The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-27
Voorhees, and the Lesser Lights Did Not
Think the President Would OPP
pose the Bland Bill.
NOW THERE is A LOUD Wall
With Predictions that the Party
Will Go to the Bad.
Mr.. Cooper Adds to the Woe by Saying
'Unwashed" Hoosiers Object to the
Senate Tariff Bill.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, March 26. - There ~
moaning and weeping among the Demo-
cratic members of the Indiana delegation
in Congress over the announcement that
President Cleveland will veto the Bland
silver seigniorage bill. All of the eleven
Democrats in the House and both OF the
Senators from Indiana voted for the Bland
bill. They pronounced il in private con-
versat ton "a measure of no consequence"
but thought it would satisfy the silver
howlers." Most of them had voted against
the free coinage bills and supported the
repeal of the Sherman silver purchasing
law, and they were eager to square them
selves with their silver constituents. They
were pleased over the opportunity presented
in the seigniorage bill. 1t was not a free
silver measure. yet it proposed silver COIN
age. 1t was. they thought, a vague, indef-
mite proposition which would let them out
of their hole. And now it Is to be vetoed.
The very thought has broken thirteen DEM
ocratic hearts in Congress from Indiana.
Senator Voorhees, is railing mad; he is left
in a terrible predicament
1t transpires that the coming here last
week of banker Charles McCulloch, OF Fort
Wayne, was at the suggestion Of Repre-
sentative McNagny who feels that the veto
of the Bland bill will insure his defeat
at the polls next November. Mr.. McNagny
went to the President with banker McCul-
loch and a number of other Hoosiers on
Saturday to urge him to sign the bill or
permit it to become law without his sig
nature. Mr.. McCulloch related to Mr..
Cleveland how he could look out of his
bank window at any time and see hundreds
of the unemployed on the streets of Fort
Wayne, and how the practical demonetiza-
ton of silver by the party in power was
responsible for ii, together with prospective
free trade He warned the President that
If the bill was vetoed Indiana would be
carried by an overwhelming majority next
fall by the Republicans, but he could see
harmony In the Democratic ranks and
Democratic success if this bill became law.
When banker McCulloch had made his
statement President Cleveland indicated his
intention to veto the bill. He was for
sound money, he said. and opposed TO fur
ther silver legislation If he had thought
it wise or proper to coin the seigniora ge
he believed he had the authority already
to do it. The Bland bill was. he said. hasti-
ly and carelessly drawn. Its provision re-
specting redemptions were vicious, If not
absolutely destructive. He said IL con-
tained no provision for the gold reserve.
and If the bill became law the treasury
would soon be embarrassed. He condemned
the bill and he condemned silver. He did
not say so directly, but he good as said
he would use his veto power on this meas
ure
There has been blue lot of Indiana Dem
ocrats in Washington since Saturdays call
upon the President Some Of the dele
CATION have been so mad that they have
not dared to see the President, fearing their
wrath would overcome their discretion. IL
was suggested to banker McCulloch. after
the call upon the President, that his father.
ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh Nc
Culloch. could WELD an influence over the
President, and that IL would be advisable
for the son to send the father to the White
House The banker blushed. He sought
excuses for his father ec e,o He said & the old
mot taking an interest in public affairs
now" 1t was stated TO the Journal cor
teriy opposed to the Bland bill, and that
If he should call upon the President 1t
would be to urge veto. The Hoosier
Washington tonight, and ii will be no sur
prise if those who have not already done
so should peremptoriy refuse to make an
other race for Congress. Not one OF them
feels secure in the coming contest.
Representauve Cooper has just returned
additional news Of a discouraging nature.
He says he found more opposition to the
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the Wilson tariff bill than he found support
for the Bland seigniorage bill Mr.. Coop
erS private advice and information for his
Democratic colleagues bearing upon the
condition Of affairs at home have not a
ray Of hope In them He says the Demo-
cra.s IN MS dlstrlct are LOT the tarlH Dill
Of all opposed to the trusts which the Sem
ate amendments propose TO favor and fos-
ter; that they want free sugar, iron, coal.
wool and the duties fixed upon certain ar
ticles by the House bill which have been
raised by Chairman Voorhees, committee.
Mr.. Cooper believes Senator voorhees, has
committed political hara-kiri by advocating
the changes made in the Wilson bill He
declares the House will never consent to
the Senate amendments, and anticipates a
long contest and the defeat OF the work
of the upper branch Of Congress. The views
of Mr.. Cooper, IL may be observed, are
those OF all Of the other Democratic men,
bers of the House from Indiana They be-
lieve Senator Voorhees, political doom is
sealed, and that he has driven nails in their
own political coffins.