The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-04

commission. He declared their work
| had been a failure and that no good
| had ever been expected to come of it,
! that international bimetallism was a
delusion and a snare Appropriation of
| $100,000 had been made for the commits
sion, which had Travelled throughout
Europe on a mission which was fore
doomed to failure.
! Mr.. Wolcott, who was the president
| of the bimetallic commission, listened
| attentively to Mr.. Aliens remarks. He
was evidently indignant. and he took
the floor to reply to his criticisms.
| 1T is not pleasant" he began, ito
a self-respecting man to meet such
suggestions as have been made by the
senator from Nebraska. This debate
| has taken a turn which l deprecate,
and 1 would not now occupy a moment
of the senate's time which ought to be
devoted to the consideration of the
pending bill. Were it not that l desire
to inform the senator from Nebraska
that the three commissioners appointed
by the president spent more than six
months in Europe, travelling where
their duties took them. They were ac-
| companied by q secretary and the en-
tire expense of the work accomplished
| was only $4,000. And 1 desire to add
that every member of the commission
in accepting the appointment and per-
of dollars.
DENOUNCED THE POPULISTS.
TT is undignified and unbefitting a
senator of the United States to stand in
his place on this floor and suggest that
he commission spent money it was
not justified in spending. l am getting
tired" continued Mr.. Wolcott," Of
hearing that sort of suggestions from
the senator from Nebraska. 1t 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 insiders"
which constitute the bone and sinew
and most of the brains of the Populist
party.
L suppose that at some cross roads
in Nebraska, where nothing is known
of Europe, except that it is on the map
of the world, some people of the sena-
tors kind, have gotten together and re-
solved that no country except the
United States is enlightened enough to
have ideas on the money question. They
are not aware that the great leaders
of thought in England. France and
Germany favored bimetallism more
than quarter of century before the
Populist party or the senator from Ne
braska was ever heard of. Fortunate
ly, however, the bimetallists of Europe
are not hampered in their work by long
haired cranks who clog the progress
of enlightened financial legislation in
this country.
The experiment which is now being
tried in India" continued Mr.. VOL
colt, ''in the opinion, not only of the
bimetallists of the world, but also of
nine-tenths of the gold men of Lon
don, where the situation has been care
fully studied, will result in absolute
mill he CT
Bile to impress the gold standard upon
the people of India. In the face of tSis
conceded fact, 1 say he is an enemy
and not a friend of bimetallism who
stands up in this presence and talks
about international bimetallism being
delusion and a snare. And yet it ap-
pears that he has no argument to pre-
sent, except that embodied in the state
ment-untrue, unpleasant and undigni-
fied-that the bimetallic commission
take large sum of money and squan-
dered it,
ALLEN WAS COOL.
Mr.. Allen made very brief reply to
Mr.. Wolcott, speaking calmly and cool
~. He explained that he had not
charged the commission with extrava-
gance, or with having squandered the |
money appropriated. 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
contended, therefore, that the money
should not have been expended at ALL |
Yet. because he had held that belief
and held it now. he was, he said, made
the subject of the Colorado senator's |
sophomore philippines. He was not, |
he concluded, afraid of the senator |
(Mr. WolcotD in the senate or else /
where.
An effort was then made by Mr.. Al
lison to effect an arrangement whereby !
a vote might be taken this evening, but |
it was unsuccessful. the concensus of |
opinion was that an adjournment until |
tomorrow would facilitate the final dis |
position of the measure. After agreeing |
to meet at II o'clock tomorrow, the |
senate, at o'clock, went into execu- !
tive session, and soon afterward ad- |
journed.