Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1896, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1896—-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. MR. DANIEL'S SPEECH Address of the Temporary Chairman of the Chicago Convention. OUTLINES THE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN Republicans Held Responsible for the Country’s Condition. PLEADING FOR HARMONY Senator Daniel of Virginia said on taking the chair in the Chicago convention yester- day: “Mr. Chairman of the } cratic Convention: Im receiv ands this gavel as the t ing officer of this convention I desire ational _Demo- ing from your porary presid- to express a sentiment which I am sure is unanimous, that no national convention Was ever presided over with more ability or with more fairness than by yourself. (Cheers, and cries of ‘Harrit Harrity.’) I can express no better wish for myself than that I may be able in some feeble way to model my conduct by your model and fo practice by your example. (Cheers.) “The high position, gentlemen, to which persoval honor and a keen For the honor I thank you. sibility I responsibility. The respon- inadequaie to ‘our gra- ¢ aid will make it easy and its burdens light. That aid I confidently invoke from you for the sake of the great cause under whose banner we have fought so many battles, and which now demands of us such stanch devotion and such loyal ser- vice. Graceful Reference to Hill. regret that my name should have been brought in even the most courteous and se- rious complication with that of my distin- a d. the great Senator from New York. (Applause.) But the very fact that I have permitted it to be done refutes the tion that has been Gi on this floor that either I, or se whom I have the honor to represent, aid ver heap indignity upon that brave illustrious head. (Great applause.) Senator Daniel. . no dispassionate judgmen knows, as you ki as I hat there is no pers. in the been to me which has now at the 3 I a them, 1 that it is given in the ap these peopie, er bow to a: f all pow arty was co- sovereignty ul the De the r die u Tar Independe geiten and that sovereignty is crushed out. (Great applause.) I am ha’ gentlemen, to know that a3 the majority in this convention is not per- sonal, r in any sense is it sectional. It blends the palmetto and the pines in rolina. It begins with in Maryland and spreads into in Louisiana and Texas. (Ap- Maine and South ¢ the sunri stretehes in one unbroken the American continent > shores of the Olid Dom! Georgia, and it sheds tts silvery beams over the n Gate of California. (Appl: -) It sends forth its pioneers from Plymouth Rock and waves over the golden wheat fields of Dakota. It has its strongholds in column from the ion and Atlant Alabama and Mississippi, and its outposts in Mi Flo and Oregon. (Ap- Plause.) like a ta (applause) in the old North state, and it writes @ on the saddl gs of the er. rivulets 1 applause.) from the moun It tains of West Virginia and makes a great | lake in Idaho, New Mexic », Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana and Colo- und the national t of Columbia (cheers), and it camps on the frontiers of Oklahoma. It sweeps like a prairie fire over iowa and Kansas, and puts up a red light on the confines of Nebraska. It marshals its massive battalions in Ohio, Indiana, Hinols and Missouri. “Last. but far from least, when I see this grand array, and think of the British gold standard that was recently unfurled over the ruins of republican promises at St. Louts, I think, too, of the battle of New Orleans, of which it was said: ‘There stood John Bull in martial pomp, but there was old Kentucky.’ (Applause.) Uprising of the People. trethren of the east, there ts no south, there is no north, there is no east or west iu this uprising of the people for American emancipation from the conspiracy of Eu- ropean kings, led on by Great Britain, which seeks to destroy one-half of the money of the world, and to make American manufacturers, merchants, farmers and mechanics mere hewers of wood and draw- ers of water. “There is one thing golden which, permit me, in the same good numor which has characterized your conduct, to commend to you here. It is the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Forget not the greed of devils, and that an absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority is the vital principle of the republic. Democrats, as you have been democrats, as I trust you will ever be, ac. aquiesce gracefully in the will of the great majority of your fellow democrats, and only ask to go with them, as they have often gone with you. (Applause.) Do not forget. xentlemen, that for thirty years we have supported the men that you have named for President—Seymour.Greeley, Til- den, Hancock and thrice Grover Cleveland. Do not forget that we have submitted cheer- fully to your compromised platform and to ycur repeated pledges of bimetallism, and have patiently borne repeated diseastors to their fulfillment. To get at the last con- vention of the democratic party in 1892 you proclaimed yourselves to be in favor of the use of beth gold and silver as a standard money of the country, for the coinage of beth gold and silver without discriminating against either metal, and that the only question left open was the ratio between the metals. “Do not forget—and I refer to the fact in no inferior sense—that just four years ago, in a democratic convention in this city, the New York delegation stood here solidly and immovably for a candidate mitted to the free and unlimited coin- of silver and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1. And if we are still for it, let it not be for- gotten