The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-04

the House.
(, WASHINGTON, Oct. .a.-9The Senate
was found to be this morning in It's
chronic no quorum conditions; but after
roll call the attendance of forty three
Senators (the exact quorum) was ascer-
tanned and the routine morning business
was proceeded with. ,s,,,l
After the routine morning business
an amendment to the silver purchase
repeal bill was offered by Morgan. 1t
revives the coinage act of 1887 and pro-
vides for the remission of go per cent.
of import duties on goods imported from
countries that are not standard silver
dollars Of the present weight and fine
ness as the legal tender for all debts
public and private.
The silver purchase repeal bill was
taken up at 1880 aud Dolph continued
his speech OF yesterday afternoon. He
sent to the clerk desk and had read ex-
tracts from President Cleveland's mes.
sages during his former administration
giving his views on the subject OF silver.
he said that those extracts justified the
statement that the success of the Dem
ocratic party with such q candidate was
the verdict of the American people in
favor of the discontinuance of the pur-
chase of silver and of the coinage of sill
yer dollars. In the extracts which he
had read that course had been urged by
President Cleveland in unmistakable
language and the reasons for it pre- i.
sented.
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the chances were Judging from the
message he had ready OF any legislation
friendly to silver during the present
administration. Did he think there
was any hope for such legislation unless
it was attached to the repeal bill? "If
l cast my vote for repeal of tho silver
purchase act as 1 expect to do" Dolph
replied, ~ will not do it with the OK
pectation that during the present ad-
ministration there will be any other
legislation concerning silver.
81 do not know a single utterance of
President Cleveland, from the time of
his first letter to Warner, OF Ohio, from
his frst Inauguration up TO the present
time that would lead any one to sup
pose that he had changed his position
In relation to silver coinage, or that he
did not stand to day in favor of the re-
the further purchase OF silver bullion,
and to the further coinage of silver dol.
lars.
~ do not expect that he will recon
mend to Congress any legislation look.
ing to the use of silver by the United
States without the cooperation of other
countries, and 1 do not expect that Con-
gress could pass any act for the use of
silver by this country alone that would
be in favor of what he considers prac-
tical use of silver. The free coinage of
silver is only practicable with an inter.
national agreement by which the mints
of all commercial countries of the world
shall be open to the free coinage of sil-
yer at an agreed ratio.
In q colloquial discussion as to
whether the administration should take
any step to bring about an international
arrangement that would secure bimetal-
lism throughout the world, Palmer said:
VI am not authorized to speak for the
President, but L have no doubt that the
President regards it as essential that we
settle our own policy before we invite
other nations to conference.
81 have no doubt that the President
understands that while we continue the
purchase OF silver we are disabling our
selves and putting ourselves to disad-
vantage in any attempt at adjusting
bimetallism with foreign countries |
am quite certain that the President be-
lieves (but am not authorized to make
the statement) that 80 long as we con-
tinue the purchase of silver and under
take TO support silver coinage we would
appeal in vain to foreign governments
to enter into agreemen to establish
international bimetallism.''
nh nd Nv I.
had said in the opening, that the opera
ton Of the Sherman law was not respon-
sible for the business disaster and finan-
cial disturbance, but there WAS large
number OF people in the United States
who believed that it was, and, therefore,
the safer course was to repeal it.
Power (Mont.) addressed the Senate
in opposition to the repeal bill, assert
ing that no argument had been made to
justify the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law.
Palmer argued in favor of the repeal
bill. In the course of his speech dis
custom arose as to whether all the out
standing treasury notes were payable in
gold. Palmer contending that they were
and Stewart contending that II this were
80 1t was by authority. not Of law, but
of treasury rulings. Teller stated that
he had taken sufficient interest In the
question to go to the treasury to make
inquiries for the senate and had been in
formed by the treasurer himself that no
silver certificates had been paid in gold
Palmer went on to argue that the free
coinage of silver would drive out the
gold, 30 that instead of the country hay-
ing the two metals 1t would have but one.
Finally ne came back to the point
whore he had started-the impotency
of the Senate.
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