The Portland daily press., 1895-02-20
Held the Senate Till Late at
Night.
FILIBUSTERING RESORTED TO
BY REPUBLICAN SENATOR'S.

Washington, February 19.-In tn q SEN
ate, the bill appropriating $4,000 to be
expended by the Maryland Society of
the American Revolution, to aid in erect
ing in Baltimore a suitable monument
to the memory of the patriots VINO aided
in establishing the independence of the
| United States, was passed.
Mr.. Call (Dem. of Florida presented a
memorial to Congress of "The Worlds s
Arbitration League" signed by Bishop
Newman as president, with the sigma
lures of $50 mem bers of tn British Par
lament, and asked that it be printed in
the Record. 1t was so ordered.
Mr.. Wilson, the new senator from the
State of Washington, was sworn in,
thus completing the full Senate MEM
bership of sS.
A motion by Mr.. German (Dem.) of
Maryland, for the daily sessions to begin
| at IL from tomorrow was agreed to-.
Mr.. Jones (Dem. of Arkansas, moved
that the Senate proceed with the regu-
lar order-the silver bill--and it was
agreed to, SO to ~. The bill was read in
full, and Mr.. Jones suggested that an
hour be fixed today for taking final
vote or it's passage.
Mr.. Hale (Rep.) of Maine objected, and
suggested that it was not good public
policy to bring up at this period of the
session bill which would necessarily
lead to long debate and might perhaps
endanger the passage of the approprla-
tion bills, and would thus result in an
extra session. Mr.. Jones said there was
not senator who did not know how
every other senator would vote. Discus
sion would change nobody's conviction
The friends of the measure were willing
to have vote now, and il the Oppon-
ents of the bill saw fit to discuss it, it's
friends could not help that. Mr.. Jones
added that he did not propose to jeopar-
dize any appropriation bill.
Mr.. Harris (Dem. of Tennessee, asked
Mr.. Hale whether he could name any
number of hours the opponents of the
bill would wish to debate it.
81 have heard the senator ask that
question great number of times" said
Mr.. Hale, sin reference to other bills
(meaning the tariff and bill to repeal
the Sherman act) but it is not, must
say, real pertinent, square question"
will the Senator from Maine," Mr..
Harris asked, sarcastically. Suggest to
me how can square the question better
than / have squared it?"
Mr.. Hale, without replying, spoke of
the readinesss of the majority to charge
dilatory tactics ON the minority. He
knew that the Senator from Arkansas,
who was managing the bill, would
manage it carefully, and he was ready
to trust him.
"Does the Senator believe" Mr.. Jones
asked, "that any amount of debate
would change his vote if it continued for
month";"
"That may be true" said Mr.. Hale, "of
about almost everything we discuss and
debate"
"Then I can see no reason )" MIR.
Jones urged, "why the senate should
not vote ncw."
Mr. .Aldrich (Rep.) of Rhode Island,
remarked that no senator and no person
in the United States expected this bill to
become a law. Therefore the time given
it will be entirely wasted. Innumera-
BILE amendments would have to be
offered to the bill, and would have to be
discussed. If there could be any real
benefit to the country, or if any result
was to be reached by pressing the bill
to consideration, that would be one
thing. The Senator from Arkansas lad
TO admit that he did not expect the bill
to pass the House or receive executive
approval, and therefore it came with
i'll grace, MIR. Aldrich said, from the
friends of the bill to suggest that bill
of such impt rtance be hurried through
without discussion.
Mr.. Gray (Dem.) of Delaware, said
that the country expected, and would
demand that a measure SO important
and far-reaching as this bill ought not
be PASSED withouti the exposition of the
objections to it. II would be necessary
to inquire why it was, that after having
spent long, weary weeks of the summer
of 1898 in an effort to repeal the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act that
same Congress is to be asked to restore
the purchasing clause in an intensified
form.
Mr.. Jones said there was no power to
cut off debate, and no wish to cut it off.
He requested that debate would proceed
as rapidlyssas possi BILE, that vote might
be had at the earliest possibl hour. Ha
would therefore ask the Senate to re-
main in session today until vote was
got. if that could be accomplished.
General debate on the bill then began,
the first speaker. MIR. Villas reviewed
the situation up TO the time when the
bond contract was made. Mr.. Villas gave
figures as to the amount OF gold in the
control OF the treasury Oh February I'd,
and read despatch from the American
minister at Buenos Ayres to Secretary
Gresham. dated February 4th. stating
that the London and River Plate Bank
of that city, the largest bank in South
America. had received orders from Lon
don that day to refuse all classes OF
United States exchanges. The time
had come" Mr.. Villas proceeded, "when
tine prudent fnanciers of the world were
driven to the necessity of discountina all
classes of United States securities. We
should have heard from London, Paris,
Berlin, and Vienna in few days more.
Here was situation which demanded
from the American executive instant
action; action adequate to the danger
which confronted, the country. Mr.. Villas
said the announcement of the entrance
on negotiations for gold with a probabil-
: ity of success, checked the withdrawal of
gold from the treasury, and when the
bond contract was made the run on gold
stopped.
, renort, on the bill as to the time when
, the income tax returns are to be made
were agreed to, and debate on the silver
hill concluded by Mr.. Platt, who yielded
ON a motion to adjourn. The motion was
defeated.
Mr.. FRYE asked Mr.. Jones, whether, in
view of tbe fact that there was barely q
Quorum. he intended to try and keep the
SENATOR'S in session tonight?
|, MIR. Jones said he proposed to have 6
vote on the bill at ~.
.lfter further talk. Mr.. Jones asked