The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-27
SENATOR PERKINS
OF CALIFORNIA.
A Clear and Forcible Argument
Made Yesterday.
ABSURD POINTS KILLED.
The Sherman Law Should Be at Once
Repealed.
This Done, Double Standard Should Be
Created and the MINIS Thrown Open
to the Coinage of the Silver
of America.

questioned Tue pfOprIeGy u tue OeudtS
proceeding.
Harris, of Tennessee, an ardent silver
man, was presiding in the absence of
Vice President Stevenson, who was at
tending Democratic meeting in Penn
sylvania. The president pro tenn promptly
ordered the roll call, although the jour
nal was not yet read. Only thirty Eve
senators responded. This was less than
a quorum, and stay of proceedings was
necessary until the members strolled in
one by one to a sufficient number to con-
stitute quorum.
Stewart then presented the resolutions
adopted at a mass meeting held in Cleve-
land, o., favoring an investigation to as
certain whether any senators were inter
estea in national banks, railroads, or had
other special interests favored or fostered
by legislation, and expressed the hope
that an investigation would be had aud
the rumor so prevalent set at rest that
national bank stocks had anything to do
with the characterization of silver.
Dubois, (Republican) of Idaho,
created q sensation by offering the fol-
lowing:
ssWhereas, There are several sovereign
states without the full representation In
the Senate, to which they are entitled;
'sBe it resolved, That consideration OF
legislation relating to the federal election
laws, the tariff and financial matters ma
terially affecting partially unrepresented
states be postponed in the Senate until
Monday, Jan. Is, 1894, to enable the
states of Washington, Montana and
Wyoming to have the influence and pro-
lection in the Senate guaranteed each
or
the United States"
The resolution was laid on the table
yeas q, nays 10.
The repeal bill was uheu taken up.
Stewart, who was recognized, said he
would yield to Dubois, of Idaho, who had
given notice of an intention to speak to-
day.
DUBOIS yielded to Perkins, who said:
'We have been told, in clear, courageous
tones, that all our existing economic
troubles flow from the law that SO
viciously operates upon the affairs of
finance and commerce; and we have been
further told that the blotting out of the
law will instantly recall to us our recent
days of prosperity. 1t was absurd to say
that our coined silver has caused or is
causing the present lack OF confidence.
l am a sincere believer IN the use and
coinage OF both gold and silver,
and | don't think it wise craftsmanship
to disparage either by the agency of a
force bill. If we commit this country
to a gold standard alone, we inevitably
increase the burdens of the mass of our
people and unjustly enrich select num-
Der or a class of investors at the general
expense. Repeal the Sherman act
purchasing clause and declare by legis-
lative enactment that it is the unfaltering
purpose of the United States to adjust
fo1n itu cfa III
the double standard with equality be-
tween the two units OF value and their
multiples, and then open the minis to the
coinage of silver of proved American pro-
duction Give our manufacturing and
producing interests assurance that the
tariff shall not be altered in disregard to
their reasonable claims or otherwise than
with due regard for the greatest good to
the greatest number, and your contem-
plated repeal of the Objectionable clause
of the Sherman act will have a new force
and meaning from Maine to California. -
At the conclusion of Perkins speech
Stewart resumed the floor. He read from
paper an article on the President S
alleged rebuke to the Senate.
Palmer, (Democrat) of Illinois, asked
whether it was consistent with the
proper relations between the Senate and
| the president to read in the Senate grave
| he (Stewart) would not be responsible
Stewart said it was consistent for him as
Senator to defend the Senate when the
press said the president was rebuking the
Senate and calling Senators criminals.
s'Let mis- friends deny that he has useC
his patronage to control legislation,
said Stewart. s'Let them make it clear
how the sentiment of Congress has beer
changed, and how an overwhelming
l fr~an f70Tv
Congress has been changed to golC
monometallist majority"
Palmer wanted Stewart to indicate 6
single instance in which the president
employed patronage 10 control senator
or member of the House.
"Why, my dear sir,' said Senator
Stewart in a patronizing way, ''thes'
| charges have been made in the public
press; they have been brought home
here and before l indicate anyone, will
you deny that patronage has been giver
to those who will support administration
measures?'
s'If the senator himself, upon his owr
responsibility as a SENATOR replied
Palmer, 'will make a charge of tina
sort, l will confess it if l believe it to b.
correct, or l will deny it, but the ide;
that the president or his friends are tt
deny the charges made against him il
the papers, seems to me most astound
ing"
Stewart reiterated that the charge hat
been made in the papers.
ssWill the senator name single sen
ator whom he knows or believes to hav
been Influenced by the patronage of tn
president?'' asked Palmer.
ssDoes the senator want me to make
personal matter OF this and dwindle thi
down IN this way?'' asked Senator Stew
art, and then, as ii disgusted, .'Oh
pshawi' He asked Palmer ii ne Woul,
vote for a resolution authorizing an in
vestigation of the question.
Palmer said he would when Stewar
would make charge against any senate
or mem Der of the House.
81 do not want to confine it to one sen
ator or MEMBER said Stewart ami
laughter; Investigate them if you dare
II will, - replied Palmer. s'Wheneve
the senator brings forward charge
against any individual in the Senate
will vote for an Investigation"
"When 1 make q criminal ckarg
against any particular individual sal
Stewart contemptuously ''the senate
from Illinois will allow it to be investi
gated, but he will not protect the homo
OF his executive in denying these Whole
sale charges; he wants to make crimina
charges against g senator" Stewal
then had read a long article from the Sa
Francisco Examiner, commenting upo
I the course of the president. Stewal
closed his speech with passionate in