that we owe it in some measure to their teachings. (Applause.) That we owe you much, gentlemen of the east, is read- ily acknowledged and will be ever most gratefully remembered. We owe you much, gentlemen of the convention, and for what We owe you of the east !s the force bill and the McKinley bill and the Sherman law, the triple infamy of republican legislation. The first was aimed not more at the south than » Sreat cities of the east, and improvi- | of | chief amcng them the great democratic city of New York, with its magnificent pa- tronage. That bill got its death blow in the Senate, but there was not a single dem- ocrat in New York or New England to vote against it. If you, gentlemen, have helped to save the south, it has aiso helped to save you in the east; but whether the scuth should be saved or not, those great American republican Senators from the west, Teller and Wolcott, and your Jones and your Stanford of California, sank their partisan feeling on the altar of their pa- triotism and came forward to the rescue of American institutions. “No ger.tleman, in this high noon of oir ccuntry’s fraternity, can revive force bills now in this reconciled and reunited repub- i le. Our opponents themselves have aban- | dened them. There-is none that can stand Fetween the inion of hearts and the union of hands that Grant, in his dying vision, saw was coming on angels’ wings to all the sons of our common country. W Chicago dressed southern graves in flow- ers she buried sectionalism under a moun- tain of fragrarce. When southern soldiers yesterday cheered the wounded hero of the north, in Richmond, the south answered | back: ‘Let us have peace; peace, union and liberty, new and forever.’ Republican Legislation. “As the majority of the democrats is not sectional, neither does it stand for any privileged or class legislation. The active business men of this country, its manufac-] ttrers, merchants, farmers, sons of toll in ceunting room, factory, field and mine, know that contraction: of the currency sweeps away with the silent and resistless force of gravitation the annual profits of their enterprises and investments. They know,too,that the gold standard means con- traction and the organization of disaster. | What hepe fs there for the country, and what hope for the democracy, unless the views of the majority here shall be adopt- ed? Do not the people know that it was | not silver legislation, but legislation dle- tated by the advocates of the gold stan- Card that has caused and now continues the financial depression? Do they not ‘know tha’ when their demands upon de- | mocracy were complied with In 1898 and the | Sherman law repealed without a substitute, | that the very states of the east that de- manded it turned against the democracy who granted ft and swept away their ma- jerities in a torrent of ballots? “Had the silver men had their way then, instead of the gold monometallists, what storms of abuse would here today be emptied upon their heads; but the people, applying the power of memory and analy- sis alike to discover the causes of their ar- {Tested prosperity, need not go far to find them. They do not forget when democ- racy came to power in ISM it inherited from its republican predecessor the tax em and the currency system of which McKinley law and the Sherman law It came the were the culminating atrocities. to power amidst a panic, which fitly fol- lowed upon their enactment, with strikes, leckouts, riots and civic commotions, while the scenes of peaceful industry in Pennsyl- vania had become military camps. Besides manifold oppressive features, the McKin- ley law had thrown away fifty millions of revenue derived from sugar under the plea of a free breakfast table, and had substi- tuted bounties to sugar planters, thus de- creasing revenue and increasing expendi- ture, thus burning the candle at both ends and making the people pay at least for all the alleged free breakfast. McKinley and Sherman Laws. ‘rom the joint operation of the McKin- ley law and Sherman law, an adverse bal- ance of trade was forced against us in 18%, a surplus of one hundred millions of dollars in the treasury w: erted into a deficit of seventy million . and en- graved bonds, prepared by a republican Secretary to borrow money to support the government, were the ill omens of the pre- organized ruin that awaited the incoming tiemocratic Seeretary of the Treasur: More significant still, the very authors of the ill-starred Sherman law makeshift were already at confessional upon the stool of penitence, and were begging democrats to heip them to put out the cenfiagration of disaster that they themselves had kin- dled. So far as revenue to support the ament is concerned, the democratic but a slender majority in_th< ate, Was not long providing it, andthad i the Supreme Court of the Cnited States reversed its settled docirine of 10 years, the income tax, incorporated in the tariff bill, would long since have abundantly sup- plied it. the republicans, nee, pepull éemocrats, while differing | upon 1 other subjects, had united in aring for the restoration of our system of bimetallism, Ey E and demceeratic efforts alike, the Sherman law was swept from the statute eagerness to rid the country of i meubus being so great that prudent effort was m: to provide a ystitute. In the very act of the Sherman [lew repealed it was declared to be the pelicy of the United States of America to centinue the use of both gold and silver as standard money ana to coin them into dollars of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value. he nounced our nati republican party has now _re- the creed of its platform and of nal pledges and