The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-26

the bone and sincw Of the country. II he
had the know ledge which Washington
had and had known the people as WASH
inton had known them. aud as jackson,
he would not have uttered The remarks
which have read and would not nave
talked about the ignorance or congress
But his environments have been pc
culiar.'
THE PRESIDENTS BIOGRAPHY.
Mr.. Stewart read from the congress
sional directory of the present session
the Presidents biography making
amusing or sarcastic comments upon 1t,
as be read When he read the sentence
that President Cleveland had when 10
wears old become clerk, and assistant
teacher of the blind in New York city,
his comment upon it was that Mr.. CIeVe-
land had not entirely gotten over that
habit yet Laughter.
Mr.. Stewart read a Washington DIS
patch from the New York Evening Post
of June % last The dispatch alluded in
cidentally to the fact that Senator Noof-
hees had got "a plum" in the appoint
ment of a candidate of his TO the office OF
fourth auditor of the treasury,
what is that" Mr.. Voorhees, asked,
when he realized that the dispatch had
used his name. Then he got the paper at
the clerks desk, read il and returned to
his seat without making a remark. Mr..
Stewart, however, offered an apology,
stating that he had the dispatch read not
for the purpose of rejecting upon the SEN
ator from Indiana.
At / o'clock the Vice President an
nounced the unfinished business, The re
peal bill, " but Mr. Stewart asked the
privilege of going on with his speech.
Il have no objection on my part" said
Mr. VOORHEES,, ''to the senator's going on
and finishing his speech"
What is the senator's request2' the
Vice President inquired.
To continue with my speech Mr..
Stewart replied.
"With the regular order pending was
Mr.. Voorhees, addition TO the request.
81 don't care what is pending said
Mr.. Stewart, Il can speak on the bill or
on the resolution, but l want to have the
resolution acted upon
After some colloquy and an objection by
Mr.. Washburn to a proposition not to
send the resolution to the calendar, Mr..
Stewart proceeded with his speech.
CAMERON GIVEN THE FLOOR.
After talking more than two hours and
half, Mr. Stewart paused and said he
would now like to yield the floor TO the
senator from Pennsylvania, Mr. Cameron,
but he would go on with his speech when
ever the Senate would let him. He had
not gotten % the main point of it yet.
Mr.. Cameron then took the floor and
addressed the Senate in opposition to the
bill. He read his speech from manu-
script, rapidly and in low tone. Sena-
tors from both sides, who felt much curl
Osity and interest in the position which
Mr. Cameron occupied, got chairs in his
immediate neighbOrhOOd and listened to
him with close attention. He began by
calling attention to Mr.. Gladstone's
speech in the House of Commons on Aug.
d last. In that speech MIR. Gladstone
said that England was the greatest credi-
tor of the countries of the world that her
foreign investments increased largely
every year; that thousand millions OF
pounds would be an extremely low estt-
mate of English credits, and that under
these circumstances it was rather a Sc
riOus matter TO ask that country to con-
slider whether they were going TO perform
this act of self sacrifice. You will OBJ
serve that the subject "that
the supreme act of self sacrifice"
which MIR. Gladstone considers to be con-
trary to the interest of England as the
great creditor of the countries of the
world, is the attempt to maintain or re
store to silver the function of serving as
money. ] am tempted to sit down and
leave this speech of Mr.. Gladstone to
stand alone as the ground for the vote l
shall cast on the bill now before us. 1t is
conviction as to the true course of an
American.
ENGLAND's POLICY.
The official avowed policy of England
is to prevent the restoration of silver to
its function as money, because the mon
eyed interests of England require, or
think they require a mOnometallic gold
standard. / have stated the case with
great moderation and have passed not
word of blame on Mr.. Gladstone, who
merely represents policy which England
has always followed and avowed
Any further measure which tends
to discredit silver is, at least
for the moment a furtherance of
the British policy, it tends to support the
monemetallic gold standard.
CAMERON's REMEDY.
Mr.. Cameron, in conclusion, stated his
remedial propositions thus: I'VE all agree
that, with Europe and Asia in their pres
ent critical state Of equilibrium,
any silver or paper currency
needs larger guarantee than
usual. For that purpose / propose
gold loan of SO many hundred million
dollars as congress may decide, to be
bought at the market rate, and held in
the treasury as the gold reserve is
held in the Bank of France,
and by the governments of the Latin
union. / propose 10 open our minis to the
free coinage of American silver, imposing
a duty on the import of foreign silver |
propose further, for the benefit of the
poorer and weaker states, especially in
the south, to repeal the tax on state bank
circulation measure which is intended
to give them free hand in moving their
own crops, developing their resources and
relieving them from their servitude to
the great capitalist cities. | look TO
no effect, or but little, from
this step, as far as the north
is concerned. l would also press once
more for action in favor of our shipping
The bill for that purpose is known to
you, and neither its object nor its meth
DDS should be matter of party division.
To meet in part, the deficit of our in
come for next year, would reimpose the
duty of cents pound on sugar and re-
peal the bounty Then | would wait a
year to see how the system worked, and
how far we were affected by foreign in
fuence. AS for our foreign exchanges,
they are automatic and will take care of
themselves under any system
They have done so when we
had no currency at all, when we had gold,
when we had irredeemable paper and
when we had silver. If Europe wants
our gold, let her have it if she can pay for
1t, that is to say, all except the gold in
our treasury. No general or special legis-
latlon is likely to pass this Senate unless
II is comprehensive enough to command
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