Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1893 — Page 9

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aiiu voorhees i his ncrLY TO Sill. WOLCOTT. The Indiana Senator Made One of the Beat Off Hand Spreche of III LifeTb True Pgrpoie of the Repeal DIU Set Forth.

BUREAU OP THE SENTINEL, WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. IS. One of the best efforts of Senator Voorhees's Ufa was the speech he delivered off-hand last Monday In answer to the critic sins made by Senator Walcott upon his first argument In opening the silver fight. Senator Voorhees spoke as follows: Mr. President The senate will bear witness that I have occupied not much of Its time during the debate through which we have been pawning:, nor have I desired to do so, nor do I desire to do so now. The senator from Colorado (Mr. Wolcott) has done me the honor to read extensively from the speech with which I opened the present discussion. On that aeoount, however, I would not rise. There la nothing In it to explain or that needs expl.tr.ttlon. My position, humble througu my career has been In this body, Is well known on the subject of sliver. There Is no doubt pertaining to my record; and on the subject of my recent speech, so reiatedly reproduced here, I have nothing to say. But I have thught, Mr. President, for some days back, that It might be well at some time In this discussion to correct at least one very striking and fundamental error. The very corner stone of the discussion In opposition to the pending bill is laid in error and makes a false foundation. The constant asseveration that the bill demonetizes silver Is not supported by a single fact. I say here that while It has been repeated a thousand tnmcs that the bill demonetizes silver, It may be repeated a hundred thousand times more and still It will not be true, nor have even the semblance of truth. We have at this time something over six hundred and eighteen million dollars of silver currency, 77,0Oö,00O of subsidiary coin, which Is legal tender In urns under ten dollars, leaving five hundred and forty-one million dollars, in round numbers, of full legal-tender silver money. I speak In the hearing of old financiers, I speak In the hearing of the whole country, when I say that this bill does not take away from a single dollar or Item of silver money Its monetary value. Webster says demonetization means to deprive a metal of its money value, what piece of silver money, subsidiary or otherwise, is Interfered with by the Uli In the way of demonetization? It Is time the country should hear thtls. It is time the country should know that this debate, so far oa the. opponents of the bill are concerned, has proceeded upon an entirely erroneous and false assumption. It is not a bill to demonetize silver: it Is not at war with silver money. On the contrary, In the few moments I expect to be on the floor I shall demonstrate that It Is a better friend to silver as money, and to Its use. than any measure can be which buys sliver bullion as corn, wheat, oats and rye. Doesn't Touch Sliver. I say, sir. the bill does not touch the monetary value of silver. What does It do? It simply says that we do not want to buy any more silver bullion for the present. It suspend the purchase of the raw material out of which silver money Is made. That Is all it does. Let us como to an understanding. Let us have some dennltion-s. I reptiat myself purposely, and I care not haw often, for I Intend the statement to be borne In upon the public mind that to say It Ls a bill demonetizing silver Is not true; It demonetizes no dollar, and well you know It. It simply suspends the purchase of the material you have to sell. The American people at this time want to stop buying, whether for long or short It ls not for me now to say. That is all the pending bill does. Mr. President, the senator from Tennessee (Mr. Harris), some days ago. In his very able speech, saw flt to reproduce an utterance of mine on this floor last February. I have no complaint to make. We all stand alike upon our records; and It is not a matter of the highest consequence whether a man is consistent with himself, but it ls of supreme consequence whether he la consistent with the public good. Sir, I may as well say here now that if by act Inconsistent with my entire political life. If It be still an act of honer, I would redeem this country from its present perils without a moment's hesitation. As Individuals, of what consequence are we? We are here for a day and gone tomorrow, fleeting through time on our way rapidly from one world to another. What matters much the record that we make, so we make it for the safety and welfare of the country? The senator from Tennessee produced here an utterance of mine which I shall pay a little attention to, how that I am on the floor. In an allusion to the bill which had been offered by the senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) to repeal the Sherman act, and speaking on some other subject aC the time, without full consideration, I said, on the 17th of last February: "I should have voted the other day to take up what Is known as the Sherman act. and for its repeal, but for the a fact that Its passage would absolutely demonetize silver and leave it supported by not one word of legislation." The bill the senator from Ohio had Introduced, and to which I alluded, ls not the bill pending. It had in It a clause discriminating In favor of a certain kind of money. In other words, to read it,It contained tlve- following proviso: Provided. That this act shall not in any way affect, or impair, or change the legal qualities, redemption, or use of the treasury notes issued under said act." I thought, as did the senator from Towa (Mr. Allison), that the insertion of such a clause as that gave rise to an inference that other kinds of money not mentioned might be Injuriously affected by the passage of the act, and I took the alarm in behalf of silver. I was alarmed for fear it went further and was meant to demonetize silver, but I am satisfied now that I was mistaken. It would not have demonetized silver, but at the same time It Is well for that kind of language to be out of the bill, and it is not In the bill which I present here. There is no suggestion In the bill before the senate of the demonetization- of any class of our money as there might have possibly arisen from the bill Introduced by the senator from Ohio last February. It was on that state of case I said what I did. Mr. Harris Will the senator from Indiana allow me? Mr. Voorhees Certainly. Mr. Harris There can be nothing more painful to me than any Issue between the senator from Indiana and myself, but I want to ask him here and now If the passage of house bill No. 1 or the senate committee's substitute for it does not remove from under silver bullion the last statutory recognition of silver bullion as a money meUir Of course It