presented to the the issue of higher taxes, move | money. proclaimed | . throwing away disguises, the Brit- ish gold standard. We can only expect, should they succeed, my countrymen, a imen of panic and a long protracted ricd of depression. Do not ask us, then, o join them in any of their propositions. Least of all, ask us not to join them upon the money question and fight a sham battle ever settled tariff, for the money question is the paramount Issue before the Amerl- ean people, and it involves true American- mere than any economic issue that | ever was presented to a President at the | presidential election. H he existing gold standard! Whence comes the idea that we are upon It? Not in the democratic platform of 1892 and the | promise to held to both gold and silver; not from the last enactment of Congress on the subject, which, in repealing the | Sherman law, pledged the whole country to [the continuance of the double standard: | not from any statute whatsoever now in feree in the United States. No: we are not_ upon any gold standard, but we have | 4 disordered and miscellaneous currency of nine varieties, three of metal and six of paper, the product, for the most part, of republican legislaticn, rendered worse’ by treasury practices begun by republican secretaries and unfortunately copied by their democratic successors. (Applause.) No Authority for Gold Bonds, “Then consider these facts, gentlemen: The federal, state, and municipal taxes in this country are assessed and paid by the standard of the whole mass of money in circulation. No authority has ever been cenferred by Congress for the issue of any bonds payable in gold, but distinctly re- fused. The specie resumption of 1875 gave the surplus revenue in the treasury—not go'd, orily—the money of redemption. Pro- vision n.ade by the Bland-Allison act of ist§ added to our circulation some $350,- 00,000 of standard silver money, or paper based upon It, and all that mass of silver mcney Is sustained at parity with gold by nothing whatever on earth but the sliver in it and the legal tender functions impart- ed to It by law. (Applause.) We have no outstanding obligations in the United States except the small sum of forty-four millions of gold certificates which is specifically payable in gold, and they, of course, shouid be so paid. All of eur specie obligations are payable in coin, which means silver or gold at the govern- t option, or in silver specifically and There is more siiver and paper, based upon silver, in circulation today than there is of gold or paper based on gold, and that the gold dollar is not the unit of value fs demonstrated by the fact that no gold dollar pieces can now, under our laws, be minted. “If we should go upon the gold standard we must change the existing bimetallic standard payment of all public debts, taxes and appropriations, saving alone those spe- cifically payable in gold. As we have twen- ty billions of public and private debt, it would take more than three times all the gold in this ccuntry to pay even cne year’s interest upon it. We should be compelled hereafter to contract the currency by pay- ing off five hundred millions of green- backs and Sherman notes in gold, which would nearly exhaust the entire American tock in and out of the treasury, and the same policy would require the three hun- dred and forty-four millions of silver cer- Uficates should be paid in gold also, as foreshadowed by the present draft upon the country’s stock of gold. This means an in- crease of the public debt by five hundred miilions of dollars, with the prospect of three buncred and forty-four millions more. The disastrous consequences of such a pol- icy are apvalling to contemplate, and the only alternative suggested to fight for before the people is the free coinage of silver rate the ratio of 16 to 1 (cheers), and the complete restoration of our hereditary and constitutional system of American money. No Makeshift or Straddle. “We pray you, no more makeshifts and straddles. Vex not the country with your prophecies of amooth thinge to come from the British-republican propaganda. (Ap- plause.) The fact that the European na- tlons are going to the gold standard ren- ders it all tne more impracticable that we should do so, for the limited stock of gold in the world would have longer division and a smaller share for each natlon. Pre- vious predictions have been punctually re- futed when prosperity was prophesied to come upon the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. Instead of protecting the treasury reserve, as was prophesied it would do, an unprecedented raid was promptly made upon it, and two hundred and sixty-two millions of borrowed gold have been insufficient to guarantee its se- curity. “Instead of causing foreign capital to ficw to us, it has stimulated the flow of gcld to Europe, and greenback notes and Sherman notes, which are just as much payable in silver as in gold, have been used to dip the gold out of the treasury of the United States, and to store it in strong bexes of the war lords of Europe. Instead of reviving business, this policy has further depressed it. Instead of increasing wages, this policy has further decreased them. In- stead of multiplying opportunities for em- ployment, this policy has multiplied idlers. Instead of increasing fhe prices of our produce, this policy has lowered them, and it is estimated at about 15 per cent in three years. Instead of reviving confidence, the policy has banished confidence. In- stead of bringing relief, it has brought years of misery, and for this reason it has contracted the currency of the United States 44 cents a head for every man, wo- man and child since