The herald., 1893-08-27
THE END OF THE DEBATE,
The Measure to Come to a
Vote Monday.
Bland Closes the Debate for
the Silverites,
And Wilson Speaks in Defense of
His Bill.
Reed of Maine and Bourke Cochran
Make Brilliant speeches-specuia-
tion as tho Fstc of the Bill
In the Senate.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.-The prevailing
| impression as to the probable action of
the two houses on the silver question
flnds expression as follows: The vote
on the Wilson repeal bill will DO taken
Monday in the house and the silver pur-
chase clause of the Sherman law, 80 far
as that body is concerned, will be wiped
out of existence. The bill will then go
| to the senate, where it will be referred
to the finance committee, who will
promptly pigeon-hole it. The senate
will 60 right straight along talking sill
yer as it has been doing for several days.
1t will do this two weeks, probably
longer, before the final vote will bc
! taken.
| The bill which will be passed will bo
the Voorhees, bill, not the Wilson bill
from the house. which will elumber on
quietly in the room of the finance COM
mittee. Then the Voorhees, bill will 90
over to the hoase. There it will doubt
less be acted on with little delay,
though there may be another food OF
oratory; because, as there is some diff
ference between the senate and house
measures, the silver men may insigt on
some talk. If there is prospect of
contest, however, the cloture Will be
speedily applied, and the bill will be
passed ana then be ready for the presi-
dents signature.
The Voorhees, bill only differs from the
Wilson bill in making declaration in
favor of bimetallism.
THE END OF THE DEBATE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-The galleries
of the house were filled this morning,
attracted by the fact that the last day of
the great silver debate would be sig
nalized by battle Of oratorical giants.
The speaker announced that the debate
in favor of the bill would be closed by
its author, Wilson of West Virginia, and
for the opposition by Bland of Missouri.
Clarke OF Alabama was the first
speaker. He believed it the duty of
congress TO fix the ratio at IL to l. Still
he would not cast vote that would con-
tinue to parslyze the industry of the
country. There was necessity for inn
mediate action to restore confidence.
The trouble was due to purchasing sill
yer under the Sherman law, as the peo-
pie believed, and were that belief correct
or not he would vote to repeal the law,
or do anything to restore confidence.
The next speaker was Hon. Thomas
B. Reed OF Maine. After eketching
brifly the financial condition of the
country and declaring he had no desire
to deal with the situation from a politi-
cal standpoint, he proceeded to say that
the Democratic party was brought into
power by curious combination of cir
cumstances, but in a large measure by
the apathy of the American people. The
consciousness OF this fact, he said, un-
derlies the entire situation. He would
not raiHe the question whether protec-
tion was wise or not, but the fact re-
manned, even if it be admitted that the
propositions OF the Democratic platform
are entirely correct, that the system
had been regulated for 80 years
were threatened with total change.
Whether that change he for the better
no man can know. What the Demo-
cratic party proposes to do nobody can
say, they do not even know themselves.
Ii the reformation of the tariff were in
the hands of even ite friends, who
favored protection, instead of those who
denounced it, business would be stag-
nant or at Btsndstill; but when its
reformation ie in the hands of men op-
posed to the present system, the manu.
facturee OF the country built on the
present system must necessarily call
halt. If their goods are to come in COM
petition with manufacturers of other
lands, where production is on different
basis and whose labor is differently re-
garded, no manufacturer will dare man
ufacture more than absolute necessity
10 oh ofor
| phase of the cause OF the present con-
dition of affairs.
He considered the Sherman act and the
accumulation of silver as the earliest in-
dicator of the approaching disaster,
rather than the chief cause. He did not
believe a Democratic congress, even
under pressure of the people, would 60
revise the tariff that workingmen would
be brought back even to the condition
of the workingman under the Walker
tariff. 1t was not to be expected that
the Democrats, after 80 years of criticism
of the acts of others, should be lifted at
once to the high level of responsibility
and performance. Time only could do
that. Until that time came, thev could
rely on the assistance Of the Republican
minority in the direction of sound gov
ernment and honest administration. The
speaker was sorry the Democratic ma
jority would not permit the Republicans
to exhibit their wisdom in the way na
amendment, but confined them 10
the Democratic proposition. He would
waste no time in showing that the
rights of the minority are outraged, &C.
cording to the Democratic position when
the Republicans were in power; for he
recognized it now as the necessity and
duty of the party in power to assume
the responsibility of its action. He was
only sorry the question could not be
settled within the bounds OF the Demo-
cratic party itself, but everybody knew
majority of the Democrats would de-
eide against the good sense of the nation.
Though he did not believe the repeal of
the Sherman act would give immedi-
ate prosperity, he would vote for it;
because, whether justly or not, it is be-
lieved to be the cause of the boarding Of