The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-10-07
OCTOBER 7, 1893.
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The unconditional repeal of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman silver
law is now regarded by unprejudiced
people az a dead issue, because Of the
confessed inability to bring the Voor-
hees bill to a vote in the Senate. The
silver Senators recognize their power
and are more exacting III TO the COM
promise amendment that they will ac-
cept than they have been at any time
since the debate began, and although
the chances favor the adoption OF the
compromise there is a possibility that
through their exaction nothing will be
done, the Voorhees, bill being merely
left on the calendar to die. The COM
promise that bias been endorsed by the
largest number 81 Senators who would
vote for unconditional repeal, il they
could, provides for the suspension of
the purchase of silver until all the sill
yer bullion now III the Treasury shall
have been coined. after which 2,OOO,-
600 ounces per month are to be pur
chased and coined until the total of
the silver currency reaches $500 ,OOO,-
600 also that $200,O00,000 of the bonds
shall be at ones issued to increase the
gold reserve fund of the Treasury.
The silver men do not like the idea of
a new bond issue, but that will be in
sisted upon by the %repealers. 1t is not
probable that any definite action will
he taken until next week, but SO Ger
tain are many Senators and RepIesen-
tatives that next week will end the
long struggle in some way that they
are preparing to visit the Worlds Fair,
it being expected that Congress will
take II TWO weeks recess as soon as the
matter is settled.
Representative Cooper, Of Texas, is
RET ponsible for u unique proposition
for a settlement of The silver question.
He has introduced u bill requesting
the governors of all the states to call Il
general election of the people in No
vember to vote upon the question OF
silver, the election to be conducted in
the of elections to select menu
beers of the legislature and the result TO
be officially certified to congress by
tho governors. That would show I'M
questionably what y majority Of the
people wish Congress to do, and the
majority is at least supposed to govern
in this country.
Whether President Cleveland really
intended to slap the Senators who have
refused to do his bidding, in voting for
the repeal bills, when he made that
speech at the Capitol centennial, is
more than your correspondent would
undertake to say positively, but it is GER
tain that his remarks were so taken by
the Senators, and equally certain that
the slaps have been returned with more
than interest by Senators Of his own
party. Senator Morgan, while not once
becoming supplementary, made his
meaning plain to all. He "a d; "No
man in office, however high; no monop-
olist invested with power, however SUI
premea and extensive; no man, whatever
his powers may be can either exonerate
me from the discharge OF my duty to
grant the people all Of their constitu-
tional rights nor can any man crowd me
into silence when | choose to speak.
This is an arena in which | have the
honor to be one of the ambassadors of a
sovereign state, whose suffrages shall not
be taken from her without her consent,
and where | have got the right OF full
and free speech. And although it may
make the ears OF charlatans sore to lis
ten to me; although my words may
burn them like clnders, yet it is my
duty here i'm The presence OF God and in