November 1, 1898, and with this vast aggregate contraction the price of land and of manufactured goods and of all kinds of agricultural and mer- cantile produce has fallen. AML but Taxes and Debtx Have Fallen. , “The public revenues have fallen, wages of labor have fallen, and everything on the face of the earth has fallen but taxes and dgbts, which have grown in burden, while on the other hand, the means of their liqui- dation has been diminished. In the mean- time, gentlemen, commercial failures have progressed with devastating effect north, south, east and west in this nation. The dividends on bank stocks have shrunken. Three-fourths of the railway mileage of the United States is now in the hands of re- ceivers, and the country has received a shock from which it will take many years to recover. “Yet, in this distressed and contracted condition, the new-fledged monometallists ask us to declare for a gold standard and to wait for relief upon some ghostly dream of an international agreement. But the people now do well know that the conspira- cy of European monarchy, led by Great Britain, has for its purpose to serve in the war upon American silver moaey, and stands in the way of such agreement. With their credit they seek to enhance the pur- chasing power of thousands and millions which is owed to them all over the world, and which you owe to them. upon the United States of Ame their food supplies and raw material, wheat, corn, oil, cotton, iron, lead and other like staples. ‘They seek to get it for the least money. Besides this, Great Britain has large gold mines in South Africa and South America, and by closing the silver mines has greatly enhanced their products and their values. Recent British aggression in Venezuela and in the settlements of South Africa was moved by the desire to pousess tore of these gold mines, and, by monope lizing the metal as far as po: sert. British commercial supremacy the world. © nation calle itself free and in- dependent that is not great enough to es- tablish and maintain a tinanctal system of its own. (Great applause.) To pretend that this foremost and richest and most power- ful nation in the world cannot coin its own money without suing for an international cement at the courts of European auto- crats, who have none but p to subserve, have for many years been held te puiserve, have for manb sears ten, held have made use of such an agreement and have foiled it afterward, and we have nev- mary interests er in our history had an interrational agreement upon a mouey system, and none of the founders of this republic ever dreamed that such an agreement was e: sential. We have had three international cenferences in order to obtain it, and to wait louger upon them is to ignore the in- terests of our own 1 tox degrade our na- and to advertise to all man- dour imp and our folly. The conces! that comes from the gold standard mea of all Europe for the restora- 1 dignity, tion of the double st dis the only so- lon of the financ ficulties that w cen find in th k before us. The dec- laration of thi sh premier and the French mini ard the Rus: govern- ment, which have recent on expressed, that if it su all, it will suc- 2 the sinister power of au- + Which has been used against it. n international agreement for the restora- ticn of the metals to an equality would be a bond of mankind which wouid enable us to regulate the value of money and bring the two metals upon a parity. The Act of 171 “Alexan-ler Hamilton, the great Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, under- stood this question. He framed the first financial act of this country, which was passed in 1792, fixing the unity of our cur- rency upon both metals for a double rea- son, first, that to exclude one would reduce it to a mere merchandise, and the other that would involve the _ difference between a scanty and a full curcu- lation. Thomas Jefferson knew this when he indorsed the work of Hamilton, and George Washington knew this when he ap- proved it. Daniel Webster knew this when he declared that silver and gold are the legal standards, and that neither Congress nor any state has any right to establish any other standard or to displace this one. Gen. Grant knew this when he looked to silver as a resource of payment, and found to his astonishment that a republican Con- gress had demonetized it, and that he him- self, as President, had unwittingly signed the bill. The whole United States now know this, and they know also that they who would be free themselves must strike the blow. (Cheers.) “The majority of this convention, I have the honor here to represent it, maintain that this great American nation, with a natural base of fixed empire, the greatest ever established by man, with raore terri- tory and more productive energy than Great Britain, France and Germany com- bined, without dependence upon European nations for anything that they produce, and with European nations dependnt upon much that we produce, is fully capable of restoring this constitutional money system of gold and silver at equality with each other. (Applause.) And as our fathers in § declared our national independence of all the world, so today has the great demo- cratic party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, the author of that declaration, appeared here in Chicago to declare the financial in- dependence of the United States of all oth- er nations, and to invoke all true Ameri- cans to assert It by iheir suffrage at the polls, -that our country may be placed where she by right belongs, as the freest, as the foremost, as the most prosperous and happy nation that ever blessed the life of mankind upon this globe.” ELECTION