Evening star., 1893-10-09
SILVER AND VOTES,
Senate Talks of One, House of the
Other.
A TILT BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES.
THE SENATE.

The attendance of Senators this mornin,
was much larger than it has been for sew
eral weeks back, SO there is no excuse fo
suggestion of absence of a quorum
Mr.. Harris cTenn.) sent to the clerk.
desk the resolutions adopted at a Join
meeting of the Memphis Cotton Exchang,
and Merchants Exchange, and said tha-
as these resolutions reflected somewhat up
on himself personally he desired to hav,
them rt ad 30 that he might submit some re
marks.
The resolutions having been read Mr.
Harris said that those resolutions criticise,
in terms more or less severe his colleague.
and himself as having been derelict IN tn,
uischarge OF their duty to their constitu
ents and In the matter of the repeal of .h,
sherman law. With great respect to these
exc Nanges he trusted that they would m p
don him for saying that he had the ya nSt,
TO believe that he knew his duty to his con,
stituents quite as well as and possibly ever
better than they did.
While they constituted a very intelligen,
ana highiy respectable portion of his con.
stituents they could not forget that they
constituted a very small portion of them
he failed to remember exactly how and
When they became authorized to speak for
or represent the views and interests of the
whole people of Tennessee e
ne was inclined to think that IN the
Whole people of the state wera appaalel IN
they might possibly repudiate the authority
that question. He defended himself fr,,,.
tne cnarge or having treated those en-
changes (as asserted in The resolutiou) with
silent contempt, and showed tnat he had
presented In the Senate the resolutions
which they had previously sent him. Ne
mad received, he said, n telegram signed
by many Memphis bankers. but had treated
II as a personal argument TO himself, and
when memphis reporter called on him
and asked him whether he desired to make
a response to that telegram he had REPLIED
that the question OF great policy for a
people of 65,0Ol.O00 was rather too large q
subject too important and too complicated
for him to undertake 10 discuss il IN A tel
egram, a letter or a newsDaae er interview.
He had added that he wouli discuss tie
question in the Senate. and that every cit
izen of Tennessee should have the oppor-
tunity to understand his views In that
there was no discourtssv to the banters
actual or INTENDED, and certainly none 10
the exchanges, for they had not appeared
In tne telegram I'm any manner whatever.
He had never treated them with discour-
tesy. And as to the character of courtesy
with which they had treated himself and
his colleague he should leave IL to them
to consider and determine for themselves
He had no complaints or comments to
make. but he would. with the utmost re-
spect and with no feeling OF resentment
beg to inform those exchanges that the
I'M eat Contalneu III tnelr resolutions had
no terror for him. To fail TO follow his
1wn honest convictions of duty would be to
forfeit his self-respect, and the maintenace
of his Self-respect was of vastly more i'm
portance to him than any Office within the
gift of any or OF all of the people within
the universe.
That much he deemed II due to himself
to say. He had said II and had Done
(Laughter.)
Mr.. WOlcOtfx Resolutton.
The resolution Offered last Saturday by
Mr.. Wolcott Coli instructing the finance
to report a bill to carry out the
oimetallic declaration of the voorhees, sub
'ttute was taken up, and Mr. wolcott ad
dressed the Senate in advocacy of 4,
Within the last few days. he said the worst
of the friends of silver as
% the position of the President had been
'ealized.
Mr. Wolcott appealed to the Senator
rom Indiana, who was at heart opposed To
he abandonment of silver who held tho
,ey of the whole situation in his h.nd
o stand with the people Of his own coun,
ry and his own flag against the proposed
urrender to British interests. The only
lope of silver was in amendment to the
'ending bill. There was no hone for on
Independent measure If the pending hill
hould pass the hope which the silver
tates cherish would be abandoned. and
he country would cast its fortunes with
he nations of the old world where ..poy
rty comes as one that traveleth and want
an armed man.. The step once taken |
;ouid be trrevocable. and the Senate oweI
to itself and the country not to make \
owardly surrender of the sacred Interests
nth which 1t was entrusted
Mr. VOORHEES, Qnd) replied to Mr. VOL |
OFT. he denied that the pending bill would /
emonetize silver. The statement that n |
Tould do so might be repeated a hundred
housand times and still ii would nor ho
rue. There was at this time nearly six |