Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-10
THE BLAND BILL HATED.
Even if It Is Passed It Will Prob
 ably Be Vetoed.
CONGRESSMAN HoUK OF OHIO DEAD
Senatorial subcommittee Working Hard on the Tariff Bill and Expects to Finish It In a week-Changes Will Not Be So Radical as at First Supposed.

on the Tariff Bill and Expects to Finish
 It In a week-Changes Will Not Be So
 Radical as at First Supposed.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. IO.-The entire day in the house was consumed in debate on the Bland silver segniUrage bill, the speak CTS being Mrssrs. Bland, C. w. Stone of Pennsylvania, McKeghan, Harter and Kill gore.
 At the conclusion of Mir MCkeighan's speech, which consumed an hour and q half, Mir Harter of Ohio took the floor in opposition to the bill.
 There was, he said, little place for senti- ment in the discussion of this bill, but an abundant opportunity for the exercise of common sense. The United States had bid goodby to the coinage of silver Both sides of the house should unite in upholding the honor, credit and dignity of the govern ment. It was unfortunate that gentlemen insisted on practicng politics when they ought to practice statesmauship.
 Mir. Richardson of Michigan wanted to know, if there was nothing behind the treasury notes except the gold reserve, why the bullion should not be coined for their redemption.
 MT. Harter replied that behind the treas ury notes was only bookkeeping credit. It was not credit that could redeem obli- Cations in the markets of the world. To add S55, GOO, 900 to the gigantic obligations of the government was proposition hard to match outside the walls of a madhOuse.
 If the ship of state was laundering, light en some of the cargo. Don't increase the burden she must carry. If politics was eliminated, if members would vote their honest convictions, it would be easy to re- heve the treasury. There were three means of relieving the treasury, any of which in the long run would suffice. The first was by economy in the expenditures of the gov ernment. Let us begin," said Mir. liar ter, by reducing salaries p per cent, in Cluding our own"
 Wheat Follows Silver.
 Did you vote for extra mileage for your self?" asked Mir. Bland.
 "I did. 1 voted for it on the ground that l had as much right to it as any one else . Laughter
 The papers today" said Mir. Sibley of Pennsylvania, iuterruptinX Mir. Harter, ''announced that silver had touched the lowest point in its history, and the same papers showed that wheat was never so low. Wheat and silver have maintained a parity The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Harter) told the house last summer that the repeal of the sherman law would be followed by a revival of prosperity and high prices
 And today we see the result of his prophecy" added Mir Bland, supplement tary to Mir. Sibley's remark.
 The country was saved disastrous con sequences at least" replied Mr Harter, turning to Mir Bland. Tt would have been worse if We had taken your advice.'
 You don't know that" retorted Mr. Bland "and we do know the result of your prophecy"
 Mir Harter created some amusement by his reference to the manner in which the Democratic party was delineated in the comic papers as jackass He thought it was perfectly fair, perhaps, for Republican papers to portray the Democracy a jackass, but he did not see why, when a proposition like the Bland bill was brought into the house, Democrats should flap their arms and bray to show that they were jackasses.
 Mir kilgore of Texas, who made the con- cluding argument of the afternoon, con tended that if the government was in need of money it was better to coin the silver seigniorage than to borrow money and pay interest upon the loan. Without cOmplet- ing his speech Mir. kilgore yielded to a motion that the committee rise. Then the house adjourned.
 Veto of the Silver Bill Expected.
 The debate will be interrupted today at 2 o'clock by the special order setting aside the rest of the day for eulogies upon the late Representative O'Neill of Pennsylva- mia. It is expected that vote on the bill will be reached by Tuesday at the furthest, and Mir. Bland is confident that it will pass This opinion is generally shared by the leaders on both sides, although there probably will be some notifications of the bill that will make it more acceptable to the Democrats who are now opposing it.
 Leading opponents of the bill express confidence today that President Cleve- land will veto the bill if passed by con- gress. The friends of the measure have also been alive to this emergency and have discussed the desirability of holding a eau GUS at which mutual agreements could be made to amending the bill so that il would avoid the chances of a veto. Rep resentative Black of Georgia was instru- mental in getting up the caucus. He says the primary purpose was to get a voting quorum of Democrats in the house, but that ill the event of a caucus the whole scope of the bill and the means of perfect. ing it so as to avoid congressional and ex eCutive friction would be considered.