The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-12
THE SILVER MEYS TACTICS
Determined and Unlllcrdble Purpose
Of Repeal Opponents.

Xhey Will SlaAOs AtNo- A4AA~ 10 4A-
Pugh. Until Physical Strength is
Exhausted. and the Power of Speech
is Left 90 No Senator Two Hours
and Half Speech By the Alabama
senator-Mr. Teller Then Adds An
Installmeut to His Yet-Unanished
Remarks Mr.. Stewart Offers a Res
olution Which Brings Senator Hill
TO His Feet in Somewhat Indignant
Vein.
Washington, Sept. lin the Senate
MIR. Stewart of Nevada offered resolu-
ton for inquiry into the fact of senator's
being stockholders in national banks.
The senior senator from New York
broke of to-day from his imputedalliance
with the extreme wing Of the silver
senators.
Mr.. Hill opposed the resolution, in a
strong speech. as being unnecessary and
Unprecedented, and a gross reflection on
the Senate. The resolution went over un-
til tomorrow. when it will come up in the
regular morning business.
SILVER MEN TACTICS DISCLOSED.
The bill for the repeal of the purchas-
ing clause Of the Sherman law was taken
up. and Mr.. Pugh, minority member Of
the finance committee, made two and
half hour speech against it, declaring al
the close that itNvas the determined and
unalterable purpose Of the opponents
of repeal. to oppose it until their physical
strength was exhausted and their power
of speech gone.
The remainder Of the session was oc-
cupied in a continuation Of Mr.. Teller's
speech against the bill. He did not con-
ciude, but said he would take up another
phase of the question on some other day
not tomorrow.
MR.. PETER RISES TO EXPLAIN.
When the Senate proceedings opened
there We're Just ten democratic members
present including Mr. voorhees, lin the
chair, while on the republican side Of the
chamber there were 10 IN their seats.
In presenting some petitions in favor of
the free coinage of silver, Mr. PETER said
he noticed that there was a general i'm
preston in the newspaper press Of the
country that when a senator or represen-
tative introduced a bill by request, he
was held personally responsible for its
contents His attention had been called
TO that fact recently by a criticism of
himself. which he found in the newspa-
pers, because he introduced last week, at
the request Of the author, bill proposing
the establishment of a university in the
District of Columbia. He did not think
such criticisms fair
Mr.. STEWARDS WATER MINE.
When Mr. Stewart introduced his reso-
buttons for the appointment of a commit
tee of five senator's to inquire whether
any senator is or has been a stOckholder.
inf Tod in,
national bank, he said he was led to Of
fer it because the Wall street and LON
bard street organs had been claiming
that senators from the silver states
should not vote on questions in which
they were personally interested. At the
same time he disClaimed having any per-
sonal interest in silver INNINGS; nor had
he, he said for the last fifteen years.
His wife had some years ago invested
some money in an abandoned silver mine
in Mexico; but that mine, after having
had the water pumped out a year ago
was again closed on account of the low
prices of silver and would
never be opened again if
tn repeal bill became law.
MR.. HILL IN OPPOSITION.
Mr.. Hill opposed the resolution, assum-
ing il to be Unprecedented and unheard Of
and which would not serve any good pur-
poses. He admitted that it had its excuse
in the suggestions made that senators
from the silver states were actuated in
their course by reason of their own finan-
cial or industrial interest. What prere-
dent, " he asked, would be established
by the adoption of the resolution When
the Senate came to consider the tariff
question, was it to have an investigating
committee to inquire what senators We're
interested in manufactures or importing?
When the Senate came 10 legislate on
commercial matters was it TO inquire
what senators were pecuniarily interested
In the great question of commerce."
REFLECTION on THE SENATE.
Senators had a right to be interested
(ooth directly and indirectly in matters
of finance and their votes coz not he
affected thereby. He could not resist the
conclusion that the offering of the resolu-
ton was to some extent a reflection on
the Senate. He had sustained the other
day the senator from Nevada, in Offering
a resolution calling for information as to
the finances of the country. He had
thought that the resolution ought not to
be referred to the finance committee.
But this resolution was entirely different.
It she aid be either voted down or referred
70 the finance committee.
REPEAL DEBATE RESUMED.
Wnen the silver Dill came up at |
O'Clock p m, the floor belonged to Mr..
Teller, but he offered to yield it TO Mr..
Pugh. The latter embraced the oppor-
tunity and addressed the Senate in oppo-
sition TO the bill. He had read and re-
read he said, the message Of the Presi-
don't converting congress, and found it to
be an explicit declaration in favor
OF the maintenance of the
gold standard in the currency of the
United States until changed to bimetal-
ism by international agreement; and that
would afford the only remedy that could
mitigate present danger threatening the
future. II was the first time that con
gress had been convened in extraordinary
session for the sole purpose of repeating
any law, and that law was one which no
senator stated or believed TO be the cause
of the existing financial arrangement.
What necessity was there, he asked, for
the extraordinary session, or for the
pressure and Clamor for immediate ac-
ton. which would be a mockery and an
insult TO the common sense and ordinary
intelligence of people.
NEGATIVE VIEW OF THE MESSAGE.
There was not a word or sentence in the
message expressing any favor or friend
ship for bimetallism. or that condemned
the addition of one more silver dollar TO
the currency. The message clearly
meant that the government discharged its
duty in furnishing a sufficient amount of
currency but had failed i'm tba ruaIitv