Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — SENATE IS AS ONE MAN. [ARTICLE]

SENATE IS AS ONE MAN.

Passes the Bill for a Commission Unanimously. Neither the bluff and bluster of British financiers nor the threats of Wall street operators moved the United States Senate from what it deemed its path of duty Friday. Republicans and Populists joined with Democrats in giving the strength of unanimous support to the President, who, it was conceded, had but performed his loftiest duty in setting forth in forcible words the concrete sentiment of the American people in his recent message on the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The House bill for a Venezuelan commission passed the Senate by a viva voce vote, and not one voice was raised against it nor a single amendment urged. It was openly and bravely stated on the Senate floor that concerted action was being taken by the money magnates of England to bring pressure to bear to set aside the threatened investigation proposed by" the President through the story that nothing but party politics had prompted the President’s action; and it was also proclaimed that Wall street, while the debate was in progress, had been flooding the Senate chamber with telegraphic messages proclaiming the direst panic on record if the Senate insisted upon adopting the House bill. But the Senators were not to be intimidated. “Why,” said Mr. Teller in his strong, forceful speech, “every Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade in the United States, except in New York, favors upholding the President’s action and the insistence upon the principles of the Monroe doctrine. Suppose stocks do go off, this country need not be disturbed.” And Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, took occasion to serve notice on the money powers of London, who seemed to be striving to create a panic by disposing of securities, that die patriotic sentiment of the United States could not be influenced by such a course, and that the people Of this country should stand up to the' last for what they believed to be the right. Congress would do its duty, no matter what the financial operators of Wall street might fio.