New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-23
THEIR CAMPAIGN EDUCATION

senate, when asked if the senate would
adopt rule like that of the house for
| the restriction of debate on the currency
question, replied:
| ''Not at all, not at all. There is, no
haste in this matter. The people ought
to be educated. They never have been
educated. This is an opportunity to DO
so and we shall endeavor to educate
them. 1t is very great question, as to
which there is wonderful Ignorance. We
hope to be able to dispel some of that
! Ignorance. The senate will be in no
haste. Since you ask my views upon
the subject, venture to predict that we
shall be here a year from now and shall
be here all Of the time until then, and
when the 10 months period shall have
passed think you will find us talking
about silver. This is to be campaign
of education. The people must be in
structed.''
From the action of the Democratic
majority III the senate it is apparent that
they are bent on anything except prompt
action. Senator German, who is head Of
the Democratic steering committee, has
apparently entered upon we'll developed
policy of tilibustering. Senator Voorhees,,
chairman of the finance committee.
when asked if the cloture rule would he
adopted limiting the endless jargon Of
de,-ate, replied: 'It IS not probable nor
possible, and, for my part, shall oppose
such a proposition.' When Senators
Hoar and Lodge offered resolutions to
hasten action on the Sherman act III
harmony with the presidents instruc-
tions, they were severely criticised by
Senators German, Voorhees, and Vest, Of
the Democratic wing, who slgnihel that
the senate should take all the time for
debate, resolutions, committee work and
the introduction of bills, to which it
took a notion.
That the Democratic majority in the
senate is benton prolonged congression-
al campaign of education, is apparent
both from the miscellaneous and random
program Of debate on which it has ent-
cred, the light attendance, the failure to
enter upon the mission for which it was
called, and from the flood of heterogene-
ous bills which it is Introducing. On
Monday, the seventh day of the session,
the bills introduced reached? the total of
3l4. Most of these were introduced by
< Democratic members. On Monday alone,
as an example of the tactics of delay to
which the Democratic majority seem
committed, Butler of South Carolina, in
l PRODUCED 81 bills; Coke, of Louisiana,
: introduced s; Pasco, Of Florida intro
duccd 8; and Faulkner, of West Virginia.
. introduced IS; while altogether 81 bills
| were introduced on that one day. Be-
tween introducing bills and resolutions.
looking up patronage and visiting the
sea shore, and indulging in the en.lless
JarS"n OF debate, the senate is doing any
thing but follow the presidents instruc
tons regarding prompt action on the
Sherman act.
| The Democratic steering committee
appears to look upon it's campaign OF
education and its program of delay with
a great deal Of conplacency But the
practical marke, editor of the New York
Sun, in commenting on congress and the
cause of the dullncss of the stock mar
ket: takes the following caustic view:
''Probably the dawdling action of con-
gress has more to do with it than any,
thing else. The precious time wasted in
speeches by cowboys and fanatics on a
subject whose reasonableness is so clear
to the rest of the civilized world, is a
, source of irritation, constant and acute.
to the whole community. Heroics and
threats will not settle the silverquestion.
The pathway is clear enough and is easy
of access. The bankers and business men
of the country who are suffering in every
way under the fearful strain, find them
selves helpless, and are daily giving up
the fight, while some new boy orator
achieves reputation. This is the state
Of things in the house, while the 1istori
; cal courtesies Of the senate contain prom
lses OF a threshing of old straw which
may be still going or when the snow
flies
Congress may not know it, but the
past year Of campaign of education is all
the country now needs. We have had
a year Of calamity bowls from Wall street.
| and calamity hOwlS from Colorado Oro