The morning times., 1896-01-29

One of the sensations in the Senate yes
terday was Senator Kyle's resolution OF
inquiry into tie mail bag relair shop.
Through the formal objection of Mr..
Cockrell the resolution went over until
today. But Mr.. Kyle is loaded for tie con-
test. If there is still objection there must
be a fight.
Mr.. Kyle is urabie TO see on what ground
even Il formal o b. lection was made. Hesees
in the articles published in The Times n
| state of affairs that should rot exist in
any department under this government.
He has Eeen unable to fird any Senator
who thinks The affair should not be investi-
gated.
The scope of the Investigation proposed
by Mr.. Kyle is large enough TO cover ali the
abuses in the mail bag repair shop. If
the resolution Passes tie Senate today all
these abuses will be ventilated.
THREE SILVER SPEECHES.
1t was Il great day in tie Senate. Three
| speeches were made on the House bond bill
with the free coinage substitute reported
from the Committee on Finance.
Two of them were in favor OF the substi-
tute and one against 1t. The former
| were uluut DN StHdtoIs Val h, IStI'-, " yum
! ing, and voorhees,, DEM, Indiana; the
latter by Senator Gray, Deni., Delaware.
Notice OF an amendment was given by Mfr.
Teller, Rep, Colorado, requiring the pay
ment OF national hank notes in coin, when
presented for redemption at the bank of
| issue. An Intellectual effort was made TO
have unanimous consent given 10 have the
bill voted on next Thursday. The objec'
ton came from Mr.. Hill, Dem, New York.
| Mr.. Thurston spoke on the Monroe doc
trine resolution reported from the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs. He has placed
himself IN the front rank of the orators
of the Senate. His speech WAS one or the
| most polished and eloquent of the session.
| 1t will "a Ike ia place with the great speeches.
Mr.. voorhees,. in addressing the Senate
favored the free coinage substitute. The
country he said. was in the midst of
revolution. brought on by those who p'otted
gainst silver. 1t was that class which
brought on panics. destroying the parity OF
the metals. He characterized as revolu-
tionists the men who demonetized silver
in 1873. These men had sought TO over
cUne the Constitution, the law and the
policy of Il century.
MT. tDDIDtts went Ol ~
Shernan's financial record. remarking that
the Senator from Ohio believed i'll sound
money for Wall street. but not for the
soldiers. The god withdrawal OF last
year Mr.. Voorhees, said, Were part of the
conspiracy to compel the issue of Interest,"
bearing bonds. Ruin had followed in the
train Of decentralization.
THE SHERMAN ACT.
Speaking of the Sherman act, lie dcsig-
mated it as 1.-The celebrated and ill-omcned
act" Never before. he said, had MEM
ber of parliamentary body found himself
compelled, as Senator Sherman had, 10
assist in putting to death his own Off
spring. That act had stood openly con-
fessed as an unnatural monster and as
menace to commercial prosperity. The
act repeating its siiver-purchase clause had
declared it TO be the policy OF the United
States to maintain the use of both gold
and silver as Standard money and 10 coin
both gold and silver into money of equal
intrinsic and exchangeable value.
Mr.. Gray. Dem. Della ware, argued gainst
the free coinage substitute aud in favor OF
the proposed bnnd issue. Why, he asked,
should not the Treasury notes be perma-
nently retired? Why not divorce the gov
ernment from the banking business? And
why not provide a measure of value the
most stable that the civilized world could
command?
He was interrupted a number of times
and his speech was two hours long. AT
the close Mr.. Teller gave notice that he
would at some future day answer some of
Mr.. Gray.s statements.