. . ; : ' leaves the silver already coined untouched, unimpaired, but does It not effectually destroy any hope, any prospect of the further coinage of silver as momjy? Does Not Demonetise. Mr. Voorhees In the language of the senator from Tennessee, I answer here and now that the bill does only what I have said. It does not demonetize a dollar of silver money. You can not demonetize a raw, uncoined material any more than you can demonetize tobacco or cotton. It stops buying bullion! That ls what it does and all It does. It demonetize bullion? bullion ls not money and ls not subject to demonetization. Examine the phraseology of your dictionaries and you will And a thing lis to be money before It can be demonetized. You might as well talk to me about demonetizing a horse or a pair of mules or a yoke of oxen because they have value as about demonetizing bullion because It may be turned into money, Mr. Harris I wish to ask the senator from Indiana another question. If you pass the pending bill can you utilize silver in, any way to increase the volume of money in this country? Mr. Cutler In other words. If the senator from Indiana will permit me to supplement the Inquiry of the senator from Tennessee does not the passage of the pending bill absolutely stop the coinage of silver? Mr. Voorhees Now I do not want more questions put than are necessary. I have one man on my hands over yonder. (Laughter.) But I will answer. The senator from South Carolina does know, because he ought to know, that there is a coinage power left in the Sherman act after the pending bill repeals the purchasing clause. The power ls there. Mr. Morgan rose. Mr. Voorhees No, I cannot talk long. I want to get through as quickly as I can. I could, of course, extend my remarks all the afternoon, but I am not In a condition of health this morning to run into a colloquial debate. But I repeat, that even after repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act the power of coinage continues in what remains of the act. The authority remains to coin sliver for the payment of the treasury notes. Mr. Butler May I inquire one s'.ep further, if the coinage provision of the act, which the senator from Indiana says is left, is not restricted to the bullion on hand? Mr. Voorhees Whether It ls or not, It is there to coin sliver money. It seems to take three or four senators to collaborate the question I was asked to answer by the senator from Tennessee, whether there was any power to coin money out of sliver after this bill passes; and I say "yes." Now, atrain. on the subject of demonetization of silverMr. Harris The broad answer "yes" tempts me to ask the senator while I grant that the third section of the Sherman act authorizes, and not only authorizes, but, in my opinion, requires the secretary of the treasury to coin so much silver so purchased as may be necessary to redeem the treasury notes issued to pay for It when the silver now deposited in the vaults of the treasury Is coined, if the pending bill passes, can there ever another dollar of silver be coined in this country without additional statutory authority to coin It? Mr. Voorhees I will answer there ls enough sliver bullion on hand now to occupy the government, as I have been Informed, for the next seven of eight years in coining It, and power to do It under the Sherman act that will remain as part of the laws of the country after the purchasing clause has been repealed. Now, Mr. Pi -inldent. to proceed: If I have accompl.hed my purpose it is simply to Impress on the public mind that the charge that the bill demonetizes silver is totally and absolutely unfounded. It is simply a bill to suspend the purchase of the raw material out of which silver money is made, and the raw material cannot be demonetized because It Is not money. But I went further when I made the statement which the senator from Tennessee produced here on the floor. I said I should vote for the repeal of the Sherman act simply because it ls vicious In principle, but it must be in connection with something better. Sir, can there be anything worse? The "World Move. The senator from Colorado said that the bill now before the senate was accompanied by a very remarkable manifesto. Sir, he forgets, or perhaps does not know, that this world has been Instructed, enlightened, moved forward, and humanity educated by declaratory purposes far more than by laws. I expect when the declaration of independence, that mighty instrument of declaration for future legislative action was framed and promulgated, there were those who criedi out "what a monstrous and remarkable manifesto were distinctly of the variegated order, that ls; It does not amount to anything." I have heard senators around me sneer at the bill before us because it contained a declaration of future purpose. The world. I repeat, has been educated, mankind has been enlightened, free government established In that way more than all other ways put together. The declaration of independence came from a voluntary association of men. It was not a law. It simply declared the purposes to be achieved by laws In the future and from that day to this the declaration of American independence has been, as It were, the halo, the nimbus, the light in which the constitution has been interpreted. John Marshall, who more than everybody else put together by his interpretations of that mighty instrument made the constitution as it i3 today, sought his Inspiration, the light to guide his mighty mind in the decliratory purposes of the declaration of American independence. I intend, sir, to vindicate this humble declaration that found its way Into the pending measure through my own instrumentality. The great declarations of the world stand out boldly in history, but none of them ever received such a sanction as this will receive when it has passed this body, passed the other house, and received the sanction of the executive department. Is a declaration of future purpose made by both branches of congress and by the executive department to be sneered at? Where has it its peer? Where has a declaration such a sanction as this will have when It has passed congress and been approved by the executive, as it will be? Why, sir, the bill of rights of 1688 was but a declaration of future purposes In behalf of liberty and the safety of property. The petition of right, drawn by Sir Edward Coke in 1628, was another one of those declarations of future purpose that the senator from Colorado 1

