The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-22
FOR AND AGAINST SILVER.
The Debate Still Goes on I'm the House
Tuesdays Proceedings.

Washington August 15.-In the house, after
nrayer and the reading and approval Oh lhe
journal before small attendance Oh men"
bers Mr. Burrows offered resolution XIV
ing Charles Il. Belknap the right to contest
the seat of George +. Richardson, from the
fifth district of Michigan. Mr.. Richardson's
the sitting member. asked that the resolution
he laid over until tomorrow and it WAS so or
dered. ~,
The silver debate was then resumed, Mr..
Hutchinson, of Texas, concluding ms REMARKS
began yesterday in favor OF the lce colh'sc
of silver He attributed the present business
depression to the bulls and bears OF wan
street The real controversy was not Goid
versus silver, but it money against creult;
Dollars could not be Obtained Tor lhuuStriai
enterprises because the dollars were piled up
Mr.. blanchard. III speaking in favor of free
coinage reviewed the silver legislation or the
country and quoted from both the democratic
and republican platforms, and each eAPressed
his opinion that. if the republican platform
meant anything, not twenty repuniicans
would vote for the Wilson bill. The Chicago
platform had declared for the repeal OF the
Sherman law and then had declared for Dl-
metalIism. That portion of the platform
ought to be carried OUT i'll a single Dill ;n1
a bmetallic standard. If the 1flehuS "l
silver yielded to this demand of the god peo-
pie they yielded that which nothing but rev
olution could regain. If the purpose Of the
gold people was achieved the mints would be
stopped to the coinage of silver, ana no
method was proposed TO replace silver WIN
reached a point in wealth, prosperity and In
dustry that it could afford to lead and not
follow. Applanse).
Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio. said that it was to
be regretted that the president in his mes
sage to congress had not been 50 VOID OF par
tisanship rs he had asked the houses to be-
II was Unfortunate that the executive or the
country. looking forward 10 the condition
which portended violent opposition TO his
views. had iii to first appeal To partisan
ship and to uniusty proclaim TO the people
hat
out of the legislation of me republican party.
If the pending dehat" should develop INTO Il
partisan discussion its inSttgation would be
found in the declarations OF IN" president
himself. The president had declared that t'le
republicans had been Responsible fer the pres
ent condition of affairs and tins DECLARATION
would lie the origin of political discussion
if political discussion there should he. Very
LITTLE of the present trouble, he said couid be
trn ced 10 the sherman act.
Mr. Hall. democrat, Of Missouri. spoke in
favor of a greater volume of currency and
of the free coinage Of silver. The present
financial condition put the people of the Uni
ted states absolutely at the mercy 81 men
dealing in large financial transactions in III"
h1fo h. h hr5 c %r reIatons s'0
Mr. Snodgrass. of Tennessee, could not
vote for the Wilson bill. 1t attacked but
one sentence of the sherman act and did not
carry ont the intention of the Chicago plat
form. That platform pledged the democratic
party not only to renea In" entire infamous
oct. but f" coin gold and silver at a parity.
The crv of the people WAS for more money.
and the best way to secure that end was to
provide for the free coinage Of silver The
present fight was between the debtor and
creditor classes. The former were numbered
nv the millions the latter by the thousands
The shylocks were demanding the pound of
flesh. while the people wore asking congress
for relief. and the men who refused to grant
This relief oould be branded as traitors to
Tue house then, Mt 5 O'Clock, adjourned
until tomorrow.
SATURDAYS Debate In the House.
Washington, August 19.-The silver debate
Of the journal and McCreary. democrat. or
Kentucky. took the floor in advocacy of the
repeal Of the purchasing clause of the Sher
lie. Mr. McCreary, was here friend of
silver aud not as its enemy He was i'll IA
vor of international bimetallism He was in
favor Of the repeal OF the sherman act, be
cause such action would be the best thing
than could be done TO help on an lnternati onal
agreement Today England hoped that the
United States would adopt free coinage blll
and would come 10 a silver basis, because
then she would get our $G3G.0OO,00O of gold.
'rAe United States could not afford to adopt
a free coinage policy now. NO country alone
could maintain such coinage. The only
path to free coinage through information
agreement and the only way to reach that
path was to repeal me purchasing cause h d Gi
not wish TO see this country relegated to a
silver basis,
Gne Mississippi GoIdbug.
Mr.. CatchngS, democrat, or MISSISSIPPI,
said he would vote for the unconditional re-
peal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act and he would vote against the proposition,
directly or indirectly, looking to the free
coinage of silver in this country at this time
lit any ratio that could be suggested. He
had come to this determination after careful
consideration. and after careful study Of
the Chicago platform. 1t had been said that
no democrat could vote against free coinage.
He democrat. His democracy was
good as that of any man on this floor and he
nat oil, m .l.,fln az
question it. He stood by every plank Of the
Chicago platform, but that platform nowhere
demanded the free coinage of silver this
time He reviewed the silver legislation of
the country and expressed his opinion that
the act Of 1873. miscaed decentralization
aci, had not demonetized one dollar in the
whole globe. If we threw our minis open to
the free coinage of silver would not the ex-
perience of India be repeated in this country
and would not there be repeated here a fail
ia thA value Of the silver dollar The United