The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-01

nority with playing politics, Every re- publican who voted aganst this reso- lution violated the St. Louis platform and voted against the coinage of silver in any form, free or limited, No one disputed the law, he said. No one de- nied it. Silver was @ full legal tender. But every republican vote against the resolution would declare that silver was not fit to pay the public debt with. Silver would then in truth become sub- sidiary coin. MT. Bland created great applause on the democratic side by reading from the record the votes of Messrs. Hopkins, Grosvenor 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 ad- mnistration negotiated the S260 900, 900 | loan.
 MT. Grosvenor on that occasion, he said, had stated on the floor that he was glad to pay $16,000,00O for the privilege of paying silver in redemption | of the bonds.
 Mr. Payne of New York. member | of the ways and means committee, fol- | lowed and enthusiastically championed | the defeat of the resolution. He was | for the gold standard and had voted on the occasion referred to by MT. Bland to place "gold" in the bonds sold | by the government
 | Mr. Swanson of Pennsylvania, in support of the resolution, contended l that it was not a violation of the faith and honor of the government to pay our bonds, principal and interest, in l silver. He declared that the effect of | defeating this resolution would be to serve notice to the bondholders that l they would be paid only in gold where on they would have no further interest | in silver and the present parity would | be destroyed.
 MT. Hopkins of Illinois said this reso- lution had clearly shown that the sem | ate was not a republican body, but was | controlled by the free silver element. | By decisive vote in the last election 1 the people had spoken against the free and unlimited coinage of silver. And yet the senate passed this resolution in l defiance and misrepresentation of the public will.
 1 Mr Clayton of Alabama asserted that the defeat of this resolution was dictated by the masters of the republi- can party who gathered at a New York banquet table the other night at | $1O0 a plate, which meant that every man ate a bale of cotton and a couple of mules, according to the Alabama | Standard.
 l MT. Grosvenor, a member of the ! ways and means committee, in opposi- tion to the resolution, said that | throughout all the changes of the money question in this country the re- publican party had maintained it's un- l varying devotion to what was donin- 1 ated Honest money He reviewed the record and position of the party l from the time of the passage of the l resumption act in proof of this propo- sition.
 MT. Wheeler of Kentucky followed with a review of the same history that MT Grosvenor had invoked to prove that the republican party on the money question had somersaulted like a cir GUS tumbler.'
 MT. Pearce of Tennessee declared that the mist had at last cleared away The republican party was firmly com mitted to the gold standard. Nothing could disguise that fact.
 MT. Grow of Pennsylva.lia contended against the resolution, that the creditor had the right to demand the payment of his debt in whatever legal tender he elected For the government to exer- else the option would be dishonest and in bad faith. Otherwise the govern ment could set it's printing presses at work and soon turn out enough legal tender to discharge the government debt.
 MT. Brumm of Pennsylvania said he would have voted for the resolution had it not contained the latter clause declaring that the free coinage of sil- yer was not inconsistent with the pub lie faith.
 MT. Baird of Louisiana asserted that
 in voting against the pending resolu- tion the republicans would simply obey the commands of their masters in Wall street.
 MT. McClelland of New York advo- cated the adoption of the resolution in a vigorous speech. Nothing in the pub- lie faith, he argued, demanded the pay
 ment of coin bonds in gold. Congress
 had emphatically declined to insert the
 word gold in the bond and for this re-
 fusal to change the policy of the gov
 ernment we had paid $16O,00O, ,0O0.
 MT. Sulzer of New York asserted that
 President Mckinley was the slave of
 the money power.
 MT. Bailey yielded fourteen minutes
 to MT. Bell of Colorado, and gentleman
 parceled the time out to the populist
 members giving each of then a couple
 of minutes. All advocated the adoption
 of the resolution.
 MT. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts ad-
 vocated the adoption of the resolution
 MT. Johnson of Indiana got ten min
 utes from MT. Steele of Indiana, with
 which to oppose the resolution. He
 said the resolution was nothing more
 nor less than reaffirmation of the
 Chicago platform, a declaration for the free coinage of silver.
 MT. Evans of Kentucky opposed the
 resolution as a declaration for free sill
 yer.
 MT. Walker of Massachusetts, chair
 man of the banking and currency com
 mittee, opposed the resolution and ask
 ed if the members ever stopped to cal
 culate the commercial value of un-
 doubted honor whether among nations
 or individuals.
 A country. he said must discharge
 it's obligations in good faith whether