J presume will mock and deride. Sir, what was even Magna Charta except an emanation from an assemblage of men declaring what they would do in the ' .... . i i . luiuic, hu me etmciiun given. Dy the barona at Runnymede coercing King John to approve what they had done never has had in history the solemn, orderly, high sanction which this declaration in favor of the coinage of 6llver and gold as money on terms of equality will have when it has parsed the American congress and has been approved by the chief magistrate of the republic. I said I wanted something better when we repeal the Sherman act. Iam giving you something better. The worst that can be ls the Sherman act The best that can be Is to carry out what we declared we Intend to do. Let us see how

it reads. The senator from Colorado honored me by reading some cf my utterances awhile ago. Let me read some here: "And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to cnntlnue the use of both gold and sliver as standard money." An Honeat I'lrtlsp. An honest pledge. Does somebody dar to say that will mean nothing after the congress of the United States has ut-

l tered It as Its official position? "and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, such equality to be secured through International agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as will Insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts, And It ls hereby further declared that the efforts of the government should be steadily directed to the establishment of such a safe system of bimetallism as will maintain at a!! times the equal power of every dollar coined or issued by the United States in .he markets and in the payment of debts." Mr. Morgan If it would not interrupt the senator from Indiana too much to ask him a question In regard to the part of the bill he ls reading I should like to know what the reason was for changing the language of the bill as It came to us fro.n the other house containing a pledge of the faith ,and credit of the United States government in favor of the remonetization of silver? Mr. Voorhees I have the floor and If the senator from Alabama wants to make an Imputation that we struck out that clause in bad faith he can make it In his own time, f Mr. Morgan Mr. President Mr. Voorhees I decline to yield to the senator from Alabama, I will be glad If he will Just wait. Mr. Morgan Wil: the senator hear my question? Mr. Voorhees I decline to yield to the senator from Alabama. Mr. Morgan You will have an opportunity to hear me. Mr. Voorhees You -will have plenty of opportunities; there is no doubt about that. The Vlce-rresldent The senator from Indiana has the floor and declines to be interrupted. Mr. Voorhees The senator from Alabama will have an opportunity hereafter to criticise the committee on finance. Mr. Morgan 1 was asking a question for Information. Mr. Voorhees Mr. PresidentMr. Morgan The senator refuses to hear the question and turns loose upon me as If I were casting an Imputation upon him. Mr. Voorhees We had sufficient reasons for what we did. I propose briefly and tersely, not to speak at length this morning, to discuss a few points made necessary In my mind by the senator from Colorado. Cut for him I would not be on the floor. I say that we have ofTered something better. We have offered the hiKh pledge of the government for the continued use and the continued coinage of the two metals. It is well known, the senator from Colorado Is not In doubt about my position, that when the pending measure is Out of the way, when- the Sherman law no longer disgraces the statute books of the nation. I am ready to act promptly and with all the energy and force that I can brin to. bear to carry out the pledge which the bill contains. Now, Mr. President, a word or two more. In connection with what took Place here in February last, what I Bald then I have said since, and I reintroduce it because it sounds well to my own ears: "You might as well authorize a circulating medium based upon tobacco by the hogshead or cotton by the bale as upon silver In its bullion- shape. It must be coined Into money, and such Is the position of the democratic party as declared In national convention'. "I own no silver mines; I am Interested In none; the people I represent have no interest in sliver bullion; they are Interested simply in the great dollar with which their fathers bought the country in1 which they live, cultivated It, and made It prosper and bloom as it is blooming today." I further said In thät connection: "There are two classes of financiers In this country on the subject of the metals. The one ls wedded entirely to gold; the other Is practically solid for silver. Sir, I am wedded to both metals, and I iretend fair play for both." If a gentleman's word Is not to be taken on this floor let us stop controversy. I am for gold and silver money upon terms of equality before the law, because I conceive that to be for the best interests of the business people of the United States. Sir, I knew I was to be arraigned when this controversy began. I have studiously avoided putting any acrimony in this debate, nor shall I depart from that line hereafter: but I wish to say a word or two more about my position on this subject. The senator from Colorado arraigned me, not merely today, but at other times, not quite directly, but by high and amazed periods of inquiry or suggestion or Innuendo, as having been false to the cause of silver money. Let us see, between1 him and me, who has been the best friend of silver money. Sir. in 1830 I voted in this body for the free coinage of silver money. The senator himself voted for this miserable "makeshift." "the Sherman act." which has crushed silver money into the dirt. He thought it was a bonanza. He thought it guaranteed the sale of all that the bowels of the earth contained out In his Dart of the country. I knew it would destroy silver money, and said so at the time. Who I the Enemy f Let us see, as If we were before his own people, who ls the enemy of silver. I would gladly meet him there. The Sherman act has come as a blight; it has been destruction to silver money; it has cursed the country; It has demonetized sliver money nearly one-half; it has taken away the money value from silver. Sir, when that measure was brought forward here as a substitute for the free and honest coinage of silver I said on the 8th of July, 1590, speaking of the Sherman bill then pending in the senate as reported from a committee of conference between the two houses: i "What Is the spectacle presented here In this body? I am amazed. I will not use offensive language, but I am amazed