The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-17

Washington, Feb. 16.-The opening
prayer in the senate today was offered
by Rev. NJ J. B. Brown of London.
1t embraced the president-elect as well
as the president. and it asked that
those who desired permanent peace be-
tween the two great English-speaking
nations may have their desire accom-
plished
House bill, dividing the state of
Arkansas into two judicial districts
eastern and western-was passed.
Also house bill for the loan of tents
for the use of the Grand Army of the
Republic at the encampment at Buff
falo this year.
Mr. Sherman (Rep., o. gave notice
| that he would move to go into eXecu-
tive session tomorrow on the arbitra-
tion treaty and that he hoped then to
get final action on it.
The judiciary committee was dis
! charged from the further conSidera-
ton of the senate bill to amend the
act repeating the timber culture laws,
and the bill was laid before the senate.
! This is the bill recently recalled from
! the president for the purpose of hav-
! ing it changed in a substantial point.
! The house amendments to the bill,
which covered the points in issue, were
/ disagreed to and a conference ordered.
CHANDLER FOR BIMETALLISM.
Mr.. Chandler (Rep., n. H) addressed
the senate in support of his resolution
offered on Feb. 2, declaring it to be
the sense OF the senate that the United
States should not permanently ae-
quiesce in the single standard. He
said that he earnestly favored the
resolution hana11ca "a adVORa q
of bimetallism- and an opponent of
metallism-whether gold or sill
yer. Mr.. Chandler pointed to the fact
that the worlds production of gold
and silver in 1896 was S215,000,
900 of each metal and his comment
upon that fact was that it seemed as if
providence as If nature, as if God
himself. had interposed to refute the
prediction of those who demanded the
demonetiZa tion of silver on the ground |
of its enormous over-production.
Speaking of the indianapolis con-
vention, Mr. Chandler said that the
respectable and respected candidate of
that convention, bearing a standard I
with the motto Gold Monometallism |
and Free Trade" had received $4,000
votes out of over 14,000, 900 votes, but |
that nevertheless the assistance of
those worthy and old-fashioned gen.
tlemen in the election of Mckinley /
had been gladly welcomed. 1t was
time for the passing away of the Dem
ocratic party, and those gentlemen I
were entitled to perform an honorable
part in the obsequies.
In the further course. of his remarks,
Mr. Chandler referred to the PROPOSE
tion of Mr.. Pettigrew, speaking of his
attending the Republican state con-
vention of South Dakota, accepting
his own election as delegate to the st,
Louis Republican national convention,
promising to abide by the decision of
that convention, and then repudiating
that convention. He characterized the
course of Mr.. Pettigrew as having
stamped him as "a hopeless silver
monometallist."
Mr. Pettigrew asked him whether
that was his (Mr. Chandler's) own
statement, or was it a quotation.
Mr. Chandler replied that his state
ment was derived from the news
papers of the day.
IT IS FALSE.
Il brand the statement" Mr.. Petit
grew exclaimed, '.as absolutely and un-
qualifiedly false in every particular
/ made this same denial in the senate
before the st. Louis convention and
it was published in the Record, so
that the senator has no excuse for
repeating the statement in his speech
today"
The senator says the statement is
absolutely false" Mr.. Chandler re-
peated; therefore 1 understand him
to say that he did not attend the
South Dakota Republican convention:
did not accept his election as a dele
gate to the st. Louis convention, and
did not declare that he would obey /
the instructions of the state conven-
tion''
4 say" Mr.. Pettigrew returned.
that your statement in the whole and {
the purpose which you intend to con-
vey is entirely and absolutely false" ]
Mr.. Chandler attempted to pin down i
the senator from South Dakota to hard i
facts, which so nettled the latter SEN I
ator that he sat down with an air of
great annoyance.
Subsequently. Mr.. Pettigrew said: I
'"The South Dakota convention did !
not declare for sound money If it
had it would not have declared for l
gold. 1t simply declared that it would
refer the question of bimetallism to
the st. Louis convention, but it made s
no declaration in favor of wroneflIlv
called sound money! s
Passing away from these personal {
references Mr. Chandler spoke of the t
declarations of French. German and 1
English public men in favor of bimetal- 6
ism. and asked whether, in view of 1
these declarations. the movement for i
International bimetallism had not / |
arge chance of success. He quoted
rom speech of Senator Sherman I
made in 1876 to the effect that nothing '
out an act of God could DESTROY the 3
Use of both gold and silver among the i
nations of mankind and from a speech a
IF Secretary Carlisle, made in 1878, /
speaking of the decentralization of sill t
yer as the most gigantic crime of this C
'r any other age. And he added. sar- /
'astically, that Mr.. Sherman in his new i.
position as secretary of state would be S
IN honored leader in the new move il
nent to save the country and the world
rom the evils of monnmetallism.
In conclusion Mr.. Chandler said:
WHAT MAY BE DONE. y
Il declare my belief that President il
Mckinley and the other leaders of the s
,arty, in their present advent to power S
nay, by wise designs and virtuous e
leeds, indefinitely prolong the ascend r
lncy of the Republican party in this d
ountry. This can surely be done by \
making it the true party OF the people, o
9 the final confusion ond discontinue a
+ those pretenders-the blind leaders f