Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — THE EXTRA SESSION. [ARTICLE]

THE EXTRA SESSION.

In the Senate, Monday, three set speeches were delivered oh the repeal bill. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, submitted an amendment to the repeal bill, renewing the tax on State bank circulation. Mr. Allen,the Populist member from Nebraska, offered a resolution • that Congress take cognizance<of labor organizations. Mr. Voorhees objected that this was no time for such irrelevant measures. He was an ardent friend of labor organizations, but held that the proper business before the Senate was the repeal bill. On a vote the Senate refused to consider Mr. Allen’s resolution—yeas, 8; nays, 41. Mr. Allen then introduced a resolution making inquiries as to whether the Secretary of the Treasury had carried out the specifications of the Sherman l*w properly. Referred. Mr. Kyle introduced a free coinage amendment. Mr. Coke, of Texas, obtained the floor and spoke against repeal. A motion to adjourn by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, was lost on a vote—yeas. 19; nays, 31. Mr. Peffer read a letter from Senator Gorman written to the Alliance expressing sympathy with and approval of their doctrines, and proceeded to comment tin It. but his remarks were cut short by the adjournment of the Senate. In the Senate, Tuesday, the silver men sprung a surprise on the repeal farces, in the declaration of Mr. Stewart that hereafter a quorum must be present when Senators spoke on the diver mcstlon. If

opponents of repeal insist on this :t may interfere materially jvitbthe settlement of the question. Substantially the entire day was consumed by Mr, Stewart, who Opposed repeal of the Sherman law. The Senate voted to consider executive business—yeas. 35; nay, 28,, This vote was considered a set back by the friends of repeal. VoOrhees voted nay; Turple, yea, on the roll call. No proceedings of importance fn the House, Tuesday. The committee on banking and currency met and adjourned for one week. The House ways and means committee held a session; Tuesday, for the purpose of hearing arguments from protected industries In favor of retaining the present dttfy on their,products. The manufacturers of cement, and of silk goods, were heard. In the Senate, Wednesday, Mr. Voorhees pursued parliamentary tactics that worried the silver men. Mr. Stewart having the floor occupied all the time given to the discussion of the repeal bill in a speech against repeal, but was interu£ted by Mr. Teller, who raised the question that no quorum was present. The roil call developed the presence of a quorum, and Mr. Teller tried to explain that he had not raised the question for the purpose of delaying the business of the Senate. Mr. Stewart then proceeded with his speech. The House, as usual, Wednesday, devoted its attention to the discussion of rules. A lively tilt occurred between Mr. Bynum and Mr. Reed. In the Senate, Friday, bad feeling developed. Party lines will be Ignored in future in the silver debate. Senator Faulkner announced his intention to vote for repeal, but declared his intention to bring in an*4mendment to the present bill providing for the coinage of (3,000,(09 of silver per month, until the aggregate circulation of the country shall reach 98C0.00J,COJ. Senator Turpie followed, stating that as little as he thought of the gold reserve he was loth to have it looted by the gold trust “The Issue,” said Mr. Turple, “was not whether the United States should further coin and use silver as money, but the precise question was, whether the purchase of silver ’ for coinage purposes should be continued. It was necessary to undo many another act besides that embraced In the repeal act The laborer in the United States was paid to-unsound, dishonest money, degraded by law. It was coined below standard; It purported to be money, but it was not. It was not even legal tender. “We are about to approach an era of commercial liberty unknown to us for a generation; an era in which commerce with all nations (save for the necessary imports laid upon it for revenue) will be as free as the ocean which bears it; a time when an open market shall greet the export of all onr great staples; when the immeasurable increment of our sales shall assuredly bring us in return gold, silver < bills sterling. We are drawing nigh to another epoch of unexampled grandeur and magnificence. The restoration of the silver dollar, the remonetization of silver would be great reforms, but how shall these compare with the restitution of freedom of the ballot? The dynasty of fraud and force is now entenfife toe valley of death’s shadow. It is soon to be dethroned. The free ballot is worth more than free coinage. The people will, as far as public law may serve, decree liberty in all things, to ail men within the bounds of the republic.” Mr. Jones followed Senator Turple in a speech against repeal. Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Hale became Involved to animated controversy of a personal nature. In the House, Thursday, Mr. Bynum re-introduced his bill of the last session appropriating 11,250,000 for a new public building at Indianapolis.