The herald., 1893-09-06

to the house substitute were recorded in
the Globe, no mention was made of the
eubstitute for the sixteenth section. The
leading members of the two houses were
ignorant of the fact that the silver dol
lar was omitted. The senate and the
country must Judge whether fair op-
portunity was afforded the members Of
the two houses to know of the omission
of the silver dollar from the list of coins.
No reference was made in the debate in
the senate to the omission of the silver
dollar. He said the fact that Sherman,
who did 80 much to secure the recon-
mendation of a gold standard by the
Paris conference, introduced in 1868
bill with harmless title adopting q
gold standard, claiming that the gold
standard was an American idea. That
he had charge of the mint bill from be-
ginning to end, and failed to inform the
senate that 1t demonetized silver, was
most astounding. The legislation was
not demanded by the people; they knew
nothing of it. It remained q profouxd
secret, so far as the masses of the people
were concerned, for more than two
years.
POLITICAL SHAM BATTLE.
Coming to the recent elections, Stew
aSt said the contest between the two
great parties was sham battle over the
tariff and the force bill to secure power
to be used for another and very differ
purpose. He had told the people, he
said, that it made no difference which
party succeeded. The result would be
the same-the power and patronage OF
the administration would be used to de-
stroy silver.
Referring to the Sherman act, Stewart
said notwithstanding the numerous
violations of it by the executive depart-
ment, it had added $3.50, 100000 of legal
tender money to the currency of the
country. There was no evidence that
the Sherman act had, up to this time,
Influenced any injury upon the coun-
try. The bankers panic, he said, was
inaugurated to force congress to demone-
tize silver. The president. in his mes
sage, failed to inform congress- of the
apprehended evils which produced the
panic. They existed only in the imagin-
alton OF bondholders, bankers and their
newspaper organs who had created the
present distress for their own selfish and
sofdid purposes.
AN hONfcI hEMED1s
There is an honest remedy, he said.
for the present condition and that is to
restore silver. Ifthat cannot be done,
utilize the silver in the treasury by issu-
ing silver certificates. A dishonest
remedy to relieve the distress is to pass
the repeal bill, ratify and sanctify the
infamous act of 1878, thus fastening
perpetual gold standard upon the coun-
try. The creditor class had already
doubled the value of gold and by go do
ing had doubled the obligations OF dol
lars. This was revolutionary 1t was
dangerous for capital to engage in a
revolution, and he appealed to the sem
ate today to listen to the voice OF the
people and to turn deaf ear to the SUBJ
sidized press and bankers petitions ex-
torted from their trembling debtors.
1t was the duty of every senator WHO
loves his country, said Stewart, to re-
sist by every parliamentary means the
OF the great wrong which
would be done II the repeal bill passed.
1.-The great journals of New York." con-
tinued he, ''say: Vote first; debate
We notify them now that
the fort is occupied by the defenders
of the people and will never be surren-
dered. The armies of avarice, fraud and
deception must take it if they can."
AT $40 Stewart had exhausted his
typewriter manuscript. He said he
did not know whether he could finish
his speech tonight, and went on: ''If
our friends would for one session throw
off English influences, what change
would result"
AN ANT1-sILvER SETBACK.
Before Stewart had finished. Morgan
(Democrat) Of Alabama, moved that the
senate go into executive session. The
yeas and nays we're called for. By
vote of 35 yeas to 28 nays the motion
was agreed to az follows:
Yeas-Bate, Berry, Butler, Call, Cock
rell, Coke, Davis, Daniel, Dolph, Dubois,
Harris, Hunton, Irby, Jones
(Ark.), Jones (Nev.), Kyle, Mitchell
(Or.). Morgan, Pasco, PETER, Perkins,
Pettigrew, Power, Pugh, Roach, Shoup,
Stewart, Teller, Turpie, Vance, Vest,
Walthall and Walcott-35.
Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Darcy,
Oaffrey, Cullom, Dixon, Frye, Gallinger,
German, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hoar,
Lindsay, McMillin, Mills. Mcpherson,
Platt, Proctor. Quay. Squire,
Smith, Villas, Voorhees,
and White of Los Angeles-28.
After short executive session, at
4 :25 the session adjourned till tomorrow.