Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-12
FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. August -, 1888,


HOUSE.
When the House convened this
morning at II o'clock there were not
more than 100 members in attendance
and the audience in the galleries was q
small one. The interest in the silver
debate seemed already to be on the
decline action and not discussion be.
ing generally desired.
On motion of Mr.. Richardson res.
olution was adopted for the printing of
10000 copies of the Presidents mes.
sage.
The silver debate was then resumed
Mr.. Wheeler being entitled to the floor
He continued his speech of yesterday
against repeal. The moment the Sher.
man act is repealed, he said, that mo.
ment there would not be line or a
word in the laws of our country recos.
nizing the coinage Of silver, and there
never would be during our lives or the
lives of our children.
Mr.. Wheeler was followed by Mr..
Morse. Mr.. Morse said that the coun.
try had come to two roads. Sound fl.
nance beckoned it on to national in.
tegrity and honor free silver beckon.
ed it on to financial ruin and distress.
He was heartily in favor of repeating
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act, but the remainder of that act, de-
claring parity between the two met.
ais, was fine craftsmanship and should
stand. So much of the Presidents
message as related to the currency met
with his most unqualified approval
So much of the message was good re.
publican doctrine. But while he
agreed with the President on this prop
osition, he could not believe with the
Chief Magistrate that the present ap,
palling business situation was due en-
tirely to the purchasing clause Of the
silver bill.
Mr.. Harter, (dem., 0hio,) who was
one of the leading anti-silver men in
the sd Congress took the floor in adyoc'
acy of the Wilson bill. twas, he said, a
patriotic question. If party gain was
to accrue by saving the country from
its present situation, he was willing
thlt the republican party might have
it all. He desired only to lift the
country out of the pit into which it had
fallen. He was able to say who was
responsible for the present situation,
but he did not think that in time like
this it was the part of patriot to call
up such a question. If he had come to
the Capitol this morning and found in
the gutter man in the last stage OF
alcoholism that man would have been
taken to hospital and his
treatment would have been agreed
upon by competent physicians.
But if that drunken man were taken 10
this House, there would have been
difference of opinion. The doctor from
Maryland (Mr. Rayner) would have
sad that further alcohol should be
kept from him; that he needed good
nursing and possibly need of the gold
cure. Naughter.) But the doctor from
Missouri (NIr. Bland) would look at
the case from another standpoint, and
would say that the man needed more
alcohol. Here was Uncle Sam in
condition in which he had never be-
fore appeared before.
Mr.. Harter was followed by Mr..
HENRIK (dem., n. W who advised
Congress to repeal the Sherman law, to
adjourn and go home.
A survey of the floor of the House
showed that large majority of mem
bers had taken advantage of the action
of yesterday, by which the House
is committed to two weeks con.
sideration of the silver question,
and fled to mountain or seashore
Only about 100 representatives were
in their seats, and the debate was with.
out any feature ofinterest. If the TEN
perature maintains for any length Of
time its present high figure, the attend
ance upon the House next week will
be even less than it was to-day, for
every one who is not directly interested
in the debate, or charged with its man
will endeavor to get away.
Those who have already spoken will
join those who do not care to speak,
and until the day fixed for beginning
the voting on the several propositions
included in the order adopted yester-
d ~, the House is likely to present "a
b,ggarly array Of empty benches"
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