St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-15
SENATORS ARE SILENT
On the Proposed Administra.
tion Silver Compromise. y
Il
ANOTHER DAY OF SPEECHES
Jones Talks for Hours Against
the Bill.
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SENATOR VOORHEES, DECLARES
That the Repealers "Have
Only Begun to Fight"
SENATOR VOORHEES, DECLARES
CHANCES OF RULES PROPOSED.


WASHINGTON, Oct, 14.-The session
of the senate today lasted for only sin
hours. 1t was a session of much intets
est. 1t opened with personal explanaf
tion from Morgan Dem., Ala) in reply
to newspaper structures on him for his
supposed hostility to the unconditional
repeal of the Sherman act. He denied
having ever intimated that he would
vote against unconditional repeal, but
said that he would vote against condp
tional repeal. as proposed in the Voor+
hees substitute, which he characterized
as very ridiculous, very injurious and
very cowardly."
Various important amendments TO the
rules were offered, and went over tilt
Monday. They propose to forbid read
Ing by senators of speeches, either
written or printed; to permit the count
ing of senators present and not voting5
to disqualify senators interested in ma
tional banks or national bank stocks
from voting on any bill affecting coin-
age or currency; to provide for closingi
debate on any bill or resolution by thei
same arrangement as is now in opera
tion in the house Of representatives.
The silver purchase repeal bill wasi
taken up, and it was ascertained M
some preliminary roll calls that therei
were seventy-two senators present. or
only eleven less than the whole number.5
IL was, perhaps, that fact which stimu-
lated Voorhees, to declare at the close Of
the days session, after
REMARKABLE SPEECH =,
against the bill by Jones, of Nevada,
that, in the language of John PAUL.
Jones, the friends of the bill ''had only
begun to fight" Preliminary to thei
opening of the session 1.-THE silver
senators" had the chamber to them
selves exclusively. Morgan had re-
gained possession of his own desk, which,
had been for two days past usurped by
Stewart. 1t was noticeable that Morgan
was at one time in earnest conversation
with Kyle and Allen, who had come to-
consult him on some subject, at another
time with Dubois and Teller. and Still
later with PETER. During the time oc4-
cupied by the reading of the journal the
seats on both sides of the chamber we're
generally filled up, although twelve sem
atOrs only listened to the chaplain's
prayer. A resolution offered by
Dolph yesterday, referring to the
ommittee on privileges and elections 4
the question whether absent senators
may be compelled to attend, was pre-
sented, and agreed to. The silver-puE-
chase repeal bill was taken up at 11:45,
and the vice president set about disen-;
tangling the parliamentary twist intsl
which the senate had got itself last
night over the question whether Dubois
should be excused from voting on the
question of allowing PETER to have a
document read at the clerks desk. By
vote of 90 to 81 the senate refused to
excuse Dubois. The name of the Idaho
senator was then called. Dubois re-.
manned in his seat silent. There was a
roll cali because of the like stage of pro-
ceedings last night.
mo QUORUM !
had voted. and no less than seventy-two
responded, twenty-nne more than a
quorum, and by far the largest number
that has appeared on roll calls during
the session. Then, after some more
parliamentary pitfalls. from which the
vice president skilIfuily extricated him.
self, the question was put whether the
documents should be read from the
clerks desk Gt being memorial of ma
tional convention of the representatives
of commercial bodies of the United
States), and it was decided in the af-
firmative-yeas 30, nays so. The docu-
ment was accordingly read as part Of
Paffar,c thap uiaIdad
floor to Jones, of Nevada, who addressed
the senate in opposition to the bill. He
said that he proposed to be candid
about the question. The pending
bill was not merely the repeating
of the Sherman law, with view of pro-
viding substitute for it. If that were.
the intention, no reason could be
shown why it should not be embodied in
the repeal bill. IL was a yelled attempt
to impose the gold standard upon the
people of the United States. The very,
vehemence of the denial was of itself
suspicious; "the lady doth protest too
much, methiDks."
By the passage of this bill you 90 alb
solutely to the gold standard, and rather
than have gold standard at the ex-
pSuSc vi JuStlCc. give ulc Stdludru Oh
justice at the expense of gold.
Jones began his speech shortly before
1 o'clock. For the first two hours he
confined himself to the typewriter
sheets on his desk, aud which he took
up page by page and read. His manner
in presenting facts, and his high repu-
tation for thorough knowledge of the
subject which he was discussing, OBJ
tanned for him a degree of attention
that had not been accorded to any other
speaker since Voorhees, made his OPEN
ing argument for the bill. There were
between sixty and seventy senators,
about equally divided between both
sides,
IN THEIR SEATS,
all of them with their chairs wheeled
around so as to face the speaker, and
when after two hours reading he aban-
doned his prepared speech in order to
meet objections and arguments and to
answer the questions which were pnt to
him from both sides, the scene became
quite dramatic and the interest intensi-
fed. The chamber was crowded. There
was line of listeners. including many
members of congress, standing all
around the south wall. After about an
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