The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-02-27
FOR FREE SILVER.
That i, the Way the l'nited States Senatc
Stands.

WASHINGTON, Feb 2l.-ln accord
ance with the order made Thursday,
the Senate met today at II o'clock,
winch is to be the regular hour Of
meeting till the 4th Of March next.
There was fair attendance Of Sena-
tors in the chamber when the pro-
ceedings opened The Vice President
having laid before the Senate the res
oi4tion offered last night by Mr.. VOL
colt, declaring :. 22s the sense of the
Senate that consideration of the sill
yer bill should not be entered upon at
| this session of Congress, Mr.. Jones
lDem.) of Arkansas. who has charge
of that bill, said: L wish to say that
the friends of the regular order-the
pending silver bill-have no disposi-
ton to incur the risk Of an extra ses-
sion. We so stated at the beginning.
Developments have shown that while
the friends of the measure have ma
iority in this body, it is impossible to
pass the bill at the present late day of
the session without. incurring very
grave danger to the appropriation bills
and an extra session. Under these cir
cumstances, the friends of the silver
measure have authorized me tosay that
they will not further proceed at this
session of Congress.
No comment was made on this an
nouncement by any Senator and no
formal action was taken on the reso-
luton.
Other business having interviewed,
the silver bill was made the text of a
speech by Mr.. Higgins (Rep.) of Della
ware. who referred to its status as
Legislation let alone" and said thatall
the bill amounted to-inasmuch as !,
could not becorae a law was decla-
ration of policy and that theresolution
of the Senator from Colorado meant
Just the same thing.
Mr.. Higgins speech was interrupted
at u Q clock by the Vice President, who
announced the close of the morn
ing hour and the taking up Of the un-
finished business, being thesilver bill.
Let it be laid aside informally"
Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas, suggested,
80 as to allow the Senator for Della
| ware to conclude his remarks.
Il must appeal to the Senator from
Delaware, Mr.. German broke in, 'as
well as to the Senator from Arkansas.
to cease this discussion at this time.
AL the great appropriation bills are
pending in the Senate Or in commit
tee, and it Will be almost impossible to
have fair consideration of them unless
we begin now. I must appeal to the
Senator from Delaware in the public
interest to give way and to permit
me to make.a motion that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of the In
dian appropriation bill.
After further discussion, Mr.. Cor
man made his motion, and Mr. Butler
who desired to 60 on with the pooling
bill, demanded the yeas and nays.
The vote was taken and the motion
agreed to-yeas 55, nays II. The
negative votes were given by Senators
Blanchard, Butler, Camden, Cameron,
Faulkner, Hunton, Jones Of Arkansas,
Lindsay, Martin, Mitchell of Wlscon.
sin, Quay and Wolcott. The effect of
the vote was to displace the silver
bill-remitting ito the calendar-and
to bring the Indian appropriation Dill
before the Senate. On this bill Mr..
Higgins resumed the floor and went
on with the delivery Of his speech on
the Jones silver bill and against it.
Mr.. Chandler next addressed the
Senate, not upon the Indian appro-
pr;ation bill. however. but upon the
silver bill and against the Woicott
resolution.
Mr.. Daniel replied to the speech OF
Mr.. Higgins, which was, he. said, a
dismal and pitiful picture of the dis,
tress now pervading the civilized
world. That distress, Mr. Daniel said,
/ was widespread. He might say:
From Greenland's icy mountains
To Indias coral strand.
While that Senator had called at
tention to a starving Manchester and
| to degraded India he had told the
Senator but little of the distress
which pervaded his own country in
consequence of the ill-conceived and
ill-considered action of Congress in re-
pealing the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act. Not single prophecy
which was made by the friends Of
that repeal had been fulfilled, but the
predictions which he (Mr. Daniel had
then stated in his argument against
the repeal had been fulfilled. He had
predicted that the unconstitutional re-
peal of the purchasing clause OF the
Sherman law would be followed by
decline in the price of silver, by a
further decline in the prices of prop
erty, bonds and securities, and by an
attempt to retire the greenbacks; and
all these predictions had been fulfilled;
The Democratic party, which had
pledged itself to the coinage OF both
gold and silver and to the repeal OF
the tax on State banks, had failed to
keep its pledge, and would now be
deprived of power, without ever be-
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