The herald., 1898-01-18
to the Secretary Of the Treasury. Mr..

exist as to the ability of this country
alone to maintain the parity between
silver and gold, there is no question that
the concurrence of other nations would
help and not hinder the cause of BIZ
metaliism in the United States, and ef-
| forts to secure 1t ought to receive the
cordial support of every citizen who is
| opposed to gold monometallism. Inter
national bimetallism is not the myth a
chimera. The people of Europe are. even
as we are. struggling to keep their heads
above water and seeking blindly for that
which may make for prosperity and for
| progress.
Much of the recent legislation in Eu-
rope looking to the increase of gold
holdings and the depreciation of silver,
finds its original in the exigencies of
situation where readiness for war is
the paramount necessity. There is hard
ly a statesman in Europe who believes
the last word has yet been said upon the
question of the remonetization of sill
yer, and hardly one who would not well
come an effort to settle the question in
ternationally. Only few days ago, just
before Christmas, in a debate in the
French chamber, M. Meline again de-
clared from the tribune that the French
government was as one with the United
States on the question of bimetallism.
NOT A FAILURE
TN the face of such a declaration
it is as cowardly to abandon hope as it
is false to talk about failure. Interna-
tional bimetallism is to the gold mono
metallists stumbling block, and to the
silver monometallists foolishness, but it
/ ic NJ tHn1A rrl1
it's accomplishment would be the great
est blessing that could befall our people,
and to achieve it we might well afford to
sink for the time the hostilities of party
and the chickering's of the factions"
| Mr. Wolcott concluded his speech at
2:05 p. m, having spoken for an hour and
fifteen minutes. AS he sat down, there
was burst of applause throughout the
chamber, and for several minutes he was
surrounded by his colleagues, who de-
sired to tender their congratulations.
Mr.. Allen (Nebraska) desiring to
speak upon the resolution which had
been the basis of Mr.. Wolcott's re-
marks, asked that the resolution be
read.
THE REGULAR ORDER
| Mr.. Lodge (Massachusetts) demanded
the regular order, which was the Immi-
grafton Bill, and as he was sustained by
the Vice. President, Mr.. Allen said that
as he had the floor, he would speak on
| that bill.
Mr.. Hoar Massachusetts, announced
that he would be compelled to leave the
chamber, and requested Mr.. Allen to
yield him few minutes for some re-
marks on the bill.
The request was granted.
Mr.. Hoar spoke in favor of the bill
| Mr.. Spooner (Wisconsin) while sup
porting the general character of the bill,
pointed out feature which, he said, was
| indefensible, namely, that requiring an
| immigrant to both read and write por
| tions of the United States Constitution
Rather than support the provision re-
| quiring the immigrant to write as we'll
as read, he would be compelled to vote
against the bill.
| At the conclusion of Spooner's re-
marks, an agreement having been
reached by the Wisconsin senator and
Lodge, in charge of the measure, that
Spooner should draft an amendment
providing that steamship companies
should take back to Europe the wife and
|
to meet the requirements of the proposed
law, Lodge spoke briefly in support OF
the measure. He declared that the op-
| position to the bill had been stimulated
| by the German steamship companies.
who would suffer by its passage. They
had aroused the opposition to the meas
ure and had been aided materially by
the deputy commissioner of immigra-
4; hoJ haa oil Of
this country for scarcely seven years.
The amendment offered by Spooner
was then adopted by AZ to %.
Caffery of louisiana offered an amend
ment increasing the age of immigrants
affected by the bill from 16 to 81 years.
The amendment was lost by 2S yeas to
Sc nays.
Kyle of South Dakota offered an
amendment providing that any immi
grant convicted within a year of his
landing in this country of felony or
other violation of the law shall be re-
turned to the country from which he
came. The amendment was lost with
out division. The bill was then placed
on it's passage and passed-45 to 2S. The
detailed vote was as follows:
Yeas-Allison, Baker, Burrows, Can
non, Carter, Chandler, Chiffon, Clark,
Davis, Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Frye,
Gallinger, Hale. Hanna, Hansbrough,
Harris, Hawley, Hoar, Kyle, Lodge, Nc
Bride, Mcmillan, Mantle, Mason, Nor
rill Penrose, Perkins, Pettigrew, Platt
of New York, Pritchard, Proctor, Quay,
Sewell, Shoup, Spooner, Teller, Thurs
ton, Tillman Warren, Wetmore, Wilson,
| Wolcott-45.
| Noes-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry Caf-
ferry, Clay, Cockrell, Daniel, German,
Heitfeld, Jones of Arkansas, Kenny,
Lindsay, McEnery, Mallory, Martin,
Mills, Mitchell, Money, Morgan, Muir
ply, Pettus, Rawlins, Roache, Stewart,
Turpie, Walthall, Whites.
After the immigration bill was dis
posed of the senate devoted some time to
the consideration of bills on the calen-
dar. Among the measures considered
was one called up by Hansbrough of
| North Dakota amending section 2234 of
the revised statutes so that registers of
land offices and receivers of public mon
eys for land districts established by law
moneys received by them for the sale of
Indian lands. The bill was passed.
| A bill authorizing the Muscogee Coal
and Railroad company to construct and
operate a railway through the Indian
territory and Oklahoma territory and
for other purposes was passed on mo-
tion of Baker