The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-22
DEBATE RESUMED IN CONGRESS.
Speaker Crisp Interrupts it to
Announce His Committees.
Senator morrill, Occupied the Most of
the Time in the Senate and Was Then
Excused for tho Session on Account
of III HeaIth-Several Changes are Mo-
ticeable In the Make UP of the Com
mittees.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l-After the
reading of the journal, Powers (Rep.,
VT took the floor in support of the re.
peal OF the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act. He referred to the
Chicago platform and to the interpre-
tration PLACED upon it by various Demo.
Gratis. Powers went on to argue that
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
bill was vicious in principle and dan
gerous in application.
If free coinage were adopted the gold
bugs could corner the market lust as
easily as they could to-day. The only
solution of the problem was at once to
suspend the coinage of silver, which the
world had discarded, until we could
bring the world to it's senses. Then
nations of the world would come to rec
ognize that there was not enough in
the world to act as currency, and they
would come to a bimetallist basis.
Hooker tDem., Miss opposed the I'M
conditional repeal OF the silver purchas.
ing clause. The repeal of the Sherman
law, he said, would not restore COM
MERGE or would it relieve wage earners.
The present depression was not attribu-
the Mckinley act.
The debate was then suspended to
allow the Speaker to announce the
standing and select the committees for
the present Congress. Then on motion
OF Bland Saturday next was set apart
for general debate of the Wilson bill
instead OF debate under the five minute
rule.
Cooper Qnd.) spoke in opposition to
the free coinage of silver. He would
rather favor policy which would give
the country safe recognized stable
currency than enter upon experiments
at tais time. He then argued in sup
port OF the proposition to repeal tho TAX
on State banks,
Alexander (Dem., N. c. advocated
free silver coinage and spoke for q
larger currency. If some relief were
not given to the country, he said, there
might be trouble. But he did not
think the repeal of the Sherman act
nor the abolition OF the tax upon State
banks would give this relief.
Sperry (Dem., Conn., opposed free
coinage and advocated the Wilson bill.
Coke (Dem., TENN argued against
the pending bill and recounted the
hardships to which the people of his
district had been subjected since the
would there be another feather weight
placed on their backs. He was speaking,
he said, in behalf of the poor colored
men of his country. The gentlemen on
the other other side might claim to con-
troll the Negroes vote, but at last the
negro had to go to the other side.
Chickering (Rep.. N. " asked il that
was the reason the gentleman spoke for
them. Coke replied that he had come to
the conclusion that the negroes consti-
tuted the best part of the Republican
party
Settles (Rep., N. c. said that in his
canvass he had opposed the free coinage
of silver. The furthest that he would
go was the coinage of the American
product. He believed that the voice of
the laboring class of his State is not for
free coinage, but simply for an increase
OF the circulation of the country, and
was not in favor of an increase of cur
rency that did not increase it when
sound and good money. Applause
He was in favor of bimetallism He
was not in favor OF striking down OF
silver, but he stood unalterably opposed
to the free coinage of silver in the
absence of an international agreement.
He would record his vote against the
amendments of the gentleman from
Missouri (Blsnd) and would vote for the
Wilson bill. IApplausel
The House then at o'clock took a
recess till o'clock.
EVENING SESSION OF TIE HOUSE.
At the evening session McLauren
(Dem.) addressed the House in opposi-
ton to the Wilson bill and in favor of
the free coinage of silver.
The Democrats, he said. mi light as we'll
try to twist one of the cyclones of
the West the wrong way as attempt to
stem the the tide in favor of free silver.
Mcdonald (Dem, Ill) said be was in
favor of the free coinage Of gold and
silver at any ratio that might be &C.
ceptable, he would then remove from
both their legal tender quality. The
House, at lilo, adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
large number of petitions and me-
MORALS were presented in the Senate
to-day relating to questions of finance.
All such were referred to the committee
on finance.
PETER offered g substitute for the bill
to increase national bank circulation
Chandler offered resolution which
was referred to the committee on privi-
leges and elections, declaring there was
no lawful election of the United States
Senator in Kansas by joint assembly
which met on January %, 1898. and
that John Martin is not entitled to a
seat as Senator.
WAS agreed to, calling on the Secretary
of the Treasury for a statement as to
the silver bullion purchased July, 1893,
with prices, and as to the silver bullion
offered for sale in the same month with
prices asked The finance com.