at the hardihood of senators who stand up in this body to take back all we said and all we did. and all we voted for within the last three or four weeks. Seventeen majority of the senate of the United States is treated as chaff. Onefifth of this body was embodied in a majority on this subject. Seventeen majority for the free coinage of sliver, and the representatives of this body on the conference committee have treated that expression as idle, and it is to go for naught." Then I foretold the future better than men usually do. Speaking further on that occasion, I said: "Mr. Tresldent, I will not say that this bill Is a cheat, I will not say it is a fraud, because of the presence I am in, but under its malign influences I will say that silver, instead of reviving as a currency, instead of being more potent as a factor for the people's prosperity, will wither, shrink back, and take its place as a miserable commodity instead of being clothed with dignity of money." That is what . I said then; and you,

sir. voted for a measure that made sliver money shrink back, demonetized it almost one-half. I foretold that it wculd so hapen. I stood then for the honest coinage of silver money upon terms making it the equal of gold. I stand there now. Of the senators from the silver states I have always spoken kindly, for so I feel. I think I will not be criticised for any hostility toward them when my remarks are remembered In opening this debate; but I say to them they ought to be more forebearing at this time. They themselves made the law which ruined their min as, drove their people out of employment. Your votes made the law that did it; the record shows It; and but for your votes It would not have been made. Had those senators stood where I Btood and denounced the legislation which made silver shrivel into a marketable commodity like tobacco, cotton, corn or pig iron the scenes through which we have passed would never have taken place. And yet I am to be arraigned! Sir, I am willing to go before the people of Colorado or any one of the silver states and meet the question in Joint discussion with silver state senators, and prove to their own voting population that they themselves are the worst enemies silver has had; that, so far as I am concerned, I have been an infinitely better friend of silver money than they have been; and that it is their own course, their own work, which has destroyed, blighted, withered sliver into its present deplorable condition. "I stood by silver money in ISM, as I have always, and voted against the Sherman act. I then went home, If I may be pardoned such an allusion, to the great people who have honored me so long Uih a seat here. My successor was to le elected by the legislature then immediately to be chosen. After voting In July I went to my home and canvasd the great state of Indiana from the Illinois to the Ohio line, from the lakes on the north to the Ohio river on the nouth, and In every speech, a candidate myself for the place I now fill, I denounced . the legislation known as the Sherman act. 1 denounced H In the spirit and the languane 1 had used here on this floor In opposing it I sold then to the people of Indiana what would happen; that It was a bill panned In enmity to silver and of republican origin, an origin hostile, as I said meaning no discourtesy, certainly, to anybody on the other side of the chamberhostile to silver as ona of the money metals of the fathers. "Sir, what was the result? Tho senator from Colorado presumes to tell me, and to appeal to me, to be true to my people. Sir, with the words of that canvass ringing In their ears, spoken from every stump lu the state, such a majority was given me for re-election as no man, whig, republican, democrat, or candidate from any other party, ever received in the reat state of Indiana a majority almost oubls even what I had ever received before, a majority of sixty-nine on Joint ballot In her legislature. "I am willing, sir. to po back to the embrace of that people. I hear no protest there; no reproaches; no angry arraignment, or accusations of betrayal or bad faith. They know perfectly well that I am acting in harmony with my entire position on this subject. I opposed the Sherman act. and said what would happen. My opposition has been proved correct, and It ha also been proved that the friends of the Sherman act destroyed silver and reduced it to its present low and fallen estate. Yet the senator from Colorado assumes now again that he must have his way entirely. He had his way three years tLKo, and curses came with hi. methods. I propose now to have the rlht way. if I can execute the will of the American people and the will of the American senate, by a large majority. The senators from the silver states, I say, with all due kindness to them, ouKht to trust those men now on this question whose Judgment haa proven true In the past and whose fidelity nobody has the rlnht to lmpuern. "Sir, the senator from Colorado saw flt to arraign the president of the United StVktes. The president of the United States needs 1sj defense than any public man In -the world, lie ncda none. He has had the mightiest bulwarks of defense built up around him at the ballot box. The public confidence In. him today Is supreme. The -senator, however, criticises his letter to the governor of Georgia. I stand by the terms of that letter. He says this act now on the statute books cannot be built upon or patched with any profit. 'The right way, senators, is to clear the deck; have a free field of action. You say you are afraid of the prHFldent. The president of the United Stuten will execute the will of the American people when it is ascertained. The president of the United State don not deal in double words. I trust hlra on his letter of acceptance and his letter to Governor Northen and on all his public acts, and the American people trust him. "I repeat, Mr. President, the senator from Colorado knows that without the resolution which he has offered here the subject of silver will be taken up, not by Its enemies this time, auch as passed the Sherman act, but by friends, a majority of whom are on the finance committee, and it will be dealt with becomingly, fairly and honestly." Mr. Teller and Mcrherson addressed the chair. The Vice-Fresldent "The chair recognizes the senator from Colorado as having first addressed the chair." Mr. Morgan "Will the senator from Colorado yield to me a very few moments?" Mr. Teller"! yield to the senator from Alabama." Mr. Morgan "The question I was about to state to the senator from Indiana when he was on his feet contained no impeachment or Imputation against him or the committee on finance or