OF DANIEL. Adjournment of the Convention Until This Morning. After The Star's regular report of the national democratic convention at Chicago closed yesterday the vote was taken on the question of substituting the minority report of the national committee for the majority, and Daniel’s name was substi- tuted for Hill for temporary chairman. The chairman—“The tellers agree in their talley and report the vote as follows: Ayes, ; Noes, 349; not voting, 1 (Senator Hill.) The motion offered by the gentleman from Alabama substituting the name of the Hon. J. W. Daniel of Virginia for that of Sena- tor David B. Hill for the temporary chair- manship of this convention is adopted.” This signal victory of the silver men was greeted with an ovation from the conven- tion and regarded as conclusive of their strength. i The chairman attempted to restore order by hammering with his gavel upon his desk. Sergeant-at-Arms John I. Martin of St. Louis came to his rescue, and, in a voice of command, directed every delegate to take his seat. He also ordered his as- sistants to clear the aisle. When order had been restored, the chair- man said: “Unless objection be made the chair will regard the vote which has just been announced as a practical rejection of the report of the national committee, and will not consider it necessary to put it to a formal vote. There being no objection, the chair will appoint as a committee of three to escort the Hon. John W. Daniel io the chair, the Hon. J. F. Jones of Ar- kansas, the Hon. R. P. Keating and the Hon. Stephen M. White of California. Mr. Daniel then spoke at length. His re- marks will be found in another column. During the progressof Mr. Daniel's speech Senators Tillman of South Carolina and Jcnes of Arkansas moved around and con- ferred with the silver leaders of several of the delegations. Gov. Altgeld of Illinois, Gov. Stone of Missoun|, Senator-elect Money of Mississippi, Senator Blackburn of Ken- tucky and others werg consulted. The gold leaders awaited the ngxt move of the silver men with seeming imperturbability. When Mr. Daniel finished and announced that the convention was ready for business there were loud cries for Hill. The New York Senator sat quietly eating a sandwich and showed no disposition to respond. ‘ Senator Jones of Arkansas announced that, on behaif of the silver delegates in the convention, and at the request of many of them, he would move the adoption of a reso- lution, . The resolution extended the thanks of the convention to Chairman Harrity for the impartial manner in which he had pre- sided over the convention. It was adopted unanimously, as was another resolution, offered by Senator White of California, making the rules of the Fifty-third House cf Rerpresentatives govern the delibera- tions of the conventicn, The roll of states was called under the customary practice, and the selections for membership on the various committees were announced. The delegates and spectators began leaving rapidly at this juncture, as it was well understood that the convention would immediately adjourn. General E. B. Finley of the Ohio delegation protested against the selection of committee members by contested delegations, but Chairman Daniel ruled that until the peymanent or- ganization was perfected the temporary roll was respected. At 4:43 p.m., on Senator Jones’ motion, the convention adjourned until this morn- ing at 10 o'clock. PLATFORM COMMITTEE. The Work Intrusted to a Subcom- mittee. The committee on resolutions found it impracticable to organize at its room in the convention hall at Chicago yesterday, as was attempted immediately after the ad- journment of the convention, and adjourn- ed to meet at the headquarters of the Michigan delegation at the Palmer House at 9 o'clock last night. Senator White was elected chairman of the committee. Before he could take the chair a committee from the committee on permanent organization called upon him end notified him of his selection for per- manent chairman of the convention. The Senator accepted the permanent chairman- ship, and, returning to the room of the committee on resolutions, stated that it would be impossible for him if the con- vention should ratify the choice of the ccmmittee on permanent organization to serve as chairman of the committee on resolutions. Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas was then chosen chairman of the committee on resolutions. Mr. A. J. Jones of Iilionis was elected secretary. C. S. Thomas of Colorado moved that the committee appoint a sub- committee, of which Chairman Jon should be chairman, the committee to con- sist of nine, to report a platform to the full committe this morning at { o'clock. Mr. McDermott of New Jersey offered a substitute that the subcommittee should consider everything in the platform save the financial plank, upon which it should be instructed to take no action. This mo- tion was supported by Mr. McDermott in a vigorous gold speech, in which he de- clared that the silver men were carrying the power they possessed in the convention to an extent which would destroy the de- mecracy. He said that..he could not sup- pert a platform for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, aud intimated In rather plain terms that the New Jersey democ- racy would not support a silver candidate and platform. Mr. McDermott talked at great length, and his language roused Senator White of California to deliver a ringing speech de- nouncing the gold men for their opposition to the majority of the party. He said that the speech of McDermott was like all other gold speeches, consisting entirely of the platitudes of selfish and sordid wealth. He said the gentleman from New Jersey talked of repudiating the action of a ma- jority, which proposed to restore the money of the Corstitution, and make silver and gold equal. “Let the Traitorn Secede.” “Let the traitors secede if they want tc,” said Senator White. “The majority of the party is here with a fixed purpose and de- termined to carry it out.’ Harrison of Connecticut followed Sena- tor White in a speech, counseling modera- tion by the silver men, declaring that if the plan of Mr. Thomas and other silver men must be carried out, no single eastern state could be carried for the ticket. The motion for the appointment of a sub- committse to report the platform to the full committee at 9 o'clock this morning was then put and carried. The following gentlemen were appointed as the sub-com- mittee: Senator J. K. Jones of Arkansas, chairman; Senator F. M. Cockrell, Mis- scuri; J. H. George, Mississippi; N. E. Worthington, Ilino's; Senator Ben. T. ‘Till man, South’ Carolina; Mr. Owen, Indian territory, D. B. Hill,” New York;’ Senator W. F. Vilas and Senator George Gray of Delaware. The committee then adjourned. nator Vilas subsequently refused to serve on the sub-committee, and John E. Russell of Massachusetts was appointed in his place, The early adjournment of the full com- mittee was reached only through a resort to strong measures by the silver forces. Ex-Senator John H. Reagan of Texas was responsible for the result, which brought about by moving ‘the prev auestion for the motion to appoint a sub- committee. This motion had the effect cf cutting off all debate, and nothing was left to them but to demand a roll call, which they did. ‘The call resulted 36 to 14 for the motion. The sub-committee was immediately ap- pointed, whereupon the full committee ad- journed until 9 o'clock today, leaving the Sub-committee with the prospect of an all- night session before it. ‘The committee had a mass of matter hefore it, and while the platform was practically agreed upon in its essential details by the silver majori- ty, the gold men on the sub-committee in- dicated a decided determination to fight every step taken, and to, in the end, file a minority report ‘antagonizing the position of the majority, especially on the financial question. Arthur Sewell of Maine made an effort to secure the adoption of the following shipping plank: “We favor a return to the Jeffersonian policy of differential duties for the restoration of our merchant marine in the foreign-carrying trade.” The committee was also importuned by a delegation of ladies from the Natlonal Equal Suffrage Association to insert a plank favorable to equal suffrage for wo- men. A plank was offered by Senator White re- lating to the Pacific railroads, which is likely to be incorporated in the platform. It declares that all debts to the govern: ment, whether owed by rich or poor, should be paid in full. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Action Taken by the Committee on Rulen, At the meeting of the committee on rules of the Chicago;comvention last even- ing Senator Money ‘f\ Mississippi moved that the rules of tHe Mst convention and the Fifty-third Congzess, under which the convention worked yesterday, be continued until further orders. Mr. Scott of New York moved as a substffute that the same rules be made permanent. This would in- clude the two-thirds ard unit rules. The silver men voted downsthe substitute by 25 to 16, and adopted Senator Money’s mo- tion. This left the ‘rules in such position that the committee ‘toufd report a change at any time it was_de med necessary for the purposes of the’ mijority. A subcom- mittee appointed fof th’ purpose reported the order of businesg for the convention as follows: a 1. Call to order, * 2. Prayer. ‘ 8. Reports of standing committees. 4. Reports of special committees. 5. Unfinished business. 6. Call of roll for presidential nomina- tions. 7: Balloting. 8. Call of roll for vice-presidential nomi- nations. 9. Balloting. GOLD MEN UNSEATED. Action Taken by the Credentials Com- mittee. The committee on credentials met for temporary organization yesterday after- noon directly after adjournment of the convention at Chicago, and J. D. Goodwin of Alabama was made temporary chair- man and John Boyle of the District of Columbia tempcrary secretary. There was / press led to a lively debate. 21 much confusion, and, without perfecting a permanent organization, the-committee ad- Journed until 8 o'clock. When they met again there was the ut- most confusion and disorder, the members shouting for recognition regardless of pend- irg motions, and the chairman, after break- ing his umbrella handle in vain endeavors to preserve decorum, finally resorting to a glass that ultimately shared the same fate. A discuzsion as to the admission of the In the con- fusion that followed this and several other heated debates the press representatives were left on the outside. It was 9 o'clock before order could be restored, and the committee could proceed to the election of a permanent organiza- tion. Even then, it took nearly half an hour to elect a chairman and secretary. Three candidates were offered for chair- man, Smith Weed of New York, John H. Atwood of Kansas and John C. Crosby of Massachusetts. Mr. Crosby tried to de- cline, and so did Mr. Weed, but the con- fusion was too great, and the ro!l call pro- ceeded. Mr. Weed got two votes, Mr. Cros- by -seven, and Mr. Atwood twenty-five. Some of the gold states cast their voies tor Atwood. When Mr. Atwood assumed the chair the atmosphere changed. A delegate who tried to interrupt another was told in a forcible and not-to-be-mistaken tone to sit down. He looked at the cnairman’s 250 