The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-09-26

Gus character and by circutous and sus-
picious proceedings. No greater crime. II
II was designed. and no greater error. II
IL was from Ignorance, was ever COM
mitted I'm legislation.
Mr.. Bate then gave a history OF the
demonetization of silver, which he said
was first made public through the re-
sumptlon act OF 1879. The outcry against
it continued from that day 90 the present
/ and found expression In the Bland bill
In 1856, and the proposed demonetlza-
ton Of the silver dollar Of i12i5 grains
In 1877, both OF which measures passed
the House but were lost in the Senate.
The agitation was kept up until the pas
sage Of the Band-AnisOn act. which
unfortunately did not restore the defini-
tion of the dollar. but left 1t liable 10
contract or expand with the rise or fall
Of the price Of silver bullion. Thin
popular demand for silver. he said, was
not less now than IL was twenty years
ago. When Congress, by law, made
gold the single standard, as was contem-
plated by this repeal. II restricted silver
as a debased token, which paid the wages
of labor in a deprecated currency. while
the profits of capital We're reaped In gold
He believed that # was because Con-
gress was bound by a consideration OF
public equity, as well as those Of ma
tiOnal interest 10 restore the money
measure To what it was before 1873. that
the platform Of the political parties de-
clared emphatically for the free coinage
Of silver and the maintenance Of the
parity between gold and silver. His
people were for free silver and I'm voting
and speaking as he did. he believed he
but voiced their sentiments. All laws
that demonetized silver or forbid IT'S
coinage as freely as gold were, I'm his
opinion, unconstitutional. IL was not
any particular section OF the sherman
law that had been denounced by the
Democrats in convention as a make
shift" but the law I'm its entirety, and
now It was proposed to repeal the only
section that in any way commended
It to the people.
The general cause OF the depression and
business starnation Mr.. Bate found 60
be due to the appreciation Of gold conse-
quent upon its inadequacy 20 the bust
ness of the world. Touching another
branch Of the subject Mr.. Bate said the
most potential factor I'm the real causes
which brought about the present panic
was the Republican tariff. The reform
Of that system Of fiscal legislation was
the real issue of the last presidential
tied in the last popular triumph Of the
party. II should, he thought, have been
taken up and pushed with AS much vgor
I'm the House as they have manifested I'm
pushing IL on the stump and i'm the press as
the real cause OF the trouble; and now 1t
had been relegated 10 the rear awaiting
a more convenient season II was seri-
ous disapr ointment 20 the people 10 learn
that the party they had honored with
their votes preferred gold to the tariff and
that the wealth Of the rich was o. para
mount Importance to the poverty o. the
poor.
The men who manufactured the pre-
sent panic 10 frighten Congress to sfopt
the gold standard, were preparint 20
fan another panic into flame against
any "cut in the tariff" After criticizing
the national banking system, and pre-
dieting the recovery OF the country from
the distress that overlook IT, the storm
OF which, ne said, IL was even now
weathering Mr. Bate concluded with
brilliant apostrophe TO gold and silver.
At the close Of Mr.. Bates speech q l.. Nd
Mr. Stewart resumed the floor. and after
his two hours rest, went on with his
remarks In the same vein thar marked
his utterances earlier IN the day.
Mr.. Voorhees, interpOsed with "a motion
for executive business. remarking that
the agreement for a seven-hours' session
daily contemplated giving a short time
70 that business
The Senate. at 56. adjourned until
tomorrow at II A. M.
House Of Representative.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. Very
few members were present when fhe
House came 70 order this morning a
roll call would not have been responded 20
by more than half hundred represen-
tatives. Several leaves OF absence were
granted, among them one which PROVOKED
some merriment. As read by the eieih'
IL was terse merely saying, "Iat 9ney
REQUESTS leave of absence for one week.
Worlds Fair" The House proceeded TO
the consideration OF the report or the
Committee on Rules. granting the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs an addiuonal
clerk.
only 1e8 votes were recorded mo quo
rum) and on motion Of Mr. Cummings
OF New York. a call Of the House WAS or
dered A q,iorum was thus secured ana
the report was thus agreed 10.
The printing bni was then taken up.
Mr. Meiklej0hn Ne3) Nebraska, offered
au amendment providing that the public
printer shall pay no greater price than
dfty cents per hour for time work 10
nrinters and book binders. In the bin
the limit is fixed al forty cents per hour)
The amendment was lost, as was also
another fixing the limit al forty-fve cents
Mr.. Morse took advantage OF the latitude
allowed I'm the Committee Of the Whole
to make some derOgatory remarks
on the present conduct Of the pension bu-
reau.
without dlsposing OF the bill, the House
at 4:2O adjourned.