The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-24
IN CONGRESS-.
Three Important Subjects Dis.
cussed in the Senate.
WILSON BILL IS RESPONSIBLE
Fortho Decline OF The Sheep Industry, Ac-
oordinR to SIR. warren-ssnator.D Daniels
In support or tho Monroe Doctrlne-sen-
ator DubOls In Favor OF Free Silver.
The Debate on the Rule, In the House.
n1rsDOlliver'sE Eloquent Speech.

SUBJECTS most prominently DelOre tne
publlc-the Monroe doctrine. finance
and tarifr-each came in for considera-
tion In the senate to-day, Mr.. Daniel. OF
Virginia, speaking for two hours in sup
port OF a vigorous upholding OF the
Monroe doctrine Us applicable to Vene-
zuela, Mr.. Dubois, OF Idaho. dealing
with tho silver phase OF the financial
question and Mr.. Warren, of Wyoming,
pointing out the disastrous effects OF the
tariff legislation OF the last Congress on
farm products in general and on wool in
particular Aside from these speeches
the day developed little OF importance.
Senator Warren. OF Wyoming. ad-
dressed the senate on his resolution,
calling attention to the shrinkaHe in
number and value of farm animals and
requesting the finance committee TO re-
port appropriate legislation.
The senator attributed the shrinkage
to the Wilson bill. saying II had caused
In two years $66i 100000 loss TO the
American people In live stock. The
talk that wool growers were more pros
porous under free wool was preposter-
Gus. Tho elections OF 1895 showed that
after 1896 but corporals guard OF the
faithful would be left to mark the spot
where once stood triumphant rampant
Democracy fighting under the unpatri-
otlc black flag OF Wllsonism-emblem OF
protection TO foreign Industries and dis
tress TO our own. II the Mckinley bill
OF Republican fame was "hoodOo"
your oVn Wilson bill has certainly been
q -conspicuously, stomach;trying "Jo-
nah."
The results OF Republican and Demo-
cratic tRriff policies Mr.. Warren sum
med up by saying that our live stock
interests always had striven under Re-
publican rule and had always decreased
both In numbers and value under Demo-
cratic administrations; that cores
pondlnE with our own great national
shrinknge liz an immense increase in the
business OF foreign countries In our
market; that while sheep of the United
States are worth but slightly more than
one-half what they were two years ago,
the wool expectation from England to
America In 1895 was nearly triple that Of
1884. Mr.. Warren in strong language
denounced Senator Vest for excoriatiug
the supreme court for reversing prece-
dent in the income tax cases. and then
himself Cvest) glorying in the fact that
the economical law OF tariff on wool
had been after eighty years overturned
by the Wilson bill, that crownlng In
fanny that the senate first pitied, then
endured. and then embraced. He closed
by urging to right about face, change
its un-American policy and stop the
golden drain by the collection OF gold
for imports.
Dubois Roasts Eastern Papers.
The speech OF Senator Dubois. in addl-
tlcn to advocating the passage OF the
free coinage substitute for the bond bill,
outlined the position of Republican sem
ators in the silver states.
The senator said that, while he cheer
fully greeted Popullst votes in the sem
ate for free silver. he could not accept
the Populist leadership. that party be-
ingirrevocably committed TO fat money
with unlimited imitation. Further, Sill
yer Republicans favored protection gen.
orally, Including so-called raw mater
lals and particularly lead, wool and
lumber, besides various products Of the
farm. plantation and ranch. Referring
to the charge that the western silver
states each have two senators and are
enabled TO pass free coinage bills.
he said that the question OF representa-
ton was fought out when the constltu-
ton was framed.
Notwithstanding this" he added. 'T
read In the press Of the east almost
every day thnt the region / represent is
but n pocket borough, not entitled TO
consideration at your hands, and the
inference Is that It is peopled by class
OF men who are n perpetual shock to the
refined and virtuous east. The meanest
and most vIndictve OF the newspapers
which attack the silver men are pub
lIched in New York city, where for four
score years the worst elements Of our
foreign immigration have found q
Judgement and where there have been
more scandals in connection with their
city government and elections than In
any other spot in our country"
For Monroe Doctrine.
At 8 o'clock Mr.. Dubois closed and Mr..
Daniel addressed the senate on the
Monroe doctrine. Senior Mendoncn, the
brazilian minister was an attentive lis
tcner to the speech.
To begin with Senator Daniel held
that lenst OF oil nations OF the earth
could Great Britain fltly object TO tho
assertion OF the Monroe doctrine by the
United States for. In the language OF
Edward Everett. II was announced not
merely with the approval OF the British
minister OF foreign affairs. but had his
earnest and oft repeated solicitation.
Least Of all nations did IL become her
TO contend thnt II wns not recognized as
international law because It WAS not
founded on the general consent OF ma
tions, for Great Britain herself invoked
the United Stntes TO itB uttcrancc. not
only without the consent, but ns well
against the strong mcnaces OF France,
Austria, Russin and PrussIn,
ali nRN
tain fairly contTovert thHt governments
nj policy which undcrlny the Monroe
doctrine. for she. foremost and most
conspIcuously OF all nations, had inter-
yened in the affairs OF the world at
large, not only whenever her peace and
safety were even remotely Involved, but
also wherever and whenever her capital
could be invested. her commerce ex-
pnnded, or territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT
be exercised.
Even us TO extending the dispute with
Venezuela we perceive the outcrop-
ping Of her own Monroe doctrine, so to
speak, by her demand In n cesSlon to
Venezuela, at ono time prorered. that
no portion OF the territory proposed to
be ceded should be nlicnuted at any time
10 n foreign power And with no better
grace could Great Britain persist In re-
pelling the manifold OvcrtureB made to
her for arbitration.
The TNo RrsoiutiOnE.
The senator referred TO the two sots
OF revolutions pending In the senate
Those proposed by the committee on
foreign relations he regarded as simply
cmbodyinE n dctnIlcd statement Of the
Monroe doctrine Hs embraced In the
more general language In which It waH
uttered, The resolutions offered by the
senator from New Jersey seemed 10 him
(Air. DnnlcD 10 "misrcpresent the his
tory and to porvort the plain language