The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-18


at present. / consider this as one of thos'
| periods in which Legislators should leac
public opinion or even resolutely defy i
instead OF following it. Congress oUgh
! TO follow the light OF experience and sounc
science, and adopt the best plan, even i
the people were opposed TO il, and then g
out and persuade the people TO indorse it
A funny illustration of the general scare j:
found in the published figures On the gOlC
available and the statements made about il
in congress. They talk about there being
5000, 600, 600 in the country, but my opinion
is that universal search warrant woult
not discover more than 1926, coo, Co.,
Varied Plans.
The country has heard enough Of ths
Baltimore plan, the Carlisle bill, TIE
Springer substitute for the Carlisle bill
the Bland substitute, the Walker substi
tute, the Walker amendments To thG
Walker substitute and the Springer
amendments to the Springer substitute
for the Carlisle bill as well as the Sperry
substitute for all the other substitutes and
bills 1t would fatigue the memory TO even
name the minor subdivisions OF opinion on
all these measures, and in this chaotic con-
dition the house drifted toward a vote, the
Populists being the only really happy fell
lows in the business. The first day afte!
the holiday recess, but one-fourth Of the
members being present, the debate was a
tri1e dull, the speakers being Messrs.
Black of Georgia and McCreary and Beck
ner of Kentucky for the bill, and Messrs.
Haugen of Wisconsin and Adams of Penn
sylyania against it.
larry SirnpSnr, i,iactad 1ittla Sr1r bv
asking how the people of the United States
had lost $50, 600, 600 by the decline in the
price of coal, as Mr.. Adams had stated.
The latter answered according TO the al
vice of the old lawyer to ''abuse the plain
tiff's attorney" and then LATE Pence came
in with some evidence about the foreign
born miners of Pennsylvania, which stirred
up feeling and made the debate almost in
teresting. On the second day, however,
Mr. Hendrix of Brooklyn said in sub
stance: There is too much paper money.
If we are to maintain the gold basis-and
do it We must-we must fund the whole
$3.50, 600, 600 of government paper in bonds
and then uncounted millions of gold now
waiting to see what we will do will flow in
upon us from Europe. Now is the golden
opportunity, when the world has more
money than it can use. beg of you strike
while the iron is hot, while the great pools
of capital in France and Germany and
England are waiting simply for the signal
that the United States is once more all
right and intends to keep all right, to let
their Pactolian stream come over and flow
through all the veins of our commerce.
A Sensational Speech.
The sensation of the day, however, was
the speech of Hon. William Peters Hep
burn of Iowa, who spoke but 10 minutes,
but every sentence was snapper. He was
for high tariff, more silver, a subsidy to
shipping until we do all our own carrying,
and for several other things selected from
the measures advocated by various parties.
Consider this sentence, But am as firm
ly convinced as that I am alive that il
the secretary Of the treasury was now to
exercise discretion, paying out gold when
legitimate redemption is demanded and
refusing to pay it out when the sole and
only purpose is to deplete the treasury of
this country, when the desire is for ship
ment abroad, the evils that we suffer from
would cease to exist" The gem OF his
speech, however, was in the few sentences
with which he cut the balance of trade
theory into giblets. He asserted, and some
think he proved, that the balance of trade
has never been in favor of this country in
the last 80 years. His demand for more
silver money, coming from an Iowa Re-
publican, was highly significant. The ST.
lence on that point of Mr.. Dingley, who
followed, was equally significant. 1t was
the opening of the rift in that party CORE
spending with the somewhat bigger rift in
the other, and as the debate went On it
seemed to grow.
The next speaker to excite great interest
was Bourke Cochran. The temper of the
house may be judged by the fact that
when he declared in an eloquent period
that the financial question should not be
political there was q smile If not snick
er. This proposition to make every i'm
portant question nonpolitical has become
such chestnut" And during all the
week here briefly outlined there Were never
at one time 100 members in the house and
very seldom more than so.
Talk of an Extra Session.
Those who ought to know insist that
there will be an extra session of the Fifty
fourth congress, and some go so far as to
name the date-the second week in April.
OA tDt dsSuEdLCC tudb JLGIC VIII 10
plus the naval committee wants SIS, 000,
600 for three new battleships, ~ torpedo
boats and several other things, but most
of this money would not be spent till Il 500.
Both houses are toIerably liberal at pres
ent, and the appropriation bills are doing
quite as well as could be expected. The
silver men swear that Cleveland is merely
trying to scare them with the threat of
an extra session, and that they don { scare
worth a cent. They like the prospect.
They are perfectly confident that any cur
rency bill that can be passed on present
lines will be a failure, and they very nat
urally want the Republicans and gold
bugs to bear the burden of it. There is n
heap of human nature in a man If he Is a
silver Democrat Outside OF congress there
has been very singular change for the
worse. Only three weeks ago the charita-
bic societies ere rejoicing that their work
would be lioht this winter, and dealers
said that tie Christmas trade in small
articles was large. The poor people must
have spent all their money then, for now
the most appalling accounts Of suffering
are heard from every side. and there have
been several deaths from want
and cold Today, unless all the witnesses
are mistaken, the local situation i as bad
as a year ago. !. 3. PARKE
Men of Genius.
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