The morning call., 1895-02-15

UeSh anu having ItdO, dlIliO IOdAS VI Id IL
ter, some extracts from Hoods poems:
The golden ass, or golden bull,
Was English John with his pockets full.
Then a war by land and water,
While beef and mutton and other meat
Were almost as dear as money to eat,
And farmers reaped golden harvests of wheat,
At the Lord knows what per quarter.
And concluding with the well-known
lines of the moral beginning:
Gold, gold, gold,
Bright and yellow, hard and cold;
Heavy to get and light to holdj
Hoarded and bartered, bought and sold.
Simpson opposed the resolution in a
short speech.
After some further remarks by Hulick
(R.) of Ohio, Wheeler (D.) of Alabama,
and Northway (R.) of Ohio, against the
bill, Bland, the silver advocate, took
the floor, and in ringing sentences appealed
10 the House not to surrender to the gold
kings. If this resolution passed, Bland
declared that the Government would forfeit
its right to the coin of silver.
Springer insisted that the only question
at issue was whether Congress would save
TO the taxpayers SIG, 900 900.
Turner CD of Georgia, member of the
Ways and Means Committee, yielded by
Reed, made a strong speech in favor of
the resolution, the burden of which it was
the duty of the Government, under its
plighted faith at whatever cost, TO main
tain the parity of all its currency.
Hatch Cd of Missouri, in five-minute
speech, aroused the currency opponents of
the resolution TO great enthusiasm. He
had but little time, he said, to explain
why he was to be pall-bearer at this
financial funeral. In word it was be-
cause the passage of the resolution would
make every debtor in the United States
pay his debt in gold. He read, amid much
demonstration, letter addressed by ex-
Governor Proctor Knott of Kentucky to
Senator Blackburn Cd of Kentucky, in
which Knott characterized the pending
proposition ''as the last insolent demand
OF the goldites."
''They do not seem to want to leave us
a hereafter. Whenever the Government
agrees to pay gold silver is doomed for all
eternity. As Judge Forbes said to Johnny
Moore, "Good-by, world; howdy, hell"
[Laughter.]
The Speaker then called on the afima-
tive side to occupy some of their time. No
one arose and for an instant it looked as if
the advocates of the resolution were ex-
haUsted. But Cooper (D.) of Florida took
the floor and in fervid tones denounced
those whe were trying to scuttle the ship
of state"
w. A. Stone (R.) of Pennsylvania said
he could not see why Republicans should
not vote for the resolution, although they
were not blamed for the bad management
that had brought about the difficulty. To
refuse to make the bonds payable in gold
would be TO spite the country. The Presi-
dent had twice appealed to the patriotism
of the Republican party and that appeal
had never been made in vain. They should
respond again.
Hepburn (R.) of Iowa said the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania proposed to
20 back on the whole policy OF his party
that had always pledged itself to maintain
gold and silver at parity. The Secretary
Of the Treasury was reported to have said
to the Committee on Ways and Means
that if the gold proviso was put into this
issue of bonds it must go into every future
issue, do you propose to do that?" he
asked, and there cries of "No, no"
After reading the plank of the last
national Democratic platform for bimetal-
ism, he said:
Mr.. Speaker, l can imagine that your
heart has been warmed many times by
that ringing sentence, whereat there was
great applause and laughter.
After reading the plank of the Republi-
can platform for bimetallism he declared
that there was no difference between
moral and legal obligations; that there
was not debt of the Government that
could not honestly be paid in silver.
Bryan Cd of Nebraska made a half
hour speech against the resolution, the
passage of which, he began by saying.
would withdraw $65, 100000 from circula-
ton. "The President of the United
States" he said, sis human being"
"But it has been failure. 1t always
will be failure. We not only send our
property West but we send our children
there, and no man who crosses from East
to West can fail to be struck by the fact
that there is after all a unity of sentiment
between the two sections of the country
that no language will ever blot out or
destroy. The Southern and Northern
Democrats may not be able to live to-
gether. L am glad they are not able to
live together. But L say to you the Re-
publicans of the East and of the West and
of the North and South have thus far
found some method of living together, and
they will in the future. Applause on the
Republican side.
"Now let me address myself to the COM
paratively small matter at hand. Laugh
ter I have witnessed periods of great
emotion and had noticed that it very
often happens in the history of this House
and this country, that even events which
seem to be very stirring and striking and
to portend a tremendous future are not
thought much of fortnight after their oc-
currence 1 admit, however, the import
ance in many ways of the proceedings of
this House at this time. | wish the results
were not foregone conclusion. / wish
there was something more than language
left to us to-day. But that being all there
is really at stake, as the matter will turn
sut as gentlemen know, it seems to me