St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-06
CONTROL OF THIS NATION.
UNION OF THE WEST AND SOUTH rs
THE CRY
OF THE ST. LOUIS sELYERITEs

uenCy ana the Next congress
Is Within Their Grasp-Gov.
Waite Declares That Millions
of Money Is Now in Washing
ton to Control Congress.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.-The last day of
the bimetallic convention opened an
hour late, but with purpose to COM
plete its work without further delay.
The committee on resolutions presented
a supplemental report, unfavorably
passing upon proposition by Thomas
Warren to take action looking to in
dorsement of the removal of the ma
tional capital farther West; also favor
ing the printing and circulation of the
address of yesterday by Walter L..
Allen, of Kansas, upon the exception
clause" of the silver law. The report
was adopted without dissent.
The question came up on the adoption
of the report of the resolutions commit
tee. Delegate Waterman, of Kansas,
moved the amendment of the report by
the addition of proposition submitted
by II. NJ. Taylor, of Mexico, favOring
the increase of the volume Of the cur
rency by the issue OF legal tender notes
secured by land values. Upon this
motion Delegate Cochrane, of Missouri,
took the floor in opposition to any and
all efforts to say or do anything in this
convention upon the money question,
other than fully and entirely indorse
the free coinage OF silver.
II. NJ. Taylor, of Mexico, replied in
defense of his proposition, urging that
money based upon such security was as
safe as the money based upon the honor
of our government, as are the 1916, 000,-
0OO of greenbacks. Delegate Water
bury, of Kansas, upon text of ''S571 per
Capita, Private and Public Debt"
pleaded for an increase of the
VOLUME OF CURRENCY
with which to meet it, by the means
proposed in the minority report.
For the majority of the committee on
resolutions, Gov. Tillman. of South Car
DINA. spoke briefly, declaring that it
was the desire of his committee to con-
centrate the efforts of the convention
upon the central purpoSe-bimetallism
and for that purpose it seemed to them
unWlSe to seek more, no matter how al
Turing the prospect.
Gov. Waite, of Colorado, begged the
IOb " OC OlfCllCu llOHi tiiC
one great issue. Until the success of
bimetallism showed Wall street to have
lost its grip upon legislation it was i'm
possible to secure any other form of
financial legislation. AS to the West
and South, they could control the poll
tics of the country if it became neces-
sary. He declared his belief that there
were millions OF money now in Wash
ingtoE with which to buy congress. and
with such condition as this the West
must unite.
Delegate Manning, of Alabama, de-
clared the readiness of the
SOUTH FOR UNION
with the West in the battle for the free
coinage of silver, but pleaded for the
prevention of the addition of eXtraneous
matter to the platform, as diversion of
the purpose of the convention.
Delegate SkaggS, of the same state,
spoke i'll similar strain, also denounc-
ing President Cleveland as an enemy
and betrayer of the people.
Delegates Taylor, Williams, Water
bury and Waite withdrew the minority
report.
Then with a motion to adopt the ma
jority report pending the committee adj
journed to 2 p. m.
At the afternoon session, pending ac-
ton upon the report of the resolutions
committee. resolution was offered pro-
vlding, in the event of the failure of
congress to provide adequately for the
use of silver as money, for the calling
of a national convention in January,
1894, under the auspices of the govern
ors of Missouri, South Carolina, Kansas
and Colorado, including delegates from
every state and territory. labor and az
ricultural organizations. to take action
looking to a thorough agitation of the
question before
ANOTHER ELECTION.
Pending action upon this, the regular
order was called for, and s. S. King, of
Kansas City, speaking to the sixth
clause of the resolutions report, pre-
sented the report of the doings of the
recent gulf transportation conference
at Chicago, and pleaded for new route
TO the old world, a relief from the COM
mercial tyranny of New York and Chi
cage, as he said.
Gov. 1illman, of South Carolina, then
took the floor to close the debate upon
the resolutions report. He declared the
financial question presented but an
other form o. Slavery-white slavery.
AS to sectionaliSm, every section had
and would vote as its interests demand
ed. Touching again upon Sectionalism
and reconstruction, he declared himself
a Hamburg rioter, and asked what made
him SO. 1t was negro domination. i he
end justified the means. He had no
apologies to make for attempts to secure
honest government by honest men I'M
awed by the bayonets of Grants SOL
diers. Coming once more to the pres
ent. be took up statistics to show that
the
Mn cnTrru
could control the presidency and senate
and within nine of a majority of the
house, and these men could be picked
up east of the Mississippi. Would the
West meet the South?
Gov. Llewelling answered: What
would the governor of South Carolina
ask? Has not Kansas sent eX-Confed-
crates TO the congress? Was not this
an olive branch OF peace2 Was it not a
sufficient pledge that the old issues
were dead; that the bloody chasm was
crossed, and that the West was pre-
pared to do her part?
As Gov. Llewelling closed Gov. Till
man rose, and the two governors grasped
hands on a common platform amid
cheers which subsidized only when the
convention exhausted itself.
With the cessation of cheers the Ques-
ton was put OH the majority report of
the committee on resolutions, and it
was adopted unanimously in the form
autographed last night. The resolution
providing for the call of the national
convention in January was Withdrawn,
and after the transaction of some minor
business, including the passage of the
usual resolution of thanks, the conven-
ton adjourned sine die, having first
provided for the calling of another con-
vention, if deemed necessary. by the
president and secretary of the Pan
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