anybody else." Mr. Morgan "Here ls the pledge in the bill as it came from the other house: " 'And the faith and credit of the United States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the standard gold and silver coins of the United States at the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be established by law.' "That Is the pledge made In the bill as it passed the house. The senate committee abandoned that and substituted in place of it the following: " 'And It ls hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and exchange value, such equality to be secured through International agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the malntalnance of the parity In value of the coins of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.' Now, Mr. President what I wanted to inquire about, and get information upon from the chairman of the committee on finance, was why the pledre of the faith and credit of the United States, which I have Just read, was abandoned by the senate committee and a declaration of policy was substituted in the place of it? That is all. That was the whole drift and bent of my question. It was a legitimate question. There was nothing in it to excite irritation or anger or anticipated Imputation upon any member of that committee; I did not mean it, and I do not now so mean it; but I intend to give the senator from Indiana an opportunity of explaining that clear backdown from the language of the bill as it passed the housa before he gets my vote upon this question. Mr. Voorhees Mr. President I have no idea of ever getting the vote of the senator from Alabama; on that condition I do not rise. I have no Idea of that at all. But the senator's term of "back down" is not warranted. There ls no back down about it Upon careful consideration amongst the senators composing the finance committee, quite as patriotic as is the senator from Alabama, possibly not so intelligent still doing the best we could, we felt that this language was subject to misunderstanding: "But this repeal shall noi impair, or In any manner affect the legal-tender quality of the standard silver dollars heretofore coined " "Heretofore coined." That would be an Imputation that there might be coinage hereafter not protected In that wsy "and the faltn and credit of the ITnlted States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the standard gold and silver coins of the United States at the present legal ratio or such other ratio as may be established by law." That part of the sentence Is more than amply covered by the declaratorv part of the bill. The declaratory part of the bill is In language familiar to the American mind, made familiar In the canvass of the United States last year, and there is nobody who will misunderstand this declaratory provision unless he has determined in advance that he ls going to misunderstand it, unless he has determined in advance that he will call it a back down from something, unless he has determined in advance to put somebody in the wrong; otherwise nobody will misunderstand the fact that la lieu of that part of the above

sentence, the declaratory provision of the bill aa reported covers the point amply and satisfactorily. Mr. Voorheos"WUI the senator from Missouri 'allow me a moment?" Mr. Cockerell "Certainly." Mr. Voorhees "I think I misunderstood the senator from Alabama, as my mind was enRrossed with other points. I may say that I had no intention of answering unkindly or discourteously anything the senator from Alabama has said. 1 see now more clearly than I did then the meaning of the senator from Alabama. "The provision as it came from the house reads : . "'And the faith and credit of the United States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the standard irold and silver coins of the United States at the present legal ratio or such other ratio as may be established by law.' "To show how much better is the declaratory provision In the substitute reported by the committee than that, it is only necessary to point out the fact that the declaratory provision declares the policy of the government, 'to continue the ue of both gold and silver as standard money, and coin both gold and silver Into money of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value.' "My object In changing the language of the bill as It came from the house was to have a pledge for the future use and coinage of both metals, according to the language of the Chicago platform, which I had before me at the time. "The clause from which the senator from Alabama says the finance committee backed down h.i no promise at all of coining a silver dollar in the future. The provislpn of the house was simply that 'the faith and credit of the United States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the standard gold and silver coins of the United States.' " Mr. Morgan "How can that be done without coining silver dollars'." Mr. Voorhees "They ure In existence now." Mr. Morgan "How can It be done without coining them?" Mr. Voorhees "They are In existence now, I repeat. There i no promise of future coinage at all. There ts no provision for that In the Mil as It passed the house, but there Is In the substitute proposed by the committee. The bill as it came from the house said: " 'Hut this repeal shall not Impair or In any manner affect the legal tender quality of standard silver dollars heretofore coined.' "The senator admits that language ought to be Btrlcken out. The same spirit was In what followed: 'And the faith and credit of the United States are hereby piedifed to maintain the parity of the standard gold and silver coins of the United States' "That is, those now lu existence " 'at the present lernl ratio, or such other ratio as may be established by law.' "We struck that out, and declared for the continued use of both gold and silver, and for the continued coinage of both metals at a ratio which would maku them equal in purchasing power and for the buslnes interests of the country. The declaratory provision which I have explained Is rrsuch broader than that which ls stricken out, and more far-reaching. It .has a large grasp upon the matter, which the other lacks. "I am very glad the senator from Alabama raised the question: I did not catch It clearly at first. I am glad, though, that it has been raised, and now It will be seen that the provision reported by the senate committee embraces the future, and ls declaratory of a purpose to continue to ccin and use gold and silver, while that which was stricken out was simply a derlartlon to maintain gold and silver coins now In existence at a parity, without one word being said about future coinage."

