The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-15

the resolution. He yielded Hfteen min
utes to Mr. Mcmillan Oem TENN who
gave his reasons why he preferred Al
this time to forego the opportunity tc
save the people 100000 a year nj the
interest charges.
POLITICAL SIDE LIGHTS.
To do so would be to discriminate
against those of our own people who
in the dark hour Of their country s
distress took the governments bonds
and kept the governments obligations
as good as gold. Those people, or 9TH
ers like them, viii continue to Keep
their countrys credit good and all the
powers of earth or hell cannot prevent
it.. (Applause)
Mr. Livingstone Dem. Ga.) created
an amusing diversion by sending to the
clerks desk and having read amid
roars of laughter some extracts from
Hoods poems:
1.-The golden ass or golden bull
"Was English John with his pockets
full.
Then at 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 quar-
ter
and concluding with the we'll known
lines of the moral beginning:
Cold, gold. gold,
bright and yellow. hard and cold,
Heavy to get and light to hold,
"Hoarded and bartered, bought and
Sold
SIMPSON AND BLAND.
Mr.. Simpson opposed the resolution
in short speech.
After some further remarks by
/ Messrs. Hulick rep. Ohio Wheeler
I Oem. Ala.) and Northway CRep. Ohio
against the bill, Mr.. Bland. the silver
advocate took the floor and in ring
/ ing sentences appealed to the house
not to surrender to the gold kings. If
this resolution passed Mr.. Bland de-
clared that the government would for
| felt its right to coin silver.
Mr. Springer insisted that the only
question at issue was whether congress
would save to the tax payers $4,000. 600.
Mr.. Turner Oem. Ga.) member of
the ways and means committee, IN
time yielded by Mr.. Reed. made a
strong speech in favor OF the resolu-
ton, the burden of which was that
it was the duty of the government un-
der its plighted faith at whatever cost
to maintain the parity OF all its cur
rency.
Mr.. Hatch Dem, MOI In a FIVE min
ute speech aroused the currency Oppo-
nents of the resolution to great enthusl-
asm. He had but little time, he said,
to explain why he was to be pail bear
er at this financial funeral In word,
it was because the passage of this reSo-
luton would make every debtor in the
United States pay his debt in gold. he
read amid much demonstration let
ter addressed to Ex-Governor Proctor
Knott of Kentucky, to Senator Black
burn Dem., Ky.) in which Mr.. Knott
characterized the pending proposition
as 1.-The last insolent demand of the
goldites."
AN ABRUPT TRANSITION.
"They do not seem to want to leave
us a hereafter Whenever the govern
ment agrees to pay gold, silver is
doomed for all eternity. AS old Judge
Forbis said to Johnny Moore: Good
bye, world; howdy. hell" daughter
and applause).
The speaker then called upon the
affirmative side to occupy some of their
time. No one arose and for an instant
it looked as if the advocates of the
resolution were exhausted. But Mr..
CooperDem., F'la.) took the floor and in
fervid tones denounced those who were
trying to scuttle the ship of state"
Mr.. Payne (Rep., n. " said 1t seemed
that nothing had been left out of the
bond contract that was possible to put
in it to Cypress the people.
w. A. Stone Rep., Pa.) said he could
not see why Republicans should not
vote for the resolution, although they
were not to blame for the bad manage
ment that had brought about the diff
Guilty. To refuse TO make the bonds
payable in gold would be to spite the
country. The president bad twice ap-
pealed to the patriotism of the Republi-
can party and that appeal had never
been made in vain They should re-
spond again.
NUDGES THE SPEAKER.
Mr.. Hepburn CRep.. Ia) said that
the gentleman from Pennsylvania pro-
posed to go back on the whole policy of
his party that had always pledged
itself to maintain gold and silver at q
parity. The secretary OF the treasury
was reported to have said to the COM
mittee 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 ask
ed, and there were cries of NO, no."
After reading the plank of the last
national Democratic platform for BIZ
meallism, he said: "Mr. Speaker
can imagine that your own heart has
been warmed many times by that ring
ing sentence" whereat there was great
applause and laughter
After reading the plank of the Repub- |
lican platform for bimetallism he de- !
clared that there was no difference be-
tween moral and legal obligations; that |
there was not a debt of the govern |
ment that could not honestly be paid |
in silver
MIR. Bryan Dem, Neb.) made half
hour speech against the resolution, the |
passage of which. he began by saying, |
would withdraw $165, Oo0. 900 from circu- |
lation.
NOT THAT. EXACTLY.
The president of the United States" !
he continued. lis a human being" /
'Oh, no. shouted Mr.. Walker Rep., |
Mass.).
The president is therefore liable to |
err" added Mr. Bryan. not needing the /
He has erred The
Democratic party owes him nothing. 1
democratic applause) 1t owes him /
only the gratitude it would owe the /
guardian who has squandered a rich !
estate. He seeks TO innoculate his |
party may die of blood poisoning.
Democratic applause>. But ne has yet |
one attribute of sovereignty contin-
ued Mr.. Bryan, "he chasteneth whom
he loveth." Laughter.
Turning to the question at issue AIR
Bryan asserted that it was a question
IN which was bound up the welfare OF
Pass this resolution he said.
and $4,000, 900 would be saved TO the
people in fifty years. Pass il and they
would be robbed of $4,000 600 eco in a
third of that time by the men in whose
interest ii was passed.
BRYAN DEFINES AN ISSUE.
me issue has come" said Mr.. BRYAN
IN conclusion. You have got 10 meet
this proposition. On these questions
we find the Democrats of the east and /
ION ifns. .aF