The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-22

of the country; but he was not in favor of
an increase of the currency that did not
increase with sound and good money Ap-
plause. He was in favor OF bi-metallism
not in favor of striking down silver, but
he stood unalterably opposed to the free
coinage of silver in the absence of an in
ternational agreement He would record
his vote against the amendment of the
gentleman from Missouri (Bland), and
would vote for the Wilson bill. [Ap-
plause.
The House then, at o'clock, took a re-
cess until o'clock.
EVENING SESSIONS PROCEEDINGS.
At the evening session Mclaughlin, of
South Carolina, addressed the House in
opposition to the Wilson bill and in favor
of the free coinage of silver. Silver, by
the Sherman act had been stabbed with
the dagger of Brutus. The situation had
come to pass when his people could stand
~ no longer; and, by tho heavenly
God they would not stand
1t any longer. Applause.
The people of his state understood that
the contraction of the currency meant
wealth for the few and poverty for the
millions. The Republican party had
been swept out Of power, but the breeze
which had swept it out of power would
be nothing to the cyclone which would
oNttB tiA0 NOuAlIN II tilt uEAHONIdlN MGId
unfaithful to the pledges of the platform
upon which they had been elected. [Ap-
plause,
KING GEORGE AND KING GOLD.
Democrats might as well try to twist
one of the cyclones of the west the
wrong way as to attempt TO stem this tide.
1t was said President Cleveland had is
sued certain instructions. He did not
know whether this was true or not, but
he did know that if heroic measure
were not adopted let them be adopted by
heroes Applause and laughterl. If the
great power OF the exeou-
down one-half Of our currency il was too
dear price to pay for party triumph,
and could only be looked upon as a party
calamity. Applausel. The House had
been told that the platform meant
nothing-that they were glittering gener-
alities. He was friendly to the east, but
this straw might break the camels back
and force the south to unite with the
west. We were in the same condition
that we had been in in 1776 except that
then we had been trying to eliminate the
power Of King George instead of King
Gold. Was the United States TO be for
ever tributary province, a puny, siclSly
boy that had a spasm every time that its
old mother had the hystericsl Laugh
ter.
Mr. Mcdonald, dem, Ill, said that he
was in favor of the free coinage of gold
and silver at any ration that might be ac-
ceptablc. He would then remove from
both their legal tender quality.
Mr. Bartlett, dem, n y, said that
with the message of President Cleveland
he was in thorough accord Hewould re-
gard the amendments providing for free
coinage as remedies more fatal than the
disease. They would be like the deadly
poison which hastened the moribund pa
| tient to death. Without international
| agreement there conld be but one stand
ard, and he was in favor of that
| standard; and to-day that standard was
| gold
Mr.. Stockdale dem, Of Mississippi,
argued that the Sherman bill had little
to do with the present stagnation Of bust
ness, but that it was attributed primarily
to the tariff This fight, he said, was not
one between the east and the west. IL
was a fight between the debtor and the
creditor classes. He liked the east, but
| the people Of the south would not forsake
their own interestsin order to benefit the
east or the west. In 1897 the
democrats would come here with
democratic president, a demo-
cratic House and a democratic Senate,
and it would take the free coinage of sill
yer home with it, IApplausel.
The House, at 10 o'clock, adjourned.