The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-25
CURRENCY BILL UP.

CURRENCY BILL UP.
Mr. Henderson Rep., Io), from the
committee on rules, Immediately pre-
sented a special order for the consid-
eratlon OF the Stone currency commits
sion bill, with an allowance of one hour
for debate. He agreed to allow twenty
minutes for debate on a side on the
order. After a few remarks by Mr.
Henderson, in which he said the Re.
publicans of the house were in sympa-
thy with the executive and meant bus
mess, the time of the Democrats was
consumed by Messrs. Wheeler, of Ken
lucky; Dockery, of Missouri: Pierce Of
Missouri; Ermantraut, of Pennsylvania
ana >McMillin, of Tennessee. in denun-
clatlon Of this attempt to create a cur
rency commission.
Mr. Dolliver Rep. Io.) stirred the
republicans by an eloquent speech. At
the conclusion of brief review of the
i1dCuIeS OF the last campaign he de-
clared that 1t was no cause for wonder
that the leader Of the remnant of the
democratic party, which was now
Houndering around in the bad lands
OF politics, had become an organizer of
book agents and a holy terror to tha
lyceums of the country He denounced
eHorts to array class against class. and
said: '''-
Il now venture the prediction that
never again will we be as near as Wa
were last fall to the apotheosis of the
organs of speech and the difficatiop ~
the winds of heaven" daughter and
applause on the Republican side and
III the galleries) Referring to the state
ments that 1t was meant to help out
Mr. Hanna in Ohio this fall Mr.
Henderson stated his emphatic belief
that the Buckeye state, following its
1ilustrious leader, William Mckinley
would send Senator Hanna back to the
senate" -o
The special order was then adopted
yeas lSO, nays 1O2; present and not
voting, 10. There were two breaks
in the Republican lines on this vota@
Messrs. Linney, N. c., and Mahanny.
n. Y, voted with the Democrats and
Populists against the order.
The debate proper on the bill. which
the order limited to one hour. then
began. Mr.. Stone, author of the bill.
III the opening of the debate, referred to
the presidents declarations in his in
augural when he said that this cues
ton should be considered when ade-
quate revenues had been first provid-
ed. The proposition was simple. It
proposed that the president should ap-
point committee of level headed busi-
ness men to make the broadest in
Vestlgation to consider all the schemes
Which were presented and report to
him what, if any, legislation was need
ed
Mr.. Cox, of Tennessee, who was the
leading minority member of the COM
mittee on banking and currency of the
last house, replied to Mr. Stone. He
spoke briefly predicting that the work
OF the committee would be valueless.
He asserted that the Republicans of
the house did not want to pass this
commission bill, but feared to raise the
issue with the president.
Mr.. Dolliver Rep., Io) and Mr.. Hill
(Rep, Comm supported the bill, and
Messrs. Simpson Pop., Kan.), Sha-
froth (s1lver Rep, COLI, Lewis Oem.,
Wash), Wheeler (Dem., Ala.), Myers
(Dem., Ind0, Handy Oem., Del) and
Lentz Oem., o. opposed It,
Mr. Dingley said few words in fa-
vor of the bill, which he advocated on
three grounds.
First-That the president had requested this
action.
Second-That business men of the countrg
who were little accustomed to engage in no
litical disputes earnestly urged this investi-
cation; and, third, that the information sa-
cured by the commission would be of value
to congress.
Mr. Stone closed the debate with a
few words, in which he argued that
the president of the United States had
taken upon himself the responsibility
for the creation of a committee, and
he should be empowered to compose
it of such persons as he saw fit
After considerable wrangling the
speaker ruled that it was in order to
move to recomnnit, and Mr.. Johnson
(Rep., Ind.) made the motion, with in