Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-12-14
MIR. MorrilI's Speech.

Senator Morrill,, Wednesday, proceed
ed to address the Senate upon "SOme
Marvellous Senatorial Bills and Quack
Panaceas for Real and Imaginary Griev-
| ances," referred to the nine Senate bills
which he had been directed by the COM
mittee on finance to report adversely, and
| to ask for their indefinite postponement
In order that the Senate might have some
conception of these bills, he asked the
clerk to read the list presented by their
number and titles, with such additional
words as would indicate their leading
propositions.
Senator Morrill, then said: There are
three more bills now lying on the table,
half born, like Millions king of beasts,
paving to get free their hinder parts
with the umbilical cord not yet severed;
and will ask the clerk also to read this
list, from which they will be seen to
have a mOrganatic connection with those
already presented, though it may not be
acknowledged"
The following were then read by the
clerk:
A bill to appropriate $6,30O,OOO for i'm
mediate use in relieving want and desti-
tuition, but not to exceed in any state 81
for every ten inhabitants.
A bill to establish a bureau of loans on
real estate and personal property, and
the issue of treasury notes equal in
amount to 81, 80 for every dollars worth
of gold and silver coins and bullion be-
longing or coming into the possession of
the United States, except the redemption
fund (estimated), $500, 900.
A bill to provide for the immediate is
sue and circulation of $3.50, 0,000, 900 of
treasury notes. The Senator then pro-
ceeded to make some vigorous COM
ments.
ut is hardly necessary to say" he re-
marked, "that these hungry bills, big,
bigger and bigest nine of them, asking
for nine or ten times more money than
there is now IN use by the whole world,
were unanimously reported adversely by
the committee ON finance. Nothing
more, as the committee conceived, could
have been expected, saving brief post
mortem obituaries. The bills, many of
them, may have been reluctantly intro
duced by request and, therefore, not
very tenderly nursed, even by their able
and eminent godfather. Responsibility
for such eccen'ricities ought not to be
asked of senators, and should any mem.
Der be charged with their real author
ship, hope he would be able to plead in
defense an alibi.
mo one who reads these bills will
need to be bored by further arguments
for their condemnation without benefit
of clergy. do suppose there are more
vagaries or political tomfooleries put
atloat here than in any other country.
Occasionally they come forth here with
out fatherhood, frisk about a few davs
and then disappear, leaving no bubbles
in sight to show where they sank. We
also have some pushing, fanatical theo.
ries wearing the mask of political re-
form, and as sure to give the world the
millennium, and not more so than was
the philosophers stone to turn everything
it touched into gold.
"a synopsis of crotchety creed, as
propagated by the governors of Kansas
and Colorado, and in second hand use by
such brotherly sharatans as Coxev and
Debs, may be briefly epitomized as fol-
lows
"First-The government must reduce
the standard of a silver dollar to 80 cents
worth or less of silver and coin paper de-
claratOry money for circulation not less
than $1,000 per capita.
"Second-The government must issue
declaratory money and call in all bonds,
and loan without interest $500, ,OOO, 900 in
paper money to such persons as the Shy.