Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-05
MUCH TALK FOR SILVER
Three Speeches In the Senate
 For the White Metal.
STRONG PLEAS FOR A COMPROMISE.
Messrs. Butler, Blackburn and Call Strong Iy Advocate BImetRIIisn-Mr. Compton Argued For Repeal of the Federal Flee ton LAw-CarIIsIe's Policy Explained.

Argued For Repeal of the Federal Flee
 tion Law-CarIIsIe's Policy Explained.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-Two of the most Iloquent and exciting speeches that have been made in the senate chamber since the debate on the silver purchase repeal bill began were delivered by Democratic south ern senators-Messrs. Butler of South Carolina and Blackburn of Kentucky. Each speech lasted about two hours, and each speaker had large and sympathetic audiences, both on the floor and in the gal leries. They were both against the repeal bill and in favor of such . compromise as would result in the permanent establish nent of bimetallism. Mir. Butler referred to the rumors connecting President Cleve- land with attempts to influence legislation and proclaimed his belief that there was no truth in them. As to the suggestion that the minority was trying to coerce the majority, he asserted that it was neither coercing nor would it bc coerced.
 Mir. Butler said in part: You may strike down habeas corpus, you may destroy the bill of rights, you may abolish trial by jury and other monuments of American liberty, and n people accustomed to free dom will get along somehow and after some fashion; but if you place the people of this or any other country at the mercy of q privileged money class, you had better take the hot winds of the desert and let them sweep over that country, for destruc- tion will follow as surely as the day follows the night. England has destroyed the peo- pie of Ireland in that way. Russia has de stroyed the people of Poland. Turkey has destroyed the people of the Danubian prov inces, and the same power will destroy the mass of the American people if that power Is not sought out, dethruned and destroyed.
 Approaching NapoleonIo Condition.
 "I have no sympathies with domestic views or with anarchism. l believe in the rights of person and property. But, Mir President, when you give Gontrol-such as has been exercised to bring on this panic to any set of people, you approach the con, ditions brought about in France by Ma poleon III, who established under the rule of universal suffrage the direst despotisn of modern times
 Mir. Black burn made ;tn appeal for speedy action on compromiSeA measure and said that he would offer one himself today. He declared emphatically that he would have no part in deferring or delaying settle meut of the question. He appealed tC Democratic senators to disprove the insin uation that the Democracy was unable tC govern the country.
 \ quotation by Mir. Black burn from tn, platform of the Republican party adopted at Minneapolis led Mir. Washburn to state it as his judgment that the adoption o free coinage of silver would lead to mono metallism.
 ''Does the senator from Minnesota" Mir Black burn asked, feel that he is making good the pledge which his party gave to tn, American people by voting for bill whict demonetizes silver and strikes it from tn, list of money metals of the country?'
 MT. washburn's Opinion.
 II believe" was Mir. Washburn' $ reply that the repeal of the sherman act will b the taking of the first step toward genuine bimetallism. Until that thing is done dt not believe that there es1 be genuine bi metallism."
 "The senator !Hfom Minnesota will permi me, ," said Mir. Blackburn, ito suggest tha the proposition, as he states it, would b the employment of the most heroic meth ods ever known. It is to decapitate the pa tient before you begin to build up his sys tenn. It is to cut off the head of silver alto gether. Does the senator mean that afte we have slain silver we will be graciou enough not to bury it. and trust to the in terposition of the Almighty to bring abOu Il resurrection:'
 The third speech of the day, also mad by southern Democratic senator-MI ! Call of Florida-was in opposition to repeal
 In the house Mir. Compton of Marylan made n strong constitutional argumen against the federal election laws but h was listened to by mere handful of repre- sentatives MT. Lane of Illinois receive little more attention when he spoke in tn same line. Mir. Sweet of Idaho criticisc President Cleveland, and Mir. Slurray c South Carolina, the colored member of tn house, did not break the monotony of tn prOCecdingSwhe be opposed tho passag of the repem bill