Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-23
IN CONGRESS TODAY.
Still Another Installment of Last
Tuesday in the Senate.
SENATOR JONES CONTINUES Ills SPEECH
The Printing Bill is Passed by the
House.
OTHER BUSINESS TRANSACTED

The sixth portion Of the still indefinite
number Of portions to which the legislative
day Of last Tuesday is to be divided up
opened at 10 this morning, but it was not
till twenty minutes passed that Senators
numerous enough to constitute a quorum
(40 made their appearance. Republicans
were more prompt than democrats. Mr..
Davis Cdtnn.) was the last man to answer.
AS soon as he had done SO the Vice Presi-
dent laid before the Senate the silver pur-
chase repeal act.
A Pan-American Monetary Congress.
Mr.. Stewart Nev) gave notice Of an
amendment which he intended to offer pro-
posing conference to be held at WASH
ington within nine months between dele
gates of the United States, Mexico, Central
and South America, Hayti and San Do
mtngo for the adoption Of a common silver
coin to be legal tender in all commercial
transactions between the citizens of the
countries represented in the conference.
The House joint resolution for printing
OF 1000 copies of the hearings before the
committee on ways and means was agreed
to. with an amendment making the number
Senate.
Mr.. Jones Continues His Speech.
Mr.. Jones Clev) took the floor and con-
tinued his speech against the bill, taking
1t up at the point where he left OF on Sat-
urday. He said that he had been trying
to demonstrate that the standard money
Of country could not be gold. could not
be silver and could not be any material
thing; that the standard Of a country must
be quantity; that the value of each unit
depended on the number of units out, and
that there never could be any but a single
standard in any country-and that an un-
nrtf Ia -l-
that proposition in contradiction of what
he called the lad" Of leading Senators
and leading newspapers. that what was
wanted was not quantity Of money, but
quality.
After celebrating this subject, Mr.. Jones
took up the question whether the United
States should follow the example of Great
britain, because some people asserted that
II the United States did not follow the ex-
ample of Great Britain. 1t would have to
lay itself down alongside Of Asia, Of the
East Indies, and of Mexico. He spoke of
the creditor classes Of Great Britain. and
how through the fnstrumentality Of the
standard they had reduced their artisan
classes to helpless and pitiable condition
and had to seek profitable Investment for
their capital In the United States. II those
creditor classes Of England could have
their way now. Mr. Jones said. in debating
ana Shaping the national policies Of this
republic. the sufferings and heroism Of its
founders would have been in vain. There
was no need for Great Britain to try to
repossess this country when she could se-
cure an the tribute she wished by voluntary
msh law. and by the CONSEQUENT comniete
geNopettzation Of silver. What more could
SreAt Britain have or wish to have than
the right to tax the labor Of this country?
$SO.0oOOW year in interest and other Sc-
counts from India, and more than twice
as much from the United States. II the
pending measure became a law. the United
md
pal dependency Of Great Britain Mr. Jones
referred to the order Of the British govern
ment last summer closing the mints of In
dia to silver, and to the announcement nv
the New York papers that that was "tbe
doom OF silver" Where, he asked, was the
United States government then? The no
sition OF its chief magistrate on that aues-
ton was well illustrated by the line from
Emerson, Il am the doubter and the doubt"
but in the words of the supplement tai line
the genius of the republic admonished the
rresiden1 as well as Great Britain. They
reckon III who leave ME out" The people
Of the United States did not propose to be
left out of the consideration as to what
the material Of their money should be- The
United states was not yet a dependency
OF Great Britain, nor was the President .
governor general The virile and masculine
people OF this country proposed to regulate
their own affairs without orders in council
or orders from Downing street.
For the first time in American national
history plans were being put into execu-
tion, through officers elected by the people
of the United States. IL not Formulated
were heartily approved at the horse euar5s
and In Downing street That showed that
time has its revenges."
Attracted Very Little Attention.
The section Of the speech that was de-
livered by Mr. Jones today attracted very
little attention In the Senate chamber. in
contradistinction to that which had been
given to the first three sections of 1t. This
was owing partly to the fact that he con-
fined himself closely to his typewritten
sheets and was not interrupted by cues
lions, and partly to the fact that Senator's
were thinking more of the pending comnro-
mise and Of the effect upon 1t of the pros.
iuent opposition than they We're think
ing OF any arguments for or against the
pending bill. '''e
After he had been speaking two hours and
half Mr.. Jones pleaded that he was .iraS
and said that he would like to continu. his
speech at some other time. No objections
were made. and after call Of the Senate.
10 Wnlch forty-Seven Senators responded
Mr. Teller (Col) took the floor and ,,ro
ceeded with an argument against the bin.
which he had begun some time ago.
Money the Result of Positive Law.
He laid 1t down as a sound economic prin.
ciple, supported by all the modern writers
on political economy. as well as by the ex-
perience of the wSrld, that all the money
in the world was the result of positive law
and that there was no such thing as
natural money. and never had been. He in
sisted that the relation between the two
metals-gold and silver-was one of abso-
lutte law and that there was no such thing
Ia any part of the world (and never had
been, as a commercial value of gold and sill
yer, except as 1t grew out of statutory
enactment. He did not mean to say that in
every country where such a relation ey.
listed there had been positive legal enact
ment to establish it, but he did mean to
say that the relation existed because of the
fact that somewhere in the world there
had been such relation established by law
and which had been accepted in other coun-
tries as the true relation between the two
metals.
THE HOUSE.
In the morning hour the House resolution
nroYidipg for the disnosal of