St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-31
statement as to his position and views
OH the repeal bill.
1t was as follows:

Deen DrOau enough, ana therefore L
have studiously avoided voting for or
against the amendments proposed.
There can be but one solution:
Free coinage of theAmerican product
of silver is essential to our prosperity.
The senate cannot with self.respect
pass such measure as this. Look for
moment al the rguments put forward
in support of repeal. One of the most
forcible is that 1t would oblige Europe
to enter into an agreement with Us to
return to the use of
SILp Err AS MONEY.
THAT is to say. we intend to cut our
American market for silver in order to
throw fifty million ounces year OH the
European market, in addition to what
we already sell, i'll the hope of breaking
down the market price. We have def
icit of several millions month. Ii we
manage to keep fifty millions of gold in
the treasury we shall do well. We are
wasting our silver and our gold and our
credit, and we call remopstrance fac
tiouS!
"ln the hope of inducing the majority
ID deal with the subject in broader
spirit, | may ask the senate to vote on
the proposition which | have already
offered in debate, or | would prefer that
this bill be referred to a select commit
tee of seven or more members, with in
structions to report on the further
measures which may be required to pro-
vide for carrying safely into effect the
object of the proposed legislation as
proposed some tine since by the sena-
tor from Alabama (Mr. Morgan)."
Mr.. Morgan tnen addressed the sem
ate. The situation in the senate seemed
to him to be very lamentable-one of
which he could speak only with pain.
and which he could contemplate only
with serious apprehenslOns for the
future
WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY.
Mr.. Morgan said the passage of the
bill would BE- an irrevocable surrender
to the demands of the most insolent
| and oyerbearlng corporations.
Mr.. Morgan then read slowly and with
great emphasis these sentences from
MIR. Gorman's speech OF Saturday:
1--WE were compelled to take the
| terms offered by the senator from OHIO.
lie held the key of the situation. You
| nave dictated terms to u.s."
81 thank Almighty God" said Mr.
Morgan, impresslvely, that the sena-
tor from Ohio has never had the power
to dictate terms TO me as a Democrat.
He may have dictated them to the pres
ldeut, TO the committee, to the minority
of the Democrats on this side, but he
cannot dictate to me-"
Again quoting Mir. Gorman's speech,
Mr.. Morgan read sentence as to Mr..
Sherman laying down the conditions.
"He laying down condition to De-
mocracy." said Mr. Morgan, contemptu-
ously. What is the Democratic party
worth to itself or to the country or to
posterity when the senator from Ohio
has the key 10 the situation and can lay
down conditions to it? WHAT is your
majority here worth addressing the
Democratic senators), thus tritied with,
thus deceived. thus overrun and finally
handed over to the tender mercieS of
the senator from Ohio?"
Mr.. Morgan said he had signed the
proposed compromise. and had done so
in order to have peace and fraternity in
the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Commit suicide" said Mr.. Morgan,
with much bitterness, because you
cannot get chance to live OH fair and
even terms with your friends and neigh
borS."
MIR. Morgan, continuing, said, among
other things: IF presidential policy
was to be worked out through a gag
held in hand through the veto power.
such assumed power would soon so eX-
ceed the grants Of the constitution that
the people would break off from such a
rule.
Compromise was secuted as an un-
worthy condescension. This was as
harsh 4 pill as any, and unworthy treat
| merit-all the more painful because the
| political enemies of decency were will
| ing 10 become instruments of its coer-
| cion- In that rod AMI that staff Demo-
cratic senators could get no comfort If
| he had told the people of Alabama that
| the first efforts of Cleveland if elected
president would be to put silver in 4
! position from which there was no pOSsi-
bllity of eXtrlcation, that it was to die
IN the senate at the hands of its friends,
or in the house by his command, that
state, at least, would never have cast its
vote for him. "And 1 told him so in
friendly and cordial manner" he added.
Mr.. Morgan concluded Ills written re-
marks at 2:40. He left the subject, he
Said with the knowledge that the die
! was cast. The senate, the house and
the president had determined that
| the pending measure should prevail.
! There is nothing now to look to. so far
as he could see, but some vague prom
ises made in the senate which were en-
| tirely incapable Of Qeing realized.
Mr.. Vest dem, MOI followed Mr..
Morgan. He expressed his sympathy
with the people of the silver states, and
said
NO GAR OR KAISER
would desolate an inSurrectionary PROV
| ince as congress was about to deSolate
the silver states of the West. He ar
gued that the seignorage in the treasury
should be coined, and ridiculed the busi-
ness method which would allow this
| vast sum of :53, ,000,00 to lie idle in the
treasury and sell bonds to secure gold.
Mr.. Cockrell Dem, MOI argued that
at the last election the tariff question
and not the financial question had been
| pressed to the front; the Democratic
ocrats had expected that if there was to
be an extra session it would be called to
reform the tariff, but now the election
was over tariff was lost sight of and the
| senior senator from New York (HilD
was beheld pitching to the front on the
| silver question.
The lion at one end of the avenue and
the tiger at the other facing Mr.. HilD
were coming together in fond embrace.
| [Laughter.l
Mr.. Cockrell reviewed the history of
the repeal bill iD the house and the SEN
ate, showing that it was reported to the
senate by two Democrats. Messrs. Voor-
hees and Mcpherson, and four Republi-
cans, MeSsrS. Allison, Aldrich, Morrill,
and Sherman-a non-partisan measure,
the partisanship all being on the Re-
| publican side.
The senator from Ohio (Sherman). the
leader of the administration on the Re-
publican side of the chamber, had de-
onlA ho ~