St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-04
CALL The DOG OFF,.
Senator'S Indulge in a Little
Play on the Floor.
SENATOR PALMER rs JOLLY,
And Relates the Story Of the
Boy and the Dog.
TWAS A G0OD-HUM0RED CROWD,
And Much Laughter Greeted
Each Sally Of Wit,
TWAS A G0OD-HUM0RED CROWD,
BUT NO VOTE WAS TAKEN.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-Whe the fall
of the vice presidents gavel announced
there were only few Republicans in
the chamber, not a Democrat being WIS.,
able. The lack of quorom was called
to the attention of the chair, and after
delay of fifteen minutes quorum was
obtained, and the regular business Of
the day was begun. The vice president
laid before the senate a communication
from the secretary of the treasury Civ
ing detailed statement of the export
of silver for the months of July and Au-
gust. Mr.. Dubois introduced q bill en-
abling the states of California, Colorado,
Montana and Idaho TO support state
schools of mines. Mr.. Morgan. of Ala
house bill No. l, the Wilson repeal
bill, declaring the act of Jan. 10, 1887, to
be in force. The bill to repeal the
Sherman act was then laid before the
senate, and Mr.. White, Of California,
said he had examined carefully the
Bankers Magazine of August, 1878. and
found the statements made by Mr..
Sherman yesterday concerning certain
article in that magazine to be correct,
and that his Quotation from the publ
cation was erroneous. Mr.. White also
read from the Congressional Record to
show that the statement as he had
given it was made as early as 1878.
Senator Dolph took the floor and con-
tlnued his speech begun yesterday in
support of the repeal bill. He quoted
from the message of President Cleye-
land, of 1885, urging the discontinuance
of the purchase and coinage OF silver
under the Bland act. Mr.. Dolph char
acterized this as stronger argument
against the use of silver than he was
able TO offer, and said he read it for the
purpose of showing that Democrats who
advocated the retention of the Sherman
act are not in accord with their party
leaders. He declared that the success
of the Democratic party with such
candidate and such a platform was
abundant evidence of the fact that the
American people did not desire to con-
tinue the coinage of silver under the
existing conditions. Mr.. Teller inter-
rupted Mr.. Dolph to ask him what
chance he thought there was of secar-
ing any recognition of silver under the
administration of a president who holds
the views expressed by Mr.. Cleveland.
To this Mr.. Dolph replied that he did
not expect there would be any legisla-
tion concerning silver under the pres
ent administration, while the condi-
tions remain as at present. He aid not
know of single utterance of MI. Cleye-
land to show that he had changed his
position in opposition to the further
purchase and coinage of silver dollars.
He did not expect to secure any legisla-
ton without international agreement.
Mr.. Dolph quoted the statement that
minorities are radical and majOrities
conservative, which he used as illustrat-
ing the natural cause of the change of
the Democratic party since it had come
into power. When the Democratic party
was IN the minority it could afford to
favor free coinage, but now that it had
made majority it had necessarily be-
come conservative on this subject.
Mr.. Teller asked Mr.. Dolph if he had
any reason to suppose that the presi-
dent had taken any steps looking
to secure the cooperation of other ma
tionS in the interest of silver. Mr.. Dolph
replied that he was not acquainted with
the plans OF the administration, but had
rn m hot I,O
was not now. as formerly. friendly to
the project for an international agree
ment. He could not doubt Mr.. Cleve-
lands good faith when he states tnat he
desires such an arrangement. Many
believe the repeal of the Sherman act
would hasten an agreement with other
nations, and it was possible that Mr.
Cleveland might entertain this idea,
MIR. Palmer took the same view, and.
while disclatming any authority to rep
resent the president, he had no doubt
that the president regarded it as essen
tial that the United States should deter
mine its own policy with reference to
silver before inviting other nations to
confer upon the matter.
The Brussels monetary conference
was brought into the discussion, aud
Mr.. Allison (Rep., 1o.), who was one of
the delegates to that conference, said
that while nearly all the delegates IA
vored the utilization of gold and silver
they were not ready to adopt the coin
age of silver in their own countries. He
denied that the conference adjourned
without action. 1t was adjourned for
the reasons which he had stated in his
remarks some days since, and European
countries now expected that the con-
ference would reconvene.
Mr.. Allison said that the conference
had been postponed from the 3Oth of
May until November for reasons which
he did not understand. Instead of Euro
pean governments not being interested
in the question, there was not a Euro
pean government which was not watch
ing every step, every movement, taken
in this country.
Those countries were hoping that this
governmentwouldg get them out of their
dilemma, by this country losing its gold
and taking the whole burden of silver
upou itself.
Mr.. Power (Rep., Mont.) then ad-
dressed the senate in opposition to the
bill. He said the tenet of the silver
faith to which its advocates hung was
free coinage al the ratio of 16 to l." or
or at least such legislation on that basis
as would restore silver to its former
place with gold as the money Of the con-