The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-11

1
 whole field of paper money under $1o to silver certificates.
 q believed then, as I believe now, i that the unlimited coinage of silver would by reviving commerce increase our revenues and do away absolutely with any pretense Of necessity to is- sue bonds, and that under that bill such revival in business would take place that no issue of bonds could be claimed | to be necessary. And any man who be- lieves that under that bill, if it had been enacted into law, any considerable amount oe bonds could have been is- sued, has much less faith in the efficacy of unlimited coinage than l have. 1 | stated when l offered the bill to the senate that l was opposed to the issue 1 of bonds. The president had insisted | that the issue Of bonds was our only hope. I believed that the unlimited coin l age of silver was the only hope. The | president was at that time exercising,
 and has continued to do so, the right
 to issue bonds any way, and the bill
 introduced by me would have put the
 test whether absolute relief would not | come from the coinage of silver. l
 have no doubt that if that bill had l passed there would have been no more l bonds and we certainly would have had ! the unlimited coinage of silver. This | was a fair offer to test our different l theories, and the advocates of gold l dared not accept it. This seems con- elusive to my mind that they agreed
 that the bill would, by demonstrating
 the soumdness of our position, have ab- solutely destroyed theirs. They reject ! ed the bill, and what is the result? Bond sales continue, and we are no
 nearer solution of the question and
 no nearer silver coinage now than be-
 Sore
 This leaves nothing for us to do but
 to present the system we believe in,
 without reference to theirs, to discuss it
 and appeal at last to that great tribunal l which must decide it. I am ready for l the question.
 'The overwhelming majority of the
 people are animated by sentiments of
 lofty and unselfish parsIotism. I have 1 an abiding confidence that the great l question which this proposed amend | ment presents for solution will be wise l ly and justly determined by the great l tribunal by which it must be finally 1 determined. It is to my mind an evi- l dence almost conclusive Of the weak l ness Of any cause for irs friends to be l unwilling 10 have it passed on by the l people. To say that they are incapable l of deciding any question they are in l terested in, as is sometimes done. as l to this question, is to declare them in- 1 carable of self government A man I who believes this has no place in this l country and ought to find more con- l genial associations in the realms of 1 those who believe in absolutism. The l friends Of binletallism are ready and l anxious to have the people settle this l question. They hope and believe it will l be speedily done and well done" { MT. Jones finished his speech at $50 r was listened to with interest on the democratic side, but the republican senators paid it scant attention. l Tn reply to an inquiry hy Mir Teller
 rep, Of Colorado, MT Jones said that he l would be glad to have the bill pressed as rapidly as possible. But in view of l the fact that number of senators wanted to speak on the bill he would not ask for a vote for at least several
 days.
 iiC SGLdtC tIlEil duJOuIlit-tl Alil hOli- day.
 HOUSE
 ! On motion of MT. Pickler rep. of l South Dakota, the order for the usual Friday night session was vacated for tonight
 I MT. HenderSon, rep, of Iowa, report ed the changes in the rules recommend ed by the committee on rules. and the
 house proceeded to consider them serl-
 atim.
 I The first amendment was one specifi- cally directing the clerk to pay officers
 and employees their salaries, provision
 adopted from the rules of the Fifty sec ond and Fifty-third congresses. It was agreed to.
 The next amendment struck out the provision requiring the sergeant-at- arms to give bonds in the sum of $50,- 900. Because of the Silcott defalcation a law was passed covering the case and the provision was therefore useless It was agreed to.
 Rule ? it was proposed to amend, in
 accordance With the rules of the last congress. so as to permit the committee on rules to sit at any time and so as to preclude any dilatory motion upon the consideration of a report from the com-
 mittee (save one, to adjourn, until the report was disposed of.
 I MT. Crisp, dem, of Georgia, said that
 when that rule was proposed in the | Fifty-second congress gentlemen upon the republican side exercised them-
 selves earnestly in denouncing it as the method the democrats proposed of gag ging the minority He was in favor of the rule then, was in favor of it now,
 and he only wanted to congra tulate re- publicans upon having at last reached | that point where they were willing to admit that @ democratic rule was a proper method of procedure. Iaugh- ter.)
 Speaker Reed-I imagine that the feeling is mutual. Renewed laughter.) l This rule indicates the committees ! With leave to report at any time. They
 are ten-rules, elections. ways and
 means rivers and harbors, public
 lands territories, enrolled bills, invalid
 pensions, printing, accounts-beside the
 committees having charge of general 1 appropriation bills
 Mir. Walker, rep, of Massachusetts,
 endeavored ito secure the same privilege for the committee on banking and cur rency and MT. Bailey, dem., of Texas, 1 for the committee on coinage, weights