Show A SILVER DEBATES II I I Barter of Ohio Persists in Fighting Fight-ing Free Coinage I IT WILL RUIN THE DEMOCRACY DE10CRACY And Drive Away Toles The Democrats Are for the Freest Possible Trade Consistent With Revenue Needs WASHINGTON Feb WThe silver ques tion wi not down Its discussion was resumed re-sumed in the House again today upon the presentation by Bland of a letter in response re-sponse to one of Hartcrs circulars to the Grand Army of the Republic The sceue was one of confusion and excitement at times but occasionally a good home thrust from one side or the other brought forth hearty and continued laughter Harter characterized the free silver bill as infamous in-famous and predicted i it passed the Democratic party would march to certain defeat in November Warming to his subject sub-ject he declared I this free silver bill II shall pass the time will come when a man as a Democrat will not be given a decent i burial in a Democratic cemetery Repeated Re-peated attempts were made by points of order or-der and demands for regular business to take Harter from tho floorbut he persisted in presenting his views to the House and it was compelled to hear The House was called to order today by Kerr clerk who read a communication from the speaker designating McMillln of Tennessee as speaker pro tern for the day A resolution was adopted providing for a reprint of the silver bill and the printing of 10000 additional copies of the majority and minority reports The House then went into committee of the whole The first bill on the calendar which was laid aside gave rise to some discussion during which Reed made some of his char acteristic remarks as to the advisability of counting a quorum from members present ana not voting The chairman votng ana Reed thereupon had a short colloquy which tho chairman substantially alluded to as al lS t ercation ReedI trust the chair will designate it in that way That would be unjust to he chair and me The chairThe chairjwill try to take care o f himself and the gentleman from Maine and will not do him injustice The next bill for the relief of A J Duncan of Tennessee was the axle upon which revolved another silver wheel I was set in motion by Bland who sent to the clerks desk and had read a letter from a Grand Army post in Missouri asking him to inform the gentleman from Ohio HarterJ in response to his antisilver cir ular that the Grand Army posts were all al t o attend to their own business Bland again criticised Harcers attitude on the s liver question Harter said the House had been told one class of legislation fell heavily upon ninetyfive citizens out fel every 100 and took away their property and handed i over to the other five under the operation of the McKinley law But here were other burdens and some gentlemen gentle-men seemed to think it was perfectly right and very Democratic indeed to take the earning and property of not of ninetyfive out of 100 but of 999 citizens out of every 1000 and hand them over to monopolies He Hunter spoke for a class of people who had no vote He spoke for the helpless women and children of the country for the poor creatures who laoored over the wash tub for the support of a helpless family That was the view of Democracy he took I this free silver bill passed the time would come when a man as a Democrat woulo not be given decent burial in a Democratic cemetery McKinney of New Hampshire raised the doint of order tho discussion was en irely out of order not being directed to the bill under consideration by the committee com-mittee The chair sustained the point and stated the bill under bi consideration was one for the relief of Duncan of Tennessee Harter replied his remarks wore directed toward that bill as if Mr Duncan got an appropriation ho wanted to be paid 100 cents on the dollar Laughter and ap plause Harter then proceeded to make a predic ton but as the words I predict came forth he was again interrupted by many Democratic members After many efforts effortss ho again managed to secure the floor and proceeded with his prediction which Was that if the House passed a measure which invited all the degraded silver of the world I to free coinage in this country the Democratic Demo-cratic party would lose the votes of tho men who labored for their living and when the party marched to the polls in November instead of marching to an overwhelming over-whelming victory it would march to cer tain defeat Lind of Minnesota asked if ho understood under-stood the gentleman correctly in donning the principles of the Democratic party to be free trade and a single gold standard Before Harter could reply ho was again interrupted by a number of Democrats protesting against the latitude of debate LindIs it the position of the Democratic Demo-cratic party for free trade and a single gold standard f HarterThe position of the Democrats party is in favor of the double standard and in favor of keeping every dollar worth 100 cents r Applause on the Republican side and demands for the regular order I from the Democrats Lind passed the question as to the atti tude of the Democratic party in regard to free trade and Filbian and Holman in vain attempted to take Harter from the I floor when he demanded to make liis reply The chair appealed to Harter to proced > in order and speak to tho bill under consid eration Harter said ho would do so This man from Tennessee wanted an ap propriation Laughter That appropriation appro-priation was raised by taxing people and the question asked by the gentleman was highly pertinent under tho circumstances Laughter Tho Democratic party was in favor of the freest possible trade for tho humblest soul and protection for the American lag Applause I Harter then inquired of Lind whether ho had made a satisfactory response Lind replied the gentleman had done so so far as domestic trade was concerned but ho desired to know the policy of tho Democratic party in regard to foreign trade Fithian immediately arose with another point of order and called upon the chair to After a scene or confusion Hartor continuing con-tinuing said the position of the Democratic Demo-cratic party on the question of free trade I was this that every American citizen was entitled to the most absolute free trade with every inhabitant of the globe limited i only to the amount of tariff necessary to conduct the government He had now j i answered the question of the gentleman i from Minnesota and would ask him a I question Let hint state whether ha endorsed en-dorsed the McKinley bill LindI voted for it Laughter Harter 1 asked you a manly question in a manly way do you indorse ItS Lind1 do as a whole Laughter The silver debate then terminated and the committee without action on the Duncan bill rose and the House adjourned till Tuesday |