St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-15
BLAAD'S GAME BLOCKED.
He rs UNABLE TO CLOSE THE SILVER
DEBATE.
A QUORUM MUST BE PRESENT.

Opponents of Silver Coinage Will
Make Contest at Every Stage
of the Fight in Order to Delay
Action-They Will Refuse to
Vote Silverites Confident of
Success.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-All efforts TO
agree upon a time for closing the debate
| upon the Bland bill have so far failed,
and debate is still proceeding without
limit. Mr.. Bland will probably permit
this to go on until tomorrow night, and
there are quite number of gentlemen
who insist upon their right to be heard.
The opponents of the measure have de-
cided thatthey will insist upon a quorum
of the advocates OF the measure being
| present at every stage Of the parliment-
airy procedure hereafter, so that mo-
| tion to ose debate will require
| quorum of those who are IN favor of ii.
| There are many members of the house
who are absent at this time, and it will
probably require two days at least to
secure the attendance necessary to bring
| the bill to vote. Tomorrow it is Mr..
BANDS intention to make a motion to
close debate, and as this motion will
| probably develop the lack of quorum,
| the opponents of the bill refusing to
vote, he will then offer resolution to
| bring in absenteeS, probably Friday
| and part of Saturday and possibly still
| another day may be required to produce
| the requisite quorum. A quorum favor
| ing the bill being here, If necessary, a
| special order will be brought in to bring
| the measure to final vote.
MIR. Rayncr and some of the other
| Democrats who are leading the opposi-
tion still insist that the bill can be
beaten, but Mr.. Tracey, who is floor
leader of the opposition on the Demo-
cratic side, frankly confessed that the
bill would pass
IF IT REACHES A VOTE.
AS to whether it will be vetoed, how
ever. he gives no opinion. The debate
today was without startling incident of
any kind, the only interesting feature
of the day being question of veracity
raised between Mr.. Fithian and Mr..
Hunter as to how the latter voted on
diamonds during the tariff debate.
At the opening of the session of the
house this morning, the resignation of
Representative Brawley Is. C.),who has
been appointed United States district
judge, was read and placed on file. The
resignation took effect today.
Mr.. Hunter Qll.l rose to question of
privilege and made lengthy eXplana-
ton OF his votes Oh agricultural imple-
ments and diamonds while the tariff
bill was being considered in the COM
mittee of the whole.
Mr.. Reed lMe.) asked unanimous con-
sent that the oath be administered 70
Messrs. Quigg and Straus, the newly
elected members from New York,
whose credentials have not yet arrived.
There was no objection, and their COL
leagues, Messrs. Cummings and Dun
ply, escorted them to the bar of the
house, where they were sworn in.
Mr.. Bland then moved to go into
committee Of the whole for the further
consideration of the seigniorage bill.
Pending the motion Mr.. Bland tried to
reach an agreement with the opponents
of the bill to close general debate this
afternoon at o'clock, but MIR. Reed
called for the regular order.
Mr.. Stone (Ky.) took the floor. That.
there was deficiency in the revenues
of the government, and that there
would be larger deficiency, he said, no
one would deny.
'-sThe first section of this bill proposed
to coin surplus asset of the govern
ment to meet part Of !
THIS DEFICIENCY.
He urged that there was no virtue in
the claim set up that the seigniorage
bullion was pledged to the REDEMPTION
OF the outstanding treasury notes, as
both Secretary Foster and Secretary
Carlisle had held that those bonds were
redeemable in either gold or silver.
The sale of bonds had not nor could not
strengthen the treasury. 1t simply in
creased the obligations of the govern
ment, and made it harder for the treas
ury to meet It's obligations.
Towards the close of his remarks, Mr..
Stone became involved in controversy
with Mr.. Reed, and Mr.. Bowers, of Cal
ifornia, over party responsibility for the
Mr.. Stone declared that this Demo-
cratic congress would afford the people
relief, and that reinforced and ap-
proved Democratic majority elected to
the Fifty-fourth congress would testify
next fall to the work of this congress.
"We will rest the case on that predic-
tion," said Mr.. Reed. "If you have an
increased Democratic majority next
fall, you will be vindIcated."
Mr.. Walker (Rep., MaSs.), who fol-
lowed Mr.. Stone, declared that the
worlds standard of value, gold and sill
yer, as far as its value as international
exchange was concerned, must always
be measured by the bullion value in
gold. Silver coinage, forced by the
Democratic party, had cost the people
of the country $40,000,00O year in indi-
rect taxation.
Mr.. Walker then proceeded under a
running fire of questions from Mr..
Livingston, Mr.. Smith, of Arizona. and
Mr.. Bland, to argue that it was better
to issue bonds than to pass such a bill
as the pending measure.
During the course of MIR. Walkers
speech, Mr.. Bland and Mr.. Reed got
into an
ANGRY ALTERCATION
over the limitations of the debate. 1t
was carried on while Mr.. Hatch, who
was in the chair, was vigorously pound
| ing for order and the serge ant.at-arms
was at last called upon to see that the
| gentlemen were seated.
Continuing, Mr.. Walker read an al,
legged quotation from Mr.. Bland's speech
to demonstrate, as he said, that the re-
suit of the limitation of silver coinage
would be the debasement of the value
of silver and the depreciation of the
silver dollar. 5
Mr., Bland attempted to deny the corr
| rectness of the quotation, but Mr.. Walkss
/ or rafiaaad q 1iald ua u eaIL