The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-31

of the country against failure and future disaster.
 The second reason was only by the repeal could the nation hope to attract foreign capital, without which it were vain to hope for an upward turn of the country's busi- ness. We must put ourselves, he said, in position that when the time for that upward movement conaes ala b5 able to command the capital of the world, which will assist us to prosperity, and to avoid the next peril which stands in the way of our nations progress.
 MIR. cLARK's SPEECH.
 WASHINGTON, August 26.-The speaker announced the orier of the days proceedings under the hour rule. He said the time to favor the bill would close with "a member from West Virginia, (Wilson), and the time of the opposition to it by a member from Missouri (Mr. Bland).
 The first thirty minutes was assigned by Mir. Wilson to Mir. Clark (Dem.) ), of Missouri. He believed the duty of congress was to fix the ratio at 16 to l. In his opinion there was no difference in the ability of the country to carry out the silver coinage between 16 and 20 ratio. If the country could do it with a ratio of 20 to l, it could do it with a ratio of Is to 1. Still he would not cast bis vote to paralyze industry all through the country and in his sec tion. Applause on the floor. ] There was no question about the necessity of immediate action in order to restore confidence. The trouble was, he thought, due to the pol rchasing silver under the aw and whether the be .. or not he would vote z. [Ap- plause1. He reuld ao anything that would restore confidence, At this point he was interrupted by question by Mir. Bland, but he declined to be diverted from the line of his argument, saying MT. Bland will have his own time to speak.
 We are," he said, "doing noth- ing more in repeating this law than wiping it out in order to relieve the people of the country of the immediate distress pressing upon them and to give the Democratic party the op- portunity ard leisure on due refec- tion to revise the whole financial system of the country, and 1 have the most supreme conf dence it will dc so on wise lines"
 Mr. Clark's time was called at 10 80.
 THE PROBABLE ACTION OF CONGRESS-.
 WASHINGTON, August 26 The echoes of Mir. Hills speech in the senate yesterday are still heard in congress, and have not yet drowned in the reverberation of to days great debate in the house. New York senators are con6ndant of the prediction that the Sherman law will be repealed; that the senate will respect itself and not 6llibuster on such an issue is qualified by many of the senators who think the same way by this statement, that any measure of repeal will pass sue cessfully through the senate must be accompanied by declaration of favcr of bi-mstalism. Mir. Hill himself gave utterance to this sentiment when he said it was, in his opin on, that all important repeating bill should itself declare in general terms what the future financial policy of this government is desired or in tended to be.
 The prevailing impression as to the probable action of the two houses finds an expression as fol. lows: The vote on the Wilson re- peal bill taken Monday in the house, and the silver purchase clause in the Sherman law as far as that body is concerned, will be wiped out of existence. The bill then goes to the senate, where it will be referred to the finance committee, which will promptly pigeon hole it. The senate will go right straight along talking silver, as it has been doing several days. It will do this for two weeks, and probably longer, before a final vote will be taken. The bill which will be passed will be the Voorhees, bill, not the Wilson bill from the house, which will slumber quietly in the room of the finance committee. Then the Voorhees, bill will go over to the holse. There it will doubtless be acted on with little delay, though there may be another flood of ora tory because there is some difference between the senate and the house measure.
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 HE BROKE THE RECORD. Clinton Morse, of the Universiiy of Cali