Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-13
Senators Anxious to See Some of the
Confidential Documents.
Mr. CCCKRELLS SPEECH ON SILVER
He Thinks the Presidents Recon-
mendation Unwise.
NJ ALTERS IN THE HOUSE

|
ance Of the Cuban deb..e, and there
was some Impotence over a lengthy pre-
lude on the less interesting subject of tariff
| and finance. on which MIR. Cockrell Of Mis-
| souri, had given notice Of addressing the
Senate.
| Mr.. Lodges Explanation.
There was brief furry over Cuba as
| soon as the journal had been read Mr..
Lodge CMass.) rose to state that Mr. Sher-
| man had made in inadvertent error in his
| statement yesterday in saying that he
| 0-odge) had seen Secretary Olney. and
had secured from him private papers and
| Information as TO Cuba. Mr. Lodge said he
| mad received no papers from the State De-
| partment, and had had no communication
| WIN Mr. oiney in this respect. The papers
winch Mr.. Sherman had referred to came
| 10 the committee on foreign relations from
| the State Department. They included a
| full statement from the Spanish minister
Dupuy de LONE. giving the Spanish view
| and the Spanish side of the case This
| statement from the minister was read to
i the committee 10y one OF its members This
| aad other papers were of such a confiden-
1 tlai character that they could not be auoted
or made public.
| Mr.. Sherman assented 10 Mr.. Lodges
| statement, saying he recalled that the pa
| pers came from the State Department at
| The request of the committee, and that the
| statement of the Spanish case ~ The Span
| ish minister had been read aloud 10 the
/ pS thc sotIdlOF from Maine fMr.
| Frye.
| Mr.. HOar Again.
| rms brought MIR. Hear to his feet with
surprised inquiry as to whether the Sen
\ ate should not have the benefit of this
| statement of the Spanish case hy the Span
| ish minister Mr.. Hoar regarded this as a
| most important phase no; heretofore Gis-
closed.
1t would be proper to lay it before the
/ senate IN executive session." aed Mr.
| Sherman
Then" continued Mr.. Hoar, lit. would
] seem quite appropriate for the committee
| on foreign relations 10 move such an ex-
| ecutife session as a means OF giving the
| senate these important facts on which
Judgment is based"
Mr.. Wolcott added, in decisive toues that
the explanation just given placed the Sem
| ate IN a most unusual dilemma ..Senators
are asked, said Mr.. Wolcott, Ito vote an a
question OIL TACT, on testimony reposing in
tne breast of members of the committee on
| foreign relations; on testimony that can;ot
De disclosed to the public or 10 Us, except
IN executive session. And these resoli1tions
are TO go to another chamber which has
no executive session and cannot have nos
session of this testimony. would be glad
| 10 ask whether We are 10 yield oar tudp-
ment and our conscience 10 the commi.tea
on foreign relations ?'
Mr. Hawley (Conn.) rose to state briefly
that ne hoped some declaration on Cuba
could be offered on which all would at,rec
HE added that at the proper time he would
insist on further conference on this mar
| ticular declaration.
Mr.. Cockrcll ON Silver.
This closed the incident, and Mr.. Cock
rell was recognized for speech in sun-
| port of the silver amendment TO the tarie
bill, which measure has been in allowance
since the refusal of the Senate to adopt
Mr.. Morrfll's motion to consider II
Mr. Cockrell called attention to the hal
ances In the treasury, including over sIo3-
100000 gold. coin and bullion, over 500 WW-
Gn standard silver dollars. sl17.00O.Odo of
SILVER bulion coinage valuc), on which the
profit of seignorage had been sI3 0tssI.
sl4.oooVO subsidiary silver coin s,O6Nyl OOo
OF sreenbacks, and $4,000 of treasury notes
| of 1890. '@
Bonds Outstandtne.
Mr.. Cockrell took up the enormous amount
OF United States bonds outstanding. agyre-
| eating ssi6,OO0.oO0, of which over so62 600
GOO had been issued in times OF peace These
| bonds, the Senator maintained can he na,d
as Wei In silver as in gold, and he quoted
eminent authority for this statement 1t in
cIuded Secretary Carlisle and Secretary
HerDert, who had voted while in the House
OF Representatives for the Stanley Mo-,
| thews resolution declaring bonds navaIie
| IN either coin. The Senator referred also 70
senator sherman as that distinguished
goa metaliist-bimetallist and read
| from MT. Shermans utterances i'm ISIS
Mhen he was Secretary of the Treasury
| mat the government reserved the legal right
I 1o .eaeem government obligations in silver
\ II tnls polcy had been carried out there
| would nave been no trouble no treasure
! agitation There would have been no raid,
W. .ne .l,easury. Exclusive gold payments
was a voluntary assumption on the nart 90
the Secretary of the Treasury. The ba5
| oeen no gold raids prior to 1891 because The
| silver dollar, up to that time uaS ~
watcraog OF the treasury
anu II was more potent watchdog tha,
an nSo 9i me Rothschilds or the Belmonts',
Secretary Foster ha5 not ro5oa,
lar OF treasury notes i'm silver wbi,a 60.
aetary carlisle had redeemed some sIooo
wv OF them in standard silver dollars.
Presidents Proposition Unwise.
Inc senator proceeded to urge that the
| proposition Of the President to issue fifty.
year bonds to retire notes was unwise. II
| was the worst financial proposition thar
mad ever eliminated from an executiva
officer, and if adopted it would cost tha
people s2,63l 100000
Secretary Carlisle had recently. in a
| speech, proclaimed himself for gold There
was no further effort to disguise the issue
| behind sound money! which meant alb
| solute gold recommendation
At o'clock the regular order was laid
aside IN order to permit Mr.. Cockrell to
| proceed The galleries had wearied wait
| ing for the Cuban debate and the crowd
gradually thinned out.
| as money. and referred to the agitation
| caused by President Cleveland's "Venezu-
elan message of war with a string tied to
| it," That message made the whole country
tremble like jelly, and the press of New
York declared that s1O0,OO0,OO0 had been
lost in consequence.
| The Beacon of the Democratic Party.
The Senator declared that the democratic
| party could not be divided by the silver
| question. 1t was the pillar Of cloud by day
| and the pillar of fire by night, the great
| constitutional beacon of the democratic
| party. the one on which all its victories
| had been won, and those who opposed 1t
| would slough OF from the party, but would
not divide it
| THE HOUSE.
Some routine business preceded the re-
/ sumption of the debate on the Aldrich-
| Robbins contested election case in the