Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1893 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL; WEDNESDAY .MORNING. AUGUS T 30. 1893 TY ELVE PAGES.

HILL HEARD FROM,

He Makes His Speech on the Money Question, Indulging in Flings at the Administration And Declaring for Old Style Bimetallism. QUITE A SENSATION CAUSED By the New Yorker Senator's Ill-Humored Remarks. They Are Largely B ed on Unfounded Rumor. A Feeble Attempt to Do the Heavy Heroic. The Senator Pledrcea Ioh Himself and Senator Murphy to Vote for Repe! He Quote Lnrgelr front Trenry Statistics The Debate In Ibe House Becomes a Trifle Acrimonious Messrs. Bynani and Pence Have Another Little Tilt. I . BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL, WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 23. Senator David B. Hill of New York raa the drawing card In congress today. The galleries were crowded to hear him and nearly every senator was in his seat, giving the closest attention. He succeeded In making his position clear n the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, declaring that he would vote for unconditional repeal. But of course he could scarcely be expected to deliver a set speech without getting in a fling at President Cleveland. In doing this he was compelled to treat as actual facts the newspaper reports that the president is attempting to influence congressmen to sustain his financial policy fry promises of federal patronage. Senator Hill wanted it understood that he Would vote his honest convictions "uninfluenced and uncorrupted by the power of federal patronage," which Is undoubtedly true. It Is also equally true that other senators will do the same thing. One of th; most notable things in connection with the silver discussion In both house and senate has been the number of gentlemen representing free silver Constituencies who have announced their determination to vote for the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. The changes of votes that have been promised cannot be attributed to the influence of patronage, the placing of one or two constituents In lucrative berths In the government service. Nor can they altogether be the result of the action of India, the last country to close its mints to the unlimited coinage of Eilver. These consideration's may have had their relative weight in Individual cases, but as a matter of fact the really Important motive governing the action of these members has never yet been Tinted at. What has had .he most influence In their apparent change of front Is the knowledge they possess that important and far-reaching action will be taken in behalf of silver to maintain it on a parity with gold after the purchasing clause of the Sherman act has been repealed, and that the administration is pledged to carry out the policy. Shortly before President Cleveland left Washington to return to Buzzard's Bay. after having witnessed the opening of the present session of congress, he called several leading democratic members of both the senate and house Into consultation with him. He wanted to know th prospects of action In the two large houses on the lines Indicated in- his message. The members of the house, even at that early stage of the session, were confident of a successful issue to their fight In that body. They told the president that unconditional repeal would have a majority In their branch of congress. The senators, however, were dubious. At the time the prospects of the passage of the administration measure were far from being bright, and they told Mr. Cleveland so. The president was vexed at the possibility of defeat. Whether he was unwilling that his second term should open thus Inauspicious, or whether he made the proposition out of deference to the declarations of the platform upon which he was elected. Is not told. But he authorized the senators to promise to the silver men that legislation for the white metal should follow the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act and that such a measure would receive his signature. Presider. Cleveland's proposition was as follows: That all the silver bullion now in the treasury, amounting to 13.161.375 fine ounces, should be coined; that the Sherman notes should, as they were presented at the treasury, be withdrawn from circulation and silver certificates Issued In their place; that a currency commission should be appointed to devise, by a . study of the financial systems of this and other countries, such a sound and stable currency of gold, silver and paper money as would be sufficient In volume and effect for the proper transaction of the business of the country, and that the silver men should have strong representation on this commission. By the first of this suggestion the president met the demands of the southern silver men for an Increased volume of currency, for the seigniorage on the coinage of 133.161,373 ounces of silver bullion would amount In round figures to JM.OOO.OOO; that $.",0,000,000 would become part of the available cash assets of the treasury and would increase by that sum the amount of money available for the payment of government debts and contracts. There are outstanding In round figures J14S.000.000 of treasury notes. By withdrawing them gradually and issuing silver certificates In their place the gold reserve, which ha recently been encroached upon to redeem those notes, would be protected. By the agency of a currency commission It would be possible to provide an elastic system of currency which would grow with the growth of the country and provide for the ever-increasing use of sliver, while maintaining It on a parity with gold at the same ratio as at present. This plan was accepted by the senators present at the conference and has since been submitted to certain members of both houses of congress, all

