St. Paul daily globe., 1893-10-28
Faulkner, Mcpherson, Turple,
Frye, Manderson, Villas,
Gallinger, Mitchell, Wis, Voorhees,.
Gibson, Morrill, Washburn,
German. Murphy, White, of La.

COckrell and Allison, Cameron and
Brice. White (Cal.) and Chandler. Col
quit and Wilson, Pettigrew and Cor
don, Hansbrough and Mills, Morgan
and Hawley, Hunton and Platt, Mitch
ell, of Oregon. and Squire.
THE AMENDMENT
thus voted down revived, with some
slight exceptions, the coinage act of
1887. and provided for the free coinage
of silver. Mr.. Voorhees, then moved
that the substitute reported by the
finance committee for the house bill be
adopted, and asked unanimous consent
that after its adoption it might be
treated as open to amendment as the
original bill would be. To the latter
request there was no objection. On his
motion the yeas and nays were taken,
and by vote of yeas 5S, nays 9. the
substitute reported by the finance conf
mittee was agreed to. Those who voted
against the substitute were Senators
Allen, Bate, Call, Coke, Irby, Kyle,
PETER. Roach and Vance.
Mr.. Perkins Rep., Cal.) then offered
the amendment of which he had given
notice on Oct. IA. 1t provides for the
coinage of American silver at the exist
Ing ratio with seignorage charge of 20
per cent. No gold issue Of less denomI-
nation than $40 to is be coined, and no
legal tender, national currency or treas
ury notes of a less denomination than
IS are to be issued. The holder of any
standard silver dollars may deposit the
same at the treasury or at any assistant
treasury of the United States and re-
ceive therefor notes for denominations
less than SO, which notes shall have the
same legal tender quality for the coin
for which they are exchanged. There
are to be appointed five monetary eX-
perts, the members of which shall not
be otherwise connected with the gov
ernment, whose duty it shall be to keep
the treasury and executive advised on
all necessary matters relating to the
currency. Mr.. Perkins explained his
amendment and said now that the slack
water of debate had come, amendments
could he discussed and considered dis
passionately.
SEVERAL CONVERTED DEMOCRATS.
Mr.. Stewart (Rep.. New. called at
tention to the change over on the part
of MIR. Voorhees,, Mr.. Gordon, Mr.. Ran
som, Mr.. Hill. Mr.. Mills, Mr.. Turpie
and Mr.. Squire on the silver question,
who last spring voted for free coinage,
and now on Mr.. Petfer's amendment
voted against it. Mr.. Allen Pop.,
Neb.) expressed regret at what he
called ''back-down'' to some extent
upon the part of the advocates of sill
yer.
Mr.. Teller, while not favoring hereto
fore a proposition to coin only silver of
American product, as that savored of
class legislation. would vote for the
Perkins amendment, as it was better
than the proposed act Mr.. Teller went
on to speak with great bitterness of the
deSertion of the cause of silver by the
Republican senators. He said the whole
question ought to have been settled by
a concession TO the advocates of silver.
Nobody who hears me tonight would
disagree with me in the statement that
if the men sitting in front of me Re-
publican repealers) had been as ready
to cOncede us something as other men
who believed in repeal on the other side
of the chamber, there would have been
compromise, not disgracefulu and
disastrous, but beneficial to us and
beneficial to all alike.
'If the railroads cannot pay the inter-
est on their bonds. that is not our fault.
But our personal obligations we pay to
the last cent. To me this is the most
terrible moment of my legislative life."
said Mr.. Teller with much feeling. "To
ME It br ings more fear than any other
since entered public life. l fear that
we are entering upon financial system
from which there is absolutely no es-
cape. | know there will be no favorable
legislation for silver until the American
people are heard from at the ballot box.
and heard from in way that will COM
pei attention to their desires.
MIR. President, l am not pessimist;
l never have been; am an optimist. l
have never seen disaster and distress
growing out of politics simply because
they did not meet my approval. l have
had faith in the American people,"
Here Mr.. Teller's voice choked, and
TEARS CAME TO HIS EYES.
He spoke most impressively, and was
accorded the undivided attention of
every senator and the large audience in
the galleries.
Il have had faith in men. can see
the silver lining in cloud as quickly
as any man living. There never Is
storm so dark that l cannot see the
coming light on the mountain top, but l
cannot contemplate this condition of
| things without absolute terror. 1t
| strikes to my very soul, and | want to
| enter this as warning to the American
people, that il they do not resist they
will enter upon system of indu strial
| slavery that will be the worst known to
| the human race"
Mr.. Voorhees, desired to secure vote
| on the Perkins amendment. But, as
| Mr.. Wolcott expressed a wish to submit
some remarks, he moved that the senate
take recess until IL o'clock tomorrow
morning. The motion at $40 O'Clock
was agreed to.
The beginning of voting upon the
amendments to the repeal bill, which
took place in the senate this afternoon,
does not necessarily bring the end any
nearer, because the voting was begun
upon an understanding that speech
making should be allowed to continue
within due limits. No senator was pre-
| pared to take the floor when Mr.. Jones
expressed desire to continue his
| speech until tomorrow, and Mr.. Voor-
hees by previous arrangement moved to
take up the pending amendment. Mr..
Faulkner, the repeal whip, had previ-
ously seen the senators who had eX-
pressed desire to speak, and assured
them that the lIew order should not cut
them out. He thinks that all future
speeches except Mr.. Jones' will be
brief, and is hopeful of reaching the
final vote very soon. Mr.. Jones will