St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-31
SENATOR MITCHELL DECLARES a
PREFERENCE FOR INDEPEND-
ENT SILVER COINAGE.
NO OTHER COURSE POSSIBLE.
HE THINKS WE ARE VIRTUALLY
SLAVES OF ENGLAND UNDER
PRESENT CONDITIONS.
VOTE ON THE SILVER BOND BILL
Stirs Up an Animated Debate Be-
tween Senator's Late in the
Day.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-A very an
inated debate closed the senate ses-
sion late this afternoon over the ques-
ton of taking the vote on the pending
silver bond bill. It had been expected
throughout the day that Mr. Jones, Of
Arkansas. In charge Of the bill, would
hold the senate in session until vote
was forced. He had given notice of
this purpose. and senators were pre-
pared for it. But at Ais, when Mr..
Villas secured the floor for a speech,
he yielded for motion to go into ex-
ecutlve session. Mr.. Jones explained
that 1T was proposed to take a recess
until tomorrow. He felt satisfied, he
said, that vote could be taken in
the near future. This led to much
discussion. Mr. Chandler was sarcastic
at the abandonment of the plan for a
vote. Mr.. Stewart declared that IL
made no difference when a vote was
taken, or whether any was taken. It
was all dress parade" and bun
combe." He added the significant state
ment that the pending silver amend
ment would be germane as an amend
ment to the tariff bill, and that
when the latter measure came before
the senate he would offer a silver
amendment to test senators on the
cho1ce between tariff and silver. After
lengthy discussion the senate went into
executive session, and then took a re-
cess until tomorrow without any ex-
act understanding as to the vote, al
though the talk had shown a purpose
to secure vote on Saturday.
Mr. H6Dburp Ran MAJ ro,o,+a a
back the urgent deficiency appropria-
tion bill, and gave notice that he would
ask to take it up tomorrow. The res
olutlon directing the secretary of agri-
culture to execute the law relative to
seed distribution was then taken up,
ana MIR. George Oem., Miss) spoke in
defense of the course of the secretary.
Mr.. Gallinger Rep., N H.) and Mr..
Allen Rep., Neb0 supported the reso-
luton. The resolution gave way at 2
o'clock to the silver bond bill, and Mr.
Call Oem., F'la.) continued his speech
begun yesterday.
Mr. Mitchell Rep., Orr followed in
support Of the silver substitute.
Mr. Mitchell said the question pre-
sented was whether by bonded in
debtednesS to maintain the gold stand
ard, or by greater use of silver re-
store the metal to it's primary place
as money of the constitution. He
pointed out that our foreign indebted
ness during the past twenty-five wears
had greatly increased, Notwithstanding
that during that time there was a
balance Of trade In our favor in mer-
chandise of 81, 1853, SOC, 900, besides silver
exports of $3SS,311, ,625, and gold exports
OF $271, 100, 721. There were two rem
edies to be applied: First our mer-
chant marine must be ENCOURAGED and
built fup, and we must become our
own carriers; secondly, we must Iegis-
late to increase the value of our ex-
port commodities SO as to enable us to
wipe out the debt, which today makes
the people of this country virtually
SLAVES TO THE MONEY LENDERS
or Great Britain. He thought that tbe
only remedies which could protect The
people OF America from the inroads of
the Orient were the abandonment of
the single gold standard and the es-
tabHshment of protective tariff He
was against any increase In the nuhIio
DEBT to maintain the gold standard
Mr.. Mitchell said he was in favor
of bimetallism, but he did not heIieve
1T could be brought out by an inter-
national agreement. He did not he
leve that those who were talking of