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j and feasibility. It has had no little ef- ; feet among those men of free silver ten dencies, who were not absolutely wedded to that policy. In bringing them to vote for unconditional repeal. No open declaration of the intentions of the administration has been made, because It turned out to be unnecessary, but the policy as outlined will be presented to copgress in the near future In the shape of either one bill or more. In all probability Senator Hill was not consulted In this matter and is probably yet In ignorance of it. When he discovers that it is true he will understand that any change of votes attributable to the president's Influence was caused by this pledge of liberal silver legislation, and not by the power of patronage. KIRK WOn KS FROM HILI The tt Yorker Indulges in Flings at the Administration. The chief Interest of the senate today was centered in the speech of Senator Hill of New York, who defined his position on the financial question In an address of nearly two hours' duration. Nearly every member of the senate was in his seat and an attentive listener and many members of the house crowded over to hear the noted senator from the Empire state. Representatives McMillin of Tennessee. Gen. Hooker of Mississippi, Lafe Pence of Colorado, Bowers of California, Hopkins of Illinois, Patterson of Tennessee, O'Farrell of Virginia, Allen of Mississippi, Turner of Georgia, Bryan of Nebraska. Sibley of Pennsylvania and Campbell of New York were a few of the members of the house who secured seats near the senator and were attentive listeners to his argument. The New Yorker's famous declaration, "I am a democrat," which has now become proverbial, was recalled today by his forcible declaration on the financial question when, as usual, he epitomized his silver views In a single sentence, "I am a bimetalllst.,, "I do not believe In a single gold standard or a single silver standard, but I do believe in the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and in their free coinage in our midst at a proper ratio and without discrimination in favor of one or against the other." The senator established his consistency on the silver question by showing that last December he introduced a bill in the senate for the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act and that the president had followed In his footsteps in demanding the repeal of this obnoxious measure a law which Senator Hill declared to have been the worst enemy of the free silver cause In retarding the onward march to universal free coinage. There was a smile on the face of miny senators when the speaker, by implication, criticised the president by referring to the part that the high tariff had played in the present crisis and concluding by saying: "Our course is onward and we shall not retreat." The New Yorker's arraignment of the gold monometallists of the country particularly Wall-st. for the part they had taken In precipitating the present crisis by attacking the credit of the country and incef.sa.ntly proclaiming disaster until they had finally started a panic wave that now threatened to engulf its creators, was one of the most forcible and incisive impeachments ever heard on th floor of the senate and furnished much satisfaction to the free coinage men. But the national banks received their consolation in the later declaration of the senator that he favored the proposition to allow the Issue of national bank notes Increased to the full value of United States bonds on deposit as one of the means of abating the present crisis. The chief surprise of the speech of Senator Hill was the position he assumed in minimizing the importance of a revision of the coinage ratio; and hi.-? suggestion that International bimetallism might be sought by holding out an Inducement to the Latin Union countries to recoln at a profit rather than at a loss, gave greater satisfaction to the western free coinage people than even the most sanguine had expectd from hi:' irgument. There was a dead stillness in the senate when the speaker referred to the statement that President Cleveland was attempting to lead the Country to monometallism and made his comment thereon, concluding with this defiance to presidential domination: "I shall refuse," said he, "to follow in the footsteps of any administration that eeks to place the democratic party in a false position, that seeks to lead It away from democratic principles and platforms and Into the very camp of the enemy; the president must rely upon republican votes to carry out any such suicidal policy." The felicitation of the democratic opponents of the administration over this utterance was hardly completed before the senator gave the president another blow in his reference to the part that patronage is said to be playing in securing the adoption of the administration policy. "But. as you well know." said he. "I was for the repeal of this bill long before the present administration came into power and by my voice, pen and Influence, contributed my