The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-09-20
The Tall Sycamore Swayed Nightly
by the Violence or His Own
Wrath.
Assumes the Same Position Tax en-
by the Savior OF the
World.
Has fmmsasurabIs Contempt For Those
Who Attribute to Him Motives Not
Above Criticism.


the senate on the repeal bill reaehed a
crucial stage this morning. Voorhees,.
leader Of the repeal forces, after ssnsa-
tional enuuciation OF New York bankers
and defiance to tho press that had been
cFitioisinR his actions and questioning his
motives. demanded that the minority SEN
ators name date for the final vote.
Dubois. of Idaho. met the demand by a
positive declaration that the anti-repeal
men would oppose the passage of the repeal
bill by availinR themselves Of every advan.
taRs affo ded them under the rules and
usaQes of the senate. Voorhees, retalinted
BY giving notice that hs would to ow
move for longer and moro nearly oontinu-
Gus sessions; SO the situation in ths senate
appears TO resolvs into mere question Of
endurance.
Immediately after the sennts met the re-
peal bill was taken up. Voorhees, onoe
more sought to obtain an agreement as to
when vote should be taken. The time. he
said, should not be misspent In inst1ucting
the public mind In regard to the organiza-
tion Of tho senate. In doing this he ad-
dressed himself to the eat body OF intelli-
gent public opinion. as we'll as in some
quarters to dense, opaque degree of ignor-
ance. Ignorance in some respects was in
nocent; in others. malicious.
He then reviewed the history of the rules
of the senate from its creation, showing
that for seventeen years from 1889 the sen
ate had amongst its rules q provision for
the previous question. 10 was tried fully
in 1906. and when Thomas Jefferson was
president it was dsliber ately abandoned
and was never claimed or admitted from
that hour to the present.
II am now Rrraignsd," said Voorhees,.
before public opinion for not terminating
this debate. As we'll i might bo arraiQned
for not ter minatina the tide of tho ocean or
the northwest winds. In abandoning the
body was placed u,on the sense of pro-
priety. patriotism. Difference to uublic SEN
timent. and public interests. with the as
surance In tho minds of those then in tho
senate that no senator could be found to
abuse the patience of this body or outrage
public business OF public interest. For
eiRhty-seven years this body had been a
law sufficient unto itself. It had never
been found wanting in peace or in war; so
that the criticisms of 4 certain class will
fall as harmless upon this body as they fall
upon me.
"As far as concerns the personal ortiz
cism of myself. | NAV as we'll embrace this
with absolute. stern defiance. / have
served the people of Indiana for many
years, and have no explanations required
whom 60 home to them: and tseat with
scorn and immeAsurable contempt the sug-
gestons coming from New York bankers or
anywhere else. as to the motives which gov
ern me. respond to that kind of oriti-
oism by ing that IL comes from GLASS
whom the Savior of the world never spoke
of with respeot-nor do ]"
Teller gave notice that when daily Sos
sions are extended into night the advocates
Of the bill as we'll as its opponents would
have to bs present. Hill asked whether
Teller was not satisfied there ia a majority
in the senate favorable to repeal. Teller
replied that when shs sense of the senate
on the question was last taken there was a
majority Of almost two-thirds against the
measure. and he would not insult tho in
telliQencs of the body by presuminR that il
had changed 90 oompletsly in 80 short q
time.
Mills had Tho floor and discussed at
length the necessity of maintaing q stable
standard. reviewing the history of the
county In the effo to to attain that end,
and declared that continued fuctuation
had q moro depressing effect upon farmers
and other laborsEs than upon capitalists
and merchants. In conclusion Mills said
he would vote TO repeal the Sherman law
and against every amendment which the
ingenuity Of the human mind could con-
ceive. No amendment could be offered to
the bill except ono which impeached the
good faith of the presidents, and that he did
not intsed 10 do