The record-union., 1899-12-17
Final Vote to be Taken Tomorrow lmme-
diateIy After Reading the Journal.
Scenes Attending the Close OF the
Discussion Exciting and ORA
Embellishments Accept q
Challenge to Offer a Silver
Amendment, But Are Met With
an Objection.


eral debate upon the currency Dill
closed Yesterday, and to-day the bill
was read for amendment under the tve
minute rule. The debate opened quietly
Mahon of Pennsylvania criticised
Bailey for not admitting, as Sib1ey had
done, that the return of prosperity was
due to the restoration of the Repupil-
can party to power.
Lew of New York announced his de-
termination to vote for the bill, as did
Fitzgerald of New York.
During the discussion a .colloquy oc-
CURED between Brown (R.) of Ohio and
Clark CD of Missouri.
The former resented what he regard
ed as slight put on the memory OF
the late President Hayes in some re-
marks made by Clark earlier in the
day. Brown paid a glowing tribute to
the memory of Hayes.
In reply, Clark declared that Hayes
was a counterfeit President" for
whom he had a supreme contempt, even
though he was dead. HE stole the
Presidency" said he, savagely, "the
greatest crime in the tide of times.
wish he could have lived forever and
borne the scorn of decent men to the
end of the world. His sepulcher should
bear the words: This man was guilty
of the monumental crime against hui
man liberty"
In the closing hour of the debate
Gaines OF Tennessee read the following
telegram from William J. Bryan, in
reply to a message sent him regarding
his interview on the House currency
bill few days ago, in which Gaines
stated that his application of the term
Democracy was being perverted here.
Austin, Texas, Dec. is. 1899.
Hon. John w. Gaines, Washington:
Have seen report in morning papers,
but do not recall any interviews which
were in the language criticised. Have
said that bill is bad in every particular,
and Should be defeated, but have not
said that 1t would hurt the Democratic
party or Democracy; believe it will in
jure the country, andait ought to drive
out of the Republican party all sincere
believers in bimetallism.
wv. J. BRYAN"
Later Lentz CD of Ohio charged that
the pending bill had been prepared by
the $500 national banks. a secret COM
bination that welded more influence
than the Masonic fraternity, the Odd
Fellows and the Red Men combined
The bill was intended to increase the
powers of the national banks. All the
rest that was in it was already in the
law.
AS he proceeded Lentz's remarks be-
came sensational.
we are in favor of renoicinating,
William Jennings Bryan,> said he, land
we will put in a plank against trusts,
We will put in a plank against imperial
ism and we will put in a plank against
the British alliance, an alliance that is
now open and apparent applause on
the Democratic side). They are shoot
ing down liberty in South Africa, while
you are shooting 1t down in the tPhil
ippine Islands. applause on Demo-
cratic side.) That is evidence sufficient
that both Governments are operating
upon parallel lines. The first blossom
of liberty in the Orient to be cut off by
the Republican party of the United
States, the first substantial struggle for
liberty in Africa, to be moved down in
IT'S infancy by the Queen of England,
with the Gar asking for a peace con-
ference.
eff things are not inside out, how can
the Republican party stand impotent'
and silent while England has been
shooting to death republic in South
Africa and while nuder the military
and imperialistic power that patronage
has delivered to the President here, the
crime of crimes is being committed
under the Stars and Stripes of the
Union. The President at Madison, Wis,
said, One small fraction of one small
tribe resists our authority in the
Orient Aye, my friends, with an army
there and on the way of 1900 men to
subdue one small fraction of one small
tribe, an army larger than Sherman
needed to march to the sea, an AMY
larger than Grant needed to take
Vicksburg, is now called into requisi-
ton and kept there for nearly a year
to subdue one fraction of one small
tribe. Is that the source of your pros
perity? Is your Egan pension of $75
for being reduced, degraded and dis
honored; is your beef trust that MUIR
dered 1880 men while the Spaniards
only killed $50; is that the source of
your prosperity? applause on the
Democratic side.) Is your humiliation
and subordination of the man who won
the most magnificent victory that the
world has ever seen, Winfield Scott