pounds and meekly obeyed. Mr. C. A. Swanson of Virginia tried to bring up the matier of press admittance again, and made a speech, in which he deplored the attempt at star chamber proceedings. “He would probably have succeeded had the delegates.not been wearied with the long delay. The temporary secretary was replaced by Mr. Benton of Missouri. Mr. Crosby of Massachusetts offered a resolution to take up the contests, Ne- braska first and Michigan secord. Mr. Weed of New York moved to have the roll called, and the contests voted in alphabeti- cal order. ‘This amerdment prevailed, and each contestant was given one-half hour to present the case. Michigan was the first ohe to be taken up. There was a running discussion of the case, in which the Michigan men on both sides denied statements made by those on the other An effort to have the matter referred to a subcommittee failed. Bren- nan of Wisconsin asked the silver men not to let their great majority impel them to an act which had no evidence to sustain It. The vote was 27 to 16 in favor of seating the four contesting silver delegates—Mc- Grath, Fisher, Black and McKnight. The states voting for the silver faction were Alabama, ,Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Ilinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wash- ington, West Virginia, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Indian territory and District ef Columbia. For the gold faction: Con- necticut. Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Daketa, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alaska, and Oklakoma. ‘These states refused to vote, on the ground that the evidence was insufficient: Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Oregon and Virginia. This vote reversed the action of the na- tioal commitiee, which seated the gold delegates. As Michigan was Instructed by the state convention to follow the unit rule, its twenty-eigat votes In convention will be changed from gold to silver by this action, The committee on credentials voted unan- imously to seat the Bryan contestants. As no one was present to present any contest from Nevada, the committee decided to recognize none from that state. see HITE SELECTED. SENATOR W: Chosen to Be Permanent Chairma of the Convention. The committee on permanent organiza- tien met in the Coliseum immediately after the adjournment of the convention at Chi- Gen. E. BR. Finley of Ohio de chairman and J. P. Brown of A recess was then pn and the silver men retired and held @ caucus, at which the permanent organi- zation was fully agreed upon. The com- mittee then adjurned until 8 o'clock, when it reconvened at the Sherman House. In the evening the silver slate went through as follows: Permanent chairman, Stephen M. White of California; sergeant- at-arms, John I. Martin of Missouri; secre- tary, Thomas J. Cogan of Cincinnat!; as- sistant secretary, Louis D. He Chicago; reading clerk, E. nes: ssistant reading clerks, R. Wai- vrida, Charles Nickall of Oregon, Jeff Pollard of Mis of Indiana. The name of Senator Hill of New York ated by the gold men for perm nent chairman, and he received six votes to thirty-three for Senator White. The mainder of the organization as presented by the silver people went through by ac- clamation, the gold men making no nomi- rations. Judge Prentiss of Illinois was the chairman of the silver caucus. R. F. Jor- dan was named as chairman of the com- mittee to notify Senator White. + 2+—____ ASURER SHAW. sour, and Lincoln Dixon re- TRE The Brainy Boston Man Who Has Charge of Endeavor Finances. One of the brightest and brainiest mea who labor In the interests of the Society of Christian Endeavor is the treasurer, Mr. Willlam Shaw. He was born in Massachu- setts thirty-six years ago, and was an ac- tive young business man In the city of Bos- ton when called to take charge of the finances of the united society. He was an earnest worker in his church, and was one of the young men upon whom the pasior was likely to call first for aid in any un- dertaking to advance the cause of Christ and His church. He first came into promi- nence at the Lowell convention, and ever since then he has been an important spoke in tke Christian Endeavor wheel. To the work of the treasurer he has added now that of Lusiness agent of the publishing department, an office which, together with the treasurership, has occupied ail his time. The work of Mr. William Shaw peculiar- ly throws bim in contact with ail the busi- ness interests and secular affairs of the great organization; yet in spite of this he maintains as his most prominent charac- teristic a strong spiritual character. It is largely due to his ceaseless watchfulness and business ability that the united soci- ety, through Its publishing department, is able to cenduct its great business without receiving any contributions or levying a cent of dues upon the Christian Endeavor societies. Mr. Shaw is a familiar figure at all the Christian Endeavor conventions. —__-+0+ Rey. Franklin Hamilton. Rey. Franklin Hamilton was born in Pleasant Valley, Ohio, where his father was pastor of the M. E. Church, in Au- gust, 1865. He graduated from the Bos- ton Latin school in 1883, from Harvard University in 1587, and after three years of study in Germany, from the Boston Theo- logical Seminary in 1892. His first pastor- ate was in Fast Boston. In 154 he be- came pastor of the M. E. Church, Newton- ville, Mass. He is expected to address the meeting at the Congress Street M. P. Church. me eS Bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Youmans. ‘The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. You- mans of New York, who were drowned on Sunday