The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

Men will Stick IL nm the l"r'" "'' ~
Killing Both Measures - Ifehch""'
sueech by Observation-Disclosures Against
navard-He will Resign If They Pass
The senate Saturday passed the free
coinage substitute for the bono PIN 9Iii,
The sound money men LED by l,ii
had sought to postpone the vote UNI
after the opening of the BIDS ior tuc
bonds Wednesday, for fear that !.
mioht mako some difference IN inc
nricn offered: but Senator Jones VINO
vas in charge of the bill wanted TO
leave for New York and SO senatorial
rnurtcsy'' consented to the vote. Inc
ma oritv for the substitute was luiiy
40 large as the free silver men had OK
nccted, standing AZ to 3D. The ma
iority was made up of Is Republicans
10 Democrats and eight Popullsts.
The vote against free coinage was cast
hv % Republicans and Ii Democrats.
Gen. Gordon of Georgia and Mr.;
Sonire of Washington disappointed
the expectations of the sound money
leaders and voted for free silver sen
ator Mills was against both the iree
coinage of silver and the issue OF
bonds, He therefore voted to substi,
tutc tbe free silver bill for the bona
Hill and swelled the free silver MAORI,
tv IN that vote to nine, and then voted
With the sound money men against the
amended bill.
There was some strong speech making
an the bill Friday and Saturday, Was
If Wisconsin and Gallery of Louisiana
AGAINST it Friday and Butte OF len
nessee. Pasco of Florida, and White OF
| california for it. Villas characterized
congress- as stricken with the paralysis
of partisanshin and imbecility', ana us
silver policy, climaxing in tho pur,,
chase and stori1g of $1,000 tons OF
the metal under the Sherman law az a
monument of folly the like OF when
the world cannot show. LoSsc
undertook to prevent vote Saturday
under the Unanimous agreement,
which he denied, but was overwhelm
ingly voted down Morrill, OF Vermont
desnite his SIS years made quite Wig
orous fight, not only proposing series
of omendments, Intellectually but,
reading an extended speech against II.
| occoe;onally he nut aside his notes
and emnhasized his remarks with EN-,
nbatic gestures. His speech was well
enicod With wit and trenchant ridlcuie
Resides the standard talk about the
revenues. the administration and the
Democratic party he met the argument
for free coinage drawn from the exam
ME With the statement that: But
silver in France is maintained at par
With poId because the government
long ago suspended its coinage, and
because there is no clustering silver
arty, and silver plated Democratic
norty there daily striving to pull down
their money standard to that of depre-
ciatcd silver: but they keep silver to
the amount of 1880, 600, 600, with ST.,
600, 600 of gold, on the ratio oil iol2 to
=" and he continued
THO vast product, whether in silver bullion OF
silver dollars, once in the possession OF the %,
/ ernment must STAY there forever, deluhct as an
Eryptian mummy, rs the public long ago r. e
fused to aid in Ne larger practical nav III.
I nm Individual spendthrift were to a'ahe mt
, 1 exhibition OF ncapacity to manage ms hhahslA
affairs there IS not court OF any stare .aN my
jurisdiction of the subject that would reius ~
asked the appointment of guardian, 49,, ny ~,
feeble pretensc that free coinage az inc ratio y
10 TO would not deprive silver OF Us parity WI,
gold never became respectable by 10 rel'cti..on
| and Ia no longer seryceahie even IN support "
| n wild and ponderous experiment. seven nun
bred grains OF pure silver may be had IN ~.
market for ST.. and when we are ian ln,,, = ~,
ing only 81 Ia grains of pure silver, opIiousS
must be expected that some people are 70 NM
pleasure in being cheated as wen ~ ,Srongh
, | ont the world from the rich mines ana the poor
as well as that obtained from lead and copper
ores as secondary product wouiu ou w, ~,
| lean now TO pay any profit, while others In COLO
RADIO produce silver bullion at cost OF less tnai
70 cents per ounce, and these give hirth' not u
p gold bugs but to silver milhonalres.
/, The tiredout accusation that uifninlshc.
product of gold had greatly augmented It's Vniu aus
has been refuted by the high authority OF mui
Of rold in 1850 was 81 49,, 900 600, ana In 1871
had Increased TO $4,000 900, and has been IN
creased annually ever since
The victory of the silver men was sc
! complete that they have followed 1t II
the Finance Committee with a vote Il
report this same free coinage bill as
substitute for the tariff bill. o.
course the silver men have no expecta
ton of victory for free coinage Itself
but they hope TO embarrass the govern
ment enough to compel some conces
sions TO silver from the House. This i:
now the danger of the situation OF
t would be but for Cleveland. The
House committee has already acted or
the substitute bill and decided to re-
; port it adversely.
The senate committee on foreign rela
} lions Tuesday agreed upon substitute
for the resolution heretofore reported
, about Cuba. and it is an outright con
cession of bclligerent rights and al
/ most a recognition of independence.
: Thu hot-heads of the House Foreign
t Affairs committee have overruleo
r Chairman HIT and reported two reso
5 lutions of censure against Embassadol
7 Bavard for his speeches in England
] Bavard will resign if they are adopted.
I The Democrats are partly to blame
! for the dilemma because the cooler
/ Republicans offered TO agree on resolu
. tions of general character, without
e special reference to Bayard, abou
l what propriety requires of diplomatic
representatives, and the Democrats re
fused the concession Oh the grounc
r. that congress has no business 20 do
: anything, unless it goes so far as i'm
parchment.
S The House is working away steadil,
n on the appropriation bills. Reed pur
poses to have them disposed of early s,
n as to throw on the senate the RESPONSE
n biiity for preventing an early adjourn
ment. Only after they are all dispose
e of will he permit general Legislation
o of a non partisan character, like tn,
bankruptcy bill, to be taken up Tn
3 only incident of note in the Hous
during the week was the A. P. a
! outbreak against an appropriation 70
st. Johns Orphanage in the Distric
/ of Columbia bill Monday. 1t was de
n feated.
8 The president sent in specia
d message Monday recommending
). provision from the treasury for tn
G families of Italians who were lynchet
l. in Colorado. Three persons were kille,
outright, while two Others sustaine,