The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-12
OPENING OF THE BIG FIGHT.
The Senate Enters on the Last Round
Of the Silver Mill.

VI AnA INV %AAAAf
Mr.. Bate Presents Resolutions From
Rural Tennesseans in Opposition to
Those Passed by the Memphis Cot
ton Exchange-Mr. Cockrell Finishes
Ills Long Speech-Mr. Dubois Re-
fuses to Name a Day on Which a
Vote Shall be Taken And Mr.. Voor-
bees Thereupon Announces the
Opening of the Continuous Session.
Washington, Oct. lin the Senate
this morning Mr.. Bate sent to the clerks
desk and had read a series of resolutions
adopted at a large meeting of citizens of
Lincoln county, Tennessee, commenting
the action of the Tennessee senators
against unconditional repeal of the Sher
man act, declaring the repeal bill to be in
the interest aloneof the wealthy and cred
itor classes and announcing the enemies
of silver money as our enemies, and
their friends as our friends Mr..
Bate made some remarks on the subject
as connected with the contrary action Of
the Memphis Cotton and Merchants EX-
change He admitted that there was
wide difference of opinion among the peo-
.
and referred to facts TO show the yaria-
bleness of opinion of the Memphis Cot
ton Exchange on the subject of the Wash
burn anti-option bill last session. 1t
might be, he said, that next week there
might be a silver-favoring majority in
that body.
The silver-purchase repeal bill was
taken up at II AS o'clock, and Mr.. Cock
rell began the third installment of his
long speech against it. If the President
and senators who supported the repeal
bill were friends of silver, as they pro-
fessed to be, why did they not, he asked,
give some tangible evidence of their
friendship
MIR Cockrell at 2:1O O'Clock yielded the
floor temporarily to Mr.. Smith, dem, of
New Jersey, who addressed the Senate in
favor of repeal. He said he had no chance
TO vote on the pending bill because of an
indispositiOn on the part of the majority
to deprive the minority of what seemed
TO be considered its right-the right to
rule. Whether the fact that the Sher-
man law was still on the statute books
was because of the unanimity of opin-
ion that it should be repealed, he would
leave to be answered by some one who
was more familiar with the time
honored traditions Of the Senate than he
was. Laughter Mr.. Smith denied
that silver had any rights, neither had
kOlu. L lt pGOplC ldu a IlE1b W USE Sill
yer, but silver had no right 10 use the
people. The outpouring of public senti-
ment for free coinage was the result of
mass meetings held in Colorado, Nevada
and Idaho, at which bloOd-thirsty resolu-
tions were adopted, and from which ema-
mated theats to annihilate anybody or
anything that stood between those people
and double price for the product of their
mines.
IRBY OPPOSES REPEAL.
When Mr.. Smith had finished, MIR.
Irby, pop, of South Carolina, addressed
the Senate in opposition to repeal. He
said he spoke as a farmer, being the only
member of the Senate whose sole occupa-
ton was farming. He was opposed to
the bill as a man and as democrat He
believed in democratic principles as he
did in the Bible (''That is pretty rough
on the Bible" said a republican senator
from New England) The people of
South Carolina, he said, do not in
tend TO be driven out of the
Democratic party by the President or
any of the self-constituted leaders of the
Democratic party. They had been hon
estly opposed TO the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland, and were now as honestly OBJ
posed to the repeal bill The reports of
republican states had foisted upon the
Democratic party a nominee who did not
represent 1t. That was unjust, unfair,
undemocratic and irregular, and now it
was fagrantly wrong for that nominee to
use the Republican party to pass laws
that will bring ruin and destruction to
the poorer classes of the south and west.
WILLING TO WAIT
The people of South Carolina wanted
revision of the tariff, but they were more
willing that other public questions should
be relegated 10 the rear for a quarter of a
century than to see the financial question
settled as proposed by the administration.
MIR. Irby said he would not be coerced.
He despised the patronage which had
been so ruthlessly withheld from ninety
per cent of the honest democrats of his
state. If 1t were necessary to overpower
democrats with republican votes in
the Senate he dared to tell
democratic senators that they could not
revise the tariff. This he said, not as a
threat, but with reluctance and deep re-
greet. II the democratic administration.
by the aid of republican votes, OVERRIDE
the wishes of South Carolina on the finan-
cial question, he, for one, would not fol-
low its lead another step. AS for him
self he would not accept any compromise
short of the free coinage of silver at a
ratio of 10 to l.
Inc JOINT resolution permitting the
state OF Wisconsin to place a statute of
Pere Marquette in statuary hall of the
natlonal capitol was taken up and passed.
GIVING GOLD FOR SILVER.
Mr.. Coclkrell then resumed the floor on
the repeal bill. IF the present admins
tration," said Mr.. Cockrell, was at
tempting to force upon the country the
principle that silver dollars were to be
redeemed in gold, it was not democracy.
If 1t was shown to be true, he would saw
Halt, halt the people are not ready for
that. They will not sanction it, never"
Mr.. COckren concluded with a refer
ence to the Presidents letter to Gov.
Nrothen. The President was fearful of
the delay, but this was not extraordinary.
for but one man in public life had more
unfulhlled predictions than Mr. Cleve-
land, and that man was John Sherman.
At 5:l5 O'Clock Mr.. Cockrell completed
his long speech. His voice was nearly
gone, and he could only shake his head in
response to inquiry of the Vice President
as TO whether he had completed his re-
marks.
After some routine business, Mr.. Allen.
pop, Of Nebraska, took the floor to con
tinue his speech
THE LONG FIGHT INAUGURATED.
Mr.. Allen was still speaking at Cos
O'Clock, when Mr.. Dubois. rep, of Idaho.
rose, and Mr.. Allen yielded to him. He
observed that it was g o'clock, the hour
when the Senate usually adjourned. He
asked the senator from Indiana Mn.