The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-04
TO COIN SILVER BULLION
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the pending bill. were IL not that / de-
sire to inform the senator from Ne
braska that the three commissioners
appointed by the president spent more
than six months in Europe. travelling
where their duties took them. They
were accompanied by a secretary. and
the entire expense of the work accom-
plished was only $500 0 And / desire
to add that every member of the COM
mittee IN accepting the appointment
and performing his duties sacrificed
thousands of dollars. Ii is undignifed
and unbefitting a senator of the United
States to stand in his place on this
floor and sugges that the commission
spent money II was not justified in
spending"
Il am getting tired" continued Mr..
Wolcott. "of hearing that sort of sug-
gestions from the senator from Nebras-
ka. IL Is not the first. the second or the
third time he has thrown them out.
Through him they are being circulated
in the West by means Of the patent in
siders,' which constitute the bone and
sinew and most of the brains of the
populist party.
II suppose that at some crossroads in
Nebraska, where nothing Is known OF
Europe. except that IL is on the map OF
the world, some people of the senator's
hlUu nave RDlttn tDkttntT anu GtsDlNeu
that no country except the United
States IL enlightened enough to have
ideas on the money question. They are
not aware that the great leaders OF
thought in England, France and Ger
many favored bimetallism more han a
quarter of a century before the populist
party or the senator from Nebraska
were ever heard of. Fortunately. how
ever. the bimetallists of Europe are not
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crank who clog the progress of enlight-
ened financial legislation in this coun-
try.
THE experiment which Is now being
tried in India" continued Mr.. Wolcott,
lin the opinion, not only of the bimetal-
lists of the world. but also of nine-tenths
Of the gold men of London, where the
situation has been carefully studied.
will result In absolute and entire fail
ure. II will he impossible to impose the
gold standard upon the people of India.
In the ace of this conceded fact. / say
he is an enemy and not a friend of hi
metallism who stands up in this pres
ence and talks about International BIZ
metallism being n delusion and a snare.
yet 1t appears that he has no aTgu-
ment to present except that embodied in
the statement-untrue. unpleasant and
undignifed-that the bimetallic commits
~ fo,h " - Shifi VI iAoifty NV
squandered IT,"
Mr.. Allen made a very brief reply to
Mr.. Wolcott, speaking calmly and
coolly. He explained that he had not
charged the commission with extrava-
gance. What he did say. he insisted,
was that the appropriation was made
when IL was evident that the effort to
be made would be a failure. He con-
tended, therefore. that the money
not have been expended at all.
Yet because he had held that belief
and held IL now he was, he said, made
the subject of the Colorado senator's
sophomore phillipics. He was not. he
afraid of the SENATOR Mr.
Wolcott) in the senate or elsewhere.
An effort was then made by Mr.. AL
lison to effect an arrangement whereby
a vote might he taken this evening, but
IL was unsuccessful. The consensus of
opinion was that an adjournment un-
I'll tomorrow would facilitate the final
disposition of the measure. After
agreeing to meet at II O'Clock to-mor-
row morning the senate at 6 O'CLOCK
went into executive session and soon
adjourned.