The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-01-23
THE BOND FIGHT BEGUN.
Senator Morgan Begins the
Bond Bill Debate.
Five Financial Evils Enumerated,
Which He Charged to the Policy Of
the Ohio Senator-Let the Bonds be
Paid in the Money Paid for Them
Senator Hill on the Gridiron-
House Debates on Pensions.

House Debates on Pensions.
Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Nor
CAMS speech on the silver bond bill was
the event in the Senate today, although
a sharp personal colloquy between Mr..
Hill, Mr.. Pritchard and Mr. Butler en-
llvened the early hours. Mr. Morgan
finally 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 person.
al, In the main. however. the speech
was scholarly presentation of the sill
Yer question.
Mr.. Hilfs colloquy with the two
North Carolina Senators brought out
considerable discussion of the New
York Senator's political consistency
and was amusing to the crowded gall
leries for the sharp sallies and witty
reJoinders during the triangular debate
REGULAR PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Mitchell CRep. ore) had passed
a bill allowing settlers on forfeited
railroad grants to hold land by fencing
and improving it, and making actual
residence unnecessary
Mr.. Pritchard Rep. n. c. made an
address defending himself against the
charge of Inconsistency on the tariff
question made by Mr.. Hill of New
YORK last week. and attacked Mr. Hills
record for consistency, saying he had
been repudiated by the Democratic
party.
Mr.. Hill in reply expressed surprise
at having brought forth so elaborate
statement. and said he believed that
ne was as active a member of the
democratic party. what there was of
u, as anyone. He said it was true
that he voted against the Wilson kill
lie mad reasons for voting So He be-
lteved in tariff reform, but not in that
way. The Democrats were all travel
ing toward the Democratic haven, but
~ inherent ways. The other side was
travelling in the other direction.
EXCHANGE OF PLEASANTRIES.
The debate at this point drifted
away to John Y. McKane, Mr.. Hin
saying that for many years McKane
had been a Republican. Mr.. Pritchard
retorted that John Y. McKane had
never got into the penitentiary until he
joined the Democratic party.
MI Butler pop. N. CO also took up
Mr.. Hills statements concerning the
| politics of the South and asserted that
the cause of the OBJECTIONS from Demo-
cratic ranks in the South was 1.-THE be-
trayal or the party on the great finan-
cldl question, and the opposition to
| an income tax, in which opposition the
New York Senator took a most active
| part.
Mr.; Allen (Pop. Neb) sought to ques-
tlon MI Hill, whereupon the latter Gre
ated laugh by remarking: "Stil an.
other Richmond in the field"
Mr.. Allen proceeded to say that the
| Democratic Senators were divided or
hnance, on the tariff and on the in.
1
ting ON the Democratic side ought Il
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 ON
that II these gentlemen (Allen ant
Butler) wanted an income tax the,
ought to proceed to have one; let then
| introduce bill
THE BOND BILL DEBATE.
AT O'Clock the personal controvers,
closed. and Mr.. Morgan took the foo
on the silver bond bill. He referred t,
tne lhtrlgues before National conven
lions and the "wind-shaken platforms'
Of these bodies. In his Judgment tn
emergency tariff and the bond bill
We're constructed merely as a part q
the platform to be laid before a Ma
lonal convention next summer, and no
with any purpose to enact them a
laws.
Mr.. Morgan criticised the f1nancia
course or Mr.. Sherman, while the lat
Ter sat across the aisle giving close al
tehtlon TO the remarks. He referred I
Mr.. sherman as the Napoleon of f
nance. but this Napoleon was randi
nearing his Waterloo and his exile T
st. Helena. Mr.. Morgan enumerate
IN detail the financial burdens whic
the legislation urged by the Ohio Sena
tor had imposed on the people. The
We're evils which brought misery an
want to the whole people If ba
worked more miseries than those niI
tured in the Apocalypse His On,
sherman 50 garment was one of man
colors, in keeping with the variegate
ilnes or the party to which he hs
longed. At the present time the Obi
senator and the President were Il
gether IN their financial views, bot
equally Obvious to the constitutions
requirements that both metals were
De on equal terms. 1t was the Ohio Ser
ator who originated the evil of sellin
bonds to a syndicate.
FIVE FINANCIAL EVILS.
Proceeding Mr.. Morgan said:
The Senator from Ohio is the authe
OF the hve new measures of financ
/,
Government more trouble in handlin
the little remnant of $346 900, 900 ,
greenbacks than it did to pay lively
billions of expenditures for II
support of the Government and MOI
than three billions of principal and II
c terest of the National debt.
e These measures are the demonetiz,
: ton of silver In 1878, the seuuestratic
e or the gold reserve in the treasury
1873, the power given the Secretary
the Treasury in 1890 to preserve II
parity between the metals, the pow,
to sell bonds at private sale, and II
power to enable private persons |
contract to dispense with the legal tie
e der laws in their transactions"
j Mr.. Morgan spoke of the admissIf
= or the rich Jews-Baron Rothschild an
: Lord Beaconsfieli-to the nobility
i England. 1t was the tendency n
world over toward feudalism That sy
tenn existed today as much as in yea
gone by, concentrating all the pow
ana wealth In the hands of the feud
gold barons
. The Senator urged declaration
~ Congress In line with q resolution on
: offered by Stanley Matthews. that I
Y bonds would be paid In the money wi
= which they were bought. He suggest
also that 10 per cent rebate on q,
toms duties to countries coming or
and silver on equal terms would ma
i New York instead of London the Gle;
ing-house of the world
" Mr.. Morgan spoke for two hours. n
q then at 4 o'clock the Sonata adio,,r,,