Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-12-13

such 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 tn support the
gold standard and proposed to redeem
that pledge. He will be joined by sew
eral of his Brooklyn colleagues and
probably several others.
The features of the debate were the
speeches OF Mr.. Grosvenor of 0nio 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
Messrs Shaffroth of Colorado and Sims
of Tennessee against 1t.
In opening Mr.. Grosvenor said he had
hoped that the Democrats would meet
the issued presented by the pending bill
bpt they were here with the "same,
DID, stale battle cry of is to 2"
Going back to the platform declara-
ton of 1896, Mr.. Grosvenor produced a
poll of the members of the committee
ON resolutions of the ST. Louis conven-
ton to show that an overwhelming ma
jor1ty favored gold declaration before
the convention met. The only contro.
versy since had been as to who was re-
sponsible for certain verbal phrases.
He reviewed the Democratic predic-
lions in the Last campaign, prophesying
no relief, but continued falling prices,
10 cent corn, 25 cent wheat, 3 cent cot
ton and general distress, until free silver
came, and then described how prosperity
followed McKinley's election and the
restoration of confidence.
The 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 100000, 900 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 Mr.. Bryan's remedy. He
contended that congress could not assail
corporations in the states; that the states
should control and regulate their own
domestic affairs.
In conclusion Mr.. Grosvernor said in part:
Mr.. Chairman, the Republican party does
not need oral argument in the halls of con-
gress. dissertations in the press of the
country upon these vital questions
There are voices which proclaim the
triumph of Republicanism that do not de-
pend upon human organs for their effective
ness The mighty volumes of flames and
liza 81 fr1np ~
nous industrial establishments wave a beacon
light to heaven announcing the triumph of
protective tariff and sound money. Mingled
with the click of the pick in the coal mines of
Ohio, Pennsylvania Indiana and West Vir-
ginia in the voice of our workingmen, we'll
paid where starvation wages were in force
well fed where starvation staiked with gaunt
horror--well clothed, well educated, satisfied,
contented, happy. On every railroad line
from the Pacific shore to the coast tens of
thousands Of laden cars mined the voice of
machinery with the endorsement of Repub-
lican action. Tho happy husbandman upon
millions of acres of fertile soil as he returns
from his labor bringing his sheaves with him
realizes in an advancing market wider de-
mands for his product, the entering of a jubi-
lee and his voice is heard in perpetual arga-
ment in favor of sound money and protec-
ton.
The scratch of the pen upon the record in
"
GELS millions of mortgages placed there in the
hour of Democratic distress and starvation
now cancelled by the 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 New traced the his
tory of the country through the period
of depression commencing In 1898, con-
tending that tine 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 equal, prices will
depend upon the quantity of money IN
circulation; that an increase of the
money volume meant higher prices and
a diminution of the money volume
meant lower prices.
MIR. Cochran (Mo.) opposed the bill in
a 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 the 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 lmportations
during the Mckinley administration had
produced the gold famine abroad. There
was not enough gold i'll 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 boasted
today. He warned the Republicans that
when the stock Of gold declined the
prosperity of today would erumble like
house of cards. In the course of his
speech, when Mr.. Cochran reiterated
Mr.. Bryan's famous declaration con.
corning the crown of thorns and cross
of gold the Republicans jeered deris-
lively
Later on Mr.. Grosvenor (O.) an
nounced the death of the late Repre-
sentative Danford of Ohio, and as
further mark of respect the house adj
journed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Upham Chase Dead.