Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-27
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Oct. q, 1898.
SENATE.

Promptly at II o'clock this MOI hing
the Vice President tapped his desk
with the gavel and announced that the
Senate resumed its session Ce.erriug to
that which began on Tuesday the 10Th,
and has continued ever since). Hethen.
without an instant's pau.e, announced
that he laid before the Senate the IN
finished business, being House bill No.
(the silver purchase repeal bilD. AT
tits time there were but few demo-
cratic Senators present, although
many of the most distinguished on the
republican side were in their seats, in
Guiding Mr.. Sherman, who was one of
the first to enter the hall this morning,
and Mr. Morrill,, who made his appear
ance for the first time since he left the
city on leave of absence about two
months ago.
The absence of quorum having
been suggested the roll was called and
Al Senators answered.
A bill was passed to aid the States of
California, Oregon, Washington, Mon
tana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colo
RADIO and South Dakota to support
schools of mines following to each of
them % per cent. of the proceeds of the
sale of mineral lands within those
States, but not to exceed $4,000 per
year,.
The debate on the silver purchase re-
peal bill was then, at 11:40, resumed
and Mr.. Stewart began again his talk
upon bimetallism.
There were, he said, various kinds
of bimetalists. There were some SEN
ators who boosted that under no cir
cumstances could they be seduced into
surrender of their high standard Of
bimetallic views. These Senators when
they met the chief executive, that all
powerful hero of mopomctalism who
welded not only legislative but execu-
tive authority, had boldly informed him
that no argument of his could induce
them to surrender one iota of their
stern bimetallic virtue. They had got
up compromise amendments which
were kind of legislative cuttletish.
There were two or three such amend
ments. He believed that the Senator
from West Virginia (Mr. Faulkner)
was entitled to the credit of making the
first discovery that such legislative
cuttlefsh could be invented. The Sen
ator from Washington (Mr. Squire) had
also invented one. These legislative
cuttlefsh would be very useful to SEN
ators in the next campaign.
The cuttlef5h had way of hiding
itself from attack from the emission of
q black fluid which colored the water.
The Senators who had got up these
e5slative cultlefsh would use them
vigorously in the next campaign. They
would 50 muddy the water as to blind
the eyes of their constituents. Tricks
of that kind which one might suppose
would be vain succeeded sometimes.
After some more talk of this kind an
amusing colloquy sprung up between
Mr.. Stewart on the one side
and Nj. Carey and Mr.. Dolph
on the other. For some time
questions and answers came rapidly
but the senatorial antagonists could not
succeed in understanding each other
Mr.. Carey characterized Mr.. Stewart
as a monometallist and Mr.. Stewart
told him that be was mistaken and did
not know what bi-meuallism meant. His
creed on hat point was laid down by
Mr.. Carey, and was to the effect that if
the country went to the free coinage of
silver, and if gold was thus driver out
of use the silver would become the ex
elusive standard and the country would
be, for all practical purposes, on sin
gle silver standard. That exposition
of Mr.. Cary's belief showed Mr.. Stew
art chow little the Senator from Wy
oming had thought upon the subject"
[Laughter.l ''Bimetallsm," he add
ed, twas having the minis open to both
metals"
cat what ratio ?" Mr.. Carey asked.
"At the ratio of 16 to l." Mr.. Stew
art replied; aud he added, ';You say
that the consequence will be That gold
will not go out uotil we have got silver
coin enough to take its place, aud that
will take so many years that gold
will probably be cheap before that
time" At this stage of the controversy
Mr.. Dolph managed to get into it,
and made point against Mr..
Stewart for not insisting on the
old ratio of Is to !. After talking
some time, with numerous vain at
tempts on the part of Mr.. Stewart to
stop him, the latter finally said: evil
you give me a moment now" Mr..
Dolph yielded, with parting shaft
aimed at the Nevada Senator, 'swho
had,n he admitted, "a right to be heard