Show I 1 I 1 AGAINST REPEAL dolph republican defends the president SENATOR PALMER IS astonished I 1 dubois riles voorhees teller B 0 bs up at the t time and catechises Catechi ses dolph and palmer palmor dubols bill I 1 w washington oct 3 when the fall F of the vice e presidents gavel announced the senate to have met tins this morn morning 1119 there were only a few republicans in in I 1 the chamber and not a democrat dem wag was visible the tile attention of the tile chair was called to the lack of a quorum and after a delay of fifteen minutes a quorum was obtained the vice president laid before the senate a communication from the tile secretary of the treasury giving detailed statements of the exports of silver for the months mont of july and august dubois D u bois introduced a bill enabling the the elates state 8 of california colorado montana tan a and idaho to et lipport aport state schools 1 for mines I 1 morgan offered an to the tile r house bill no 1 the wilson vt ilson repeal bill declaring the tile act of jan 18 to li bo r in force kc the bill to repeal the sherman purchasing clause w was as then laid before the tile fc enate P white of california said he be had examined I 1 carefully the bankers magazine of august kugust 1873 and had found the tile statements made by by sherman yesterday concerning a certain article in that magazine to be correct and his ills quotation from the publication erroneous white lute also read from the congressional record to show that the statement as he bad given it was made as early as 1887 dolph tool took the floor and continued lis speech baegl begun it ye yesterday in in support of the tile crepea repeal I 1 bill i he ile quoted froni from the roe ines sage of president cleveland of 1885 urging the discontinuance of the purchase and the coin coinage ago of silver under the bland allison act dolph characterized this as a stronger argument against the use of silver than ho lie was now able to offer and said he lie read it for the purpose of showing that the democratic Demo crati who advocated the retention of the bherman sherman act were not in in accord with the party leaders ho ile declared the tile success of of the democratic party with such a candidate and such a platform was abundant evidence of the fact that the american people did not desire to continue the coinage of silver under the existing conditions toller interrupted dolph to ask him what chance he thought there was of securing any recognition of silver under the administration of a president who bolds the views views expressed bv by cleveland dolph replied that ho lie did lid not expect there here would be any legislation concerning silver under the present administration while the conditions remain as at present ho ile did not know of a single utterance of cleveland that lie had bad changed his position in opposition to the further purchase and coinage of silver dollars he ile did not expect to secure any legislation without international agreement dolph quoted the statement of the minorities as radical and of the majority as conservative which he lie 1 used I e as illustrations of the naturalness of the tile change of tile democratic party since it had came into power when the democratic socratic party was in the minority it could afford to favor free coinage but now that it had bad a majority it had necessarily become conservative on this subject teller asked dolph if he lie had occasion i ion to suppose that the president had taken any sit steps ps looking to toi secure the co opera tion of othar nations in the interest of silver I 1 dolph replied that ho lie wag was not ac with the plans of the tile ad administration nans i i tra tion but had no reason to suppose that tho the president was not as formerly ft a friend to the project for an international agreement he ile could not doubt cleve lands good faith when he lie states that he lie desires such an arrangement many believe the repeal of the sherman act would hasten the tile agreement with other nations and it was possible that cleveland might entertain this idea the brussels monetary conference was brought into discussion and allison of iowa who was one of the delegates to i the conference said that while nearly nil all the delegates to 10 the cont bren c favored the utilization of gold and silver ve r they were not ready to admit the coinage of silver in in their own count countries i he ile denied that the conference adjourned without action the european countries now expected the conference would reconvene instead of the tile european governments not being interested I 1 in it the tile que question st was not an buroran european government which waa was not watching ling daily every stop and every movement taken in this country power republican of montana then addressed the tile senate in in opposition on to 01 the bill the influx of aggregated capital said power had found no difficulty in engaging the tile sympathy of the president and lie had in turn with his great power commanded the subservience of the legislative branches if the stubbornness stub borness shown by tile e executive tive had bee been n re etric ted eted to himself it would have been powerless for evil but unfortunately the tile presidents dictum carried weight with it and ins ilia commands were obeyed by a considerable ilu number aber of gentlemen who wore were so situated as to bo be potential in the crusade against silver hiie tile au ad locates vo voc cates stes of silver were not hero said lower to cry havoc and let slip all P the dogs of war but to protest against the gle grievous wrong of demonetizing silver power said the tenet tene t of hilyer faith I 1 to which its advocates advocat ef i clung W ws as free coinage at a ratio atio of 16 to 1 I 1 or at least 0 such leg legislation isolation on that basis as would restore silver to its former place with ith cold gold as money of the constitution that was the shibboleth of the friends of silver and on that they put themselves on the country coun t palmer of oi illinois then addressed the senate congress has has been in session eight weeks he lie said and it lias has become a very interesting inquiry whether the senate would at any time dispose of the question now before it palmer said ho he could see no end to the discussion and knew of no method by bl which it cot could I 1 id be terminated I 1 th the e senate ought to act and it ought to vote eaid said mr palmer and then lie proceeded with an argument in favor ot of 1 tile time will come declared pal PAI 1 I 1 4 mer er in closing when the tile country will insist that the senate shall declare in someway some way or another that it will govern itself teller of colorado inquired whether the senate had not iq been able to make all the necessary laws up to the present time palmer thought that perhaps it had but he lie confessed he was astonished to find it impotent dubois of idaho thought that whenever there was a strong sentiment in the country in favor of any measure the senate should respond but tj the lie senator from illinois knew as well as he lie did that the senate did not want to pass an unconditional repeal bill there is no sentiment in favor of it said dubois 1 I honestly believe that there are not ten senators here who are anxiously desirous of passing an unconditional dit ional repeal bill it if there was a strong sentiment here they would pass it there is a manufactured sentiment on the outside but it does not exist here if the tile senator from idaho and those representatives eaid said voorhees earnestly will give us a chance to vote wa we esa w will answer the question whether there 1 n ere are ten or four or five times ten senators senatore who will vote for the unconditional repeal of the sherman act I 1 1 I will say to the ho senator from indiana replied dubois defiantly that you have the power to resort to any end you see fit but the minute you undertake to resort to unusual methods it will bo be demonstrated how futile it is to endeavor to pass an unconditional repeal bill palmer regarded the declaration of dubois as an appeal to the barbarism of the senate Is it true as a matter of constitutional law palmer asked or is it consistent with the nature of this body thattie that the only ultimate means of securing a vote is that wo we shall quietly announce that wo we have engaged in tile great business of sitting each other out seriously continued palmer it is a v very e ry cerious serious thing and I 1 protest not ti that la t the senators shall yield any of their rights that the time will come and very near when the tile sensible men of the country vill will say that the senate must adopt some law by which it can govern itself after a short executive session the tile senate adjourned |