Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
SENATE AND HOUSE
The Talk on Silver and the
Election Bill Continues,
AND THE END Is NOT IN SIGHT

In the Senate Sherman Corrects a State
ment and Kyle Continues the Debate
In the House the Election Bill Occupies
Attention-Co Coinage at the Mints-The
Boynton Case-1he Cruiser Detroit Ac-
Government Receipts and Ex-
penditures.
WASHINGTON, Oct. S-The very evident
absence of a quorum of senators was
called to the attention of the vice presi-
! dent by Wolcott (Rep) of Colorado, and
| there was thereupon call of the senate,
| to which (after some little delay the re-
quisite number of senators, forty three,
responded. The morning business was
! then proceeded with. A bill to give set
tiers on the public lands in Oklahoma
territory another year in which to make
| their first payments on the land was re-
ported from the committee on public
lands and was passed. The resolution
offered by Teller last Saturday calling
for information as to the purchase of sill
yer bullion in September, 1S9T, was laid
| before the senate and agreed to.
Sherman (Rep.) of Ohio called attention
| to a misstatement contained in the speech
of White Oem.) of California last week
quoting an article from the Bankers
Magazine OF August 1s7S as to the de-
monetiZation act of that year. There was
no such article, he said, in the Bankers
Magazine. The statement was false and
| fraudulent. 1t was an absolute fabrica-
tian, and he wanted to have it marked
with the brand of infamy White ex-
p aimed that he had taken the extract
from other speeches and papers and had
not consulted The Bankers Magazine to
prove the correctness of the extract. As
his attention had now been called to it
he would have the allusion omitted from
all future copies of his speech.
The silver purchase repeal bill was taken
! up and Kyle, Pop, South Dakota,
rose to address the senate, but yielded to
| Dubois, Rep, Idaho. Dubois complained
! of remark made by German last week
on the subject of his resolution to defer
action on the repeal bill and other meas
ures until the three vacant seats from
! Montana, Washington and Wyoming
| were filled. German had spoken of the
resolution as one of a series intended to
obstruct action on the repeal bill. On
that statement Dubois took exception. He
| said that he had offered the resolution
| from a sense of duty entirely on his own
responsibility, and without consultation
with senator's opposed to the repeal bill.
| He was not in any plan to obstruct busi-
| ness. He found precedent for the reso
luton in the filibustering of Republican
senators some years ago to prevent the
| filling of committees while there were
| three seats vacant IN the senate.
Washburn said that he had not sup
posed that the senator from Ipaho, when
he offered the resolution had seriously
supposed that the senate would sit
and allow senators to be chosenfrom states
VIII ch had not performed their constitu-
tional functions. The senator could not
| have thought of anything so absolutely
absurd. Mr.. Washburn added that of the
three states in question two were no.
S ive-rroducing states, and had no more
interest in the coinage of silver than any
other states of the Union. Furthermore,
those TWO states were now Represented by
two senators, both of whom were in favor
i>of the unconditional repeal of the Sherman
! law
| please 20 name" Mr.. Walcott inter
! posed excitedly, "the two states that are
| represented by senators in favor of uncon-
ditional repeal"
Il will do so with great pleasure"
Washburn suavely replied. They are
the states of Washington and Wyoming"
Il should like, the senator from Mime
| sota," said Mr.. Dubois. Ito state on WHOSE
authority he makes that statement"
81 make it on the authority Of the SEN
ators themselves
Very we'll said Dubois, Il imagine
that those senators will resent the impu-
tation. There never has been a time when
members OF congress from those states
have not yoted for the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver. and state that the SEN
ators from the states Of Washington and
| Wyoming on this floor are not for the uu-
| conditional repeal of the Sherman act"