The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-16

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PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL
by The Associated Press.
washington. Sept 75.-There was such
a very slim attendance OF senators m the
chamber this morning that after prayer
and the reading of Yesterdays journal
Mr. QUAY ..ventured to suggest the abb
sence Of q quorum. The Nicc-Pre sident
thereupon ordered the roll to be called,
and during the progress of the roll call A
senators being one more than a quorum)
answered 10 their names.
POLITICAL ROT.
Among the petitions presented was one
by Mr. CullOm. signed by large number
of ex-soldiers, residents of ms state, al
leging that they were Desct by detectives
of the government travelling IN disguise,
secretly cooperating with those VINO
have been distinguished by their anti
pathv for those who fought for the flag.
II is alleged that the spies, with friendly
pretenses. visit the homes of pensioners,
and with the basest hypocrisy and fawn-
ing deception, seek TO find some cleW 10
furnish information TO the pension
Office TO deprive old veterans
of their pensions. The petitioners ask
protection against the methods Of govern
ment officers who seek to brand pension
ers as periurers and criminals, without
the right of being heard in their own de-
tense, and to be shielded from the false
and base imputation of those high IN
power who seek TO discredit and dlshonOr
the union soldiers of the late war, and to
be protected in their old age from the
severity and bitterness Of party and polit-
ical persecution.
BE AFFECTS TO CREDIT IT.
In presenting the petition, he said, he
had read il in full because il contained
very serious allegations which, if true.
ought to be brought TO light, so that the
country might know what is going on and
that congress may take action TO protect
union veteran soldiers. He intended to
have moved for instructions to the com
mittee on pensions but, as the chairman
of that committee, his colleaEueP palmer,
was absent, he would not do so, knowing
full well that his colleague would take
proper action.
On motion Of Mr.. Hoar the privileges
of the floor were extended for one week
to Mr.. VIM. Writ Henry Of Virginia, as
an eminent citizen who bore an illustri-
Gus name and who came to the city to de-
liver an address at the ceremonies in cell
ebration of the hundredth anniversary of
laying the foundation of the capitol.
REPEAL DEBATE RESI- MED.
At 1890 O'Clock the Senate proceeded
TO the consideration of the repeal bill and
was addressed in defense of the bill by
Mr.. Lindsay DEM Ky, it being his first
speech in the Senate, except some re
marks of an obituary character, He ar
gued that the repeal bill left unimpaired
the bill of 1890, so far as il affected the
coinage of silver in the future 1t
was strange, he said, to hear
senators assert that the repeal of
the Sherman act would be to demonetize
silver and to strike down the last hope of
those who held to the popular idea of hi
metallism. Stranger still was the claim
of the democratic senators, that the re-
peal bill was undemocratic and in oppOsi-
tiOn to the Chicago democratic platform.
The pertinent question IF we are not to
coin silver, why purchase it, had been
asked in July, 1890, when the report of
the conference committee Ton the Sher-
man bill was under discussion. II had
not been answered then; it had not been
answered since; and it could not be an
sWered in accordance with the democratic
theory of the powers and duties of the
federal government.
THE SHERMAN ACT TO STOP COINAGE.
1t was clear that the Sherman act was
intended to stop the coinage of silver and
to purchase 4,500000 ounces of silver per
month for the sole purpose Of giving
market TO those engaged in the silver
mining industry. Under it silver was
held as commodity not to be coined into
money except to a very limited extent.
He quoted again the position now held bv
Messrs Vance and Vest against the re
peal bilI and the arguments made by
them in 1890 against the Sherman act,
and desired to know why those argu-
ments were not as good now as then. If
the Sherman act was another step in the
decentralization of silver in lS90it was not
clear to him Lindsay why its repeal
should amount now to the destruction of
silver.
QUOTING THE SILVER LEADERS.
He cited Mr.. Vest in saying that the
passage of the Sherman act would be Ian
absolute stOppage of the standard
silver dollar" to which assertion Mr.
Jones of Nevada added, that is all they
want" And yet these senator's were now
opposing the repeal of that act. An
other quotation from Mr.. Vest was this:
'There is no free coinage about this bill.
1t is the decentralization of silver, abso-
lutte and unqualified Mr.. Lindsay also
quoted largely from a speech from Sena-
ator Morgan against the conference re-
port of 1890, in which Mr.. Morgan de
clared that it was more demonetizing
than the act of 1873, and then he asked
whether the condition of things which
Mr. Morgan had described should be con
tinued, and whether congress should take
the necessary steps in the restoration of
the public confidence.
The greater part of Mr.. Lindsay's
speech, occupying an hour and a half, was
devoted TO the defense Of Secretary Car
Isle from the imputation that he had
been party to the conspiracy of New
York bankers TO bring about a panic in
order to compel a repeal of the Sherman
law
Mr.. Morgan defended the consistency
of his arguments against the conference
report of 1890 lthe Sherman act) with
his position now against the repeal of
that law.
Mr.. Higgins addressed the Senate in
favor Of the unconditional repeal Of the
Sherman law. In his opinion, the people
had fairly made up their minds that the
repeal bin ought to be passed and passed
without delay-prOmpt
At the close of Mr. Higgins speech
Mr.. Allen took the floor. saving he de
sired TO make a few remarks on some
phases of the pending question He post
poned doing so, however, until tomorrow
and the Senate after a short executive
session, at > :35 o'clock adjourned until to-
morrow
IN THE HOUSE.