GOUNOD, THE COMPOSER. HE EXPIRES IX PAUIS OP PAR A LYSIS OF THE HKA1V. Too Mnrh Work the Cnnse of Ills 'TnkliiK Ott MnnAicfi of Sympathy Item I ns of Marshal MaeMahon Lying In täte Other Deaths. PARIS, Oct. 18. Gounod, the composer, died this morning. The doctors in attendance upon M. Gounod previous to his death say that the end was due to paralysis of the brain, largely caused by the great composer's obstinacy In adhering to work. The exact hour of his death was 6 a. m. M. Gounod became unconscious on Sunday last and remained in a state of coma, which increased in intensity each hour until his death. Telegrams of sympathy have been pouring in upon the Gounod family for the past two days', Including among them a message of condolence from the queen of Belgium, the queen regent of Spain and the countess of Paris. The remains of ex-President MaeMahon are lying in state at Mont Cresson. The family has agreed to a public funeral which takes place at the end of the month. Cardinal Rampolla telegraphed sympathy and the pope's benedltlon. Other Ieaths. At Utiea. N. Y. Mrs. Roscoe Conkllng. At London1 The sculptor Charles Bell Birth. At Cincinnati Mrs. Mary Redmond Clarke, widow of the late Bishop Clarke of the methodist episcopal church. AX AWFUL STOIIY Concerning the Death of Many Pilgrims of Cholera "While at Seu. LONDON, Oct. 19. Seaman Jenkins of the steamer Etna, which has arrived at Swansea, recites a terrible tale of the experiences of that vessel in transporting Arab pilgrims who had been to Mecca back to Morocco. He says that the pilgrims on the ship were so numerous as to crowd the vessel accommodations to the utmost, and that they were all in a filthy condition. Not only the hole, but the decks swarmed with the worshipers, and he gives an awful account of the sickness and mortality that occurred during the trip. According to his 6tory the deaths from cholera among the pilgrims amounted to forty daily. The corpses were not disposed of in the usual way, but were suspended by ropes from the sides of the vessel, where they hung rotting and stinking until the vessel' arrival in port This remarkable proceeding was done owing to the Mohammedan aversion to being buried at sea. In addition to the mortality among the pilgrims, the chief mate and six seamen of the steamer's company died during the passage. WINDOW GLASS TRUST. An Open Market bat the Combine Still Holds Good. CHICAGO, Oct. 18. The American window glass trust has made an open market for an Indefinite period. A meeting was held this evening. President James A. Chambers of Pittsburg was in the chair and the meeting was largely attended. At its, conclusion President Chambers said: "There ls no demand for glass; we cannot create trade, and as there is no necessity to maintain prices we have made an open market. No limitation ls set to the agreement. The open market does not mean the dissolution of the national association." Why Will Yon Allow your -health to gradually fail? If you are closely confined indoors with ! little or no exercise, and desire good i health, you must take care of yourself. Use Sulphur Bitters, and you will have a sound mind and a strong body

IS THE DOCTOR. DEAD f

Senaational Story In Connection vrtth the Graves Case. DENVER, Col., Oct. 19. The News published a sensational article today to the effect that Dr. Graves, the famous poisoner, who was supposed to have committed suicide In Jail here, ls not dead. It is maintained that a pine log occupied the coffin instead of his body, as was supposed. , The story is that Charles N. Chandler, a wealthy citizen of Thompson Center, Conn., arrived here Tuesday In company with Stephen Morse of the same town, which ls Dr. Graves's old home, and where the body ls supposed to have been burled. These gentlemen told the hotel proprietor where they stopped that Dr. Graves was not dead; that the casket was opened at the gf-ave In Thompson Center against the protests of the widow and found to contain a pine log Instead of a dead body, and that the supposed dead doctor is now enjoying his liberty in a foreign country. A rumor has been current here for some time past that the body carried from the cell In that county Jail on that Sunday morning was wax, and not the flesh of the alleged famous poisoner, and that this trick had been played In order to give the prisoner his liberty and deceive the public; that the parties to the a epti n ver- some high olllclals and a secret organization. This rumor was strengthened by the fa?t that no one was allowed to view the remains except the most intimate friends of the Graves family; and also that Mrs. Graves refused to allow the body to be embalmed before shlppisg it to Massachusetts, but today is the first time the reiort has appeared in print. DIED OY THE OPER ATI XU TAnLE. The Patient Drevr a Sponge Down Ilia Throat nnd Choked. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 19.