Show PLATFORM MEANT NOTHING Bimetalism Rldlculsd by Eastern East-ern Republicans Cgnaa 1111I t mew York Irv weed Ike YRart ho Ola s n I InUal 11aetry Calpraee ad laeelsred 1 That 1100 Ileall orthe rlrrtleit WM rvldror That ThU Coalrytlvsa rdded to she 1114 Madard Washington Feb 9 interest In co gren on the International monetary conference con-ference was hon today by the pre ence In the house 01 many memqerito llttento the dlicunlon of the reiolu lloni Several member of the committee com-mittee on banking and currency took part In the debate Repreientatlre HIM Rep Conn bitterly bit-terly denounced the lenite for laying a trip to ensnare the republican party II woo an attempt he laid to brini about d things which the republican party voted down at the election free coinage of liver and a double standard of value deferring to Senator Chandler he laid the proportion waa thrust upon the Incoming In-coming admlnlitratlon by a tenator opposed op-posed to Major McKlnleya nomlnaMon and that the senator had been auitalned de andieconded by the chairman of the national democratic committee The proposition li I born or a mother who fovea It nol he said Mare than nil 011 It opponent In the icnate had been republican while the free alive men who would work to bung It lo naugr voted for It He continued Stilted phrases ot the platform dlc toted bf half mature thought In June ihould be read In the bluing light ot 1 the November victory No respond itltty rented on this congress lot the matter nor ihould i democrtlc pedal dent be called upon to sign the reiolu lion loniThe The wlihea the gold democrats who had been the alllei of the repub leant and had declared for a tingle standard Mr 11111 said ihould be con lulled The planks of the St Louli platform relating to Cuba Immigration and other things had been disregarded Why he eked should congress rush lo fulfill thli tingle plank Thli was not tlime the time thee not Ihe men and these not the propotltloni wllcli which the St Louli platform contemplated The utterance of that platform on the money question had been modified by the tub tequenl Chicago platform and the alliance alli-ance ol republican and gold demo cuts Repreienlatlve Harlman ol Montana and Towne of Mlnncioti bolteri from the St Loult convention asked Hill icveral queitloni HIM laid thlil gov ernmenl ihould not subject Itiell again to chagrin by calling another conference confer-ence which foreign delegate would attend at-tend merely ai a matter ot courtesy accomplishment mUll be by dlplo untie nejotnll with Great Hrltaln My understanding ot the St Ioult platform he continued li that It pledged Ihe party first to the maintenance mainten-ance of the gold itandard and that all ol the other pledge areiubildlary This wit In answer to a question from Mr Ilirtmin n to whether the platform had not meant tie gntd standard stand-ard while endeavotlnit to deceive voters Into the undemanding Iha It 1 meant blmetallim KepreientatUe Urewitcr Rep N V remarked that the bllljwai a trap by the enemy lo put the next preildent In a hole Representative IFalrchlld Rep I N V 4 laid that he understood that the tho senate bllihad been drafted by Senator Wolcott after a conference with Mr McKinley Let Mr McKlnley glue hli opinion In hit Iniuquril menage laid Mr I Urewitcr The committee then adjourned until 1 I Wednenlay |