Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-07
FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Oct. Z, 1898.
SENATE.

heSOlhtu, lUdb lnS -eudtS Soi'-is
tee on finance be instructed to report
a bill for the coinage of gold and silver
in accordance with the policy set forth
in the bill reported by the committee
August 2Sth, 1898, being House of Rep
sentatiyes bill No. l. This refers to the
declaratory section of the VOORHEES,
bill in respect to the parity OF the golc
and silver dollarsl
Mr.. Harris (dem. Tenn offered res
olution for the appointment ola select
committee of five Senators TO investi-
gate the Ford's Theatre disaster.
Referred.
The silver purchase repeal bill was
then taken up, and Mr.. VOORHEES,,
chairman OF the finance committee,
said:
II desire this morning to state, in
the hearing of the Senate and of the
country, that on Wednesday next, Ct
ter the meeting of the Senate, l shall
ask it to continue in session until a
vote is taken on the pending measure;
and shall ask and expect Senators to
maintain quorum for the transaction
OF business until the end is reached Of
this protracted struggle. l might say
more, but more is not necessary. |
give this notice in order that Senators
may govern themselves accordingly in
the performance of the duty which
they owe to the public"
Mr.. Roach, democrat, of North Da-
kota, addressed the Senate in favor Of
the repeal of the Sherman act, but ex-
pressed a desire that there should be
some legislation in connection with it
that would recognize silver as legal
tender money. The people whom he
represented were, he said, deeply in
terested in the question and it was his
duty to give voice TO their sentiments.
No one objected 10 the repeal of the
Sherman act; but the real contention in
the Senate was between immediate re-
peal, with subsequent possible legisla-
ton affecting silver, on the one side,
and actual legislation, previous TO and
in connection with repeal, on the other
side. With the latter class he had the
honor to coincide. He asked for some
legislation in connection with repeal
that would recognize the use of silver
as legal tender money, and its continu
ed coinage.
Mr.. Roach was followed by Mr.. AL
len, populist, of Nebraska. a sugges-
ton to procure senatorial audience
for him was made by Mr.. Stewart, re-
publican, of Nevada; but Mr.. Allen
said he did not want Senators to hear
him.
GAN right said Mr.. Stewart, "but
if they were here they would learn
something"
"They will learn something whether
they are here or not" Mr.. Allen re-
marked; and then he went on with his
speech against the repeal bill.
HOUSE.
Ten democrats and twelve republic
cans were in the chamber when the
House met to-day.
Mr.. Hicks, republican, of Pennsyl-
vauia, denied the statement attributed
to him yesterday in the press that he
had declared that the Senate was the
laughing stock of the country, and that
the Tucker bill was intended to humil-
late the President.
The federal election bill was then
taken up.
Mr.. Everett, democrat, of Massachu-
sets, did not deny the constitutional
power of Congress to pass the laws,
but he did not believe that it had the
moral right to do so. The same cor
ruption at elections had gone on under
these laws as had gone on before the
time of their passage. The laws were
impotent and inefficient, and they
should be removed from the statute
books. Granting that Congress had
the right and power to pass these laws,
granting the efficiency of them, he
would still repeal them, because ne
was union man; because Massachu-
sets was union state; and he wanted
every vestige of these laws swept away
(applause). He wanted to wipe from
the statute books the last relic of sec
tional spirit. He would remove every
law that grew out of the war.
Mr.. Grosvernor, republican, from
Ohio, said that Massachusetts, would
not permit her distinguished son to say
that that great State was in favor ofthe
repeal of the 18th, 14th and 18th
amendmentsto the constitution. And
that was the position taken by the gen.
tleman from Massachusetts. He ridi-
culed the Chicago platform. and
thought that it should be referred to a
master in chancery to find out what in
the name of God it did mean anyhow.
He went on 10 ridicule the democratic !
party for its demoralized con1ition.
There was he said revolution in one !