The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-31
IN TaE sENArE.
Vest Declares That he Can Follow she
President No Longer.


PRECEDENT No Longer.
washington City. Ian. 3o.-The session
Of the senate today was unusually event
fui in giving expression to the intense
feeling which has been aroused by the
financial question. and to the apparent
hopelessness OF relieving the situation.
Sherman spoke for the first time since
the new phases of the financial situation
were presented. Vest lent q personal
interest to the debate by declaring that
the president was seeking to make con-
grsss an accessory to the welding of the
single gold standard on the people The
senator asserted with dramatic emphasis
that he had thus far held his peace, but
that there must now be a separating of
the ways between him and the president.
A very animated consideration OF the
financial question took place as soon as
the session opened. CuIlona presented a
dispatch from all the leading banks of
Chicago. urging that the presidents rec
onlrne ndations be carried out at the ear
Hest day possible. Vest followed with .
similar dispatch from the ST. Louis
Chamber OF Commerce. This was the
text for one OF the most stirring scenes
that the senate has witnessed In many
days.
Vest said that the Chamber of Com
merce Of st. Louis did not represent the
feelings of the people of Missouri or OF
the country on the financial question. He
did not believe the people favored retire
nient of 500. 100000 OF greenbacks and
treasury notes and the substitution OF no
currency at all. He did not believe they
fat tsrr rnA pf,Id ~
years, with interest aggregatsng $50 000.-
00o at the end of that time. 1t was a
selfish suggestion that posterity should
Lc LEFT to pay this bad debt. The cbl:ga-
ttons OF this senate were as binding to-
ward posterity as toward the present gen.
Grafton. 1t was as much the duty OF the
senate to protect the future as to adopt
the suggestion of the president to look
after the present ana Let the future look
out for itself.
Vest was by this time putting SO much
energy and dramatic force In his words
that he was given eager attention. from
the senator's and from the crowded gall
leries. The president has declared war
on silver" proceeded Vest. HE would
make us an accessory TO this effort TO fix
the gold standard upon U.s." The sena-
tor asked II any man really believed the
supposed emergency could not be met by
treasury payments In silver. And yet the
impression was being conveyed TO the
public that the country was on the brink
OF ruin. II the president had the power
ne would force US to the single gold
standard.
.'gut,'' said Vest, lmpreesgvelys and RATS
sag his risI1r hand in emphasis, so far
as am concerned. 1 VIII never vote to
issue bonds To secure gold and place US
on a single standard"
Cillcsn reese at thas posn. with a aues-
ton as TO what the finarsoe COMMITTEE
of witch Vest Is a member. sntended doing
toward securing soma Gefinite policy
Vest paused FOR a monlent before re-
plygag ard then said: 1T mzgse be more
proper to lest the chairman Of the fir,ance
COMMITTEES answer that question, but IN
has absence / VIII say that I do ant be-
aeve there Is any possibility of the
finance committee agreeing on amy meas
ure to rep0r, TO the senate
TIE aGcezraent- first that had
been openly made as TO the situation II.
the finance cosnrasete ee-was received. with
marked attention a:-sf esidant surEr1Se
1ack Of revenue. as suggested By Cufloln
vas waste os words Hs had talked
with tsIe secretary OF rhe sreasiry only
tbs day before. ard had been asssszed
daIt the nsyersaias were ample.
Csaliorn-So the secretary o< she treasury
3 ready 20 assure Us he has al xhe rev
enae he wants?
Vest Yess a is Increasing from Gay 10
day To such an extent that there promises
70 be a large sszTYsgTts.
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statement os tAe secretary of rae treas
wyg
yssss--I make the statement on direct
szsfarrnation frp4a nss secretary os the
s-easssry.
gesu1n1ng his Ereech. Vest Sad he was
xgasxz9 the g3zf ssaxsSsra- II was a
1cu1a9e az opg,ressssz. "AnG am 20 be
maize acce7ssry To sze perTssrasio Of
rs gold systsrzar' asked tse senator. 1T
Is nvt pleasant be continued .eto differ
with the hsass q my party. I fzaye re-
.sa1nssi sksesst Ts~ many grsuzzEfzs IA order
not 20 ard 70 the discpvzz vsr11zES osar erea;
parry. Bat we have reaesssgs she pa<rifg
eg ssse Ways. wall 70 no further
ysst closed ws4h she errphat-c dscEaxa~