St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-05

Both House and Senate Bills
and Says He Is a BimetaIlist-
He Hopes a Compromise Will
Be Reached Satisfactory to
All Sides.
WASHINGTON. Oct 4. When the
senate met this morning there were by
actual count one Democrat and six Re
publicans present. Aftes some delay &
quorum was secured and the journa
was approved.
The repeal bill was taken up. and Mr.
Butler (Dem., S. CD addressed the sen
ate. He said it was apparent that il
was the purpose of those senators who
favored the bill to force it through the
senate without that regard and consid.
Grafton for the rights of the minority Of
the sena:e,lf those who opposed the bill
were in the minority, which was con.
sistent with the dignity aud character oil
the body.
'The minority of the senate" he said
''are not attempting to coerce anybody
But l think we may safely say tina
body. This was not Il government O.
majorities. Mr.. Butler declared it wa:
a government of written law. to which
the majority of the senate, or that o.
any other delberatIve body, were a.
amenable as The minority: govern
ment OF written law to which the presl
dent and his cabinet were as amerablt
la II, Ia. ait
ueSpOiiSm so oppressive as thu
despotiSm of majority unreStrained
and the experience of the day hat
proven it. The senate is not body
where some political boss or politica
hustler can crack his whip" said Mr.
Butler, Indignantly, land compel thu
minority to conform to the wishes of {
mere numerical majority.
II am asked" said Mr.. Butler, 'anC
the question has been asked over anC
over again, What. then. is to be done il
we are not to vote"
lreply compromise, compromise is
THE SOLUTION
of the struggle here today. But we
are told that compromise means defeat
surrender To tine minority. The very
government under which we live is the
result of compromise. 1t is the very
essence of our form of government
There is not a measure which is con
tested i'll this house of congress or the
other and becomes law that does not
do SO as the result of compromise.
Yet, when the suggestion of comprom
Use is made, it is Sneere:l at. We are
told it is a surrender. TO whom. re
millions of American people and bill.
ions of American property. l there
fore protest against the assumption of
senators who have said that the minor
ity is defying the majority"
Mr.. Butler denied that there had
been fiiibustering OH the repeal bill and
ridiculed the idea that the proceedings
of the opponents of the repeal were
revolutionary or reasonable.
This is the first time q compromise
has been resisted and put away" Mir
Butler declared, and then he took W
the alleged interference of the presi-
dent in legislative matters.
Il am not here to defend the great
American citizen, but | believe illus
tlce has been done him, for | cannot con-
ceive tina: man who has such ali eX
allied opinion of
THE HIGH OFFICE
to which the American people have ele-
waited him. and who has such cOrrec,
conception OF the relations which should
exist between the different departments
OF the government, would permit him.
self to interfere with an indie pendeui
and coordinate department by tile i'm
proper exercise of his official position.
when suggestion of compromise
has been made, it has been whispered
around that the president will lot &C
cept compromise. That does that
high official great injustice, because it
is none of his business what the senate
does. do not believe he has attempted
to use his high Office to Influence legis-
latlon in this body"
Mr.. Blackburn (Ky.) then addressed
the senate in opposition to the bill. He
did not favor either the house bill or the
senate substitute. He was a bimetalliSt
word.
He did not want to see the country
go upon single standard. If, however,
he were forced to all election between
the two metals for q standard, he would
prefer silver.
Mr.. Washburn believed that the re-
peal of the Sherman law was the first
step toward real bimelallism.
This was the first me on record. said
Mr.. Black burn, when decapitation OF
the patient was recommended as cure
1t seemed to he the policy to xiii the
patient and leave his body unburled, and
TRUST TO GOD
Almighty to revive it.
The repeal OF the Sherman law would
not cure the troubles under which the
country labored. The tariff system
must De revised and its prohibitive
features eliminated.
Wider markets must be obtained fol
Of loIN
system must be revised and remodeled
Gold and silver must be made the
standards. The paper money iSsueC
must be based upon the bmetalliC
standard and should be issued directly
through the government and not be
filtered through the agents of petted
and fostered national banks. The II
per cent tax OH state bank currency
must be repealed, the government must
be economically administered and the
pension list purged of peculation and
fraud.
Mr.. Blackburn hoped a compromis,
would be reached that would be salts,
factory to all shades of opinion. He ha6
but one condition 10 impose upon com
promise. Unlock the doors of the mint.
to the silver metal.
"Mr. President, the people are de-
handing settlement of this question
The people are impatient and have ;
right to he impatient, standing as they
do in the midst of deSOlatiOn.
"They want the issue settled, and fol-
one l hereby declare will have no par
II or hand in delaying its settlement"
MIR. Blackburn regretted that it had
been intlmated that the administration
was party to the conspiracy that had
brought the recent trouble upon the
country. He then entered into a long
defense of the administration. If the
admins ,tion had yielded to the de.
mani for the issuance of bonds the