Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-13
TO SPEAK.
Members Want to Participate
In Currency Debate.
TO DE THREE NIGHT SESSIONS.
Decided Upon to Accommodate Them.
Mr. 0rosv.nor Made speeoh In Adj
vocncy of the Diil--Coohran and New.

fnus among tne speakers Against lts
WASHINGTON, Dec. l3.-There was
euch great pressure for time on the part
of members on both sides who desire to
participate in the currency debate in
the house that three night sessions were
ordered.
Mr.. briggs of New York, Demo.
crat. announced that he mad pledged
himself before election to support the
gold standard and proposed to redeem
that pledge. He will be joined by sev.
eral of his Brooklyn colleagues and
probably several others.
The features of the debate were the
speeches of Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio for
the bill and of Mr.. Cochran of Mis-
souri, and Mr.. Newlands of Nevada
against it, The other speakers were
Messrs. Parker of New Jersey, William
Alden Smith OF Michigan. Prince of
Illinois. Lawrence of Massachusetts, and
Powers of Vermont for the bill, and
OF Tennessee against 1T.
In opening Mr. Grosvenor said he had
hoped that the Democrats would meet
the issued presented by the pending bill
but they were here with the "same,
old, stale battle cry Of l6 to O."
Going back to the platform declara.
tion OF 1896, Mr.. Grosvenor produced o
poll Of the members of the committee
on resolutions of the st. Louis conven.
ton to show that an Overwhelming ma
jority favored gold declaration before
the convention met. The only contro.
vprav lInpn ha1 ham n RI Sxyl,N "a
spOnsible for certain verbal phrases.
He reviewed the Democratic predio-
tions in the last campaign, prophesying
no relief, but continued falling prices,
10 cent corn, 90 cent wheat, 8 cent cot
ton and general distress. until free silver
came. and then described how prosperity
followed McKinley's election and the
restoration of confidence.
Tho Democrats predicted we would
have no foreign trade. That trade was
now larger than at any period in our
history. Another prediction was con-
traction of the currency. The currency
had increased $l00,O00,0O0 in three
years. Referring to the question of
ANTITRUST legislation, he challenged any
Democrat to point out any addition
which could be made conititutionally to
the antitrust law. He dissented en-
tirely from MIR. Bryan's remedy. He
contended that congress could not assail
corporations i'll the states; that the states
should control and regulate their own
domestic affairs.
Mr.. Chairman, the Republican party does
not need oral argument in the halls of con.
gress. nor dissertations In tho press OF the
country upon these vital questions.
There arc voices which proclaim tho
triumph Of Republicanism that do not de-
pend upon human organs for their effective.
ness The mighty volumes OF flames and
smoke pouring from the chimneys of enor-
nous industrial establishments wave beacon
light to heaven announcing the triumph OF
protective tariff and sound money. Mingled
with the click Of the pick in tina coal fnlnes OF
Ohio Pcnnsy lvania. Indiana and West vir-
ginia In the voice Of our workingmen, well
paid where starvation wages were in force,
well fed whefu sturvaton stalked with vaunt
horror-well clothed well educated, satisfied
contented; happy. On every railroad line
from the Paclilc shore to the coast tens of
thousands of laden cars mingle the voice Of
machinery with tho endorsement Of Repub
lical action, The happy husbandman upon
mill IONS OF acres Of fertile soil ms he returns
from his labor bringing his sheaves with him
realizes in an advancing market wider de-
mAnds for his product. the entering of jubi-
lee and his voice is heard In perpetual argu-
ment In favor of sound money and protec.
tion.
The scratch of the pen upon the record in
tho northwest and the southwest as Ii can.
GELS millions OF moitgages placed there in the
hour Of Democratic distress and starvation
now cancelled by tho payment of money that
has come to the owners of these splendid
farms through the intelligence and patriotism
Of Republican administration Joins in the
grand cry Of endorsement all along the line.
Mr.. Newlands (Ncv.) traced the his.
tory of the country through the period
OF depression commencing Ill 1893, con-
tending that the panic was not caused
by the coinage of silver under the Sher.
man act. He said the increase of pros
perity during the past two years demon.
strates the correctness OF the theory
entertained by bimetallists, viz, that
all other things being eG 4, prices will
depend upon the quantity OF money in
circulation; that an increase of the
money volume meant higher prices and
q dininution OF the money volume
meant lower prices.
Mr.. Cochran MOI opposed the bill in
u speech, in which he contended that
the real question presented by the pend
ing bill was whether there was sufficient
gold in the world upon which to pyra-
mid tho vast and constantly increasing
volume of credit. He referred to the
recent dispatches from London showing
the struggle for gold all over Europe,
and declared that the gold importutions
during the Mckinley administration had
produced the gold famine abroad. There
was not enough gold ip the world to do
the business OF the world. The importa.
ton of gold TO pay for the surplus crops
exported to supply the failure OF crops
abroad, Mr.. Cochran claimed, had quick
ened trade and had produced the pros
perity of which the Republicans boosted
today. He warned the Republicans that
when the stock of gold declined the
prosperity Of today would crumble like
o house of cards. In the course OF his
speech, when Mr.. Cochran reiterated
Mr.. Bryan's famous declaration con.
cerning the crown Of thorns and cross
of gold the Republicans jeered deris.
lively.
Later on Mr.. Grosvenor (O.) mn.
nounced tho death of the late Repre-
sentative Danford of Ohio, and as a
further mark Of respect the house ad-
journed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Upham Chase Dead.