humbleshare toward the creation of that public sentiment in regard to It which is so well-nigh unanimous in my state. My dstlnguished colleague and myself will cheerfully vote for this bill, unuwed by power and uncorrupted by federal patronage." This last allusion brought forth evidences of approval and merriment and before the vice-president could check it laughter and applause broke out and was only repressed by the vigorous tapping of the president and the threat to clear the galleries. The Coat of Itecolnasrr. At the close of the senate's routine business which comprised today no matter of public Interest except the presenlion, bester CurtlM Of Madison, "VU., reliable buslncsa man Utes that he " had a bad coujh for two years After tho Crip. I cot a bottlo of Hood's BariupartlU ami It cavt mo relief at o::ce. 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If it doesn't benefit or cure, in very cose, you have your money back. $500 is offered, by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh "Remedy, for an incurable case of Catarrh, their remedy perfectly and permanently cures the worst cases. tation of communications from the treasury department adverse to any special legislation in regard to the penalties on the whisky tax, Mr. HUI addressed the chair and was recognized. He yielded, however, to Mr. Vest, who pent to the clerk's desk and had read a communication from the director of the mint, giving statistics as to the purchase and coinage of silver. He said that considerable attention had been called In the public press and in the senate to a letter addressed by the secretary of the treasury to the senator from Indiana (Mr. Voorhees). In reference to the bill reported from the minority of the committee on finance, changing the ratio between gold and silver from 16 to 1 to 20 to 1. In order to bring out all the information on that subject he had addressed a communication to the treasury department and had received a reply from the director of the mint. When the reading was ended he said that he assumed that the great thing to be decided In the interest of the American people was a parity between the twometals and that the commercial ratio should be as far as possible the same as the ratio established by statute. He took it for granted that If there was to be an honest attempt to bring the two metals together in order to redeem the pledges of the two great national parties and cf the idministration there should be coinage of gold and silver on a parity. Now it seemed, said Mr. Vest in a contemptuous tone, that the question as to expense was to be injected into the discussion and that leaving the great and absolute necessity of parity, senators were to entor into an examination of the number of dollars that the change of ratio would cost. The Profit on Colnnsre. He had made a short analytical statement of accounts between silver and the government at this time. It showed the profit to the government under the Pdand-AUison act of 1878 as (in round numbers) $70.000,000 and the profit under the Sherman act of 1S00 as $58.000,000 the total profit being $123,000,000. The uncoined silver In the treasury was 133,000.000 ounces, and the profit on that was $57.000,000. The number of ounces necessary to recoin the silver dollar now coined was 81,000.000 and the number necessary to recoin the subsidiary silver coins l9.000.00O in all 100,000,000. If this quantity of silver bullion were taken from the uncoined silver In the treasury on Aug. K there would be still left of uncoined silver in the treasury 33.000.000 ounces. His summing up of the account was, "silver, debtor side. $112.865,321; credit side, $128.133.314: balance in favor of silver, $15.267.993. If the secretary of the treasury, Mr. Vest continued, meant to put the question fairly to the American people why had he not told the senate what he proposed to do with the vast amount of silver now uncoined in the treasury when the purchasing clauses of the Sherman act were repealed? Was that silver to lie there a menace to bimetallism for all time to come? Or did the secretary propose to coin It and hold it in the treasury as dollars? The secretary had assumed that the government was to purchase the silver necessary to make good the ratio of 20 to 1 and at the same time, logically, to leave uncoined the silver bullion now in the treasury." All that Mr. Vest proposed to do now was to put the facts before congress and the people in order that they might form a judgment "upon them. Mr. Hill's Manner. Mr. Hill then resumed the floor. He read his speech from printed slips. His voice was strong and clear, and though he indulged In no gesticulations, he used much emphasis and turned his face alternately from one side of the chamber to the other. As his desk is rather far back on the democratic side of the chamber, the senators who had their seats in turning their backs upon the presiding fllcer, and the republican senators also took such positions as enabled them to fix their gaze upon him. There was perfect quiet and stillness In the chamber while he spoke and the closest attention was paid to the speech both on the floor and in crowded jrallerles. There were those. Mr. Hill said, who did not wholly agree with the president In his diagnosis of the malady now affecting the body politic, and who did not hastily join with him in the rosy conclusion that the financial millennium Is to come the moment the Sherman law is removed. There were some who had given the subject attention who believed the cause of the present depression was deeper and beyond the Sherman bill and that Its foundations were laid In the evil hours of 1S73, when the country unwittingly laid aside the financial policy that had been Us guide since the foundation of the government. The existing financial disturbance, Mr. Hill found, was attributable to three distinct causes: 1. It was the natural and inevitable result of many years of real or fictitious prcsperlty. 