The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-17


ing more money to the country. Contln-
uing he said emphatically:
No country can be pros porous with an in
creas1ng population and decreasing volume
OF money. You have now got system which
congests the money of the country. This can
not be smothered by abuse and ridicuIe. The
man who thinks that this last election has
settled the struggle is unfit to iegislate Tor q
Tree people. He knows nothing about the
great popular impulses and the heart throbs
which go through the people of this whole
Union. If we are anarchists and lunatics
when we ask that the minis be opened to free
coinage of silver then this country is lost, be-
cause there were 6,499, 600 American freemen
who stamped themselves as lunatcs and an
archists at the election in November last
William ]. Bryan, this hoy orator" who mas
been caricatured and slandered and ridiculed,
polled All per cent OF the entire vote and
the Mckinley popular majority was barely
100000 in poll of over ID, 100000.
II there be in this country over 5000 600
anarchists and lunatics and enemies of the
country's welfare, Gold help the Republic and
free institutions. We are lost. But it is vile
honest and patriotic and law-abiding and we
do not propose to be. ridiculed out of what we
believe right and just.
We are for equality. We want no monopoly,
no class legislation, no exclusive bounties.
This system of a gold standard is the vilest
monopoly ever maintained in the brain of
mortal man. l do not care to say more of the
last election than that in my opinion it
free institution. am curious to know what
will be the result of the investigation pro-
posed unoer the resolution of the gentleman
from NebraSka-Allen.
/ would like to understand why in the new
and growing State OF Texas and others in the
West there has been no increase of population
in tour years, while in the old and finished
and completed States of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois there has been an enormous increase,
such as was never found before in any census
OF the United States. am constrained 10 be-
i6x-of hat hn Naxv 40 INN n rQ
,Chander) was correct when he declared that
the ST. Louis convention was honeycombed
with corruption and that the delegates were
bought and sent there for the sole purpose of
nominating Mckinley. This was no mere
ebullition of zeal for Mr.. Reed. for the Sena-
tor from New Hampshire afterward in de-
lberate letter reiterated the charge and de-
clared that every word which he had uttered
in regard TO the composition of the ST. Louis
convention was true.
The average American citizen when he
hears from such high Republican authority
that the convention which nominated the can
didate OF the Republican party was procured
by money and thai the delegates were sent
there by the use OF money is very apt to con-
tinue to inquire how the stream which comes
from SO corrupt a source can be called pure. .
Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island contro-
verified some of Vests statements as to the
osperity OF the American wooden man
ufacturers, and declared there never was
time when that industry was so de-
pressed and unsatisfactory. Petitions, he
said, were coming to the Senate every day
imploring Congress to give relief to that
industry.
At this stage of the discussion the morn
ing hour expired and the unfinished bust
ness-the immigration bill-was laid be-
lore the Senate. The tariff dItcussion,
however, having been fairly started by
Vest, was continued and was participated
in py Frye RI of Maine, Mills I'D of
Texas, Vest CD of Missouri and Mitchell
(R.) OF Oregon.
Dingley bill as being dead and consigned
to the tomb OF the CapuIets, while to an
allusion as to President Cleveland being
the leader 10 the Senator from Missouri
(Vest) Inn mediately interposed the cor-ec-
ton: mo, sir, no-former leader"
Laughter.
Mills created laugh by describing how,
out OF his coat, the cloth of which was
manufactured in New England, he had
drawn Geveral long horse hairs which had
been worked in as a substitute for wool,
and the hiiarity was increased when
Gear RI of Iowa suggested that the horse
hairs had been put in by the tailor to stiff
fen the collar.
Gear also denied the statements of Sena-
tors Vest and Mills, that domestic wool
had gone up in price since wool was
which had sold at from 10 to 81 cents a
pound under the Mckinley act had been
selling this year at IL cents pound.
Chandler (R.) OF New Hampshire also
took hand in the discussion. If the
Dingley bill were. as Vest had said, in the
tomb of the Capulets, why, he asked.
should time be wasted in talking about
it? When Senator Aliens resolution for
a committee of inquiry should be before
the Senate. it would be his (Chandler's)
pleasure and duty to define MS position in
connection with the proposed investiga-
ton as to the use of money in the late
election.
Allen asked Chandler whether it was
the settled purpose on the Republican
side of the chamber to pass the Dingley
bill.
Chandler replied that that would depend
almost entirely on the action OF the Sena-
tor from Nebraska himself.
Allen repeated his question, and was
asked by Chandler whether he would vote
against the free-silyer amendment to the
Dingley bill. to which Allen responded
that he would not be guilty OF such lack
of intelligence.
that, with the free-silver amendment, it
would be impossible TO pass the DIngley
bill.
mo, do not" Allen replied, "as the
Senator from New Hampshire has de-
clared himself bimetallist laughter and
as several other Senator'S nave declared
themselves bimetallists.
THE Senator knows very WE'LL" said
Chandler. that this Dill cannot pass I'M
less the Republicans of the Senate are
helped by some OF the Palmer Democrats,
or by some Of the Bryan Democrats, or by
some of the Populists.'
81 do not think that the Dingley bill is
dead, Allen remarked. 1.-THE assertion
that it was consigned to the tomb OF the
Capulets was mere poetic license on the
part of tie Senator from Missouri. 4"
Alien went on to say that instead of
having an extra session of Congress the
most sensible thing hat Congress could do
was 10 adjourn anu not to convene for two
years, anu let the country have some rest
Sherman (R.) of Ohio addressed the
Senate briefly but passionatcly. The de-
ficiency in the revenue, he declared, was
almost crime. 1t was the first duty of
Congress to provide for the ordinary ex-
penses of the Government. How to raise
the money to pay these expenses and to
carry on the operations of Government
was a question on which the two parties
were entirely apart-one believing that
duties should be levied on imported
goods, but only for revenue-and the other
believing that the duties should be so
levied as IN raise revenue ann tn eno0ur.