The record-union., 1898-02-01


! sixtyfour years ago, and the honor
and good faith of the nation so care
fully preserved by the father of the
Democratic party, and to take the OPP
portunity offered by the resolution now
before the House to show the country
and the world that the good name of
the nation is safe in our hands" pro
| longed Republican applause)
After the outburst of applause which
! greeted the close of Dingley's speech
had subsidized, Bailey was recognized.
for an hour. He first yielded twenty
minutes to Wheeler cd of Alabama.
member of the Ways and Means Com
mittee who submitted an argument in
support of the resolution. Before clos
ing Wheeler yielded a minute each to
half a dozen members of the Demo-
cratic side, each of whom as Cowherd
CD of Missouri said, erected hook
on which to hang a speech in the Com
gressional Record
Dockery CD of Missouri declared
that the efforts of the present Secretary
of the Treasury to more firmly estab-
lish the gold standard would vacate
many seats on the Republican side
The appearance of Bland of Bland
dollar fame to whom Bailey yielded ten
minutes, was greeted with applause
The course of the President and Secre-
tary Gage, Bland said, in pressing the
gold standard upon the country, had
driven the bimetallsts in Congress to
introduce and insist upon the passage
of this resolution. Yet, he said, Ding
ley charged the minority with playing
lpolitics Every Republican who voted
against the resolution voted against the
ST Louis platform, and voted against
the coinage of silver in any form. No
one disputed the law, he said. No one
denied 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. Sill
yer would then in truth become SUBJ
sdiary coin.
Bland created great applause on the
Democratic side by reading from tne
record the votes of Messrs. Hopkins,
Grosvenor and other prominent RepG D.
licans against the bill to pay the bonds
of the United States in gold, which was
voted upon in the last Congress at me
time the last Administration negotiated
the $500, 900, coo loan Grosyenor on
that sion, he said, had stated on
the floor that he was glad to pay &l6,-
600, coo for the privilege Of paying sill
yer in redemption of the bonds.
Hopkins Hs) of Illinois said this reso-
luton had clearly shown that the Sem
ate was not a Republican body, but was
controlled by the free silver element.
BY a decisive vote in the last election
the people had spoken against free ana
unlimited coinage of silver. And set
the Senate no longer representing ne
people, passed this resolution III def-
ance and Misrepresentation of the pub
lie will. He commented on the unequal
influence exerted by the scantily popu-
lated State of Nevada and the great
State Of Illinois in shaping results in
the Senate.
Clayton CD 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
500 a plate, which meant in Alabama
standards that every man ate bale
of cotton and a couple of mules.
Grosveror R.) of Ohio in opposition
to the resolution said that throughout
all the changes and mutations of the
money question in this country, the Re-
publican party had maintained its I'M
varying devotion to what was denom-
mated honest money" He reviewed
the record and position of the party
from the time of the passage of the
Resumption Act in proof of this prop
osition.
Wheeler Cd of Kentucky followed
with a review of the same history that
Grosvenor had invoked, to prove that
the Republican party on the money
question had ''somersaulted like CIR
Gus tumbler."
Pearce Cd of Tennessee declared
that the mist had at last cleared away.
The Republican party was firmly COM
mitt ID to the gold standard Nothing
could disguise the fact
Grow R.) of Pennsylvania contended
that the creditor had the right to de-
mand the payment of his debt in what
ever le2a' tender he elected For the
Government to exercise the option
would be dishonest and in bad faith
Otherwise the Government could set its
printing presses at work and soon turn
out enough legal tender" to discharge
the Government debt.
Bfumm R) of Pennsylvania said he
would have voted for the resolution had
it not contained the latter clause de-
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was not inconsistent with the public
faith.
Baird CD Of Louisiana asserted that
in voting against the pending resolu-
ton the Republicans would simply obey
the commands of their masters in Wall
street.
Bailey yielded fourteen minutes to
Bell Pop.) of Colorado, and that gen
tleman parcelled the time out 70 the
Populist members, giving each of them
a couple of minutes.
| johnson Uf.) of Indiana got ten min
utes from Steele (R) of Indiana VITA
which to oppose the resolution. He
said The resolution was adroitly wordad.
1t was, in his opinion, nothing more
or less than a reaffirmation of the Chi
cago platform. While the advocates
of free silver contended that under free
coinage silver would be- at a parity
with gold he declared that they knew
| otherwise, and charged that the pur-
pose OF this resolution was to enable
the Government to pay in deprecated
dollar, after gold had been driven out
of circulation.
Evans R) of Kentucky said he con-
strued the resolution as declaration
for free silver, and as such he opposed
ii.
Walker CR.) of Massachusetts. Chair
man of the Banking and Currency Com
nlittee, in opposing the resolution ask
ed if members had ever stopped 10 cal
cuIate the commercial value of undoubt-
ed honor. whether among nations or in