Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-21

WOulQ not uO 10 permit the democratic party and the republican party in the
 senate to take off all the glory and honor | incident to the Monroe doctrine. It was | necessary that the populist party should | have standing in the matter Thus real
 izing that fact, the resolution had been 1 prepared, as money was essential to war. Mir Platt moved to refer the resolution | to the committee on finance. Defeated yeas 24, nays 36, as follows: Yeas:
 Messrs. Allison, Brice. Burrows, Caffery, Cameron, Chandler, Gallinger, German, 1 Hale, Hawley, Lodge, McMillan, Martin,
 Mills. Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill,, | Platt, Proctor Quay. Sewell, Sherman, | Smith, Thurston, Wetmore-24
 | Nays-Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Baker.
 Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Butler, Call, | Carter, Chiffon, Clark, Cockrell, Dubois,
 Gibson, Harris, Jones of Arkansas, Jones
 of Nevada, Kyle, Mantle, Mitchell of Or l egon, Morgan, Nelson, Pasco Peffer,
 Perkins, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Roach, | Stewart, Teller, Tillman, Vest, Voorhees, | Walthall, Warren, Wilson-36 | The resolution was then agreed to, MT. | Allen having withdrawn the preamble. | It now reads:
 | Resolved, That the committee on | finance be and they are hereby directed | and instructed to inquire and report by | bill or otherwise whether 1t would not i be expedient and proper for the govern
 ment of the United States of America at | this time to open it's hints to free and | unlimited coinage of gold and silver at | the ratio of 16 to 1, and in addition there | to issue an adequate volume of full legal | tender treasury notes in the same man. | ner such notes have heretofore been ts- | sued and in the interest of national safe
 ty withdraw the issue power of national
 banks and retire all bank currency"
 The next business laid before the sen | ate was the Venezuelan commission bill
 and that was not disposed of until 345 | D. m. After that hour the senate pro- | ceeded to executive business and when | the doors were opened at 4:3O the presld-
 ing officer laid before the senate the pres | ident'S message asking that no recess be
 taken until after financial legislation | necessary to preserve the credit of the | government had been enacted.
 T move that the senate do now ad- | journ,'' said MT. Cockrell as soon as the
 reading of the message was concluded Why" said MT. Hawley, "I expected | that some serious consideration would | be given to this most important message
 by our democratic friends"
 We want time to consider it," MT. | Cockrell bluntly rejonded.
 And then, at 4:40 D. m., the senate ad- l journed.
 . The Message Coldly Received. | The secret session of the senate today | was noted more for the matters dis | cussed that were not strictly legislative | in their character than for anything else.
  | other nominations made during the re-
 cess of congress were confirmed. | It was the intention of the senate to | clean up as many of these nominations | as possible and take recess from the
 somewhat exciting debates of the day. l While the doors were closed MT. Cock | rell, democrat, of Missouri, called up the l house resolution providing for holiday
 recess from today till January 3, and | suggested that the date be changed to l a adionrO from tomorrow until January O, Mr Chandler, republican, of New | Hampshire, opposed adjourning tomor- | row. It was the first time in the history | of the senate, he thought, when that 1 body had adjourned over the holidays l with 100 vacancies on it's committees. | Then, too, there had been a great deal | said within the last few days about the | importance of the crisis that was now | upon the country, and there was a good | deal of talk about foreign questions. He | asked what would be said if the senate | thus ran away.
 | A number of other republicans urged | that the senate remain in session until
 next Tuesday, by which time they hoped | the democrats would have agreed upon l their representation on the committees | of the senate, and the committees could 1 thus be reorganized before the members | left for the holidays.
 l MT. German and MT. Cockrell of the democratic steering committee told their | republican associates that they could not l get ready by Tuesday and there was no | use for the republicans to hope that they | could secure the committees before the holidays. The republicans, they said, | had taken three weeks in which to do | their work, and it was not to be expected | that the democrats could do theirs in as | many days.
 l It being apparent that the democrats | had taken determined stand on this l matter, and the all-important Venezue- l Ian resolution having been passed, there | appeared to be no good reason why the l republicans should press the matter any l further, and they consented that the matter go over until after recess without | further debate.
 | MT. Cockrell then moved an adjourn ment.
 | MT. Faulkner democrat, of West Vir- | ginia, said he had received telephone | mssage from MT. Thurber that a commit | nication from the president was on it's | way to the capitol, and suggested that it | would be well to wait and see what it l contained.
 MT. Chandler thought it would be we'll | before the resolution of adjournment was sent to the house to wait and see what l the message was that the president was | to send to the senate, flor that message l may create a crisis in public affairs that will make it important for us to stay l here" added he.
 | MT. Cockrell-Oh. there is no danger of | a crisis.
 | MT. Chandler--How are we to know | there is no danger of crisis? Mir. Cockrel-In the very nature of | the condition of this country and this | people no crisis is possible.
 l Mir Chandler-But how improper 1t | will be to pass a resolution for adjourn | ment for fortnight when we are espec- | ially requested to remain in session until his excellency. the president, will send us l a special communication, Wh1cn no one | knows anything about
 l MT. Chandler then moved to reconsider | the vote and the adjournment resolution was agreed to, and on motion of MT. | Cockrell that motion was laid on the | table-ayes 32. nays not counted | The doors were opened as the presi- l dents message had arrived, but many | senators had already departed from the
 building. MT. Cox the secretary of the | senate. made several stumbles in his | reading, and the senators, evidently ir- l ritated. called upon him to repeat several words that he mispronounced in order | that their meaning could be grasped. It was finally completed, but in a manner