Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-28
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Sept. %, 1898.
SENATE.

SENATE.
A joint resolution to permit the State
of Wisconsin to have placed in the
Statuary Hall of the Capitol at Wash
ington statue of Pere Marquett, was
introduced by Dir. Mitchell and re-
ferred to the library committee.
Several petitions from various parts
of Pennsylvania praying for the free
coinage of silver were presented by Mr..
Cameron.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Teller, calling for information as
to the anticipation of interest on the
government bonds since July 1880 was
laid before the Senate and gave rise to
discussion which lasted three-quarters
of an hour. Opposition TO it was made
by Mr.. VOORHEES, on the ground that it
would require financial history of the
country for the last thirteen years; but,
after explanation by Mr.. Teller of the
scope and object of the resolution, Mr..
Voorhees, objection was withdrawn.
After still further discussion, in which
Mr.. Teller berated his republican col
leagues for aiding the democrats to
stife inquiry, the resolution was
agreed to.
The repeal bill was then lat 12:05l
tlken up and Mr.. Hoar entered into a
long statement in refutation of SLAM
der on former colleague of his Mr..
Hooper, chairman of the House bank
ing committee twenty years ago) con-
corning a supposed bride from Mr..
Ernest Seyd, q distinguished French
writer on finance-a SANDER not only
on Mr.. Hooper, but on theAmerican con-
gress and the American people. He
sent to the clerks desk and had long
article in the Peoria Journal giving
what purported to be history of the
transaction including an extract from a
speech of Mr.. Hooper in the Congress
ional Globe of that time, which extract
makes Mr.. Hooper speak of Mr.. Seyd,
''now in this country Mr.. Hoar ex-
hibited the Congressional Globe con-
tanning the speech and showed that
those words were not in it, but had
been falsely interpolated into the quo
tation. He denounced the forgery as
deliberate, false, audacious, unscrupu-
lous, insolcnt and Infamous
Mr.. Seyd had not been in the United
States since 1856. He (Mr. Hoar) could
not understand the state OF mind Of q
man who would undertake to libel his
countrymen in that way. "The being
| who did it belonged Tin the scale of Gre
atom to the rank of the bed-bdg or
| the squash-bug, not TO that of man."
Mr.. Hoar went on to declare his SYM
plthy with men from the section OF
the country who were especially affect
ed By the silver legislation. He could
| not, however, see his way clear to the
supporting of silver as currency, as a
standard of value against the consensus
of the civilized world. The people OF
those States, he said, had gone
to those desolate mountains to mine
silver, with the understanding that it
was the established policy of the nation
of the world (or most of then) to buy
silver for their current money. He
spoke of the miners, not of the capital
lists. Those miners had gone there with
the expectation of an honorable, hon.
est, useful, lucrative and permanent
employment F; and if they had been dis
appointed, rightfully or wrongfully, it
was great public calamity-a calami-
ty which every American legislator,
with heart in his bosom, should do
his best to avert.
Dir. Cullom came to the defense Of
the editor of the Peoria Journal, Mr..
Barnes, whom he declared to be high
" honorable man who would not be
knowingly guilty of printing forgery
of that kind. He assumed that the ar
ticle had been prepared by somebody
else and that Mr.. Barnes had not
thought of comparing the extract from
the Congressional Globe with the vol
ume itself. The discussion was carried
on for nearly an hour by Senators Hoar,
Sherman, Kyle, Voorhees,, Pettigrew
and Allison-the drift of it being the
absurdity of supposing that there was
any truth whatever in the Seyd sland-
or, and that the misquotation from Mr..
Hooper's speech had been in circula-
ton for the last fifteen years without
exposure.
This incident, having been disposed
OF, the consideration of the repeal bill
was resumed, and Mr.. PETER addressed
the Senate.
HOUSE,
There were less than 100 members
present at noon to-day in the House,
and the majority of those in attendance
sat on the republican side Of the main
aisle.
Before the approval of the journal