St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-11
SENATOR JONES, OF ARKANSAS,
DELIVERS HIS FREE COIN
AGE SPEECH.
1T CAN DO MORE THAN GOLD.
UES WHERE THEY OUGHT
TO BE.
ANTIQUATED SENATE r
Senator White Wants the Worst OF
Them Wiped Out of Ex-
istence.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. During
the morning hour in the senate, on mo :
ton of Mr.. Voorhees, Oem., Ind), a
resolution was adopted appropriating
$3.50 for the purchase of Icrtrait of
the late Allen G. Thurman.
Mr.. Pritchard Rep., N. c. called
UP the amendments he offered to the
revenue bill, to increase the duties on
certain kinds Of clays, marble, iron
ore, timber, live stock, cereals, fruits,
wool and coal, for the purpose of ad-
dressing the senate thereon. He IA
Vored the re-enactment of the McKin-
ley law, and the free coinage of silver
Mr.. White Oem., Cab consumed
the remainder of the time before the
expiration Of the morning hour with
a speech in favor Of some practical
notifications of the senate rules. He
did not mince words in his charac-
teriZation of the rules and the IAN.
clent fictions" they perpetuated The
great evil which he especially inveighed
against was that which permitted in
terminable debate OIL any question and
placed it in the power of a single sem
ator to hold the senate at his mercy
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anything, no matter whether it was
relevant or not. He favored Senator
Hills proposition, put forward in the
last congress, for cloture whenever the
majority of the senate was ready to
vote. He also favored quorum
counting" device to do away with an
other parliamentary fiction. The an
tiquity Of the senate rules in his opin-
ion did not make them sacred, and
they should not be allowed to stand
IN the way of parliamentary progress
He carefully reviewed the abuses that
had grown more and more intolerable,
and cited many instances where the
plain will Of the majority had been
thWarted for days, weeks and months
by the determined stand of the minor
ity.
JONES ON FREE COINAGE.
AT the conclusion Of Mr. Whites
speech Mr.. Morgan, Of Alabama, in
troduced resolution congratulating
the republic of Transvaal on it's stand
for independence. 1t was referred to
the foreign relations committee.
Mr.. Jones Oem., Ark) then took
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age substitute for the house bond bill.
There must be something radically
wrong he said, eff the richest and
freest nation on the globe is in such
condition Of absolute helplessness
and dependence as the president seems
to consider us now. The conditions Of
distress, not only in this country but
IN england, Germany and France, the
great nations of the world, will not be
denied by any one. How does it hap
pen that in time of profound peace
all over the world, with abundant har-
vests, with no pestilence or other such
calamity, such a condition of things
can exist? No local cause can account
for it, for it embraces all the greatest
nations in the world. There must be
some cause operating in all these
countries to cause such widespread
distress, uniform in character That
cause seems clearly to be the falling
prices, which have cursed and blasted
this country for twenty years.
Mr.. Jones placed the blame for this
condition on the monetary policy of
the nations, and continued: "The vol
ume Of money. lessening not absolutely
but in proportion to the volume of
trade, has of necessity continually in
creased the value of money, and by
this hidden, unseen and covert means
confiscation Of the property of the
masses for the benefit of these indivld-
uals has been and it being accom-
plished, and this condition Of things
must and will continue so long as the
laws remain as they are now The
causes which have operated to pro-
duce the present results will continue
their operation in the same line
He claimed that the evil would be
remedied by free coinage of silver and
said the United States should set the
example.
The senate at $50 p. m. adjourned
until Nc nday.