The St. Johns herald., 1898-06-11

] Congressman and ex-Governor Oates, o
 Alabama, bTigsdier generai-and 1t IS
 stated at the war department that seY-
 eral more will be similarly honored this
 week.
 Senator Cockrell, Tn 8 strong speech
 in favor of coining the seigniorage of
 the silver bullion owned by the govern
 ment and of issuing greenbacks instead
 of bonds, said: Sacrifices must be
 made in this war Two hundred thou
 sand men have been taken from the in-
 dustrial pursuits of the country, and are
 engaged in waste and destruction. War
 IS waste. War creates loss and deslruc.
 tion. All the people should bear the
 burdens alike. Sacrifices must be made,
 but we cannot tighten the burdens or
 prevent the losses of the war by an is
 sue of bonds" After ridiculing the calling of the proposed issue of bonds
 "a popular loan," and characterizing it as ''fraud and fake on the very face of it," Senator Cockrell said ''The gol- den opportunity of the bankers and the bondholders has come, and now they rush in for more bondc in order that they may more securely fasten the sim gle gold standard on the country. We want the war carried on, for we believe it to he humane and just war. We feel some responsibility for having forced the war upon the country But we are patriotic. We are not demanding the substitution of the bimetallic system, but We are asking that instead of bonds. I shall vote against any hill that con- tains a provision for interest-bearing
 bonds"
 Senator Comm said in hIs speech on
 the proposition to coin the silver seign-
 forage: ''In my judgment it would be unwise-it would be fruitless-to at-
 tempt tu push that question to the front while the country has the Spanish army and navy to confront. That is a ques- tion we ought to fight out in time of peace. I have always be een a partisan. 1 have voted for my party even when some of it's candidates did not quite meet my approval. But in a crisis like this do not know my party. I know only the highest interests of my coun- try. Knowing how sharp is the political division on this proposition, cannot vote for it at this tune. no matter how just it may be in the abstract, or as a proposition standing alone" Senator German supported the proposition to issue bonds, because he said no war had ever been conducted without an issue of bonds, and because he believed that if the bill failed to provide for an issue of bonds, Mir. Mckinley would issue them under the law of 1875, just as Mir. Cleve- land did.
 1t begins to look as though Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed otherwise known as the CZar of the House, had big dose of humble pie to swallow. He played the autocrat just once too often, when he undertook to go against MT. Mckinley and nine-tenths or more of his party on the annexation question. He was given more than a week in WHICH LO escape Lhis uoee OI HumDIo DIG but he had succeeded so often in having hls own way regardless of what others thought, that he neglected to take ad- vantage of it by signifying his willing ness to vote for a special rule from the Committee on Rules setting a time for the house to vote on the annexation resolution. Then MT. Mckinley got mad, and under his direction General Grosvenor secured the sigma ures of more than three-fourths of the repubIi- can members of the house to a request for caucus to demand the desir q rule. Then the ultimatum was served on the czar He was notified that he could eat his humble pie by voting for that rule a5 once, or he could wait ro have # 'Fltuu-1 aH" l.' throat by rar-y caucus; put eat IL ne must.