleveland Also
Given a Shot on His
Position.

he cited the president was the eXertlOn
of the influence of the administration to
prevent legislation for the free coinage
of silver, and the Democrats were nat
urally interested auditors to the criti-
cislns of Senator Wolcott upon PreSi-
dent Harrison. The speech of the SEN
ator from Colorado, which is this even
ing the topic of conversation, was de-
livered in perfectly cool and collected
manner and from carefully prepared
manuscript.
The silver bill, SAID the senator, has
been put to sleep in the house, and the
senate might as well face the silver
question. Nobody expected the meas
ure to become law during this admins
tration, because the present chief eX-
ecutive last summer foreshadowed his
veto, and those in his council had open
ly proclaimed it since. The friends of
silver, however, had hoped that it would
at least score some advantage at this
session. If the votes of the two houses
had been poiled in December, there
would have been clear majority of
fifty for free silver coinage in the other
body and a majority of twelve in this.
But today, if a vote were had on the
motion to take the silver bill from the
calendar, it would not be carried. So
the friends of silver were left
Fighting the Air
on a series of general resolutions. 1t is
a proper time, therefore, for the friends
of free coinage, having practically suf-
fered defeat, to gather up their wounded
and dead, determine where the deSerters
were hidden, tortify their entrench
mentS for the next encounter and stop
Gf possible) the destructive rear firing
which has not only damaged, but sur
prised them. The first great force OPP
posed to the passage of the silver bill
was in this congress, as it had been for
three years, the present administration.
No stone had been left unturned. no
effort unemployed, to compass the de-
feat of the measure. The national con-
vention was soon coming on. and de-
cisive action on the silver question was
supposed to be rather embarrassing,
and thing that it would be better to
avoid. The necessity of vote had to
be prevented if possible; and so the
miserable work had begun. The Of
fees hsd been parceled out; the party
lash had been cracked; and WaVerlng
members had been gained.
The work had apparently been effect
lively done, and yet there was always
tomorrow. Nobody was deceived. But
it would have been a graceful act in ali
outgoing president to have permitted
the two houses of congress to vote ac-
cording to their own inclination on
~ Tim
spectacle, humiliating as it was, showed
that it was but an
Amazing Change ofFrOnt
by a great section of the Democratic
party. During the last session that
party had stood manfully to its party
tradition-hard money. A clear major
ity of its members had taken the stump
before the election and pledged them
selves that they would vote for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. The
sudden change would be ridiculous if
IFS effects were not tragic. One
prophet of Democracy announced that
tariff reform was the slogan. Another
insisted that being Democrat was the
test and the watchword. Each political
party had become, in reference to the
silver question, what Disraeli had once
charged the Tory party as being an
"organlZcd Hypocrisy"
But unless all signs failed. he said,
each side would be anxious before long
to unload the responsibility on the
other, and the people would then have
their innings. Out of the wreck of
hopes they had cherished one fact stood.
country were unrepresented by either
yaNlifioaI 0nnanrninn thp nnnCtinn
which they considered paramount to
every other. Not only was that true
now. bat it seemed equally certain that
the same condition of forces would con-
tinue to exist.
1t was apparent that the party in
power would with negative unanimity)
renominate "the present magnetic eX-
ecutIve" Unto this expression Mr.. VOL
colt threw most cOntemptuouS empha-
sis, which attracted much attention.,
not because, he added, he was the
choice of any considerable body of his
party, but because, since the letter OF
retirement of the great secretary who
held his party bound by ties of deepest
affection and regard,
No Man Of Greater Stature
than the present incumbent had been
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blow that had struck silver aside, il
seemed equally manifest that the Dem
| ocratic party would present its apostle
of tariff reform, whose vision had ne
other issue and who desired again to be
| consecrated to public office.
These uncomplimentary illusions t
| MIR. Harrison and Mr.. Cleveland anC
| the highly flattering reference to Mr.
| Blaine had all the success OH some o.
| his audience that Mr.. WOlcott coulC
have desired. Smiles of approval, pleas
ure and assent fitted over the cOunte
nanceS of senators, but no other sigI
! was given, and he went On with hi!
speech, reviewing the silver question il
| detail, and concluded by the prediction
that the people would surely speak, ant
free coinage would be their final yer
dict.
Mr.. Morgan formally offered the
amendment to his resolutions-wh
| he had presented yeSterday-and thel
| the resolutions went over without &C
ton, retaining their place OH the calen
dar.
The Indian appropriation bill wa
then taken up-the question being OIL
| Mr.. Dawes motion to strike out the
provision for the assignment of army
officers. which remains in the bill, by
vote of rs to %.
Mr.. Pettigrew offered an amendmen
appropriatlng S1S7,039 for compromising
| the Indians of the Crow Creek reserya
ton for loss in their receiving less lane
per capita in their diminished reserva
ton than was received by the Indian:
occupying other diminished reserva
tons. Agreed to.
Mr.. Pettigrew also offered an amend
ment authorizing the secretary of the
interior to expend not over $50 0e0in thu
construction of two Indian industrial
schools Ito cost not over $4,000 each)
one near Chamberlain, S. d., and thu
other near Rapid City, S. d. Agreed to
| Adjourned.
BURROWS PLACATED.
Some Advance Made on the Ere,
Wool Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-Contrary t