The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-17
SATURDAY, AUG. II
The Senate was not in session.

Only about 100 members were in their seat
in the House, and the debate was without ar
interesting feature to enliven it.
The silver debate was resumed, Mr.. Wheeler
being entitled 10 the floor. He continued his
speech of yesterday against repeal. The mo-
ment the Sherman act was repealed, he said
| that moment there would not be line or a
word in the laws of our country recognizing
the coinage of silver, and there never would
during our lives or the lives of our children.
Mr.. Wheeler was followed by Mr.. Morse, who
said that the country had come to two roads
sound finance beckoned it on to National in-
tegrity and honor; free silver beckoned it on
to financial ruin and distress. He was heartily
in favor of repeating the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, but the remainder Of that
act, declaring parity between the two metals,
was fine craftsmanship and should stand. He
could not believe with the Chief Magistrate
that the present appalling business situation
was due entirely to the purchasing clause of
the silver bill. 1t was more largely and prin-
cipally due to the threatened tariff legislation
which had unsettled values and paralyzed
business.
Mr.. Harter, who was one of the leading anti
silver men in the Fifty-seeond Congress, took
the floor in advocacy of the Wilson bill. He
disciaimed any idea of partisauship on this
question. 1t was patriotic question.
IT he had come to the Capitol this morning
stages of alcoholism that man would have been
taken to hospital, and his treatment would
have been agreed upon by competent physi-
clans. But if that drunken man were taken to
this House there would have been difference
of opinion. The Doctor from Maryland (Mr
Rayner) would have said that further alcohol
should be kept from him; that he needed
good nursing and possibly use of the gold
cure laughter; but the Doctor from Missouri
(Mr. Band) would look at the case from an
other standpoint, and would say that the man
needed more alcohol. Here was Uncle Sam in
condition in which he had never before ap-
peared before the nations of the world at
time when he should be erect and prosperous.
There were gentlemen on this floor of ma
tional and international regulations who would
fill Uncle Sam up with more silver. His view
was to stop the purchase of silver. 1t had been
said by the gentleman from Missouri that
every Western man who voted for the repeal of
the purchasing clause would be relegated to
private life.
Let Congress give the country an honest
currency, and he (Mr. HarteT) was willing to
shake the dust OF Washington from his feet and
never enter the House of Representatives
again.
He would have the Congress in its extra.
ordinary session repeal the purchasing clause
of the present law, authorize National banks to
issue circulation to the full extent of their
bonds, and direct the Secretary of the Treasury
to provide for the issue of gold bonds
Mr.. Hendrix said let Congress repeal the
Sherman silver law go home and let the peo-
pie do the rest. [Applause.] 1t was not to the
gold bugs of Wall street that he asked the
members to listen, nor to the men, women, and
children who had their savings locked up in