Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Final Vote on Repeal Strong
Words From Senator Morgan.
Te1ler's Pitiful Plea.

less. There is no doubt in the world
that the old man is ready to pack his
grip and leave the Democratic party for
good and all, if he has chance to better
himself on the silver question. Bryan,
Of Nebraka, his most able lieutenant, has
already declared himself out of the Dem
Ocratic party of his own State, and ready
to join with the friends of silver any
where. But the most pathetic scene was
when Mr.. Teller broke down and shed
tears in the Senate Mr.. Teller is a
worthy mana man highly respected.
He was in President Arthur's Cabinet,
and il man of great deal of natural
ability. His honesty Of opinion upon
this question, and all other questions is
never to be doubted. But in his closing
speech in depicting what the result of
the bill would be upon the people of his
State. his feelings Oyercame him. He
believes ruin is ahead for Colorado and
its interests, and Mr.. Teller ought to be
in position to know. And yet we can
not agree with him. Let us hope that
the result will not be that which be
fears. Monday, the last day of the dis
cussion in the Senate, was very inter-
esting one. Senator Jones, although no
orator, made speech that no one who
heard it will soon forget. He has the fire
or an intense earnestness, if he has not
the eloquence, and his warning, that this
is but the beginning of the fight, and not
the end, was cheered by friends of silver
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, gave US an
other speech in explaining why he
should vote against the bill This is the
second speech Don has made at this ses-
sion, and it certainly shows he Las a
great deal of interest in it. But it was
reserved for Morgan, of Alabama, to stir
quoted from Germans speech of Satur-
day, in which German said, "we we're
compelled to take the terms offered by
the Senator from Ohio" Morgan said
he was thankful to the Almighty that the
Senator from Ohio could not dictate
terms to him as Democrat He went
ON to say that the President, with gag
in one hand and veto In the other, had
exercised more power over Congress than
the people will stand. Had the people of
Alabama known what Cleveland would
do they would never have given him
the vote of the State. "And
have told him So" he continued. The
short speeches of many of the Senators
were very interesting. The vote showed
| that il the full Senate had been present
and voted, % of the Democratic Senators
would have voted in favor of the bill,
and an equal number, p, against. The
party was evenly divided in the Senate;
26 Republicans would have voted for the
bill and only II against. The four Pop
| ulists voted against the bill of course.
There are only So members of the pres
ent Senate, as three seats are vacant
the Legislatures of Washington, Wyo-
ming and Montana having failed to elect,
and the Senate having refused to seat
the men appointed by the Governors of
these States to the vacancies.
1t was an Ohio man that had the hon.
or OF carrying the now famous Repeal
bill, within eighty minutes after its pas
sage by the House, to President Cleye-
land for his signature. Mr.. Pearson,
who is chairman Of the Committee on
Enrolled Bills, had his carriage in wait
ing at the front of the Capitol, and as
soon as the bill was enrolled and proper
lly signed by Speaker C,i'p and Vice
President Stevenson, he drove hurriedly
to the White House with it. 1t took the
President five minutes to read and sign
the act that has taken Congress so long
to adopt.
The assassination of Carter Harrison
was received here where he was so well
known, with a shock of horror. He
served two terms in the House, and ever
since when anything in the line of legis-
lation for Chicago has been on hand, he
has been here to do what he could for
the city that has honored him so much
II seems his assassin has been writing to
prominent Senators, and even to Secretary
Carlisle on the silver question. Is there
not a remedy for this evil?
The appointment of James Roosevelt
as Secretary of the Embassy at London
to succeed Henry White, is passing un-
der the same critical fire of disappOyal
that the Van Allen nomination did. Mr..
White is an old and tried servant of the
Government, G and Mr.. Roosevelt has had
no great experience, and it is said owes
his appointment to a campaign contri-
button of last fall. But as he positively
denies that fact, that ought to settle it
we suppose. The recall of Mr.. White is
sincerely deplored by his many friends.
And still the gold reserve goes down
again. 1t is now--or was November 1st
over 100000 lower than October 1st.
The national debt increased during the
month over s5,OO0,OO0 The receipts do
not meet the expenditures by nearly
s5 ,OOO, 600 for the month. And so we 60.
Having Revival
For two weeks pastors of Cadiz churches
under the leadership of Major Hilton and
assisted by corps of day workers. have
been conducting series of revival meet
ings. Now the Rev. E. N. Milligan, pas
tor of the United Presbyterian Church,
who was one of the seeding ministers
OF the reformed Presbyterian Church, is
taking up the work of redemption in an
other way, twenty-five members of his
Church having organized a sort of Sal
vstion army, under his direction to be-
gin crusade among the non church
going element.
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