-ratrlck Kanaley of Jordan died on the operating table at St. Joseph's hospital here yesterday, not from the surgeon's knife, but by being choked to death by a sponge which was being used by an assistant to keep the mucous from Kanaley' throat The man died in great agony. His friends Immediately applied to Coroner C. S. Roberts for an investigation. Kanaley came to Syracuse to be operated upon for a perforating ulcer of the left heel. It was decided by Dr. Tolman and the hospital physicians to take the foot off at the ankle. The patient had been put under the influence of anaesthetics and Dr. Tolman was. performing the operation- An attendant had been Instructed to swab out the man's throat that had bten filled with mucous. In some way the sponge got loose and Kanaley drew it into his throat with the next respiration. An attempt was made to extract the sponge. Instead of the desired result It went still further down. It was decided that tracheotomy was the only means to save the man's life. It was of no use. He had choked to death before the sponge was taken out. The case has aroused much interest among the medical profession. SIRS. LEASE AD MRS. JO.ES. Inharmonious Condition of Affairs in Kim n. TOPEKA, Oct 19. The publication of recent correspondence between Mrs. Laura M. Jones and Mrs. Mary E. Lease has caused a commotion among the women of the state. Many reasons are given for the rupture, but the original provocation seems to have been Mrs. Lease's work In forcing the suffrage issue prematurely. It was the original Intention of Mrs. Jones and her associates of the Kansas equal suffrage association to wait until the men could agree upon a constitutional convention in which the women hoped to have representation and there make their fight, but Mrs. Lease caused the suffrage plank to be incorporated in the populist platform. The advocates for the original scheme have continued to complain of Mrs. Lease's action until now it is said the quarrel has grown until it is nothing more nor less than a division In the ranks of the suffragists on political grounds, the populists taking Mrs. Lease's side and the republicans Mr. Jones's. The populist women say that back of it all and the real inspiration of the quarrel is jealousy of Mrs. Lease's growing influence, not only in Kansas but in the country at large. FOUR YOUSG nOBDERS. They Tortured an Old X.ady nnd Secure $315. PITTSBURG, Oct 19. Early yesterday morning four armed masked men entered the house of Mrs. Rachel Logan, aged seventy years, who lived alone in Moon township, and after torturing the old lady by pouring coal oil over her clothing and threatening to set fire to it, compelled her to give them J513 which she bad secreted. Suspicion rested on four young men of this city and this afternoon they were arrested. On one was found a one-hundred-dollar bill, which Mrs. Logan had marked. The names of the young men, who are all prominent in Pittsburg, are F. C Laughlin, a telegraph operator; John Shields, private secretary to a wealthy man of this city; Frank Evans, a mind reader, and John Shoemaker, a clerk. The money was found on Laughlin, who broke down and confessed. They were all locked up. The old lady ls in a precarious condition. THE DALTOX GAXG. Two Members Seen Doubtless Plotting: a Raid. TUSLA, I. T., Oct 19. Dynamite Dick and Tusla. Jack, both members of the Dalton gang, were seen on the streets yesterday evening. They were heavily armed. Merchants here are on the lookout for another robbery. Both of these men were with Bill Dalton recently when Deputy Marshal Shadley and posse were killed and both were badly wounded. Another hold-up occurred on the Stillwater road west of Red Fork yesterday. The robbers, Dalton and Doolin became rommnnicatlve with the-ir victim Thcv said : ! "This country is getting too full of ! farmers and we are going to get a little money together and hunt a more favorable locality for our business. ' Deputy marshals are after them and a battle is expected. A nad Fire. CINCINNATI, Oct 18. A special from Seline Citj-, Ind., says: At 2 a, m. Newell Baumunk's residence took fire, and the family barely escaped with their llv?s. The store adjoining also burned. During the fire several cans of powder in the 6tore exploded. A man named Bidwell was fatally hurt and a number were injured by flying debris. Loss, 7,000; Insured,

THE BATTLE OF TRENTON,

l.VEILIG OP THE MOXniEXT TO COMMEMORATE THE EYE XT. The Eere!ea Ilrlnff Together ihm Governors of Eight of the Thirteen Original States The Statne if Wuablnicton Crown the Monument. TRENTON. N. J.. Oct 19. vVlth booming of cannon, Hare of trumpets and crash of drums, amid the applause from thousands of the patriotic, speeches from governors of eight of the thirteen states. In the streets lined with ieople and dressed In gala way, Trenton celebrated the unveiling of her little monument. The day Itself was perfect, cloudy overhead and cool, and with no rain. All night and until a late hour this morning the trains poured In with the spectators who came to add still greater Solidity to the crowds In the thoroughfares until every room and comer of space was more than full. Governor Werts of New Jersey received the Isltlng governors and staffs In his room In the capital. Refreshments were provided for them and pleasant chat was had until it wps time to move. Then each chief magistrate entered his carriage and followed by his staff and escorted in. many cases by troops from his own state, drove to the monument. Here all was In readiness, the reliefs and statues veiled