Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-09-14

The repeal Bill was taken up and Mr.. .a.sx-
| art gave way 70 Mr.. Nalthail of Mississippi
who addressed The Senate. He favored the
OF policy cont@-..ned In the bill were embodied
IN the ':.rn of binding act He wanted sill
Ver restored TO the position It occupied before
the act OF lsfa was passed. Mr.. Stew
| art resumed, and read articles from
Referring TO President Cleveland, Mr..
Stewart said II was l. sad thing for the Ameri-
can people that in his early life and ripper
manh5od, he had not been surrounded, as
! Andrew jackson had been by the producing
classes, by the laboringmen and the farmers,
that he might sympathlze with them, Mr..
Cleveland was reared IN the city his Office was
in the Mills building, NewY York, the very center
| In the United States. of European influence. He
| sympathised with his surroundings, and his
surroundings were unfortunate for the
| American people. Mr. Cleveland's organs,
| said Mr.. Stewart, constantly praised him for
the use OF federal patronage to secure the de-
| struction Of all legislation that pointed 10
| silver.
Mr.. Stewart said there were several other
branches OF the subject OF which he would
treat hereafter Caughter), but that. ,he would
now close for the present. As matter of
fact Mr.. Stewart has In his desk six more
speeches., which Will consume at least two
days each, and he is ready, whenever the
''lutl' about which Mr.. Voorhces spoke the
other day comes, to jump itto the breech. Dur
| ingthe day the roll was called several times.
Friday, Sept. 8th.
sENATE.-At IL :45 the repeal bill was taken
up and Mr.. Faulkner democrat, West Vir-
ginlR) addressed the Senate. Mr.. Faulkner
announced his Intention to vote for the re-
| peal bill, sut In doing 20 expressed his belief
| In silver ns money metal and declared his
intentlon OF bringing In an amendment to
the present bill providing for the tonnage OF
81, 900 900 of silver per month until there
was $500, 900, 900 coined.
Mr., Tnrpc democrat, Indiana) said the
Issue here was not whether the United States
should further coin and use silver as money,
but the question was whether the purchase
OF silver for coinage purposes should be con-
tinued. The act Of purchase itself was a dis
elimination against silver, and was Il vice in
| the scheme. 1t placed upon silver the brand
Of bondage. 1t was unsound, dishonest
money, degraded by law.
| Mr.. Jones Democrat, Arkansas) said he
did not believe the present condition of the
country was brought about by the Sherman
act On the contrary, the limited coinage OF
| silver had acted as measure OF relief In the
financial strlngcncy. That the strlngency
was caused by the wealthy few, and it re-
manned to be seen whether the representa-
tives of &c, 1000, ,O00 free people would submit
: to their insplent domination.
1t was now $3.50 O'Clock and Mr.. VOORHEES,
said he would not ask an unreasonable session
|
adjourn II there were no senator's who de-
sired to speak, he would have to ask a vote.
Mr.. iiale OF Mains urged Mr.. Voorhees, to
| press the matter to n vote ns soon as possible.
1t was apparent Senator Voorhees, had not
received the remarks of Mr.. Hale in good
feeling. He rose and, In thunderous tones,
| said:
| 1.-The zeal OF the senator from Maine for
| the repeal OF the Sherman act and his desire
to assist the senator from Indiana is deeply
appreciated. 1t would be more so, however,
II In these six weeks he had been in his scat
more than one week. / desire 10 say to him
and TO all concerned that the senator from
Indiana expects to discharge his duty as he
secs It, and not according to the desires OF the
senator from Maine"
The colloquy between the two continued
| several minutes.
Senator Dubois (Rcpublican, 1daho) said
that Mr.. Hale did not represent all the Re-
pub!icans. 1t seemed difficult for Mr.. Hale
to realize the fact that the Republicans had
lost control of the Senate.
The Senate then adjourned after Mr.. Teller
had announced that he would speak to-mor-
| row.
Saturday, Sept. 9th.
sENATE.-Scveral changes in committee as
| signmcnts were made. Mr.. PeiIer's resolu-
tion to investigate the New York banks was
| taken up and discussed by Mr.. PETER. No
action WAS taken upon II and the repeal conn.,
ing up Mr.. Teller addressed the Senate upon it,
| Mr.. Teller complained of the attempts of the
| Eastern press to intimidate Western Senators
and shut of debate. Silver senators we're asked
| not to vote because their constituents were H.
terested in silver, but he had never heard a
| senator from q manufacturing state refuse to
vote on the tariff question. Referring to the
published statement that the President had
| sent congratulations to Mr.. Wilson on the
passage through the House Of the repeal bill
Mr.. Teller declared It impossible that Mr..
Cleveland had been guilty Of SO gross a breach
Of public dignity. Mr. Teller said he repeated
| the challenge made In q recent speech for
anybody to show that the Sherman law was
responsible in any degree for the present con-
dtion or the conditions which existed when
| Congress assembled. The act, said the senior
senator from Colorado, had been made the
scapegoat. No senator had declared that, in
his judgment, the present deplorable condf-
| tlon was caused by the Sherman act. 1t was
pusillanimous to yield to public clamor, got
| ten up by the interested parties, and repeal
An act that senators admitted had nothing to
do with bringing about the condition.
The prosperity OF the country during 1890,
1891 and 1892 and until a recent time, was
an absolute refutatioE of the charge that the
act had brought disaster to business enterprise
in this country. The present distress was not
confined to the United States. 1t has been
felt in Great Britain, Germany and other
countries. Before Mr.. Teller had concluded
the Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-A joint resolution providing for
the erection of n storage building for the use
of the Senate, at a cost of $500, was passed;
but here business, by unanimous consent, was
stopped, cutting off resolution by Mr..
Mieklejohn of Nebraska, calling for informa-
tion as to the administration of the pension
law Of 1880 and the recent suspension order
of Commissioner Lochren.
Mr.. Paynter of Kentucky made report per-
mitting Representative Belkuap of the Fifth
Michigan district to make contest for the
seat held by Mr.. Richardson and giving him
sixty days In which to take testimony.
The House then adjourned until Monday to
await the rcpurt of the committee on account.
assigning clerks to committees. Until provis-
Ion for clerks is made, the committees of the
House arc unable to proceed with their work.
Mr.. Vest says that he will not vote for re-
peal but that he will not flibuster against
the bill
The first thing that the Democrats In the
House will do, will be to pass q bill repeating