Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-20
IN THE SENATE.
Story OF Jones' Silver Bill on the Road IL
Certain Defeat.

Washington, Feb. 19.--In the Senate,
the bill appropriating $40, 600 to be ex-
pended by the Maryland Society of the
American Revolution, to aid in creating
in Baltimore suitable monument to the
memory of patriots who aided in estab-
fishing the independence of the United
| States, was passed.
| Call presented a $40 .noria. to Congress
of 1.-The Worlds Arbitration League, ~
signed by Bishop Newman as president,
and with the signatures of $50 members
of the British Parliament, and asked that
it be printed in the Record. 1t was so
ordered. Wilson, the new senator from
the state of Washington, was sworn in,
thus completing the full Senate member
shie CT SO. A motion by German for the
daily sessions to begin at II from tomor-
row, was agreed to- ftr
Jones moved that the Senate proceed
with the regular order, the silver bill.
Agreed to, SO to 27. The bill was read in
full and Jones suggested that an hour be
fixed for today for taking final vote on
its passage.
Hale objected and suggested that it was
not good public policy to bring up at
this period of the session bill which
would necessarily lead to a long debate
and might perhaps endangcr the passage
of the appropriation bills, and would thus
result in an extra session.
Jones said that there was not q senator
who did not know now how every Other
senator would vote, and the discussion
would change nobodys conviction. The
friends of the measure were willing to
have vote now. If the opponents of the
bill saw fit to discuss it, its friends could
not help that. Jones added that he did
not propose to jeopardize any appropria-
ton bill.
Harris asked Hale whether he could
name any number of hours that the oppo-
nents of the bill would wish to debate it.
60 have heard the senator ask that ques-
ton good many times, - said Hale, in
reference to other bills, (moaning the
tariff and the bill to repeal the Sherman
act), but it is not, l must say, a real per-
tinent, square question.
"Will the senator from Maine" Harris
asked, sarcastically, Suggest to me how
| can square the question better than /
have squared it,
Hale, without replying, spoke of the
readiness of the majority to charge dila-
that the senator from Arkansas who was
managing the bill, would manage il
carefully, and he was ready to trust him
Does the senator believe, Jones asked,
chat any amount of debate would change
a vote if it continued for a month";
THAT may be true, said Hale, "about
almost everything we discuss and debate "
"Then | can see no reason" Jones
urged why the Senate should not vote
now
Aldrich remarked that no senator and
no person in the United States expected
this bill to become a law Therefore the
time given it would be entirely wasted
Innumerable amendments would have to
be offered to the bill. and would have to
be discussed If it could be any real
benefit to the country, or if any result
was to be reach FL, by pressing the bill to
its consideration, that would be one
thing. The senator from Arkansas had
to admit that he did not expect the bill to
pass the House or receive Executive APP
prevail Therefore it came with i'll grace.
Aldrich said. from the friends of the bill
to suggest that bill of such Importance
be hurried through with without discus
sion
Gray said the country expected, and
would demand that measure so iInpor-
tant and far-reaching as this bill should
not be passed without an exposition Of the
objections TO it. Ii will be necessary to
inouire why it was, after having spent the
long. weary weeks of the summer of 1893,
in an effort torepeal the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act, the same Congress IS
to be as ked to restore the purchasing clause
in an intensified form.
Jones said there was nopower to cut oil