The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-06
GREENBACKS, COLO AND SILVER.
Another Day of Debate on the
Currency Bill.
Cochran Conspicuous in His Oppo.
sitiOn:
Sharp and Exciting Parties Between the
Dsbaters-why oatchines Favsrs
CariisIs's Plan

By THE HERALD's Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-ARother day il
the house was consumed by debate owe
the Carlisle currency plan, in whicl
Representative Cochran of New Yorl
was the most conspicuous figure
Mr.. Cochran held the floor for more thar
an hour. and spoke with his accus TONED
vigor and eloquence. provoking man.
questions from the opposition and hold
ing the attention of the members snt
the galleries throughout He opposed
the bill and declared himeelf in favor o.
the Baltimore plan.
Mr.. Lacey, Republican OF Iowa. also
spoke in opposition, while Mr.. Boatner,
Democrat Of Louisiana, and Mr.. Catch
ings, Democrat of Mississippi, exhorted
the party to unite in support OF the
measure.
In the course of Boatner's speech
Bland put several questions to show
thst the administration had adopted a
gold policy, and finally declared that its
financial policy was q fraud. Boatner
asked If Bland had not been a supporter
paigu, whereupon Bland responded that
he hSd supported the platform and had
: voted ior the candidates, and the party
had gone down In ignominioua defeat
for its tleachery and fraud.
Pence brought up Secretary Carlisle's
advocacy of silver while member OF
the houee in supporting Mathews
resolution, and asked if soon after ac-
: espting the treasury portfolio be had
NOS announced his intention Of paying
some of the government obligations in
silver and had not been ''called down."
Boatner replied that it was useless to
revive free silver a. factor Of the cur
fsncy question.
Bland rstorted: "You can't run the
Democratic party on Republican lines.
and no mugwump can change its
policy"
Boatner continued that it was the
mistake Of the century when the ad
ministration failed to pay obligations in
{ uilver ~ we'll a. gold.
"Ws should no longer keep ourselves
ON exhibition" Boatner concluded, las
unable to agree ON q single messur 9
that promises relief to the people,"
POLITICAL ROCKS AHEAD.
Lacey, Republican. Of lows, followed
in opposition to the bill. There was the
usual filing Of seats when Cochran rose
in the first aisle of the Democratic side.
He deplored the tendency to treat the
Aeasurs ~ party one, which was likely
to wreck IL on the rocks of POLITICAL ex-
pedisncy. The vets of confidence in the
Democratic party in 1892 had been re-
versed, he said, and he did not think the
constitutional provision which allowed
the party to retain power until March
was granted for passing party acts. An
agitatson without results which would
rutfle restored business tranquility had
better be dropped. If this house sue
ceeds in establishing q monetary syste m
based on human reason and experience
of expsrts,it last days will not be without
profit or devoid of honor. There were
in his opinion. questions on which leg
islators could divide along party linel
with advantage, but this was not one o.
them. He said there were many ques-
tions on which mankind had differed
from the beginning of civilization, and
the questions connected with the
finances and political economy were
among those over which there hat
been much dispute. Nevertheless. ht
continued, the laws controlling thess
uuestions were immutabBe, and to OBEY
them was TO bring blessings, the ignor,
them, the reverse. We can, he de-
clared, no more affect the economi,
laws by our legislation than we can b.
the same means affect the,laws govern
ing the nations.
THE CRIME OF SEVENTY THREE.
He asked that the question now at Ia
cue be considered on the basis of econ.
omic laws. He thought he saw eyi
dence that the Judgment OF the genera
tion has been warned by the superabun
dance OF talk on the "crime of 1878 whe
silver WAS dsmonetized, which had IN
volved the use OF host OF employees an
much mystery, but had been brough
but very little practical good to the PEG
ple generally. The tendency to trea
political economy as mysteriou
science has enabled men to pose a
stategmen who. if they talked common
sense, would have been discovered
+ but were able to confuse the PEG
pie by shouting platitudinou
nonsense. Ancient astrology was n
more absurd than the double standard
but when we reflected that this genera
: tion had allowed its daily affairs to b
affected by the nonsense of imposters
our charity toward the ancients broad
ened and our sympathy was touched b.
the sight OF our own people listening t
men who said that the payment c
wages in bad dollar was better tha
in : good dollar, and that taxation wa
the handmade of prosperity.
PROSPERITY CANNOT BE FORGED.
When MIR. Cochran alluded sarcastic
ally to the free silver fight of Messrs
Bland and Gray. and what he terme
the change of attitude of Mr.. BoatneI
who was about to retire to the calme
fields of jurisprudence, Mr.. Bland inter
rupted with a question regarding MI
Cockran's prediction that the repeal {
the purchasin clause OF the Sherma
act would restore prosperity, aud MI
Cochran challenged him to produde
word of his to that effect.
III am not ONE" Mr.. Cochran resumed
sswho pretends that prosperity can b
forged in this chamber or by the law {
the land. l believe sll the law and gos
pel on the subject of political econom
was revealed to the first man when
lust God told him that BY the sweat {
his brow be must earn his bread.'
"Prospsrity was in the earth an
eharlstans who said they had it in the
clothes or their brains andwho had cure
the country for % years, 1t was my chit
object to oppose" Taking up the ban I
inc and currency bill, he spoke brief