The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-11
In REGARD TO RULES
Senator's and Representatives Have
Much to Say on the Subject
JONES' SOUND SILVER TALK
The PopuIIsts Inform Speaker Reed
That They Are Out for the
Recognition Due Them
Other Surprises.

Washington, Jan. 10.-Pritchard, re-
publican, North Carolina, called up in
the senate to-day the amendments he
| offered to the revenue bin to increase
the duties on certain kinds of clays,
marble. iron ore, timber, live stock, ce-
reals, fruits, wool and coal He favored
the reenactment of the Mckinley tar
| iff law and the free coinage of silver.
He denounced the Southern democrats
for their recreancy to their own section.
The tariff law had brought unexampled
prosperity ito New England manufac-
tureIs and bankruptcy and ruin to the
farmers and producers of the South.
When Pritchard finished, Hill of New
York chided the former for the incon-
sistency of his state. North Carolina,
The said. occupied peculiar situation In
congress, and he did not see how her
people could be gratified. Some time
ago the same Legislature in North Car
olina had elected two senators by the
same combination. A few days ago one
of them (Butler) denounced the demo-
cratic party for being false to it's pledg-
es of tariff reform. To-day the other
end of the combination told the senate
lhe favored the reenactment of the Nc
Kinley law.
The senate, on Hale's motion, agreed
to adjourn until Monday when adjourn
ment was taken to-day
White of California consumed the re-
mainder of the time before the explra-
tion of the morning hour with a speech
in favor of some practical notifications
of the senate rules. He did not mince
words in his Characterization of the
rules and the ''ancient fictions" they
perpetuated The great evil he espe-
cially inveig'hed against was that which
permitted interunfnaIble debate on any
question and placed it in the power of
single senator to hold the senate at
his mercy so long.
He favored Senator Eill's PROPOSE
tion, put forward in the last congress,
for cloture whenever the majority of
the senate was ready ITO vote. He also
favored "quorum-counting device to
do away with another parliamentary
faction. The antiquity of the senate
rules in his opinlrms nots sxsaase -<aser-
sacred, and they should not be allowed
TO stand in the way of parliamentary
progress. He carefully reviewed the
abuses that had grown more and more
intolerable, and cited many instances
where the plain will of the majority
had been thwarted for days, weeks and
months by the determined stand of the
minority. The dignity of the senate
would not be maintained by clinging to
rules which permitted in'termnabde fill
busters, and must eventually bring the
senate into discredit with the people
Let us protect the minority, but per-
NIT the majority to assert the manifest
privilege"
At the conclusion of Mr. Whites
speech, Mr.. Morgan introduced a reso-
luton congratulating the republic of
Transvaal on its stand for independ-
ence. 1t was referred to the committee
on foreign relations.
Jones of Arkansas then took the
floor and spoke on the free coinage
substitute for the house bond bill. 1t
is claimed that this bill, said Jones.
was framed and passed through the
house in response to the wishes of the
president of the United States. 1t is
also said that the bill is entirely un-
satisfactory to the president and Sec
retary of the treasury from the fact
that the bonds provided for are not
specifically payable in gold The presl-
dent considers the treasury in an un-
satisfactory, If not in a critical con-
dition. If a condition of reasonable
prosperity can be restored among the
masses of the people. there will be no
difficulty whatever about the condition
of the treasury. An issue of bonds is
doubtless a boon TO the small class of
persons who have large incomes which
they have not the knowledge, industry
or courage to use profitably, who long
for investments upon which they may
draw interest without any greater la
Dor than clipping coupons; but to no |
other class is an issue of bonds desir- |
able. 1t is true that the government is |
not collecting as much revenue Just at |
this time as is needed, and some steps |
should be taken TO provide for the de- /
fciency. The secretary of the treasury |
however, in his official report, shows |
that this deficiency will be temporary |
and not continued beyond few months /
The amendment proposed by the |
If enacted by law will am
ply provide for this. for the issue of |
about $4,000, 900 silver certificates a day /
against the seigniorage now held In
bars in the treasury is one OF its fea-
lures, while the deficiency estimated
by Carlisle is far below that sum.
The speaker then referred to the
condition of poverty and distress pre-
vailing among all the great nations OF
the world. including England, Germany
and France, and declared that there
must be some general cause. He assert
ed that the cause of distress was the
gold standard which was
resulting everywhere in a rise in the
value OF money and corresponding fall
in the market value of products OF the
people. He declared that the
causes which have operated TO produce
the present results will continue in
operation and that the prices will be re-
duced 30 per cent within the next 20
years.
Referring TO the arguments in favor
OF bimetallism. he said: Il believe
that the unlimited coinage OF silver
would. by reviving commerce. increase
our revenues and do away absolutely