The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-25

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/ YER money shrink back, demonetized it
| almost one-half. foretold that IL would
so happen. / stood then for the honest
coinage OF silver money upon terms max
ing Il the equal Of gold. / stand there
now. OF the senators from the silver
/ states I have always spoken kindly, for
/ so / feel. think / will not be criticised
| for any hostility toward them when my
remarks are remembered In opening this
| debate; but / say 10 them they ought
| TO be more forebearing at this time. They
| themselves made the law which ruined
| their mines, drove their people out OF
employment. Your votes made the law
/ that did IL; the record shows IL; and but
for your votes ii would not have been
made.
Had those senators stood where stood
and denounced the legislation which
made silver shrivel into a marketable
| commodity like tobacco cotton, corn or
! pig iron the scenes through which we
have passed would never have taken
| place And yet I am to be arTaignedi
Sir, / am willing to go before the people
of Colorado or any one OF the silver
states and meet the question in joint dis
prove 60 their own voting population
! that they themselves are the worst enc
mics silver has had; thar, so far as 1
am concerned, / have been an infinitely
better friend of silver money than they
have been; and that 1t is their own
course, their own work, which has de-
stroyed blighted, withered silver into
| its present deplorable condition.
| have always. and voted against the Sher-
man act. i then went home, If / may be
| pardoned such an alluslon, TO the great
people who have honored me so long with
4 a seat here. My successor was 10 be
elected by the legislature then immedi-
ately TO be chosen After voting in July
| great state Of Indiana from the Illinois TO
! the Ohio line, from the lakes on the north
every e speech, a candidate myself for the
/ place l now fill, denounced the legisla-
ton known as the Sherman act; de-
/ nounced IL In the spirit and the language
! had used here on this floor in opposing
| IL. ] said then TO the people of Indiana
what would happen; that 1t was Dill
| meaning no discourtesy. certainly, to any
BODY on the other side of the chamber
hostile TO silver one of the money met
"sir. what was the result? The senator
from Colorado presumes to tell me,
and 10 appeal to me, TO be true to my
vass ringing in their ears, spoken from
| every stump in the state, such a majority
was given me for reelection as no man,
| from any other party, ever received I'm the
great state Of Indiana--a majority almost
| double even what had ever received be-
| lot in her legislature.
Il am willing, sir. TO go back to the en-
there: no req reproaches: no angry arraign-
| ment, or accusations of betrayal or bad
faith. They know perfectly well that, l
am acting In harmony with my entire
| position on this subject. opposed the
| Sherman act, and said what would happen.
and It has also been proved that the friends
| of the Sherman act destroyed silver and
reduced IL to its present low and fallen
| sumes now again that he must have his
way entirely. He had his way three years
ago. and curses came with his methods.
/ can execute the will of the American peo-
pie and the will OF the American senate,
| by a large majority. The senator's from
| the silver states. say. with all due kind
ness TO them, ought to trust those men
now on this question whose Judgment has
| nobody has the right to impugn.
Sir, the senator from Colorado saw fit
/ to arraign the president of the United
States. The president of the United
States needs less defense than any public
| has had the mightiest bulwarks of de-
| tense built up around him at the ballot
box. The public confidence in him today is
| his letter to the governor of Georgia.
stand by the terms Of that letter. he
| says this act now on the statute DOCKS
| cannot be built upon or patched with any
"The right way senators, is to clear the
eG are AFRAID r e sd 9I aeI4h The
| ident of the United States will execute the
! will Of the American people when 1t Is
States a does not Deal e1q n double words.
/ trust him on his letter OF acceptance and
| his letter TO Governor Northen ana on all
his public acts, and the American people
| Il repeat Mr. President the senator
from Colorado knows that without the
| resolution which he has offered here the
subject OF silver will be taken UP. not by
| Sherman act but by friends, majority OF
| whom are on the finance committee, and II
| will be dealt with becomingly, fairly and
Mr.. Teller and Mcpherson addressed the
chair.
The Vice-President-'"Th chair recog-
| nizes the senator from Colorado having
first addressed the chair"
Mr.. Morgan-"Will the senator from Col
| orado yield TO me a very few momentsW
Mr.. Teller yield TO the senator from
Mr. Morgan-''rhe question I was about
/ to state to the senator from Indiana when
| he was his feet contained no impeach-
ment or imp1Htation against hi him a,s or . he
Mr.. Morgan-"Here is the pledge in the
| bill as IL came from the other house:
| land the faith and credit of the United
| States are hereby pledged TO maintain the
| parity of the standard gold and silver coins
OF the United States at the present legal
ratio, or such ratio as may be established
That is the pledge made in the bin as
| it passed the house. The senate committee
| of it the following:
| And il is hereby declared TO be the
policy of the United States TO continue the
| use Of both gold and silver standard
| money, and to coin both gold and silver
into money of equal intrinsic and ex;
| change value, such equality TO be secured
| through international agreement, or by
| such safeguards of legislation as will in
| sure the maintenance of the parity in
| value of the coins of the two metals. and
| the equal power of every dollar at all
times In the markets and in the payment
Now, Mr.. President. what I wanted to
| inquire about, and get information upon
| from the chairman of the committee on
| finance, was why the pledge of the faith
and credit of the United States, which
| have just read, was abandoned by the SEN
| ate committee and declaration of policy
| was substituted in the place Of 1t? That
| is all. That was the whole drift and bent
| of my question. 1t was legitimate Ques-
| ton. There was nothing in II TO excite
ton upon any member of that committee;
| did not mean 1t, and 1 do not now so
| mean Il; but l intend to give the senator
| from Indiana an opportunity of explain
ing that clear backdown from the language
| of the bill as II passed the house before he
| gets my vote upon this question.
| Mr. Yoorhees-Mr. President, have no
idea of ever getting the vote of the sena-
| tor from Alabama; on that condition do
not rise. / have no idea of that at all.
But the senator's term OF back down
| is not warranted. There is no back down
| about it. Upon careful consideration
| amongst the senator's composing the
| finance committee quite as patriotic as is
| the senator from Alabama, possibly not
| so intelligent, still doing the best we could,
| misunderstanding
| 'sBut this repeal shall no. impair or in