Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-04
STILL TALKING.
Senate and House Neck-and-
Neck for Honors
IN THE ORATORICAL WIND-BURsT.

Dolph in the Senate Continues His Speech
on the Silver Repeal BiII-In the House
Several Representatives Take "Shy'
at the Federal Election BllI-1aIk of Il
Compromise silver Measure-Report on
Public Lands-Exports of silver Bullion.
WASHINGTON, Oct 4-When the fall of
the vice presidents gavel announced the
senate TO have met there were only few
Republicans in the chamber, and not a
Democrat visible. The lack of a quorum
was called to the attention of the chair,
and after II delay of fifteen minutes quo
rum was obtained and the business of
the day begun. The vice president laid be-
fore the senate communication from the
secretary of the treasury giving de
tailed statement of the exports of silver
for the months of July and August. Du
bois of Idaho introduced bill enabling
the states of California, Colorado, Mon
tana and Idaho to support state schools
of mines. Morgan of Alabama offered an
amendment to the Wilson repeal bill, de
claring the act of Jan Is, 1884, to be in
force.
White Makes the Amende Honorable.
White of California said he had ex-
amined carefully the Bankers Magazine
of August, 1914, and had found the state
ments made by Sherman Monday concern
ing certain article in that magazine to be
correct, and that his quotation from the
publication was erroneous. White also
read from the Congressional Record to
show the statement as it had been given
was made Us early rs 1878. Dolph of Ore
gon then took the floor and continued his
speech, begun Monday. in support of the
silver repeal bill. Dolph quoted from the
message of President Cleveland of 1855
urging the discontinuauce of the purchase
and the coinage of silver under the
Bland-Allison act He characterized this
as a stronger argument against the use of
silver than he was able to Offer and he
said he read u for the purpose of showing
that Democrats who advocated the reten-
ton OF the Sherman act are not in accord
with their party leaders. He declared that
the success o. the Democratic party with
such a candidate and such platform was
abundant evidence OF the fact that the
American people did not desire TO continue
the coinage of silver under existing condi-
tion-
Teller interrupted Dolph to ask him
what chance he thought there was of Sc
curing any recognition of silver under the
administration of n president who holds
the views expressed by Mr.. Cleveland.
To this Dolph replied that he did not ex-
pect there would be any legislation con-
corning silver under the present admins
tration while the conditions remain as
at present. He did not know of a single
utterance of Mr.. Cleveland that he had
changed his position in opposition to the
further purchase and coinage of silver
dollars. He did not expect to secure any
legislation without international agree.
ment. Dolph quoted the statement that
minorities are radical and majorities con
sentative, which he used as illustrating
the naturalness of the change of the Dem
ocratic 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 a majority ii
had necessarily become conservative OIL
this subject
Teller Asks Another Question.
Teller asked Dolph if he had any reason
to suppose that the president had taken
any steps looking TO secure the co-opera
ton of other nations in the interest of sill
yer. Dolph replied that he was not &C
quainted with the plans of the admins
tration, but had no reason to suppose that
the president was not now, as formerly
friendly to the project for an internationa
agreement. He could not doubt Cleve
lands good faith when he states that h,
desires such an arrangement. Many be
lieve that the repeal of the Sherman ac
would hasten an agreement with othe
nations and it was possible that Cleve
land might entertain this idea.
THE HOUSE STILL TALKING.