St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-15


| whenever an attempt was made to cir
| culate concurrently two metals of differ
| ent value, the cheaper metal would al
| ways drive the dearer out of circula-
ton. He then addressed himself to the
| question whether the United States in
dependently could restore the parity of
! gold and silver. He would. he said.
| use every test known to human tribu-
nal. He would summon Mexico and
| emma, Where silver was coined, and was
worth its commercial value He would
summon Japan, that noble stripping of
! the East, just feeling her strength and
just about to abandon the exploded the
| or1es of silver monometallism. On the
| other hand as witnessed against this
theory, he would summon the enlight-
ened and cultivated nations of the
world-England, Germany, Russia, Aus
| tr1a and France. They had all closed
| their mints to silver.
Proceeding, he took up the Bland-Alli-
son and Sherman silver laws, under
which 400000,000 of silver had been
| coined. Yet those laws had not i'm
parted value to silver, for it's value had
gone down and down until India, the
! great reservoir Of the white metal. had,
in 1898, driven the final nail in the coffin
Of the silver by closing her mints. There
were $4,000, 100000 of silver in the world,
according to the report of the director
coined by the countries of the world. If
a liberal use of silver or legal enact
ment could sustain value, why had the
commercial price, in view of these facts,
gone down steadily?
Mr.. Balfour, the most conspicuous
bimetallist in England" replied Mr.
Turner, has declared that Great Brit
ain could not enter alone on bimetal-
lism, and the gentleman should have
been candid enough to state that the
German reichStag declared for bimet-
allism with the aid of other CONNER
cial nations Thus, one by one, their
arguments evaporate." Mr.. Turner met
volley of questions towards the close
Of his speech. He declared that if the
law authorizing the secretary to sell
gold was repealed, that moment the
parity would fail and the country
would go to a silver basis. The Gresh-
am law, that congress did not make
and could not repeal, was daily going
into force
Mr.. Turner was followed by Mr.. Dali
zell, who devoted some time to reply
ing to the argument of the silver men
that the fall of prices since 1873 had
been coincident with the fall of silver,
which latter fall was due to the de-
monetization in 1873. The fall of prices
was due to invention, competition, the
reduction in the cost Of transportation,
6CC. MeCnOuS nave DSeu TeVOlullO1lZoO
since 1873. What the country wanted
was not free silver but more revenue
through the custom houses, more blaZ-
ing furnaces, more factories and mills,
more and cheaper transportation, wider
fields for labor and an enlarged home
market, more consumption to stimulate
production, increased wages to decrease
the hours of labor, 'these are the
things we want, and will have" he
concluded HTn orr march fO the oOp-
quest of our manifest destiny as the
leader of the world in agriculture,
manufactures and in commerce, whose
life blood shall be a monetary system
as good as gold and as respected as the
national flag" Prolonged Republican
applause.)
AT the conclusion of Mr.. DalzelPs
remarks Mr.. Dingley demanded the
previous question, which was ordered,
whereupon the vote was taken on Mr..
Crisps motion to concur in the senate
free coinage amendment to the house
bill. The members who had retired
from the hall, or were lounging in the
cloak rooms, came in, resumed their
seats, and followed the roll call with
great interest.
THE VOTE.
The vote resulted 80 to 215. The an
nouncement of the 125 majority against
free silver was cheered by the anti
silver forces. The detailed vote was
as follows
Yeas-Abbott, Aitken, Allen (DIiss.), Allen
mta Bailey Baker Kansas); a0;, Banhhead
ers, s,' Broderick, clardy, cockreil, Cooper
(Texas), Cox, Crisp, Culberson, Curtis (Kan0,
Downing, Ellis Gamble Hartman, Hermann,
Hlborn, Hutcheson, Hyde, Johnson (Cal9,
Jones, KEN, Kendall, Latimer, Layton, Lester,
Linney, Little, Livingston, Lockhart, Loud
Maddox, MCGUIRE. Marsh, Mcclure, McCul-
loch, McKenney McLachlan, McLaurin, Nc
NIillin, McRae, Meredith, Mondell Money,
Moses, Neill, NewIands, Ogden, otey, Pear
Sayers, Shafroth, Shaw, Shuford, Skinner,
Spencer, Stokes, Strait Strowd., Swanson.
Talbert, Tate, Terry, Towne, Tyler, Under
son Qdaho), Wilson Is. CO., Woodard, Yo-
akum-90.
Nays = Acheson, Aldrich Andrews Ap-
sley, Arnold Or. -, Atwood. Avery. Babcock,
holdt, Bartlett IN. V, Beach, Bennett,
Berry, Bingham, Bishop, Blue, Boatner Bou
telle, Brewster, Bromwell, Brosius Brown,
(o), caIderhead, Cannon, Catchings, Chick
Codding, Coffin. Colson, Connolly Cook
Mis.)), Cooke Gid, Cooper Gla.), Cooper
ford, Daniels, Denny, Dewitt, Dingley. Dol
liver, Doverner. Draper, Elliott Is. Co Erd-
cher, Fletcher, Fowler, Gardner, Gibson. Gil
lett (N ", Gillett Mass.), Graft. Griffin,
Grosvenor, Grout, Grow, Hadley, Hager,
Hall (Mo4 Haterman, I51dh Hardin aatnoer aarmsr,
Heiner Pa.), Hemenway, Henderson, Hen
drick, Henry Comm, Hepburn, Hicks, Hill
Comm, Hit ull.), Hooker, Hopkins, Howe,
Howell, Hubbard, Hulick (O), Huling CIV.
Va.), Hull Qo.), Hurley, Jenkins, Johnson
Qnd.) Johnson On. ID, Joy, Kerr, Kiefer,
Knox, Kulp Lacey, Lawson. Lefeyre,
Leghty Lewis MsSon Long M
Call (Mass), Mccall (Tenn.l, McCleary
(Minn.) Mcclellan, Mccormick, McCreary
Ry.), Mercer, Meyer, Miles: Miller CIV. Va.),
Northway odell Often, overstreet, Owens,
Parker Patterson, Payne. Perkins. Phillips,
Pitney, Poole Price, Prince, Pugh, Quigg,
sell sell (GaS, sauerhering, scranton Settle.
Shannon, Sherman, simpkins. Smith Qll.),
Smith BIich.), Shower, Sorg. Southland, South
wick. Spalding, Sperry, Stable, Steele, steph-
Charles W. Stone William A. Stone Strobe
CNeb.), Strong, Sulloway, Sulzer. Taft, Tars-
ney, Tawney. Taylor, Thomas. Tracewell,
er Wa.j, Updegraff. Van voorhis, Wadsworth,
Washington, Watson Qnd.), Watson (o.),
wellington. White, Wilber, Willis Wilson
(O.), Wood Wright. Total, 215.
Pairs were announced as follows, the
first being in favor and the latter
against the senate amendment: Nc
Dearmond and Woodman, Stallings and
Leonard, Kyle and Russell Comm,
Pendleton and Hanley, Cobb (Ala.)
and Powers, Howard and Eddy, Picker
and Adams.
The house then took recess until 8
o'clock, the evening session to be de-
voted to private pension bills.
A ROW NARROWLY AvERTED.