The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-06

.a11ss nc sa4us fotsIg IN TIE negative.
Sherman very well knew. said Stewart,
before his name Was reached in the calling
o. the roll thai the bill would pass By an
overwhelming majority. The history Of
the bill in the house or representatives
VAS Suggestive. After il Was developed
that the bail demonetized silver, Hooper
OF Massachusetts. in charge OF the bill,
affected 20 abandon il. Some days after
ward, in the absence OF Representative
Potter OF New York. who had dis
covered the fact that the bin
demonetixed silver, Hooper presented q
substitute for the bill. which he falsely
claimed contained none OF the objection
able features of the original biIi The sub
sttufe was passed under the erroneous
belief produced by Hooper's staten ens
that the substitute was devoid of the OBJ
iectionable provisions of the original bill.
Ihe substitute as it came from the house
contained in the sixteenth section a pro-
vision for dollar Of 3sa grains. Continu-
ing Stewart said Sherman at that time re-
ported the house substitute from the
finance committee with substitute for sec
tion i6. which contained trade dollar of
42o grains.
The Nevada senator here diverged from
bis written remarks to observe that he did
not make the point at this time, inasmucn
as he was speaking. but that he gave
notice that hereafter. when others were
speaking who could give facts and infor-
nation which were so much needed by the
senators who spend their time in the cloak
room, quorum of senators would be in
their seats when business is done during
the present session. Pugh tDem of Ala
bama now suddenly moved call of the
senate, as ii was manifest, he said. that
quorum was not present. The call de-
veioped the presence of fifty-six senator's,
and Stewart resumed his speech.
He said that notwithstanding all the
other amendments reported by the finance
committee to the house substitute were re-
corded In the Globe, no mention was made
OF the substitute for the sixteenth section.
Leading members of the two houses were
ignorant of the fact that the silver dollar
was omitted. The senate and the country
must judge, said Stewart, whether = fair
opportunity was aft ,rded members Of the
two houses to know OF the omission of the
silver dollar from the list of coins. No
reference was made in the debate in the
senate TO the omission of the silver dollar.
so much to secure the recommendation of
the gold standard by the Paris conference,
introduced in 1868 bill with harmless
title adopting the geld standard. claiming
the gold standard was an American idea,
and that he had charge of the mint bill
from beginning to end and failed to in
form the senate that it tdemonetized silver,
was most astonishing. The legislation
was not demanded by the people. and they
knew nothing of it. 1t remained pro-
found secret. so far as the masses of the
people were concerned. for more than two
years.
Coming 10 the recent election. Stewart
said the contest between the two great
parties was a sham battle over the tariff
and force bill to secure power TO be used
for another and very different purpose.
he had told the people, he said. that il
made no difference which party succeeded,
the result would be tho same. The power
and patronage of the administration would
be used to destroysiiver. Referring to the
Sherman act. Stewart said that notwith-
standing numerous violations of Ii by the
executive department il had added $780,
100000 of legal tender money to the cur
rency of the country. There was no evil
dence that the Sherman act had up TO this
time inflicted any injury upon the coun-
try. A bankers panic, he said, had been
inaugurated TO force congress to demone-
tize silver. The president in his message
failed to inform congress that the appre-
hended evils which produced the panic
existed only in the imagination of the
bond holders and their newspaper organs,
who had created the present distress for
their own selfish and sordid purposes.
There is an honest remedy, he said. for the
present condition, and that 10 to restore
silver Ii that cannot be done, utilize the
silver IN the treasury by issuing silver cer-
tihcates. A dishonest remedy to relieve
the distress is to pass a repeal bill and
ratify and sanctify the infamous act of
1873, thus fastening perpetual gold
standard upon the country. The creditor
class had already doubled the vaiue OF
gold. and By so doing had doubled the
obligations of debtors. This was revoiu-
tionary. Ii was dangerous for capital to
engage in revolution. and he appealed to
the senate today TO listen TO the voice of
the people and to turn a deaf ear 10 the
subsidized press and bankers petitions ex-
torted from their trembling debtors. IL
his country, said Stewart, to resist by
every parliamentary means the perpetra-
ton OF the great wrong which would be
done if the repeal bill were passed. The
great journals of New York say: Vote
FIRST, debate afterward." We notify them
now that the fort occupied by the defend
ers of the people will never be surren-
dered, said Stewart. The armies OF
svarice. fraud and deception must take IL
If they can.
tS:40 Stewart had exhausted his type
written manuscript. He said he did not
know whether he could finish his speech
tonight and went on: IF our friends will
for one session throw of Eag!ish infiu-
ence a change would result !"
Before the Nevada senator had finished
Morgan lDem.) of Alabama moved that
the senate go into executive session. The
yeas and nays we're called for. BY vote
OF thirty-five yeas TO twenty-eight
nays the motion was agreed 10, as
follows: Yeas-Aiiea. Bate. Berry, But
Ter. Call. Cockrell. Coke, Davis. Daniel,
polph. Dubois, Faulkner, Harris, Hun
TON. Irhy, Jones tArkansas). Jones Ne
yadal. Kyle, Mitchell toregonl Morgan,
Paseo. PETER, Perkins. Pettigrcw, Power.
pueh. Roach, Shoup. Stewart. Teller, Tur-
ME. Vance, Vest, Walthail and wolcott
ss. Nays-AIdricb. Allison, Brice,
Carey, CadTey, Cuilom. Dixon. Frye. Gall
Iinrer. German, Gray, Hale, Hawiey, Hoar,
Lindsay. Mcmillan, Mills, MePheFson,
Palmer, PIatt. Proctor. Quay, Squire.
stoekbridge. Smith. Villas. Voorhees, and
White fLouisianat-2S After short ex.
ecutsve session at AIS the senate ad-
iourned till tomorrow