The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-04
A WRANGLE IN THE SENATE
VOORHEES, and Dubois have another
War Of Words.
ALLISON ON TIE FOREIGNERS
Palmer OF Illinois Severely Censuros his
Fellow Senators for their DIlatory
Conduct.
Associated Press.

When the senate met this morning
there We're only a few republicans in
the chamber and not a democrat. After
a delay of fifteen minutes a quorum
was obtained. Morgan offered an
amendment to house bill No. /, the Will
son repeal bill, declaring the act of
January 1887, to be in force. The bill to
repeal the Sherman law was then laid
before the senate. Dolph took the floor
and continued the speech he begun
yesterday in support of the repeal bill.
He quoted from the message of Pres
ident Cleveland Of 1885, urging the dis
continuance of the purchase and coin
age OF silver under the Bland-Alllson
act. He declared that the success of
the democratic party with such cam
didate and such platform were abun-
dant evidence of the fact that the
American people did not desire to con-
tinue the coinage of silver under the
existing conditions. When the demo-
cratic party was in the minority, 1t
could afford to favor free coinage, but
now that 1t had majority, it had nee
essanly become conservative on this
subject.
The Brussels monetary conference
was brought into the discussion and
Allison of Iowa, who was one of the
delegates to the conference, said:
while nearly all the delegates to
the conference favored the utilization of
gold and silver they were not ready to
adopt the coinage Of silver in their own
countries. He denied that the confer
ence odjourned without action. The Eu-
ropean countries now expected that
the conference would re-convene. In
stead of the European governments not
heing interested in the question, there
was not a European government which
was not watching daily every step and
every movement taken in this country"
Power, republican, of Montana, then
addressed the senate in opposition to
the bill.
Palmer of Illinois then addressed
the senate. Congress had been ir ses-
sion eight weeks, he said. and 1t had
become very interesting inquiry
whether the senate would at any time
dispose of the qucsli1ns now before It,
Palmer said he could see no end to the
discussion and lsnew Of no method by
which it cpuld be terminated. "The
to tr nf md oh ffN Nof a
said Mr. Palmer, and chen he proceed
ed with his argument In favor Of re-
peal. "The time will come" declared
Palmer in conclusion, when the coun-
try will insist that the senate shall de-
clare in some way or other how 1t will
govern itself"
Teller Of Colorado, inquired whether
the senate had not been able to make
all necessary laws up to the present
time, Palmer thought perhaps 1t had,
but he confessed that he was aston
ished to find 1t impotent.
Dubois of Idaho, thought that whom
ever there was q strong sentiment in
the country in favor of any measure
the senate would respond, but the sem
ator from Illinois knew as we'll as he
did that the senate did not want to
pass an unconditional repeal bill.
There is no sentiment or favor In IT,"
said Dubois. Il honestly believe that
there are not ten senator's here who
anxiously desire the passing of the un-
conditional repeal bill. II there was q
strong sentiment here they would pass
It. There is manufactured sentiment on
the outside, but it does not exist here"
III the senator from Idaho and those
representative" said Voorhees, earnestly
will give us a chance to vote, we will
answer the question whether there are
ten or four or five times ten senator's
who will vote for unconditional repeal
Of the Sherman act"
II will say to the senator from Indl-
ana" replied Dubois dehantIy, "you
have the power to resort to unusual
methods. 1t will be demonstrated how