2. Some portion of the present panic could be traced to a concerted effort on the part of the monometallic to produce It In order to discredit silver. 3. Hut no matter what else may have contributed to the present financial condition It would not be denied tha,t the silver purchase law had been at least In part and possibly the most largely Instrumental In producing existing complications. Iteiral Will o Do All. Mr. Hill did not believe that simple repeal of the Sherman law would at once restore abundant prosperity, but that many years would be required to recover from the present disturbances. He compared his own course In declaring for repeal with the president's course In falling to refer to It until this late day. He was a Mmctalllst and stood for free coinage at a proper ratio. Had the Sherman law been repealed at the last session or In special session on the rth of March, the United States would hnve escaped the present panic and precluded the closure of the Indian mints. Independent free bimetallic colnnge of the United States wis not consistent with the counsels of monetary science. While repeal would not bring parity It would facilitate It by bringing that new fangled monetary theory gold monometallism begotten in the embraces of Ignorance with rapacity at least to an unequivocal crucial test. The permanent remedy for our financial difficulty was to return to the bimetallism that existed prior to 1R73. Mr. Hill favored the Increase of the national bank circulation .ts proposed t 'i the pending bill. Continuing, he salt he regarded the question of tall) u not timely nnd as of the least consequence, but If chimed at h II It should not be enlarged, but diminished to 1 5 Va ; the Latin union ratio. He should refuse to follow In the foot step of nnv administration that sought to place the democratic party In a rata txinlilon and hud it Into the J

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camp of the enemy. The president must rely upon republican votes to carry out any such suicidal policy. He did not believe, however, that any such course would be taken by the president by his own volition or even under the inspiration of indiscreet advisers until clearer evidence shall be furnished than now exists. He deplored hasty action In the formation of a definite financial plan and predicted the failure of the attempt to impose a gold standard on India. Meanwhile the prompt repeal of the Sherman law was demanded as a measure of temporary relief. "Let us legislate upon the financial question." said Mr. Hill, "and then return to our homes, next December resuming th consideration of a permanent system.' He predicted the passage of the bill by the senate and that the republic would weather the present storm. Mr. Hill retired Into one of the cloakrooms, where he was surrounded by senators and others offering congratulations. As soon as order was restored Mr. Stewart took he floor and addressed the senate. He declared that the bill of the finance committee was a bill practically to demonetize silver. No man should be deceived on that point. The promise In the bill was an insult to the Intelligence of the American people. The people, he said, had come to the forks of the road, where they had either to use their own money or submit to a system of extortion through the national banks. The Sherman act had not been executed according to Its spirit. If it had been it might have done well; it certainly would not have done harm. All that had been done under It had been the Issue of $140.0(0.000 of legal tender notes, which had done much to sustain the business of the country. Without it the panic would have happened long before. A LITTLE lAPLEASAXTJfBSS.

Messrs. Burrovr antl Bland Fall to Agree. The first unpleasantness over the silver debate In the house occurred this morning. When Mr. Burrows of Michigan started to speak he asked the Indulgence of the house to an extension of his time to forty minutes. Mr. Bland objected to this unless the same privilege should be granted to Mr. Marsh of Illinois, who was to follow Mr. Burrows. It was instanUy agreed by the other side and all present that Mr. Marsh should have forty minutes als 5. Mr. Marsh, however, declared that he only wanted thirty minutes, whereupon Mr. Bland Insisted that Mr. Burrows should be limited to thirty minutes also. Mr. Burrows courteously renewed his request for forty minutes and Mr. Bland again objected. Then Mr. Burrows politely stated to the speaker that if he was to be limited to five minutes he would decline the recognition which had been so kindly accorded him and sould not speak. This announcement was greeted with a round of applause from the republican members and Mr. Burrows took his seat. Several members gathered around . Mr. Bland, and after coaxing the latter withdrew his objection and Mr. Burrows proceeded. lie spoke for repeal. Mr. Pendleton of Texas and Mr. Bowers of Colorado spoke