Show SHOUP lLVER EFFORT I A Strong Argument Against the Repeal of the Law IT IS TH ONlY BDLWAKK A Pica for Indcpendciicc in Our Monetary Affairs TLo Passage oi a Tree Coinage Bin Ho Ihniks Would at Once Restore Confidence and Enlarge Our Trade WASHINGTON Sept 13In the Senate todayMills of Texas gave notice that he would address the Senate on Tuesday Stewarts resolution for a committee to ascertain wl r any Senators are interested inter-ested in OL ii banks came up and Stewart s Crossed i Senate in advocacy of it A r a few n oments he diverged into a g ueral disc ssion of the silver questicn Allen of NebraoKa spoke on the resolution resolu-tion saying there were hundreds of thousands i not millions of people in the country who believe much of the legislation leg-islation of this Congress was influenced by the personal interests of senators and representatives The Democrats confessed con-fessed he said their platform was a fraud and false pretense and that party thus secured the votes of the people The L Democratic senators he said must abandon aban-don their party and join the ranks of the Populists who were going to triumph in 1S96 1S96At 1 oclock the repeal bill was taken up and Voorhees asKed that one week from today the general debate close with the understanding that amemdments could then be discussed under un-der the five minute rule until un-til Saturday at 2 oclock when the vote should betaken Voorhees said he did this in the utmost good faith and respect for every senator and the Senate itself I there was a majority in the Senate cgamst the repeal bill the fact should be known I it was in favor of amending it that should be known but as lair dealing men lot the senators come t 1 some understanding when a vote might 1 be expected and end their labors Dubois Republican of Idaho while appreciating tho courtesy with which the senator from Indiana was conducting the debate said the matter was too serious for undue haste and the silver senators proposed to have a fair discussion He therefore objected to the request of Voor hees Voorhees said nothing was further from his purpose than to interfere with legislation and wholesome debate He Voorhees was a better friend of silverS silver-S today than any man who resorted t obstructive ob-structive methods to keep this miserable law on the statue book He could ijot allow anybody to say he was in haste t destroy silver as money He expected when the Sherman act was repealed to engage in bringing about a proper system r sys-tem of coinage as he had in the past As I l there was objection t his request to fir a time to take a vote it would be renewed perhaps hereafter Shoup Republican of Idaho then addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill Shoup began his address with a liberal quotation from the presidents message and announced his failure t agree with the president as to the cause leading up to the present financial condition of the z country He made a review of the condition con-dition of affairs a they existed twelvemonths twelve-months ago and showed by facts and figures cited that we were then prosperous prosper-ous He said at that time both parties declared for a doable standard and Cleveland as well aa Harrison had accepted ac-cepted the nomination for presidtnt with the full knowledge of this pledce When he became the standard bearer of his party he became the defender 3 5 de-fender and champion of the principles I r enunciated by the party Whether he jp seeking to violate one of the most solemn and serious declarations contained in the platform his party associates and the country must decide Shoup did not pretend pre-tend t know when Cleveland became convinced it was necessary that the country coun-try should come to a monometallic basis but he did know that Villard and others appeared in Washington and began to lobby for the repeal of te Sherman law immediately after election and ic was a fact that rewards and punishment of the incoming administration were invoked to influence that legislation The speaker did not believe the Sherman law had anything any-thing t do with the financial crisis I S injured no one exempt the residents of the silverproducing states Indeed he considered con-sidered it had been of much benefit bene-fit to the nation at large Referring Refer-ring to the criticisms made by Senator r Cullom that i the silver advocates J were so much dissatisfied with the Sherman Sher-man act they should join in its repeal he said they recognized that its disappearance disap-pearance at this time probably means a permanent retirement of silver as one of the money metals The Sherman law was the only bulwark between bimetallism and monometallism in this country He t did not accept the idea that silver coinage Hr J Trould degrade tho financial standing of this country and made a plea for independence inde-pendence in monetary affairs as in others of our concerns He believed the passage of a free coinage bill would immediately restore confidence and enlarge our trade The repeal would result in removing this country from the head of the column as ana an-a 1 producer of precious metals in the contraction of the currency and in the weakening of the country by destroying one of its great industries He drew aston a-ston picture of the distress that would be occasioned in the silver producing states He asked Must the prayerful appeal of these people for justice pass unnoticed un-noticed He declared he did not believe and could not believe a majority of the Senate would favor the repeal until after silver should be amply protected The Sherman law had been accepted as a compromise com-promise I was all the friends of silver I 55 could obtain when the law was enacttu but a it is the only strand we have connecting con-necting silver with gold he would oppose op-pose with all thb vigor at his command its repeal until n better substitute was given Doloh Republican of Oregon followed lowed Slioup and did not doubt that with free coiiiage at 16 to 1 or 20 to 1 or any other ratio the concurrent circulation of gold and silver could be secured Could t the United States ignore the action of the great commercial countries of the world in regard to silver On motion of Voorhees the Senate went into executive session and shortly thereafter adjourned |