Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-02-08
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The Passage of the Free
Coinage Substitute.
AMBASSADOR BATARD OBNSURED
SPEAKER REED AND THE NEW
GAVBL
Tillman's DemagOgery-- Senator Cor
mans Position.
(From Our Regular Corresrorden,.)

mdI OS4lltus
(From Our Regular Corresr oId.nt.)
WAsHINGroN. F,b 3 1896
Fifteen republican Senators voted
for tne Tree coinage substitute for the
House b md bin, which passed the
Ssna,e vote of y 10 30 aud three
republican senators Who would have
vOLru for a HansbrOugh of North
Dakota, Dubois OF ldanO aud WOlcott
OF Colorado We're paired as there is
no possibility that the substitute can
become a law the only interest attach
I'd to the mat er was the record made
By the vOSe With the Reception of
senator Cameron of Penn, all of the
republicans are believed TO have voted
in accordance with the views OF ma
jority OF their constituents.
AMBA ssADoR BAYAKD's REMARKS.
The democratic members of the
House committee on Foreign Affairs
having refused to agree To any resolu-
tion submitted 10y the republican
members of that committee, the re-
publicans adopted, and of course, the
House will also, "a resolution express
ing the sense of the House that Am
Dassador Bayard's un-American utter
ances in recent speeches in Great Brit
ain were improper and that he be CEN
sured therefor. If Bayard has any
sense of manhood left he will resign
when the House adopts that resolu-
tiOn
SENATOR'S PRoPHEsY.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota,
sometimes has a prophetic mood
While one Of them was on him he said,
The bond bill Will die in conference
The dOuse will not agree TO the free
coinage substitute OF the Senate, and
all of the various compromises that
may be proposed will go into the waste
basket. here is no common ground
upon which the Houses can meet.
The revenue bill will be reported from
the Committee on Finance without
amendment, and will pass the senate
in the same shape il passed the House.
Ii will then 20 TO the Presid ent, who
will knock il in the head with his lit
tie To and end financial legislation
for this session. re viii then pass
the appropriation bills and 90 home
before the first OF May, making the
shortest long session on record.
oAvEL FROM Mr.. BLAINE's BIRTHPLACE
Speaker Reed has been presented
y
place, accompanied by the following
letter. which Is self-explanatory The
wood for this gavel was taken out OF
the window frames of the Blaine
House. living shrine is more salts
factory than dead one, a mans house
is more attractive shan his grave To
see the rooms in which he lived and
talked. the bed on which he slept, the
chair and table where he wrote, the
very pen which his living fingers guid
ed-these very sights bring the man
before US and he lives again. James
G.. Blaine belongs TO history. Know
ing the Hon Thomas b Reed to be a
friend of the dead statesman, we send
him this gavel as a token of our es-
TEEN and respect for him personally,
and as our standard bearer i'm 1896
We hope when taps of this Ravel shall
call the II ouse to order, it will call be-
fore the members the form of Hon
James q Blaine, whose words have
ech led through the chamber which
now know his voice no more"
THE DeMAaoaUe FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
While there are many men in both
branches of Congress who are as much
opposed to Mr. CleVeland's policy al
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, i.
or can be, there are few men in Con.
gress who do not openly condemn the
blackguard language which Tillmar
used to express his opposition. The
Presidents position should protect
him from personal abuse
The Union Republican Club oil
Washington, proposes to celebrate the
fortieth birthday of the Republican
party by holding a big mass meeting
on the evening of February 22nd.
large hall has been engaged, and al.
ready the invitations of the club hav,
been accepted by sufficient humble
of republicans of National reputation
to make it certain that the cele bratiol
will be the brilliant success it deserve
to be
A PECULIAR CONDITION.
If the democratic members of tn
Senate all follow the example of tn
democrats OF the Election committee
it Will be left for the pOpulists to de
eide whether Senator Dupont Of Dels
ware shall get the seat TO which b
was legally elected = he Electio
Committee has, by the vote of ever
republican member, reported in fave
of Senator Dupont's right to the sea
but if the democrats all vote again,
him he will have to get some popuiis
votes TO get in Neither Senator DU
his final success.
WHY THEY WANT NO CHANGE,
1t is said by some that the reaso
some of the republican senators o;
pose making change in the offices
Secretary and Sergeant-at- Arms of IL
Senate is that they control more pa
ronage under the present democrat
officials than they could hope to retai
under new ones. An attempt is to I
made the last of this week to sett
the question at u caucus of republics
Senators.
Senator German virtually acknow
= edged the hOpelessness of the dem
cratic cause When he announced b
intention to retire from the democra
ic National Committee and all partiS
patton in National politics. in order
fight for his own political life at HON
He knows that the republicans of v
ryland will leave no stone unturned
have him succeeded by republics
and that ne has time to devote to n
tional fOrlorn hopes