for free coinage and Mr. Pigott for repeal. Mr. Docktry would, he said, vote to. maintain the entire plertee of the democratic party male at Chicago, not only to repeal the purchasing clause, but to enact such 1 gi?lation as would give gold and silver free coinage without discrimination against either metal. Mr. Marsh of Illinois said he had the greatest respect for the president, but he wänted more than the declaration of the executive of this country before he would vote for the repeal of the Sherman act. Mr. Joseph spoke in favor of free coinage. Mr. Mooney of Mississippi said that he had come to Washington prepared to vote for repeal: but since he had been here he had changed his front, if not his views, and he Intended to vote against the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law. Mr. Durborow said the United States alone could not adopt free coinage. The people demanded the repeal of the Sherman law, believing that It was responsible for the pre.-ent distress. Mr. Spiingcr followed for repeal. Mr. Sickles favored repeal. Let congress, he said, do this work of repeal and go home. (Applause.) Mr. Taylor of Indiana spoke for bimetallism. Mr. Brecklnrldee of Arkansas would under the circumstan es vote for the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act . Mr. McRae believed that the parity of gold and sliver could be maintained by Judicious legislation and attributed the present depression to the evil of the McKinley tariff law. Mr. Dolllver advocated the Wilson bill. Mr. Sipe favored reoeal and Mr. Richardson of Tennessee advocated free coinage at any ratio. Mr. Simpson of Kansas asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a resolution authorizing the speaker to appoint a committee of five members to Investigate the allegation that certain banks were not paying their checks, and to inquire into the conduct of Secretary Carlisle and Comptroller Eckels in the premises. The .speaker ruled that the resolution was not In order: and the house took a recess until 8 o'clock. After the recess Mr. Henderson of Oregon spoke against the Wilson bill and In favor of the free coinage of silver. Mr. Branch of North Carolina followed In the same tone. Mr. Bynum then took the floor, and, replying to Mr. Pence's speech of yesterday, said that that gentlemen had turned his back upon the grand old democratic party, not for the sake of getting n., but for the purpose of eating crow. (Laughter.) 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Syrup of Fips is for sale by all druggist's in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if oüered. a manner that unfitted me to make a speech. My remarks were Jocular and the gentleman knows that I was as sober as any man In Denver that night." Mr. Pence "I have said so; and I went to your friends last night to tell them that you had been sober." (Laughter.) Mr. Rynutn "Then you should not have cast this insinuation." Mr. Wilson of Washington favored free coinnjre. Mr. McKeiphan of Nebraska and Mr. Doolittle of Washington approved the Wilson bill. Mr. Hulick of Ohio advocated bimetallism and charged the present depression upon the democratic party for its attitude on the tariff. Mr. Wanger spoke In favor of repeal and the house then at 11 o'clock adjourned. Tin: i;w Rirns. Xo Snltntantlnl rimnerx Made im the Code. This afternoon Representative Catchlngs reported to the house the code of rules agreed upon by the committee on rules for governing the proceedings of the Fifty-third congress. The code will come up for action in the house on Tuesday. The old rules are readopted with no important change, except a provision that 100 shall be a quorum of the committee of the whole house and that the committee may limit debate without going back Into the house. The rules providing that there shall be no filibustering against a report of the committee on rules, and that the committee on rules may bring In an order fixing the time for a vote on any proposition, are retained. The latter provision was not put in force in the last congress, for the reason that it was adopted with the understanding that it would never be applied except when asked for by a majority of the Democrats in the house. This time It goes Into the rules with no such restriction upon it. THE DK1IATR EXD. Hip: fin n i of the House are Heard on All Sides of the Silver Question. BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL. WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 26. The last day of the great silver debate was a day of intense interest in the house. The senate was not in session, consequently everybody turned toward the house galleries, which were crowded before the early hour of convening. The two orators who most distinguished themselves and whom there was the greatest popular desire to hear were exSpeaker Reed and Bourke Cockran. Neither was a disappointment, Reed was assigned for the morning and throughout the hour he was upon his feet every word that fell from his lips was listened to eagerly. His style was free and unconstrained and his diction was Addisonian in its purity and beside it was, considering the speaker, comparatively free from partisanship. It was lacking somewhat in logic, but there was nothing in It to mar the spirit of good fellowship which has characterized this debate; the democrats generally were well pleased with It and warmly congratulated the speaker. Bourke Cockran paid him the compliment