Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-01

| gold standard would Vacate many Scas
ON the Republican side.
The appearance of A. II. Bland Of Blanc
dollar fame, to whom Bailey yielded II
minutes. was greeted with applause
Bland said that the course Of the Presi
dent and Secretary Gage in passing the
gold standard upon the country hat
driven the bimetallists in Congress to IN
troduco and insist upon the passage 81
this resolution. Yet Dmgley charged Tho
minority with playing politics.
Every Republican, who voted againsi'
this resolution violated the st. Louis
platform and voted against the coinage
of silver in any form. free limited. Nc
one disputed the law. he said. No one
denied it. Silver was full legal tender
| But every Republican vote against tn.
resolution would declare that silver was
not tit to pay the public debt with. Sill
Yer would then in truth become subsidi-
AIRY coin.
Bland created great applause on the
| Democratic side by reading from the
| Record the votes of Hopkins Grosvenoi
and other prominent Republicans against
the bill to pay the bonds of the United
States in gold, which was voted upon in
the last Congress at the time the last adj
| ministration negotiated the $3.50, 000. 000
loan.
Grosvcnor on that occasion. he said.
had stated on the floor that he was glad
to pay $4,000. coo for the privilege of pay
| ing silver in redemption of the bonds.
| ways and means committee. followed and
enthusiastically championed the defeat
| OF the resolution.
! Swanson, Dem, Va. in supper. of til"
resolution, contcndcd that it was not Il
violation Of the faith ana honor of the
! government to pay our bonds, principal
and interest, in silver
Hopkins, Rep. H.. said this resolution
had clearly SHOWN that the Senate was
| not a Republican body. but was con-
| trollcd by the free silver element. BY 4
decisive vote in the last election the pco-
pie had spoken against the free and un-
| limited coinage of silver and yet the SEN
| ate passed this resolution in defiance and
| in Misrepresentation Of the public.
! clayton, Dem, Ala., asserted chat the
| defeat of this resolution was dictated by
| thv masters Of the Republican party. who
! gathered 1T New York banquet table.
! The other night, ut 800 plate which
! meant. at Alabama standards. that every
man ate Il bale of cotton ana couple OF
| mules
| Grosvonof. Rep. ohio, n member 81
the ways and means committee. IN oppo-
| Sition 10 the resolution said that
| throughout the changes and mutilatiou.
/ of the money question in this country.
the Republican party had maintained IL
! unVaryiug devotion 10 what was demon
I mated honest money"
Wheeler. Dem. Ky. followed with i
review of the same history that Gros-
rnOr had invoked to prove, that the Re-
! I'M 81
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