The San Francisco call., 1896-01-24
Bonds and the White Metal
Substitute Are Soon
Laid Aside.
DANIEL ON MONROE. DOCTRINE
Adoption of a Report Changing tn
Rules Relating to the Count.
ing of Quorum.

lot OF routine morning business in the
Senate to-day, Mills CD of Texas intro
duced bill to repeal the act of July IA,
1870, to authorize the refunding of the Ma
tlonal debt, and the act of January IA,
1875, of the resumption of specie pay
ment. He asked that it be read a first
time to-day, and that it have its second
reading tomorrow, when he hoped to have
vote upon it.
Villas CD of Wisconsin reported from
the judiciary committee to prevent the
carrying of obscene literature and such
things from one State or Territory into
another State or Territory. Placed on the
calendar.
Call O.) of Florida offered resolution,
which went over until tomorrow, for the
appointment of select committee to in
quire INTO the imprisonment of E. V. Debs
in connection with the railroad strike.
Pugh endeavored to call up his resolu-
ton declaring all Government obligations
payable in silver, but was surprised to
learn that it had gone to the calendar and
declared that he had been trapped by
the skillful Senator from New York (Hill).
The resolution heretofore offered by
Warren (R.) of Wyoming, directing the
attention of the Committee on Agricul-
ture to the late unprecedented shrinkage
in mum bers and values of farm animals
throughout the United States, was taken
up and Warren addressed the Senate.
His speech was an argument in favor of
high protective duties, denouncing the
Wilson tariff bill as IAN emblem of benefi-
cence to foreign interests and of disaster
to our own" He denied the claim made
in the recent speech of Vest CD of Mis-
souri, that the wool growing and the woolen
manufacturing interests had alike profted
under the Wilson bill.
The House bond bill with the free coin
age substitute was taken up at P. NJ,
and Dubois (R.) of Idaho addressed the
Senate in favor of the unlimited coinage
of gold and silver and such protection to
"raw materials" and the manufactured
products of the United States as would
prevent the ruinous competition of the
poorly paid labor of foreign countries. He
believed emphaticaliy in silver and protec-
ton, and both were absolutely essential to
the prosperity and happiness of the people
of the United States.
At the close of Dubois speech the bond
bill was laid aside and the resolution
offered by Sewell (R.) of New jersey, in
relation to the Monroe doctrine, was laid
before the Senate, Daniel (D.) of Virginia
taking the floor to speak upon it. Daniel,
in the course of his speech, said
Great Britain could least fifty of all
nations of the earth object to the assertion
of the Monroe doctrine by the United
States, as it had been announced not
merely with the approval OF the British
Minister of Foreign Affairs, but at his
earnest and oft-rcpeated solicitation. And
with no better grace could Great Britain
persist in repelling the manifold overtures
made to her for arbitration. The refusal
of Great Britain to arbitrate a question
| nominally one of boundary between British
Guiana and the republic of Venezuela, in
volving many thousand square miles OF
| territory, had led to the controversy
between the British Government and the
United States.
| In that correspondence the United States
| Government had stood for and recon-
mended arbitration, but Great Britain has
| stood out against it and repealed it. TIC
| all such appeals Great Britain has turned
deaf ear. The responsibility OF the first
wrong was fixed on Great Britain, and
| Congress and the administration stood out
in their appropriate attitude as friends o1
| justice and friends of peace.
"This nation" Daniel declared, "cannot
recede from the Monroe doctrine or from
the position taken by the President. All
critics, all friends of peace, should recog
nize this fact and take their reckoning. Il
is not to be expected of us to speak II
whispers or to start at shadows while the
corridors of the Capitol are ringing with
| invectives leveled against those who dt
not applaud the aggrandizing spirit O
Great Britain"
The close of Daniels speech was liber.
ally applauded.
Jones (D.) of Arkansas moved tha
Thursday next be set as the day for takln,
vote on the bond bill, but withdrew i
upon the suggestion of Chandler (R.) o
New Hampshire. that he wait until
larger attendance of Senators before max
| ing the motion.
The Senate then, after brief executive
session, adjourned until tomorrow.