of saying that It was the best speech he had ever heard. And yet It was not so great a speech as that which Mr. Cockran delivered an hour and a half later. There were those who had predicted that Mr. Cockran would find the silver question a dull topic of discussion and that his speech in this debate would be lacking in many of the elements of success that have made him famous In other fields. But these were false prophets, for It was a masterly effort, great In the marshaling of historic truths and greater still In the force and skill with which they were used. He quoted from Locke, Adam Smith. John Stuart Mill and other renowned teachers of fundamental economic truths, but the Illustrations drawn from the eminent authorities were so effectively made that the hearer forgot for the time that the text books of science had been summoned to sustain the arguments advanced. Twice he was interrupted by Bryan of Nebraska, but his sharp retorts, while not Intended to squarely answer the questions asked, fairly took the young Nebraskan off his feet. There were none others who cared to invite the attention of his quick wit by putting questions at the speaker. Bland followed Cockran, but with very diminished attention. Tin: (i.omm; hay. cenrs and Incidents In (he Lower House. WASHINGTON, Aug. Üß.-The floor of the house of representatives was the scene of a battle of the giants today. It was the last twenty-four hours of the debute on the financial question, and bolh sides had reserved their ablest speakers for the closing act In the longdrawn battle. Tom Heed, the eloquent leader of the republicans, found an answerer In John Allen of Mississippi, whose ready wit was on? of the most forcible arguments of the freo coinage men today. J. K. Wllllnms, democratic member of the last committee on coinage, brought

his colleagues to remember their party platform, while Bourke Cockran of New York, repeated the Incidents of the last democratic national convention. In which he played such an important part, and argued that the true interpretation of the platform was not that sought to be given by the gentleman from Illinois. William Wilson, the author of the repealing bill, and Richard P. Bland, the author of the substitute measure upon which the first vote will occur, closed the debate for their respective sides in excellent speeches. The speech of Bourke Cockran was a strong, forcible speech, but it did not abound in' those flights of oratory which have made him famous. He failed to devote any considerable portion of his argument to answering Mr. Bryan, although he had been heralded as the man held in reserve by the repealing forces to answer the brilliant young Nebraskan. His argument that the bankers are a debtor rather than a creditor class and that the banks of New York would be benefited millions of dollars and the day laborers of the country robbed of 45 per cent, of their pay by the policy advocated by Bryan and Bland was an Ingenious one, but when the Nebraskan inquired why, if that were the case, the bankers of New York are denouncing himself and Mr. Bland, while T. V. Fowderly, the representative of organized labor, is supporting their policy, the query brought down the applause of the house. Mr. Cockran's brilliant retort that the bankers believed honesty to be the best policy was loudly applauded, but his subsequent comment that Powderly Is pursuing the same line of mental aberration as Bryan and Bland was not received by the house as a retort in accordance with the best ethics of parliamentary courtesy. During the entire day the gallarles and lobbies of the house were crowded to their utmost capacity. On the floor of the house were Vice-President Stevenson. Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle. Secretary of the Navy Herbert. President A. J. Warner of the Bimetallic league. Senator Palmer, Senator Cockrell and several other memrbers of the upper body who have taken a prominent part in ' the financial discussion in congress. The speaker announced the order of the day's proceedings. Under the hour rule, he said, the time in favor of the bill would close with the member from West Virginia, Mr. Wilson, and the time in opposition to It by the member from Missouri, Mr. Bland. The first thirty minutes was assigned by Mr. Wilson to Mr. Clark dem.) of Missouri. He believed that it was the duty of congress to fix the ratio at 16 to 1. In his opinion there was no difference In the ability of the country to carry out silver coinage, between a 16 and a 20 ratio. If the country could do with a ratio of 20 to 1 It. could do with a ratio of 16 to 1. Still, he would not cast a vote that would paralyze or continue the paralysis of industry all through the country and In his section. There was no question about the necessity of immediate action in order to restore confidence. The trouble was thought to be due to the policy of purchasing silver under the Sherman law and whether that belief was correct or not he would vote to repeal that law; he would do anything that would restore confidence. We are, he said, doing nothing more in rej.ealing this law, than wiping it out in order to relieve the people of the country in the immediate distress pressing upon them, and to give the democratic party the opportunity and liesure. on due reflection, to revise the whole financial system of the country. And I have the most supreme confidence that it will do so on wise lines. REED BREAKS OUT.

