The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-08
SILVER IN TIE SENATE.
Third Installment Of Mr. Stewards
Ton-Hour Talk Against Time.

Third Installment OF Mr. Stewart 8
Ton-Hour Talk Against Time.
Washington. Sept Among the
numerous petitions presented and re-
ferred was one by Mr.. NOirott, rep. of
Colorado. for the immediate repeal Of the
I Mckinley tariff. bin He says that the
petition was on one Of the printed forms
sent out bv the New Yor., banks for the
repeal of the Sherman act. but that tho
petitioners all the citizens OF a town IN
Z Colorado, mad substituted the Mckinley
tarlh bill for the sherman act.
At l2:5 O'Clock 2. u.. Mr. Voorhees,
moved 70 proceed 10 the consideration Of
House bllI TO repeal the purchasing clause
| of the Sherman act
/ Mr.. Morgan remarked that the resOlu-
tion offered by him for Joint select com
mittee on finance was on the calendar,
| and the other could not be taken up with
out a vote of the Senate. but he did not
! wish 10 antagoniZe the repeal bill Inc
! senator from Indiana and himself had mad
! some conference about the matter, ana he
had agreed not to press his motion to-day
REPEAL BILL DEBATE RESUMED.
Mr.. Voorhees, motion was agreed to
/ without division, and the repeal bill was
/ laid before the'Seuate
Mr.. Stewart, who was entitled to the
/ floor to proceed with the third install
] D
| pressed his willingness 10 forego his
| right until the senator from Mississippi
! lWalthalD, who desired TO address the
Senate to-day, had concluded his re-
marks.
Mr. Walthall then addressed the Senate
! in favor Of bimetallism. He expressed
mis- readiness to cooperate with the chair
man of the finance committee, who
| urged prompt action on the repeal bill,
and suggested that there was more
simple way of arriving at prompt action.
II the declaration of policy, he SAID,
which the substitute contained, were en-
| bodied in the form Of an enactment, he
believed that vote could be reached in
half the time. There seemed no reason
why that declaration should not be given
| the form and force OF a statute TO effect
uate that policy He argued that the bill
should be addressed to some other legisla-
ton than the mere repeal of the Sherman
act; that congress should strike at the
root, not merely the fruit.
SHERMAN OR MCKINLEY?
If it were found that the Sherman law,
and not the Mckinley bill, had been the
eliminating atrocity Of recent legislation,
haste should be made to supplement the
educational feature of the campaign of
| 1892 by teaching the people now that the
campaign had been conducted TO success
on a mistaken issue. The people of the
southern states had no liberation for the
idea that the party which that section
had done so much to put in power could,
with propriety or impunity, violate its
VOW by putting the country now
on the single gold basis He
admitted that all the democrats of Mis-
sissippi did not favor, as he did, the free
and unlimited coinage of silver; but
! those who favored a single standard in
that state were about as rare as the adj
vocates of a high protective tariff They
were equally pronounced against both
They knew that a single gold standard
meant a reduction in the volume of money
and an increase in its value. he quoted
Mr.. Carlisle's declaration that the de-
mOnetizatiOn act of 1873 was the worst
crime of this or any other nation, and
said he found enough in the warnings of
that speech TO deter him from giving his
sanction to any proposition tend
ing in the direction of disOrganiZa-
tion and distress for a single day. He
wanted TO see silver restored to its right
full place. He wanted to see how far a
e-coinage-of-silver bill at the present
ratio would go of itself towards restoring
the parity between the two metals He
was ready to make all reasona ole conces-
| sins if the bimetallic policy could be es-
! tablished If the pledges of the Chicago
| platform were broken now, the power of
the democracy and its influence for good
would be weakened and special injury
would be inflicted upon the agricultural
interests in the country. That could not
be done by his vote, or with his consent.
Stewart again took the floor
now LONG, on! HOW LoNG}
He opened by taking extracts from to-
days New York World; paper, he
said, which gave the law to the Sen
ate, although its editor was a foreigner;
and from the New York Herald, whose
editor, (Bennett) although born in this
country, had resided abroad for the last
quarter of a century. The editors of
these papers assumed to be more familiar
with public sentiment in the United
States than those who had lived here all
I their lives. The article in the Herald
contained these words: "If Senator
Stewart and his associates We're wise,
they would cease their har-
argues and hlibustering and
yield at once to the inevitable. If they
refuse 10 do so, the means will be found
to sweep them out of the way"
There said Mr.. Stewart, with a wide
sweep of his arm and a cOntemptuous
casting aside of the papers, lis another
voice from across the ocean" Mr..
Stewart was going into Mr.. Voorhees,
record on the silver question when Mr.,
DOlpl called ms ATTENTION TO the absence
f a quorum there being present prob
ably not more than 20 senator's.
TO CONSUME TIME.
Roll was called, and senators flocked
in from the cloak rooms and tifty-seven
answered.
Mr.. Stewartresumed the floor and said
he had not given way for a roll call of the
Senate in order to have senators hear
him but he did hope that senators on the
other side of the question would not fill
buster and try to break up a quorum.
I'VE are all opposed" he said, ironically,
"to flibustering and want to go on with
business
He then gave the vote in the Senate on
"the free coinage bills" in which Mr.
Voorhees, name appeared among the yeas.
Next he read extracts from the metropol-
itan papers of 1892 to show that the tariff
and force bill were the overshadowing is
sues in the Presidential campaign; then
the letter from Powderly representing
the labor element of the country to Pres
i&ent Cleveland on the subject of bimetal-
lism, was sent up to the clerks desk to be
read, in order as Mr.. Stewart said
that it might be printed in the Record as
part of this great debate. "
The clerk had not got through with the
first paragraph of the letter before the
absence of a quorum was again suggested,