Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-12
The Senate Debate.
THE ABSENCEO OF A CLOTURE RULE
Is THE SALVATION OF SILVER.

ed-Ghamp Clark Refuses Pat
ronage-Morton Is Jeai.
u OF Bryan.
Correspondence of the Ledger.
WASHINGTON, D. c., October 9.-1
have received inquiries from home ask
ing why the debate in the Senate can
not be closed, or, rather, whatruIe pre-
vents it. No rule prevents 1t; on the
contrary it is the absence of . cloture
rule that is saving silver and this coun.
try on the one hand from the domino.
ton Of gold and Wall street on the 9th.
er hand. From time out of mind there
has been no rule in the Senate to close
debate, thus allowing the advocates Of
either side to talk as long Al they want
to talk. In the absence of q cloture
rule there is no way of limiting the
debate and thereby reaching a vote
unless the filibusterlng minority is a
very small one and becomes tired out.
The absence of q cloture rule is all
that saved this country from feeling
the workings of the Lodge Force bill.
The absence of a cloture rule is now
saving the money of the people from
being stricken down at the behest of
those who hold the gold. The Sher-
man law will never berepealed uncon-
ditionally; the people will have silver
in some shape before this thing ends.
I want to record 8 p~rophesy right here
paste it in your hat. If Cleveland
ever signs a bill that repeats the Sher-
man act it will be a bill that places the
white metal on a better footing than
that upon which 1t now rests.
The Sherman law did not cause the
panic-the recognition and coinage of
silver never did cause a panic. Brad
street says that business is looking up
and all the world says that the panic
is over, and yet the Sherman law is
still on the statute books.
read in the LEDGER the other day
a special from a Republican correspon-
dent at Lebanon, Mo-, to a Republican
paper in st. Louis, the Gtobe-Demo-
crat. I showed it to Mr.. Bland, who
was referred to in the dispatch as a
bolter. He gave it the lie, and justly.
There is not better Democrat in the
United States or a truer friend of the
people. He declined to eat at the pie
counter. He has always been siiveI's
first and best friend and in order to
stand by his convictions and right he
had to forego the pleasure of being
smiled upon by Mr.. Cleveland. The
congressman who voted for uncondi-
tional repeal + getting patronage;
those who hastily slid from the silver
to the anti-silver side are getting it in
big hunks. Missouri may well be proud
of her unpurchased Democrats. Right
well did the Columbia Herald say;
"Grand oldMissouri! There she stands,
unawed by power and interrupted by
federal patronage. Her record on sill
yer is as clear as the ring of the dollar
of our daddies. Her Democracy is as
true to the platform as the needle to
the pole. No son of the soil can say Of
this imperial commonwealth as Lowell
did of his own state:
NTooaoohpoaffo Odd foroiya hor
She's kneelin' with the rest"
I have committed those words to
memory;there is much in them; to read
those lines and know that they are
true makes me prouder than ever that
I am a Missourian and a Democrat.
Idol not claim to be a prophet or "the
son of a prophet" but I will venture
the assertion that tariff reform will be
blocked effectually in the Senate and
that the next important question to
come up will be that of foreign immi-
grafton. 1t is a serious question and
ifnot settled satisfactorily to the peo-
pie another know-nothing party will
be liable to find its handspring in that
failure to satisfy.
The Capitol, a paper published in
Washington, recently had a story to
the effect that Champ Clark was offer
ed patronage for his vote by the Presi-
dent and that his only answe was to
turn on his heel and walk out of the
august presence.
I see that Bryan has been repudiat-
ed by the Nebraska State Democratic
Convention; this is not because the
Democrats land the rest of the people,
for that matter) of Nebraska do not
like Bryan and indorse him. The con-
vention vas packed. I know what I
am talking about. J. Sterling Morton,
Secretary of Agriculture, is RESPONSE
BILE for it. He hates Bryan and is jeal-
GUS of him. Bryan overcame q Repub-
lican majority of owe 5000 in the first
district. He could not have been elect
ed without the aid of Populist votes.
For this reason Cleveland gave Nor
ton the control of the patronage OF
Bryan's district and Morton stuffed
the convention hall with men who
wanted jobs under Uncle Sam. Those
men received letters telling them to
| be at that convention.
have a young friend here who was
given q place by Morton. He Is from
Nebraska. Heis the nephew of one OF
| Missouri's ext Governors. He was Bry.
ans friend in Nebraska and still is,
| He told me that he could not even
praiseBryan In the presence of a friend
of Morton, else he would lose his job
when 1t would reach Morton's ear,
Bryan will succeed Henderson in the
| United States Senate, / think.
Yours Truly, g
w. d. B.
A Pleasant Party.
Last Saturday evening Mr.. and
| Mrs. James B. Weaver entertained
a number of Young folks with an