Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-30
MR. MORGAN STIRRED UP
He Slashed Things Right and
 Left Indiscriminately.
THE PRESS RoUNDLY DENOUNCED.

Interest In the Federal Election Law Re-
 peal Biu Said to Be Dying Out-compro-
 mise Talk Becoming More Pronounced.
 The White House Crank.
 WASHINGTON, Sept 30.-Two of the most distinguished senators on the Democratic side of the chamber, Messrs. Harris of Ten nessee and Morgan of Alabama, made wig orous attacks in the senate on the silver purchase repeal bill. Mir. Harris asserted that the repeal of the sherman act would be the last recognition of silver as money, and that the Republicans who were now aiding Mir. Voorhees, would desert him as soon as they accomplished their purpose and would oppose any measure that might be presented to utilize silver in any way or to any extent.
 Mir Harris expressed his readiness to ac- Cept any fair and reasonable compromise and his determination to vote against un- conditional repeal.
 Senator Morgan ridiculed the proposed international agreement as ''an idle dream, only to be realized by the feryid imagina- tion of every enthusiastic statesman (meaning Mir. Allison).
 He also characterized it as "a tub thrown to the whale, :" and spoke eloquently of the failure of the struggle for American inde- pendence if this country could not estab- fish its own financial system without the consent of Great Britain. He opposed the bill and argued for the constitutional right of the free coinage of silver.
 4 Slap at MT. McPhersOn.
 Having gone on to argue upon the right of free coinage of gold and silver, Mir. Nor gan was asked by Mir. McPherson of New Jersey what right the government had to take the gold of the senator from Alabama and have it coined, paying back to him the coined value of the metal and then take from him (Mr. McPherson) silver bullion, coin it and return it to him increased 70 per cent in value. There is no such right as that" said Mir. Morgan, land nobody ever pretended that there was. Nobody ever proposed it. The senator is halluci- hating the conception of his brilliant mind. 1 have frequently found gentlemen so much in love with their own brilliant conceptions that it was impossible for them to see the sun when he was in the zenith" Laugh ter.l
 In the further course of his argument Mir. Morgan complained of the pressure sought to be exercised upon the senate by the metropolitan press. He stigmatized it as "a licentious and hireling press, scarcely able to string together enough vigorous epithets to signify their contempt of sena- tors" Its penny a liners, he added con- temptuously, who would be glad to get a crust and dry herring, spew out of their mouths islanders and declamations paid for by the line.
 He went on to argue that the American citizen had, under the constitution, the right to have his gold and his silver coined at the hints of the United States into money.
 "Let Not ShyIOck Interfere."
 God Almighty had, he said, established ar,F hat nl s;l, ;,, the very bowels of the earth. And let not" he added impressively, the Jew Shylock forbid the banns or dissolve the contract [Applausel The last man in Alabama, the poorest nigger in Alabama, is entitled to his constitutional right at my hands as much as the president of the United States is, and he will have it if I know how to give it."
 At the close of his speech he developed a good deal of animosity against President Cleveland, and intimated that the Dem- ccrats would not love him for the friends he had made"
 Senator Cameron presented a petition, bearing the signatures of Mir. Wharton Barker and probably more than a hundred business men and firms of Philadelphia, asking the senate to preserve the protective character of the tariff and the integrity C. silver as a money metal.
 Instead or the interest In the discussion of the federal election repeal bill increas- ing, it is rapidly diminishing. At no time in the house after the bill was taken up were there more than 100 members present, and the average attendance throughout the debate would not exceed 25.
 Gillett of Massachusetts was the chief speaker. He spoke against the bill, as did Lacey of Iowa, and Blair of New Hamp- shire and Dearmond of Missouri. and Wheeler of Alabama advocated the repeal. But the surroundings were depressing, and none of the gentlemen could do themselves justice