Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-08-16
THE SILVER SITUATION.
In the House the Debate Goes
Holly On.
SENATORS TALKING AIMLEssLY.

w -AShANGAONt aug. 1O-1 ne SlIN6E Oe-
bate in the house was not especially i'm
portant. 1t merely gave an opportunity
for four members-Messrs. Hutchinson OF
Texas, Blanchard of Louisiana, Grosvenor
of Ohio and Snodgrass of Tennessee-to
give expressions to their views. The most
interesting speech, because it was really
the first Republican protest against free
coinage, was delivered by Mr.. Grosvenor
of Ohio and which was lacking neither in
sarcasm nor satire
Among other things he said that it was
to be regretted that the president, in his
message to congress. had not been so void
OF partisanship as he had asked the two
houses to be. 1t was unfortunate that the
executive of the country, looking forward
to the condition which portended violent
opposition to his views, had seen fit to first
appeal to partisanship and to unjustly pro-
claim to the people that the present peril
OF the country grew out of the legislation
of the Republican party.
If the pending debate should develop into
partisan discussion, its instigation would
be found in the declaration of the president
himself
Sarcasm From MIR. Grosvenor.
publicans had been responsible for the
present condition of affairs, and this dec
laration would be the origin of political
discussion, if political discussion there
should be-
He then read the message of President
Buchanan to congress in 1857, and he sub
fly intimated that President Cleveland
had been guilty of plagiarism in his recent
message to congress President Cleveland
might have gone farther and might have
said to the country that there was a condi-
ton existing not only similar to that
found 10y his predecessor, but that there
were many more factors not described by
President Buchanan.
Referring to the sixteenth chapter of
LeviticuS. he called attention to the selec-
ton of a scapegoat and said that the Dem
ocratic party could not select the McKin-
ley act as a scapegoat, and so it had de-
voted the lamb to the Lord and sent the
silver bill into the wilderness. Laughter. ]
The difficulty in which the country now
found itself WAS attributable to the fact
that the people feared the tinkering with
the protective tariff by the Democratic
party. He hoped that the Democratic
party would be patriotic. The Republicans
could be relied upon to do their duty. This
was their country, and they could not af-
ford to put il in a hole. [Applarse.l
Mr.. Snodgrass, a Democrat from Ten
nessee, made IA bitter assault upon his col
league, Patterson, on account of the posi-
| ton taken by that gentleman against free
coinage. Then the house adjourned.
In the Senate.
There were three noteworthy speeches
delivered i'll the senate. One was by the
new senator from Massachusetts,, Mr..
Lodge, making an earnest appeal to the
senate for prompt action on bill to re-
peal the purchasing clause of the Sher-
man act.
Another was by the junior senator from
Colorado, Mr.. Wolcott, who contended
| that, although the Sherman act was vi
''nus and illogical, it had nothing to do
nh the financial crisis, and its repeal
| would do no good and might do harm.
The third was by the senior senator from
Massachusetts, Mr. Hoar. and was a tenn
perate discussion of the whole financial
| question. with a decided leaning toward
| bimetallism.
\ fourth specch-first of all in time OF
| delivery-was made by Mr.. Gordon OF
| Georgia in advocacy of bill introduced
| by him to suspend for six months the Il
per cent tax on the notes of state banks
No action was taken on any OF the pending
resolutions, and the senate adjourned.
AT a meeting called by the committee in
/
repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sher.
man act Representative Rayner of Mary.
| land presided. About 40 members were
present, representing every section of the
| country. They compared notes, and the
| meeting felt satisfied that there was a ma
| jority in the house of not less than 80 in
favor of the Wilson bill. Various sub
| committees were appointed to meet from
time to time and report the condition Of
/ ~ 81, -
| vote has been taken. An executive com
mittee was also appointed, of which Gen
eral Tracy of New York was elected chair
man.
| How the Finance Committee Stands.
The committee on finance of the senate
held meeting, at which for an hour anC
a half the silver question in its variou!
phases was discussed. The only result o.
the meeting was that foreshadowed-au
thoriZing MIR. Voorhees, to favorably report
the bill increasing the circulating notes O
national banks to the par value of tn,
bonds deposited
In the committee room there was SOM
very persistent opposition to the reportins
of this measure by Messrs. Vance, Jones o
Arkansas and Harris of Tennessee Tn
discussion only tended to show that tn
finance committee was as far removed a
ever from common ground on the question
of general legislation on the financial stu
alton and the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law in particular.
1t was decided that with the long tim
between the meetings of the committee tn
members could never come to a deflnit
understanding, and it was agreed that tn
committee should therefore, beginning
with Thursday next. hold daily sessions
The members of the committee are as firm
and unyielding as the day they first met
So far the committee is divided on line
that show the extremes of the proposition
The silver men insist that they will submit
to nothing but free coinage at the presen
ratio. and the other SIDE with equal EN-
phasis, assert that the only thing they viii
indorse will be the unconditional repeal o
the purchasing clause.
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