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Show FIGHT FOR SILVER. BLAND SAYS THE FRIENDS OF THE WHITE METAL MEAN BUSINESS. And They lo Nut Propose tu Stand Any Monkeying or J lllil.usterlng Will Block aii Legislation, if Necessary. WaBIXGton, Feb. 3d. There is a feeling of uneasiness ,.n vhi .,irt of the democratic members of the house over the condition of business in the house, aud there is a dispn. sitlon to get together and agree upou a pro. gramme of bu-:u. At pro.- nt the matter is simply drilling along ;md it is desired to bring order nut of the , infusion which pre-vails pre-vails on tin silver .picstiou. The most discouraging clement, the tariff bills and llo; regular annual appropriation bilk, Will sunn demand a great di al of at tention and it is agreed there must shortly Come a time when a programme of business for some nioiiihs to eoine must bo settled upou if an thing is to he accomplished. The absence of ati '.lings has delayed the meeting of tin- iu..'s committee, for some days past, and tin- lie sllh of the speaker has Dialty) it iiccessun that he should seek respite from public aiia- -, while the house is temporarily tem-porarily in recess on account of the visit of a number of the members to Chicago. It is proftiblo the whole democrat ie policy will beiqwbsidcrcil in caucus, and a programme of action outlined as far as possible. Tlie silver nu n nil sa, (hey have no intention inten-tion to antagonize the tariff and oilier measures, meas-ures, aud they are as good tariff reformers aa any other members of the house. They say, however, that they will not consent thai the;' tariif and 'other measures t.artv marched to the polls iu November, instead in-stead of marching to an overwhelming victim vic-tim it would march to certain defeat. Mr. Lint) of Minnesota, asked if he under, stood the gentleman correctly in defining the principles of the democratic party to bo free trade aud a single gold standard Before Be-fore Mr. llarter could reply he was again interrupted in-terrupted by a number of democrats protesting pro-testing against the latitude of the debate. Mr. Lind Is the position of the demo, cralic party for free trade and a single gold standard!1 Mr. llarter The position of the democratic demo-cratic party is in favor of a double standard and iu favor of keeping every dollar worth HHI cents. Applaue on the republican side and demands fur the regular order from the democrats. Mr. Lind presented the question as to the , altitude of the democratic party in regard to fro trade, and Messrs. Fithian and llolman IB vain attempted to take Mr. llarter Iroin ! the floor When he demanded to make bis reply. The chair appealed to Mr. llarter to proceed in order and speak to the bill under consideration. Mr. Barter aaid that he would do so. "This man from Tennessee wanted an appropriation. ap-propriation. Laughter. That appropriation appropria-tion was raised by taxing the people, and the question asked by the gentleman was highly pertinent under the circumstances. Laughter. The democratic party was in fuvvr of the freest possible trade for the humblest soul and the protection of the American hog." Applause.) Mr. llurter then inquired of Mr. Lind whether he had made satisfactory responses. Mr, Lind replied that the gentleman hud done so, so far its domestic tritde was concerned, con-cerned, but he desired to know the policy of of the democratic party in regard to foreign trade. Mr. Fithian immediately arose with another phint of order and called upon the chair to enforce the rules. After a scene of confusion, Mr. llarter, continuing, said that the position of the democratic party on the question of free trade was this, that every American eitszen was entitled to the most absolute free trade, witli every Inhabitant of the globe, limited only by the amount of tariff necessary to conduct the government, lie luul now answered an-swered the question of the gentleman from Minnesota, and he would ask him n question. Let him stale whether he indorsed tho Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley bill. Lind 1 voted for it. Laughter. liarter I asked you a manly question in a manly way, do you indorse':' Liud 1 do, as a whole. Laughter. be Used to prevent the consideration of the silver bill, and if, as they don't believe to bethe ease, they should ascertain this is the ioliay ,A-t.ho promoters of the tariff bills, t y ; ins-: in season and out of BCy jng up the silver question. ton" Jland of the coinage committee , vmfed 4ie sentiments of bis associates today when luj said: "Before we take up the tariff bills and appropriation bills, there must ho an agreement on just what we, are going to do. There must he an understanding from the beginning or else silver will be hero as long as the lariff and appropriations, and talked of as much as anything