He Makes a Lonjc and nitterly Partisan Address. Ex-fpeaker Reed took the floor at 10:30. The house came to a sudden condition of quietude as Mr. Reed stood up in the east aisle on the republican side of the chamber and began to address the house in strong, slow and measured terms. . In beginning his sjeech Mr. Reed confessed doubts as to the ability of the house to deal satisfactorily with the question before it. but expressed his comfort in being able to fall back upon the well-established belief in the wisdom of the decisions of congress. A crisis like the present, he said, was the Inseparable accompaniments of all human progress, which is a series of upward starts and falls of almost proportionate length. The former may be characterized In a word, "Confidence, the latter in another word. "Distrust." These fluctuations occur almost simultaneously, always sympathetically, the world over, so closely is business allied by the telegraph and railroad. Because of the fact that the drain of gold from the United States since the passage of the Sherman law in 1830 carried out of the country an amount equal to the value of the purchases of the silver under the law people saw in it the cause of the loss of gold, and distrust was engendered, a season of hoarding and depression resulted, and today the country is suffering all the calamities of a restricted circulation In the midst of an abundant supply of money. This. then, continued Mr. Red. at the present moment is the situation in which we find ourselves. I have. In the house, narrated the outward circumuMy Sick Sisters, " Let me tell you somethinr'. ' I have no motive other than to do you good. " For years I have been almost a constant sufferer from female trouble in all its dreadful forms: shooting pains all over my body, sick headache, spinal weakness, faintncss, dizzi--20 KRS. HAWKIET WAMPLER IlLbi.Ut Jlt.V sion, and everything that was horrid. I tried many doctors in different parts of the U. S., but Lydia E. Pinkhavis Vegetable Compound has done more for me than all the doctors. " I feel it my duty to tell you these facts that you also may be cured. My heart is full of pruitmlc to Mrs. Pinkham." Afrs. Harriet f I 'ampler, 50 7 Ka. sota Block, Minneapolis, Minn, All drugglMn cell it. AddrrM In confUrnre, Lvbia Ü. himiuM Mid. Co., I.vnn, Mas. Mrs. rinlLhAm's Liver nils. 25 ctc

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stances which have attended our present position, but failed to state fully what Is. after all. according to my Judgment, the underlying cause of the present condition of affairs. At the last election the democratic party was brought Into power by a curious combi-

'. nation of circumstances, as the result of a hundred causes, not with careful ad candid deliberation, but as the result. In large measure, of the arathy of the Ame! lean people. The vote shows what I declare, and the recollection of every individual to whom I am speaking can be safely appealed to. While this thing has not been specially manifested during this discussion, while there has been, little talk with regard to it. nevertheless. the consciousness of this fact underlies our entire situation. An Hypocritical Dlsrlalraer. I do not intend, in alluding to this fact, to in any way refer to party politics. I do not undertake to raise any question as to whether the system of protection is a wise one or not. I do not undertake to dispute the proposition on the part of the' democracy that protecUon is a tax, wicked and lniquitious. For the purpose of discussion, and for that purpose only, I am quite free to admit that protection is a fraud and that virtue resides only In a revenue tariff; but there remains, even If it be admitted that the propositions of the democratic platform are righteous, every one. there remains the fact that the system upon which the manutactures of this country' have been regulated for thirty years Is threatened with a total change; whether that change is to bfor the better or not, no man can know. What the democratic party proposes to do with the power that is in their hands nobody can say. They do not even know themselves, and hence, they are not able to impart the knowledge to others. For my part, I do not expect the democratic party to be utterly bad. I do not believe that they will be permitted to be so if they should so desire. Such 1? the restraining influence of the people even after election, that I bellev, through all the disguises, through all the masks which their election hss thrown over the wishes of the people, nevertheless those wishes will be carrid out. But at this present moment no man can know what will be the result of the action of this congress upon the manufacturers of his country. If the reformation of the tariff were in the hands of its friends, if a change in the tariff were contemplated by those men who are In favor of the principle of protection instead of in the hands of those who denounce it, I should feel entirely confident that business would not be stagnant or remain at a standstill; but when- this reformation of the tariff is in the hands of men opposed to the present system those manufacturers of the country who have built up the present system must necessarily call a halt. If their goods which they manufacture are to be in competition with the manufacturers of all lands, where tho cost of productton Is upon a different basis, where labor is differently rewarded as a matter of fact, no manufacturer in this country will dare to manufacture goods until he knows the basis upon which his labor is to go into the production of his article of sale. Until that question is settWl you may b sure that the manufacturers of this country will never dare to manufacture more thsn the absolute necessities of the people require. 