Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-11-02
THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1898.
THE HURLYBURLY DONE.

the OQ1C6Q SGdleS Seu''to w
day night by a vote of 43 to 81
The following account of the death
struggle we clip from the News
and Courier Of Tuesday:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3o.-At 7:2S,
by a vote Of 43 to 80, the Senate,
after one of the most remarkable
and memorable parliamentary bat
ties of generation, passed the bill
Internationally repeating the pur-
chase clause of the Sherman silver
law. The end was reached at the
conclusion of continuous session
of fourteen days, after sixty-one
DAYS of debate, during which FIVE
volumes of the Congressional Re-
cord had been filled with speeches
amounting in the aggregate to
about twenty million words,
stream of talk that would stretch
in cold type from the seaboard six
teen hundred miles into the lnte-
rior, from Liberty enllghtening the
world in New York harbor to the
foot hills of the Rocky Mountains,
The closing day of the great
struggle for the repeal of the pur-
chase of silver was one of intense
excitemea'. The galleries were
packed to the doors, every seat IN
the Senate was coupled and the
walls were lined with Representa-
tives from the lower branch of Con-
gress. The aegis of Senatorial
courtesy was no protection in the
last moments. Gray-haired men,
infamed by the fiery passions that
always characterize the close OF a
bitter contest, did not spare each
other. Senator Morgan, with words
that fairly burned, heaped his
denunciation OF Senator Voorhees,,
the leader of the Administration
forces, and Senator Wolcott, the
Colorado Hotspur, concluded g
fierce philippe against Senator
Carey with the Spanish proverb OF
Sancho Panza, that it was waste
of lather to shave an ass. The
silver Republicans, Teller, Stewart
Dubois, Wolcott and Jones, Peffer,
Populist, and Morgan, and the old
war Governor of Tennesse, Harris,
each made his valedictory. The
Democrats were hot and angry at
the desertion of some Of their col
leagues, which made their defeat
possible, the Populists admonlshed
was something traglcally
pathetic in the despairing cry of
the silver Senators. Itmeant, they
said, ruin and destruction and
desolation to the silver producing
States. Senator Jones, with an
emphasis that will never be for
gotten by those who heard him,
warned those about him that the
end of the fight marked but the
beginning of the battle that would
be waged before the people. In
tones deed and tragic he repeated
Dundee's famous defiance of Cor
don:
"There be hills beyond Pentland
And friths beyond Forth,
If there be lords II the Lowlands,
There be chiefs in the North"
Senator Stewert had the last
word. When the white-bearded
Nevadan, looking like all ancient
patriarch, sank back in his seat,
Vice President Stevenson, for the
last time, announced that the bill
was before the Senate for amend
ment. He paused.
Senator VOORHEES,, the tall
sycamore of the Wabash, arose.
The decisive moment had come.
The Vice President flashed his eye
about the chamber. The galleries
leaned over. The flood of light from
the glass panelled ceiling poured
down upon the Senate. The cham
Der was still as death. Not soul
stirred. Everyone seemed to hold
his breath.
IF there are no further amend
ments," said the Vice President,
slowly and solemnly, 1.-The clerk
will call the roll"
Senator Allen,,' began the clerk.
The suspense was over. The Rubi-
con had been passed. The roll was
at last being called on the final
passage of the bill. From all over
the chamber came a sigh of relief.
Mr.. Bland, the silver champion of
the House, stood like a statue
behind the Senate desks while the
roll was called. Senators Sher-
man and voorhees,, facing each
other, belt upright, did not move
O. muscle. Senators Mills and
Gockrnll paced impatiently up and