else. "I am in favor of tariif reform and of considering con-sidering the tariff hills; but if their programme pro-gramme is to keep the tariff here always and not to do anvthing on the silver question, ques-tion, then we will consider them altogether. There is no disposition against taking up the tariif provided we can have understanding-it understanding-it is not to be run as a machine to knock out silver. I have heard reports that the tariff is to be kept here, not for the purpose of passing a tariff bill, bu: to kill silver. I want it understood that I dou't thluk there is any such intention. "But if such intention should he disclosed, we will take the opportunity to force silver to the front aud talk silver on tariff and every other bill. I do not believe, as I have said, all these reports and rumors about knocking out silver with tlie tariff and appropriation ap-propriation bills, but if we find out that is the game, we have a way to meet it and the silver bill as an amendment he added to every bill which comes up. "We do pot intend that the minority shall tjff i-Mie raajorby in that way, and we SjJEyfii favor of the silver Mlf. The sip, FTwill not he Kept down by any tactics of (that kind. Silver will be kept forward for-ward com tantly, and by attempting to keep if down tl ey w ould make it the biggest issue of all. Olir aim is not to obstruct the tariff bills, but w-e must know what is to be done about the consideration of the silver issue. "They can padlock man's mouth or stop the bringing up of the question, said liland in conclraion, and I don't think they will attempt ta kill silver with the tariff." EXCITING SHAVER DEBATE. llarter Predicts Defeat if a Free Sliver III It is Passed by tlie Pras-ent Pras-ent Congress. Washwotox, Feb. 20. The silver question ques-tion will not down. lis discussion was resumed re-sumed in the house again yesterday upon the presentation by Mr. Bland of a letter in response re-sponse ttUonc of the llarter circulars to the G. A. R. Vhe scene was one of confusion and exc Acnt at times, but occasionally a good hr Khriist from one side or the other (rough III hearty and continued laughter. laugh-ter. I MifTlartT Jraelerized the free silver bill as injj,aml predicted that, if it passed, tlij 'ratio party would march to certain J n November. Warming to the subjee - -elared: "If this free silver sil-ver bill sh w , th time will come when a man as ; rat, will not be given a decent bu a democratic cemetery." Repeated I s were made by point.- of order and Is for the regular business to take Mi r from the floor, but he persisted . rfl. seining his views to the house, an" compelled to hear. The bill! relief of A. J. Duncan of Tcnnesscejof thn the axle upou which revolved re-volved andarBo t diver wheel. Itwas.setin motion by isstihu and, who sent to the clerk's desk aud hl010' id a letter from a Grand Army port f'""' ssouri, ..sking him to inform in-form the gfa:ti" ueti from Ohio (liarter), in response tofclJ iili-silver circular, that tlie Grand Ami8 C psts were able to attend to tliela 0WB bftekefiss. Mr. Bland again criti-eised criti-eised Mr. J-i 0 J's attitude, on the silver question. Mr. 11 arte; '1 that the house had been told that "uT of legislation fell heavily upon nineti citizens out of every hundred, hun-dred, and I "j away their property and handed it O I 'the. other five, under the operation o 1 McKlnley law. Hut there were other ll,'ns: and some gentlcincn seemed to t I I Ithat it was perfectly right and very de'-l '.! nnlc-d to take tlie earn. in'.rs and prj y. not of ninety-five persons out of a hm . but of 000 eitizeus out of every thoutj urn'"1'1 linml r,T(jr b mo- nopolics. iltnlarten spoke for a class of people wb no vote. He spoke for tho helpless w and children of the country, fertile poi veeo Sd'ires who labored over the washittb ti support of a helpless faru. ily. I .. NirMcKJTQ-if of New Hampsnire raised the Joint P dcr that the discussion was entirely outl rdcr, not being directed to the bill unil'h tl.nsiderution by the comuiit- vertou tee. j T The chai ained the point, and stated that the bij ,er consideration was one for th relief ij.sj M.ican of Tenues6e. Mr. Saw II Hilied that hh remarks were directed tc( the bill, as, if Mr. Duncan got tl-e apu atlon, he wanted to be paid IiK) cettfa.oilcnve dollar. Laughtor and ap piausii.l rw!"'i- Mr. Hart1.""" m proceeded to make a pre. dictioMt' he words. "I predict," came forth 'he fa,)ign nKftin interrupted by many democratic! graninbers. After many efforts he again luKie ke l to secure the floor, and proeedded L -Ii hi prediction, which was that, iif thef SR-e passed the measure which invited all srNl -gr.eteil silver of the world to free cnitJ in this country, the de cratic pirttly (-,u ! lose the votes of the men who laWelsnJi their living, and, when thu. |