The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-08
STEWARDS SPEECH FINISHED.
Two Roll Calls Necessary to
Bring the Senators In.
Senator Daniel Announced His Intention
to Speak Next Thursday, But as a Vote
is Likely to he Taken Before That
Time, He Will Probably Be Heard
Earlier-walthalI Makes Speech on
Binetallism.

HumoIouS petlGlOnS presented ana re.
ferred was one by Wolcott (Rep. Colo. }
for the immediate repeal of the Nc.
Kinley tariff bill. He said that the
petition was on one OF the printed forms
sent out by the New York banks for the
repeal OF the Sherman act. but that the
petitioners (all the citizens of to wn in
Coloraio) had substituted the Mckinley
tariff bill for the Sherman act.
| At 1885 Voorhees, moved to proceed
| to the consideration of the House bill to
| repeal the purchasing clauses OF the
| Sherman act. Morgan remarked that
the resolution offered by him (for joint
select committee on f1nance) was on the
calendar and could not be taken up
without a vote of the Senate. But he
| did not wish TO antagonize the repeal
bill. The Senator from Indiana and
himself had had some conference about
the matter and he had agreed not to
press the motion Today. Mr.. Voorhees,
motion was agreed to without division
and the repeal bill was laid before the
Senate.
Stewart, who was entitled to the floor
to proceed with the third instalment of
his speech, (begun Tuesday, expressed
his willingness to forego his right until
the Senator from Mississippi Walthall),
who desired to address the Senate to. day,
had concluded his remarks.
Walthall then addressed the Senate
in favor OF bimetallism. He expressed
his readiness to cooperate with the
chairman of the finance committee, who
urged prompt action on the repeal bill,
and suggested that there was o simple
mode of arriving at prompt action.
If thesdeclaration of policy. he said,
III 4, ,I11,
am bodied in the form of an enactment
he believed vote could be reached in
half the time. If it was found out that
the Sherman law, and not the Mckinley
law, had been the eliminating atrocity
of recent legislation, haste should be
made to supplement the educational
feature OF the campaign of 1892 by
teaching the people now that the cam
paign had been conducted to success on
mistaken issue. Mississippians, he
said, who we're in favor OF a single gold
standard were about as rare as those in
favor of high protective tariff.
He wanted, he said, to see silver re.
stored to its rightful place. He wanted
to see how far free coinage of silver
bill at the present rates would go of
itself towards restoring parity between
the two metals. He was ready to make
all reasonable concessions il the bi.
metallic policy would be established
Stewart again took the floor. He
opened by reading extracts from to. days
New York World. "A paper" he said,
(which gave the law to the Senate, al.
though its editor was foreigner, and
from the New York Herald. whose edi-
tor. Bennett, although born in the
country, had resided abroad for the last
quarter of q century,"
The editors of these papers, he sa id,
| assumed to be more familiar with pub
lie sentiment in the united States than
those who have lived here all their
lives. The article in the Herald con
tanned these words: "If Senator Stewart
and his associates were wise they would
cease their harangues and fllibustering
and yield at once to the inevitable II
they refuse to do SO the means will be
| found TO sweep them out of the way"
There" said Stewart, with a wide
| sweep OF the arm and a contemptunus
casting aside of the paper, ''is another
voice from across the seas"
Stewart was going into Voorhees,
record on the silver question when Dolph
called attention to the absence of
quorum, there being present probably
not more than twenty Senators The
| roll was called and the Senators fiocked
OF them answered. Stewart resumed
the floor and he gave the votes in the
Senate on three coinage bills in which
voorhees, name appeared among the
yeas. Next he read extracts from the
metropolitan papers of 1892 to show
that the tariff and force bill were the
overshadowing issues in the presiden-
tial com paign.
Then the letter from Mr.. Powderly
| representing the labor element of the
country to President Cleveland on tho
subject Of bimettallism was sent up to
the clerks desk to be read in order as
Stewart said that it might be printed
In the Record as part OF this great
debate. The clerk had not got through
with the first paragraph of the letter
before the absence of quorum was
again suggested, this time by Teller.
The roll call showed the presence of
forty-nine Senators and the reading of
Powderly's letter was resumed by the
clerk.
At 4:i5 p. M, Stewart was still hold.
ing the floor. Daniel went over and
whispered word in his ear and when,
to the astonishmens of ALL he an
noupced he would close his speech,
which he did.
docs the Senator conclude?" Voor.
hees asked, Win an lncredulous man
ner. Yes" was the reply. There
is" said Voorhees,, "a large amount Of
executive business to be transacted.
move that the Senate proceed to that
business" Permit me-" said Daniel,
ito give notice that I desire to make
some remarks on this subject next
Thursday"
A good many Senators here, Plat
said, hope to be able to have vote on
this bill before next Thursday and
suggest that the Senator from Virginia