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which recognized gold as the finer metal
and necessarily the standard OF value.

which recognized gold as the finer metal
and necessarily the standard OF value.
DEMosETIzATIoS OF SILVER.
At the close OF Mr.. Hoar's speech dis:
cussion started as to the old question OF
responsibility for the decentralization OF
silver and was carried on for some time by
Messrs. Stewart. Cockrell, Aldrich, Hoar.
and Sherman.
Finally. at $40 o'clock. after brief ex-
ecutiye session, the Senate adjourned un-
til tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
The debate in the House to-day was not
especially important. Ii merely gave an
opportunity for four members to give ex-
preston TO their views.
The most interesting speech. because III
was really the first Republican protest
against free coinage, was delivered by Mr..
Grosvenor of Ohio, and it lacked neither
sarcasm nor satire.
Mr.. Snodgrass, q Democrat. from Ten
nessee, made bitter assault on his col
league, MIR. Patterson. on account OF the
position taken by that gentleman against
free coinage.
After prayer and the reading and ap-
provai of the journal (before a small at
tendance of mcmbers), Mr.. Burrows Of
fered p resolution giving Charles T.. Belkc
nap the right to contest the seat OF
George +. Richardson, from the Fifth Dis
trict Of Michigan.
Mr.. Richardson, the sitting member.
asked.t that the resolution be LAID over un-
til to-rorrow, and it was so ordered.
SILVER AGAIN.
The silver debate was then resumed. Mr..
Hutcneson (Te1as) concluding his remarks
begun yesterday in favor Of the free
coinage of silver. He attributed the pres
ent business depression to the bulls and
bears of Wall street. Tho real controversy
was not gold against silver, but it was
money against credit. Dollars could not
be obtained for industrial enterprises be;
cause the dollars were piled up in Wall
street.
Mr.. Blanchard. In speaking in favor of
free coinage. reviewed the silver legisa-
ton OF the country, quoted from both the
Democratic and the Republican,plattorm
and expressed his opinion that II the Re-
publican platform meant anything not
twenty Republicans would vote for the
Wilson bill. The Chicago platform had
declared for repeal of the Sherman law and
had then declared for bimetallism. That
portion of the platform ought to be
on bimetalllc standard. If the
friends of silver yielded TO this
demand of the gold people, they yielded
that which nothing but revolution could
regain. II the purpose of the gold people
were achieved, the mints would be stopped
TO the coinage of silver, and no method
was proposed TO replace silver with other
currency. The United States had reached
such point in wealth, prosperity. and
industry that it could afford to lead and
not follow. LApplause.l This country
had declared its political liberty in the
days OF 177G. Could it not now proclaim its
financial liberty? He who would be free
himself must strike the blow" Jap
plause.
ALLEGED PRESIDENTIAL PARTTsANsHIP.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Republican), of Ohio.
said that 1t was TO be regretted that the
President in his message to Congress had
not been so void of partlsanship as ne had
asked the House TO be. IL was unfortu-
nate that the Executive of the country.
looking forward to the condition which
portended violent opposition to his views,
had seen tit to first appeal 10 partisanship
and to unJustly proclaim TO the people that
the present peril of the country grew out
of the legislation of tho Republican party.
If the pending debate should develop into
partisan dis ,usslon. its instigatlOn
would be found in the declarations of the
President himself. The President had de-
ciared that the Republicans were responst-
bic for the present condition OF affairs,
and this declaration would be the origin
of political discussion-if political discus
sion there should be.
Very little of the present trouble. he
said. could be traced TO the Sherman act.
Referring TO the sixteenth chapter of
Leviticus, he called attention TO the selec-
tion of a scapegoat, and said that the De-
mocratic party could not select the Nc
Kinley act as q scapegOat and 80 1t had de-
voted the lamb to~the Lord and sent the
silver bill into the wilderness. Laughter.
The difficulty in which the country now
found itself was attributable to the fact
that the people feared tinkerine with the
protective tariff by the Democratic party.
WARNING TO DEMOCRATS.
He warned the Democrats that they
must come together on this question. The
Republicans could be relied upon to do
their duty. This was their country, and
they could not afford to put it III a hole
Mr.. Hall IDemocrat), of Missouri, spoke
in favor of a greater volume of currency
and of the free coinage of silver. The
present financial condition put the people
of the United States absolutely at the
mercy of men dealing in large financial
transactions in the United States, or IN
any other nation with which they held
commercial relations.
AGAINST UNCONDITIONAL REPEAL.
Mr.. Snodgrass Democrat), of Tennes-
see, could not vote for the Wilson bill.
II affected but one sentence of the Sber-
man act and did not carry out the Inten-
tion of the Chicago platform. That con-
vention platform pledged the Democratic
party not only to repeal the entire inia-
nous act but to coin gold and silver at a
parity. The cry of the people was for
more money, and the best way to secure
that end was to provide for the free coin
age of silver.
The present fight was between the
debtor and creditor classes. The former
were numbered by the millions. the latter
by the thousands. The Shylocks were
demanding the pound of flesh while the
people were asking Congress for relief.
and the men who refused to grant this re-
lief would be branded as traitors TO the
people.
The House then. at O'Clock, adjourned
until Tomorrow