Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-15
SENATE.

ed by their antipathy for those who
fought for the flag. 1t is alleged that
these spies, with friendly pretenses,
visit the homes of pensioners and with
the basest hypocrisy and fawning de-
ception, seek to find some clew to fur
nish information to the pension office
to deprive old veterans of their pen
sions. The petitioners ask protection
against the methods Of government Of
fcers who seek to brand pensioners as
periurers and criminals, without the
right of being heard in their own de-
tense, and to be shielded from the
false and base imputation of those high
in power who seek to discredit and dis
honor the Union soldiers of the late
war, and to be protected in their old
age from the severity and bitterness of
party and political persecution. In
presenting the petition he said that he
had had it read in full because it con-
tanned very serious allegations which,
if true, ought to be brought to light, so
that the country may know what is
going on and that Congress make take
action to protect Union veteran sol
diers. He intended to have moved for
instructionto the committee onpensions;
but as the chairman of that committee,
his colleague, Mr.. Palmer, was absent,
he would not do so. knowing full well
that his colleague would take proper
action.
On motion of Mr.. Hoar the privileges
of the floor were extended for one week
to Mr.. Writ Henry, of Virginia, las an EN-.
inent man who bore an illustrious name,
and who came to the city to deliver an
q ldress at the ceremonies in celebra-
ton of the bundredth anniversary of
laying the foundation of the Capitol.
Mr.. Voorhees, presented the resolu-
ton recently passed by the Business
Mems Congress, held in this city, to
urge the repeal of the purchase clause
of the Sherman act, and had it ordered
printed as a public document. The
resolutions were signed by the repre-
a,ntatives Of the leading commercial
bodies of the country.
At 1876 the Senate proceeded to the
consideration of the repeal bill aud was
addressed, in defence ofthe bill, by Mr..
Lindsay, it being his first speech in the
Senate except some remarks of an obit-
uary character. He argued that the
repeal bill left unimpaired the bill of
1890 so far as it affected the coinage of
silver in the future. 1t was strange, he
said, to hear Senators assert that
the repeal of the Sherman act
would be to demonetize silver and
to strike down the last hope of those
who held to the popular idea of bimet-
alism. Stranger still was the claim of
democratic Senators that the repeal
bill was undemocratic and in opposi-
ton to the Chicago democratic plat
form. The pertinent question ''if we
are not to coin silver, why purchase
it ?" had been asked in July, 1890,
when the report of the conference COM
mittee (the Sherman billy was under
discussion. 1t had not been answered |
then, it had not been answered since,
and it could not be answered in ac
cordance with the democratic theory
of the powers and duties of the Feder
al government. 1t was clear that the
Sherman act was intended to stop the
coinage silver and to purchase d mil
lion ounces of silver per month, for the
sole purpose of giving q market to
those engaged in the silver mining in
dustry. Under it silver was held as a
commodity, not to be coined into
money except to a very limited extent.
HOUSE.
Some routine business having been
of, the struggle over the fed
eral ELECTION bill was resumed, and the
again regorted to flibuster-
ing tactics. The attendance was very
small at the opening.
On Mr.. Burrows's motion to dispense
with the call Of committees The repuh-
Leans refrained from voting and left
the House without a quorum, the vote
yeas !, nays l46, and call Of
the House was ordered.
The call of the House wa, dreary
one. The republicans knew that they
had the whip hand, and the democrats
acknowledged it. Two hundred and
thirty.seven members responded to
their names and then, at 2 O'Clock, the
public business was suspended and the
members of the House proceeded to
deliyer eHlogies upon the late ]. Logan
Chapman, of Michigan.
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At Raleigh, N. c., yesterday the Is.
granddaughter of Doctor
William R. Wood, Superintendent of
he Insane Asylum, tell out of a third
story window Of that building, striking
, mayed court beneath. Strange to say,