and the grand stand packed with people. The program was opened by Gen. Strieker, president of the monument association, who. after preyer by Bishop Starkey of Newark, spoke on "The Battlefield of Trenton." Richard Watson Gilder, having read a poem written for the occasion. Governor Werts advanced to the front and unveiled the statue of Washington on. tha top of the monument At once a national salute began and then Governor Werts spoke. There was much that was picturesqua about the march because the Fenciblcs, the Connecticut guards and the zouaves were in blue of color. The last named dragged with them a brass cannon, captured from the British at Stoney Point and presented to the New Jersey troops by Gen. Washington. This evening tha monument was illuminated. Thirteen electrio lights have l-en placed around the base of Washington's statue, and the effect, when they are lit, ls very beautiful. The Statne. The bronze statue ct Washington at the top of the shaft was presented by the state of New York, through legislative appropriation, In view of the fact that the New York troops participated in the battle of Trenton, which engagement probably decidede the fate of the country. Thus it is that New York's two most distinguished citizens. President Cleveland and Governor Flower, were Invited to be present at the dedication, and in addition, the West Point cadets were asked to attend, and that fifteen governors and their staffs were asked to be present with the cabinet oSloers at today's ceremonies. The shaft In itself, commemorates the battle of Trenton, which occurred after the trying events about New York. Washington ls represented as he appeared on the morning of I-c. 2'. previous to the famous battle. On that day Washington came down the Pennington road, to the spot where the monument now stands, and ordered Capt. Alexander Hamilton, the nlneteen-yrar-ol.l artilleryman of New York, later the dintlnguished statesman, to fire upon the enemy advancing upon Warren-pt. Washington then gave the order for two brigades of American troops to hurry up t'ne Brunswick road and prevent the enemy from escaping to Princeton. Then came the battle and Victory. The statue of Washington, surmounting the shaft, is the work of William Rudolph O'Donovan of New York who has made a study of the face and figure of Washington for nearly twenty years. The uniform represented in the 6tatuo ls an exact copy of the one worn by Washington during the revoluti.yiary days. Mr. O'Donovan had the suit now in the Smithsonian institution at Washington carefully measured and reproduced, and had the model of a man six feet three inches high. Every portion of the uniform and model was doubled, and this, with the bronze pedestal, makes the statue Just thirteen feet high. A CIVIL SERVICE CASE. Trial of Men for Soliciting: Campaign Contributions. LOUISVILLE, Oct IS. District Attorney Jolly contemplates making tha legal fight of hl3 life In the Scott-Ulley Shaw civil service cases which will ba called in the federal district court FrU day morning. He has a shrewd plan by which he hopes to secure the conviction of all three of the defendants. The plan in effect is this: The government will first try the case against Walter Shaw, who was a deputy under Albert Scott during his term as collector. All the evidence possible will ba adduced against Shaw and. as it ls thought by the district attorney that the defendant will be convicted mainly on the testimony of ex-Deputy Collector Tucker, from whom, the indictments allege, Shaw solicited money for cam-1 palgn purposes. With the case dispose! ', of, Shaw will be compelled to testify against Scott and Riley, and will not . be able to raise the plea that by testl-"' fying he might criminate himself. Shaw, as a matter of course, is supposed to know more about the actions of Scott and Riley than anybody else, and his testimony will be the most important On Shaw's evidence the government's report is said to believe that he can secure a conviction of both Scott and Riley. THAT MISSÜVO MONEY. neport That an Exprc Company Is Out 230,000 Mr. FlagR Talks. ST. LOUIS, Oct. IS. The reticence of the express company regarding the disappear-, ance of $50,000 as detailed last night grew more impenetrable today, but from an. other source, which has at least more than a shadow of credibility. It was the statement that the ainout was Jki.On) instead cf ,0.000. It was said at the ofli' e cf the American express company t.vlay by Francis Flagg, assistant to 1're.siient Fargo, that the New York office had no official information that a shipment of mrney which, had heen sent from here to New Orleans had been discovered to to ls.cn-d it amount while in transit as has been reported. -It is true," said Mr. Flacar. "that JOO.'Vi) was Pent by a New York Wiik to New Orleans, and that when th? safe containing It was opened at St. Lnt;!s thre was sn apparent shortaee of Ji2. ). Mistakes wl. I be made sometimes, even by hanks and express companies, anl until we hear from our western manager that the niory lias actually been lost and how much of It is missing we can say nothing more than that t.'XA) is Involved la an apparent thortage,"

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