St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-14
HIS ST. HELENA NOT FAR AWAY
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND COMES IN
FOR A SHARE OF HARSH CRIT
ICISM.
GREAT FUN FOR THE GALLERIES
Senator'S Hill, Pritchard and Butler
Engage in Sharp Personal
Debate.

tween Mr.. Hill, Mr.. Pritchard and Mr.
Butler enlivened the early hours. Mr.
Morgan frequently addressed himself
personally to Mr.. Sherman, who sat
across the aisle, and for two hours
arraigned the Ohio senator for the
series of financial acts with which he
is identified. At times Mr.. Morgan was
bitterly personal. In the main, how
ever, the speech was a scholarly pres
entation Of the silver question. Mr.
Hills cOllOquy with the two North
Carolina senators brought out consid-
cradle discussion Of the New York
BenatOr's political consistency, and was
amusing to the crowded galleries for
the sharp sallies and witty rejoinders
during the triangular debate
The vice president laid before the
senate a letter from the secretary of
the treasury, in reply to a resolution of
inquiry presented by Mr.. PETER as to
whether S100,O00,0G0 in gold had at any
time been set apart from other funds
The secretary states that this had
never been done, there being no pro-
vision of law authorizing it.
Mr.. Call Dem. Fla) submitted a
number of petitions in regard to Cuba
lection was made by Mr.. Plat Rep.,
Conn.,.
Mr.. Mitchell Rep, Ore.) had passed
bill allowing settlers on forfeited
railroad grants to hold land by fencing
and improving it, and making actual
residence unnecessary.
Mr.. Phitchard Rep, N C)made an
address defending himself against the
charge of Inconsistency on the tariff
question made by Senator Hill, of New
York, last week. and attacked Mr.
Hills record for consistency, saying
he had been repudiated by the Demo-
cratic party.
Mr.. Hill, in reply, expressed surprise
at having brought forth so elaborate
statement, and said he believed he was
as active a member of the Democratic
party-"what there is Of it''-as any
one. He said it was true he voted
against the Wilson bill. He had rea-
sons for voting against it. He believed
in tariff reform, but not in that way
Ihe Democrats were all travelling to-
ward the Democratic heaven, but in
dl1ferent ways. The other side was
travelling in the other direction.
WICKED JOHN Y. M'KANE.
The debate at this point drifted away
to John Y. McKane, Mr.. Hill saying
that for many years McKane had been
Republican, Mr.. Phitchard retort-
ing that John Y. McKane had never
got into the peNtentiary until he join
ed the Democratic party
Mr.. Butler Pop, N. J)also took up
MIR. HIS statements concerning the
politics of the South, and asserted that
the cause of the defections from the
Democratic ranks in the South was the
betrayal of the party on the great
financial question" and opposition to
an income tax, in which opposition the
New York senator took a most active
part.
Mr.. Hill was again on his feet at the
close of Mr.. Buffers brief remarks, and
replied Sarcastically.
Mr.. Allen Pop, Neb) sought to
question Mr.. Hill, whereupon the lat
ter created a laugh by remarking,
still another Richmond in the field
MIR. Allen proceeded to say that the
Democratic senators were divided on
finance, on the tariff and on the in
come tax. Seventeen senators now sit
ting on the Democratic side ought to
be sitting on the other SIDE said Mr.
Allen.
Mr.. Hill jocularly responded that the
Nebraska senator scattered worse
than an old shotgun" He pointed out
that if these gentlemen (Allen and
ButleD wanted an income tax they
ought to proceed to have one; let them
introduce bill. Mr. Hill closed with
a glowing tribute to the grand old
Democratic party
MORGAN ON SILVER.
At 2 o'clock the personal controversy
closed, and Mr.. Morgan took the floor
on the silver bond bill. He referred
to the intrigues before national con-
ventions and the wind-shaken plat
forms" of these bodies. In his judg-
ment the emergency tariff and bond
part of the platform to be laid before
a national convention next summer.
and not with any purpose to enact
them as laws. Mr.. Morgan criticised
the financial course Of Mr.. Sherman.
while the latter sat across the aisle
giving close attention to his remarks.
He referred to Mr.. Sherman as the
Napoleon of finance
But this Napoleon was rapidly near
ing his Waterloo and his exile to st.
Helena"
Mr.. Morgan enumerated in detail the
financial burdens which the legislation
urged by the Ohio senator had i'm
posed on the people. They were evils
which brought misery, want and ca
lamity to the whole people. They had
worked more miseries than those pic
tured in the apocalypse. His (Mr.
Sherman's) garment was one of MANY
colors, in keeping with the variegated
lines of the party to which he be-
longed. At the present time the Ohio
senator and the president were to-
gether in the financial views both
equally oblivious to the constitutional
requirement that the metals were 70
be on equal terms. 1t was the Ohio
senator who originated the evil of sell
ing bonds to a syndicate. Proceeding,
Mr.. Morgan said:
The senator from Ohio is the author OF
fve new measures of finance that have given
the people and the government more trouble
in handling the little remnant of SS46 900 O0f
OF greenbacks than it did to pay twelve bill.
ions of annual expenditures for the suppori
OF the government, and more than three bill
ions of principal and interest of the nationa
debt that we have raised in the last thirty
years. These measures are the demone.iZa
ton OF silver in 1873 the sequestraton of the
gold reserve in the treasury in 1878 the DOW
er given the secretary of the treasury in 1Sa(
to preserve the parity between the metals
the power to sell bonds at private sale, ant
the power to enable private persons by con
tract to dispense with the legal tender law:
In their Transactions
REWARDING FEUDALISM
Mr.. Morgan spoke Of the admission
of the rich Jews-Baron Rothschild:
and Lord Beaconsfield-to the nobilit,
of England. 1t was the tendency the
world over to reward feudalism Tina
system existed today as much as il
years gone by, concentrating all pow
er and wealth in the hands of the feu
dial gold barons. The senator urged
declaration by congress in line Will
a resolution once offered by STANLEY
Matthews, that the bonds would b.
paid in the money with which the.
were bought. He suggested also tina
10 per cent rebate on customs dutie
to countries coming gold and silver OF