The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-02-27
p0PULISrS, BaRGAiN.

vs. y f@AH As*fAAN-AA%N'
offer Votes for the arm SIN in Return for
free silver New Cuban i;e otution-
Calls on tho President to Recogn ze Cuban
indepe ,dence.
Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Allen
OF Nebraska, the populist leader in the
senate, to-day by unanimous consent
called up the financial question for the
purpose Of proposing to pledge all the
populist votes for o tariff bill with a
free coinage amendment. He said that
the popullsts would give the republic
cans votes enough to pass such meas
ure through the senate.
| AT the conclusion of Senator Aliens
remarks he sent to the clerks desk
combination bill composed of the
Dingley tariff bill and the free coinage
proposition as an amendment, lie ad-
ded that If the republicans wanted to
deal with the subject in good faith, the
| populists stood ready to give the re-
publicans six votes to add to the forty
| four republican votes, sufficient to pass
the bill by a majority of five
| Senator Baker of Kansas asked if
Senator Allen would amend the propose
ed bill by providing for free coinage of
American silver alone. Allen replied
| No" emphatically, and the incident
closed without either Senator Sherman
or Morrill, replying.
| A blu was introduced by Mr.. Hale
rep, of Maine, for the appointment Of
General 0. O. Howard as lieutenant
| srnDn,,n1 thn s,t of no
Mr. Allen, pop, of Nebraska offered
a substitute for the pending Cuban
resolution 1t authorizes and requests
the president to issue proclamation
recognizing the independence of Cuba.
He asked that the resolution lie on the
| table,
| Senator Carter, rep, of Montana, de-
livered a long speech upon the finan-
cial question. In the course of it he
said: Il accord to President Cleveland
the merit of having displayed spark
of genius and marked political tact in
| diverting public attention from the
fact that the deep, dark cloud which
spread over the country thirty days
after his nomination was really due to
the presence of his own party in power,
and ascribing it to another and wholly
inadequate cause.-The silver purchasing
| act
The president suggested that the
greenback was the cause of the trou-
| Bile, and that, in the interest Of what
| he was pleased to call sound money
the greenback should be retired and
an interest bearing bond substituted
for it. Again the republican magpie
1 n q ttarod A h Ia of Iarf a1 DC -
pirants rushed to political suicide YELL
| ing sound money The press of New
York city led the procession. Sound
money was taken up as the war cry,
and under the cover of that cry the
president protected himself and his ad-
nsinistration from just criticism for the
1 most. shady and ubiquitous transaction
in public finances the world has ever
| known
Then when the sentiment Of the
| country was found to be overwhelmI
! ingly against the, issuance of bonds in
times of peace, there came another ex-
hibition of genius. A venerable dispute
of the age Of three score and ten, con-
4 corning strip Of swamp land in Vene-
zuela, was rushed upon the country
with a warlike demonstration and we
We're proudly informed that the same
hand that authorized the tearing down
of the flag at Honolulu would sustain
the government at all hazards, even
unto the horrors OF war. BY this time
| the republicans of the east had become
used to bobbing up and down like a
cork on the water at the suggestion
of the president. and instantly reso-
luton was passed appropriating 100000
for a commission to advise the execu-
tive on points on which ample facili-
ties for information were at the time
at his disposal. On December II, the
| flaming, warlike Venezuelan message
was given to congress. On the evening
of December 20, just three days having
been allowed to work congress and the
country up, another message followed,
in effect renewing the call for the re-
tirement of the greenbaclss and author
ity to issue bonds. Conservative men
were swept off their feet