Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-13
56th CONGRESS-.
Night Sessions Ordered for
Financial Bill Debate.
Speeches by Grosvenor, Cochran and
New|ands Tuesdays Features.
Cabinet Considers Affairs in Porto Rico-The
Roberts investigation.

aShlnStOn Dec. 12.-There is sue
great pressure for tAne on the part O
the members of both sides who desir
| 10 participate in the currency debat
in the Houes that three night session
were ordered, today. Interest in tn
debate is not to be judged by the at
tendance in the galleries, although tn
members themselves are listening at
tentivcly to the speeches.
Only on Democrat thus far ha
spoken in favor of the bill. Mr.. Drigg.
Of New York, who announced today
that he had pledged himself befor,
| election to support the gold STANDARD
and proposed to redeem that pledge
| He viii be Joined by several of hi.
| brooklyn colleagues and proba bly, sew
| eral others.
! The features Of the debate, today
were the speeches of Mr.. Grosvenor OF
OHIO, for the bill, and Of Mr. Cochran
Of Missouri. and Mr.. Newlands of Ne.
vada, against it, The other speakers
Wer" Messrs. Parker. n. J., VIM Alder
| Smith. Michigan. Prince, Ill, Law
renee. Mass. and Powers. VT for tbs
bill. ana Messrs Shafroth, Col. and
Sims, Tenn, against il.
| The debate on the currency
bill continued in the House. to-
day. Owing to the pressure foI
| opportunity to speak on the Demo
| cratic side. Mr.. Richardson. the minor
ity leader, asked that night sessions b.
held for the remainder of the week. but
this was demurred to, and finally
agreed that night sessions for debate
chttiII M
and Friday. Mr.. Grosvenor, Ohio, was
the first speaker, today.
In opening, Mr. GrOsvenor said he
had hoped that the Democrats would
meet the issue presented by the pend
ing bill. but they We're here with the
same old, stale battle cry" of 16 to l.
Yesterday, the gentleman from Mis-
souri, de Armond) had charged the
Republican victory Of IS to corrup-
ton. He thought it i'll became the
party which stood sponsor for Goebel
in Kentucky to charge fraud For him
self he did not believe that Democratic
voters. or any other considerable num-
Der of voters in the country We're pur-
chasable.
Mr.. GrOsvenOr declared that two
fund in 1896 was used in the printing
and distribution of literature.
In conclusion. GrosVenor said: Mr.
Chairman. the Republican party does
not need oral argument in the halls of
Congress for dissertations in the press
OF the country upon these vital ques-
tons. There are voices which pro-
claim the triumph of Republicanism
hot Il a.
for their effectiveness. From the pine
clad hills of Maine to the utmost south
ern extent of New England. the whirl
of the spindle, the ring of the hammer
and the shout of happy, well paid oper-
atives Is constant and most vocifer-
Gus proclamation of Republican tri-
umphs. From New York to San Fran
cisco the voice of commentator and
exultation because of Republican legis-
lation and Republican intelligence and
Republican craftsmanship. goes up in
the breeZes of the morning and is sung
as vespers at the hour of evening
twilight.
The mighty volume of flames and
smoke pouring from the chimneys Of
enormous industrial establishments
wave beacon light to heaven an
nouncing the triumph of protective
tariff and sound money. Mingled with
the click of the pick in the coal mines
OF ONO, pennsylvania, Indiana and
West Virginia. is the voice of our
working men. well paid where starva-
ton wages were in force, well fed
where starvation stalked with gaunt
horror, we'll clothed, well educated. sat
lsfied, contented. happy. Their voices
sing praise for Republican intelligence
and Republican patriotism.
"On every railroad line from the Pa
cifiC shore to the coast tens of thou
sands of laden cars mingle the voice |
If machinery with the endorsement of |
Republican action. The happy hus- |
bandman upon millions of acres of fer |
tile soil realizes in advancing markets |
wider demands for his products. the
entering or jubilee and his voice is
heard in perpetual argument in favor
If sound money and protection.
The scratch of the pen upon the rec
ord in the Northwest and the South
vest as it cancels the millions of mort
RACES placed there in the hour of Dem
Dcratic distress and starvation. now
by the payment of money
hat has come to the owners of these
splendid farms through the intelligence
md patriotism of Republican admins
tration joins in the grand cry of en-
iorSement all along the line. AS in the
,lden time the morning stars sang to-
5ether for joy and all the sons of God
'ejoiced. so from Maine to California.
rom the North to the South, from the
EAST to the West the sons of toll. the
sons of business, the sons of America
DIN in the glad shout that browns the
eeble voice of partisan speculation
md partisan denunciation in the grand.
glorious. ringing chorus Of a redeemed
md happy nation" Great Republican
,pplause).
Newlands. Nevada. followed in oppo-
'itiOn to the bill. He traced the his
DRY of the country through the period
If depression commencing in '93, con-
ending that the panic was not caused
~ the coinage of silver under the
Sherman act. He said the increase of
during the past two wears
the correctness Of the
heory entertained by bimetalHsts.
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