The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-17
LAST ELECTION A PARODY
SENATOR TEST ExH UMES THE DEAD
 BODY OF THE SILVER CAUSE.

BODY OF THE SILVER CAUSE. InduIges in Such Expressions as "The Sys- tenn of the Gold Standard is . Vile Mo- nopoly," Carlisle's Statement a "Moss Grown Lie," Etc.-DIoney of the Country
 Congested, He Says.
 Washington, Dec. 16.-In the senate, to-day, and during debate on the | Dingley bill, MT. Vest, referring to the late election, said that the people had been told that, if MT. Mckinley were | elected, prosperity would shine upon the country and confidence would be restored. Confidence had been restor- ed; and what was the result? The peo- pie were buying neither domestic nor foreign goods. Did senators expect | that by increasing tariff rates more money would be put into the pockets of the people?
 Speaking, of Secretary Carlisle's es- timate of the amount of money i'll cir culation. MT. Vest characterized it as | a moss grown lie.''
 No country" he continued, emphat- ically, 'can be prosperous with an in- | creasing population and a decreasing volume of money. You have now got a system which congests the money of the country If we are anar- chists and lunatics when we ask that the hints be opened to the free coinage of silver, then this country is lost, be- cause there were 6,499,00O American | freemen who stamped themselves as lunatics and anarchists at the election in November last. But it is a vile islander. The men who voted for Bryan are honest and patriotic and law-abid-f | ing.
 This system of gold standard is the vilest monopoly conceived by the brain of mortal man. I do not care fo say more of the last election than that | it was parody on popular govern ment and on free institutions. I would like to understand why, in those new and growing states of Texas and the west there has been no increase of population in four years, while in old and completed states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois there has been an enor- nous increase. I am constrained to believe that the senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Chandler) was correct when he declared that the St. Louis convention was honeycombed with cor- ruption and that the delegates were bought and sent there for the sole pur- pose of nominating Mckinley.
 "The average American citizen is apt | to continue to inquire how the stream, which comes from so corrupt source, can be called pure"
 l MT. Aldrich, rep, of Rhode Island, controverted some of MT. Vests state- | ments as to the prosperity of American | woolen manufacturers and declared | that there never was a time when that industry was so depressed and unsatis- factory. Petitions" he said, were coming to the senate every day implor- l ing congress to give relief to that in- dustry."
 The morning hour expired and the l immigration bill was laid before the senate. The tariff discussion, however, was continued and was participated in | by Senators Frye, rep, of Maine, Mills. dem of Texas, Vest, dem., of Missouri, and Mitchell, rep, of Oregon. MT. Vest spoke of the Dingley bill as being dead, while to an allusion to President Cleve- ] land as being the leader to the senator from Missouri, MT. Vest interrupted and corrected: No, sir; my former leader" Uaughter.)
 Mr. Mills created a laugh by describ- ing how out of his coat, the cloth of which was manufactured in New Eng- land, he had drawn several long horse | boir yvb ho yod iy, ses substitute for wool. MT. Gear, rep, of Iowa, denied the statements of Sena- tors Vest and Mills that democratic wool had gone up in price since wool was placed on the free list, and said that in Iowa wool, which had sold at from 19 to 21 cents a pound under the Mckinley act had been selling this year at Il cents a pound.
 MT. Chandler, rep, of New Hamp- shire, said that when Senator Aliens resolution for committee of inquiry should be before the senate he would define his position in connection with the proposed investigation as to the use of money in the late election.
 In the colloquy between Messrs. Allen and Chandler, MT. Chandler asked MT. Allen if he did not know that with the free silver amendment 1t would be im- | possible to pass the Dingley bill.
 "No, I do not" MT. Allen replied. "as the senator from New Hampshire has declared himself a bimetalist and as several other senators have declared themselves bimetalists." The tariff was under discussion when the senate adjourned.