1 will not undertake to dwell at this time for I do not want to confuse the issue, upon these unfortunate parts of democratic program which are at present in abeyance, like the establishment of state banks and other financial measures, which we may possibly have to struKcie with. I can characterize in a sinsle phrase the cause of the present condition of affairs. It is the unoiscoverable uncertanty of the future of both the currency questions and the questions of protection and revenue tariff. It will be seen from what I have said that I do not regard th Sherman act as. In itself alone, responsible for our present condition of affairs; that I believe the causes of our present disaster underlies that; that the necessary stoppage of hundreds and thous.inds of mills all over the country is at the bottom of our disaster. Nevertheless. I do believe that the Sherman act and the accumulation of silver in the treasury was the earliest Indication of the disaster which we are approaching, and that it has played a part not entirely unfortunate in warning us that we could be saved from still further misfortune and doubt. I do not believe that the democratic congress, even influenced as it will be by the pressure on the part of the people of the United States, will so revise the tariff that the workingman will b brought back even to the conditions of the workingmen under the Walker tariff, but that there will be doubts and difficulties and reductions. I have not the slightest doubt. The capitalist has met with his misfortunes. He has seen his stocks, his bonds, his holdings, and he will soon see his real estate reduced beyond any fear which he entertained a year ago, and in due time will come the reduction of the wages of the laborer, unless by great good fortune the laboring man by demonstrations on his part should show that he understands this question In such a fashion that he will refuse to allow it to be misunderstood by his member of congress. Xfw Political Conditions. Referring to the new political conditions which exist, Mr. Feed said: "It is perfectly true that the democratic party is responsible for whatever occurs in the future and whatever docs not occur. They have the president; they have an enormous majority in the house of representatives and they have the senate to themselves. For the first time in thirty years they have been removed from the iow level of criticism of the acts of others, and have been lifted to the high level of responsibility and performance. It cannot be expected that they would change their nature in the twinkling cf an eye. Elections may put them into power, but only the lapse of time can prive them the proper sense of responsibility. The time will orne when the I democratic members of congress, instead of disputing with each einer wnat ine democratic platfym means, will be disputing with each other as to what the necessities of the country demnnd. Until that period of responsibility shall fairly rest upon their shoulders, and also afterward, they can rely upon the assistance of the republican party In the minority as they have relied upon them in the majority, in the direction of sound government, of responsibility and of honest administration of affairs. "I am sorry that we have not lc?n permlttra to exhibit our wisdom In the way of amendments; that we have not been allowed to take the vote of the house as to the various propositions to meet ihls affair which would seem satisfactory to us. We are confined to thoss propositions which the democratic party have finally determined to submit "To us. I shall spend no time In pointing out the contrast between this action on the part of the democratic party and their claims during the Fifty-first congress. I shall waste no time In citations showing how the rlpbts of the mtoniity are outraged, according to them, for 1 recognize now, as I recognized then, the neesesity and duty of the party in power assuming the responsibility of Its actions. 1 am only sorry that this hu stlon cannot hi settled, nnd settled rlphteously. within the bounds of (he democratic party In ItS'lf, but as 1 know, and every man In this country knows, the majority of the democratic party would decide against the good sense of the nation." l'asslng then to the consideration of th question of rr pe I, Mr. Rood said that while he was In favor of It. he did not think It would be an Immediate cause of a revival of the prosjxTity of the country. Nevertheless, he would vote for repeal for two reasons. First, because, whether JuMly or not, the Sherman law Is believed to be tho cause of the unreasonable hoarding of currency throughout the country. In this connection Mr. lis paid a compliment to the managers f the Uinks generally, saying that In his Judgment they were doing an honorable and patriotic work, and were the mainstay of the country