The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-02-21
No Effort to Secure lie sisIation
Will be Made This Year.
NO EXTRA SESSION WANTED
Senator Daniel Tells Of the Fulfill
ment Of His Prophecy When
the Sherman Act was Re-
peaIed, Naval Appro-
priations in House.
By Southern Associated Press.

regular hour OF meeting until the
Attn OF March next. There was n
fair attendance of Senators in the
Chamber when the proceedings
opened.
The Vice-President having laid
before the Senate tho resolution
offered last night by Mr.. Wolcott,
declaring 1t as the sense of the Sen.
nte that the consideration of the
Silver bill should not be entered
upon Mt this session OF Congress,
MIR. Jones, of Arkansas, who had
charge OF that bill, snid
81 wish to say that tho friends Of
the regular order-the pending sill.
yer blli-haye no disposition to IN.
cur the risk of an extra session. We
SO stated ut the beginning. Devel
| opments have shown that while the
friends of the measure have mn.
Jority in this body, ii Is impossible
to pass the bill Mt tho present day
OF tho session without incurrinp n
very grave danger to the npproprin.
ton bills aud m extra session, I'm
der these circumstances the friends
OF the silver measure have author.
lied me to say that they will not
further proceed at this session of
Congress.
No comment was made on the an.
nouucement.
Other business having interviewed
the silver bill was made the text for
speech by MIR. Higgins, who re
ferred to its status as legislation let
alone, and said that Nil that the bill
| amounted to-inasmuch rs it could
not become p law-wns d claration
of policy and that the resolution of
the Senator from Colorado meant
just the same thing.
Mr.. Higgins speech was inter
rupted ut II o'clock by the vice
president. who announced the closing
oi the morning hour and the taking
up OF the unfinished business. being
the Silver bill; but Mr.. Gormnn
moved that the Senate proceed to
the consideration of the Indian Ap-
propriation bill, and Mr.. Butler,
who desired to 60 on with the Pool
ing bill, demanded the yeas and
nays. Tho vote was taken and the
motion was agreed to-yeas 80,
nays -.
The effect of the vote was to dis.
place the silver bill-remitting it to
the calendar-nnd to bring the In.
dian Appropriation bill before the
Senate. On this bill Mir. Higgins
resumed the floor and went on with
the delivery of his speech on the
Jones Silver hill and argument.
MIR. Chandler next addressed the
Senate upon the Silver bill and
against the Wolcott resolution.
MIR. Daniel replied to the speech
Of MIR. Higgins. which was, he said,
dismal and pitifnl picture of the
distress now pervading the civilized
world. That distress, Mr.. Daniel
said, was widespread, he might say,
from Greepland's icy mountains TO
midas coral strand" While the
Senator had called attention to a
starving Manchester and to a de-
graded India, he told the Senate
but little OF the distress which per
vnded his own country III couse-
qnence OF the lll-conceived and ILL
considered action of Congress IN re-
peHllns the purchase clause of the
Sherman act.
Not single prophecy of those
which were made by the friends OF
that repeal had been filled; but the
predictions which he (Mr. Daniel
had then stated i'll his argument
against the repeal had been fulfilled.
He had predicted that the uncondl-
tional repeal of the purchase clause
OF the Sherman law would be fol
lowed by II decline in the price of
silver, by further decline in the
prices OF property, bonds and secu
rites, ana by un attempt to retire
the greenbacks, and ali theae predic.
tons had been fulfilled. The Dem
ocratic party, which hair pledged
itself to the coinage of both gold
and silver and to the repeal of the
tax on State banks, had failed to
keep It's pledge, aud would now "be
| deprived of power without ever be .
| ing Ill power.
The regular consideration Of the
Indian Appropriation bill was then
proceeded with. n the course OF
the debate Mr.. Chandler made n
| second speech on an amendment to
the Indian Appropriation oil, TO
the point that all amendments pro
posing general legislation on appro.
prlation bills were reported by tho
Committee on Appropriations with
the design aud purpose OF provoking
discussion, preventing the passage
of the appropriation bills ana thus
necessitating the holding OF an extra