in a lake between Vossvagen and Stalheim, Norway, arrived at Bergen yes- terday. They will be embalmed and con- veyed to New York for interment. —-+e2-— Rev. Paul P. W Rev. Paul P. Watson, one of the speak- ers at the evening meeting at John Wes- ley A. M. E. Zion Church, is pastor of the First African Baptist Church, Beaufort, 8. C. He was born in that state in 1859. In 1885 he was ordained to the Christian ministry and the same year was installed as pastor of the Bethlehem Baptist Church, Barnwell C. H. Mr. Watson is an enthi jasiic Endeavorer and was present at the Minneapolis convention in 1891, and at Mentreal, two years later. Still a young man, he keeps in touch with everything of interest to young people. Res. The Christian Endeavor Star. ‘The week's issues of The Evening Star, from July 8 to 14, inclusive, will form a valuable souvenir of the Christian En- deavor convention. The reports of the pro- ceedings will be readable, complete, and handsomely illustrated. The Star for the week will be sent to any address in the United States or Canada for ten cents. RAILROADS. RAILROADA. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule fn effect June 20, 1996. Leave Washington from station Gomer of New Jersey avenue and C street For Chicago and Northwest, Vestiluied Limited trains, 11:30 a.m., 8:05 p.m. St. Louis tind Indianapolis, Vesti- m.; express, 12:15 night. For Cincinnati, a.m. and 8:40'p.m. ‘or Berkeley Springs, 3:45 p. anday. Special, 12:35 p.u. daily Saturday onl, » Mountain Lal » 3:45 p.m., 12:15 a.tm., all daily, ins stop at Mountain Lake Park or Lexington and Staunton, 11 or Winchester and way stations, Orleans, Memphis, Birming wooga, Knoxville, Bristol and Roaneke, 10: dally | Sleeplug Cars throngi. For Laray, 3:45 p.m. daily. For Baltimore, week duys, X7:05,x 7: 0, No polls, 7:10 and 8: Sundays, §:20 a.m., 4:32 p. For Frederick, *°9:00, {11:30 a.m, §) 14:30, 75:30, ae . For Hagerstown, $11:30 a.m. and 45:30 pan, For Boyd and way points, week days, 9:00 a.m., 4:30, 5:30, 7:05. pan. pdays, 9:00 ‘a.m., 1:15, 705 p.m, For Gaithersburg and way points, week ders, -tt., 12:50, 3:00, 4:30, 4:33, 5:30, 5: in. Sundays,’ 9:00 'a.m.,’ 1:15, 25 p.m, shiugton Junction and way points, *9:00 pm. Express trains stopping at prlu- am., §1: cipal station» only. For Bay Kidz, pan. Sundays, From Bay Itidge, week days, 6:15 a.m., m. “Sundays, 8:00 and 8:15 p.m, cape May, 10) a.m. ROYAL BLUE LINE A. pintsch light, pia, New York, Boston and the East Dining 8200 ¥ All trains iluminated with For Philadel week days, Cary, p.m. Dining Cur), z Car), (12:35, m, 5:00 (2.01 night sengers, 10:00 p.m). Buffet Parlor Cars on all day traf z Atlantic City, p.m, week day's. tExcept Sunday. 10:00 am, 1 35 pnt. Sundays. sSuaday Daily. only, uw, New Sth street, and at D pot. 5 E CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Manager. Gy4) PENNSYLVANIA EBAILROAD. Station comer of Gth aud B streec, In eifert June 25, 1806 7:50 AM. week days, 7:20 A.M. Sundays. BURG EXPRESS. or and Dining Cars, Har- risburg to Vitts! 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.—Pallman Sleeping, Dining, Smok! nd Observation Cars Harrisburg to Chicago cinnaul, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cleveland and Toledo. 'Bufet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. FAST LINE.Pullman Buffet Parior 10:30 A.M. Cor to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car, Marris- burg to Pittsburg. 8:40 CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. =Puliman “Buffet Parlor Car to Marrisburg. Slerping and Dining Cars, Harrisburz to St Louis, innats, Louisville Chicazo. 7:10 P'M. WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pallman Siecp- 0 and Harrisburg to Clevelana. ieago. HWISTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman ing Cars to St. Louis and Sleep- to winpati, PACIFIC EXPRESS. —Pullman Sleep- ing Cae to Pitisburg. 50 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and ‘iugara Falls daily except Sunday. 30 A.M. for Elutira and itenovo, daily, except Sunday. For Lock Haven week days aud Wil- famsport Sundays, 3:40 1 T:lu PM. for Witiiamsport, Roche +t, Buffalo and Niwgara Fails daily, except Saturday, with Sleep- ing Cac Washington to Suspension B: falo. 10:40 P.M. for Erle, Ganandaigua, Rociester, Buf- ingart Falls dally, Sleeping Car Wash- ‘Sleeping aud Di: ing Cor Harrisburg 10:0 TM. falo aml ington to Elmira. FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORR AND THE | EAST. 00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” daily, all Parlor Cars, with Dining Car from Baltimo: Regular at (ining Car), 7:20, 9200, 10.00 ‘ar fromm Wil- (ining Car), and 11:00 (Dining inington) A.M.; 12:45, 3°15, 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 and 11.35 P.M. On Sunday, 7:00 (Dining Car), 7.20, ar from Wilmington)’ A.M. 9:00, 11:00 Win 15, ‘% 12:16, . 4:20, 6:40, 10-09 and 11:35 PM. |For Philadelphia onis, Fast Exprese, 7:59 A.M.” week Gaye. Express, 12:15 week-days, 2:01 and 5:40 - daily. For Boston, without change, 7:00 A.M. week-dars, and 3:15 P.M. daily. Sari Express Wtarlor Cary 3:00 A.M. For Baltimore, 6:25, 7:00, 7:20, 10:20, 11:0 and 11:50 A.M: "12:15, 40 (4 00 Limited), 4:20, °4 ie 1:00, 10:40, 11:15 and 11:35 P.M! 9:05, 10:30, 11:00 Sundays, andi 7:20, 9:00 AM 20, ., daliy, ‘except Sunday. Sundays, and 4.20 PM Atlantic Coast Line. Express for Richmond, peints on Atlantic Coast Line. 4:30 AM. P.M. | daily. Richmond and Atianta, $240 P.M. deily. pond only, J0:57 AM. week days. uuinodation for Quantico, 7:45 A.M. dally, and M. week 4: andria, 4:24 40, 9:45, 10 11-50 A.M; 12 4 5200, 6: 6 1. On Sunday at 5, $202 and 10:10 6:05, 6:43, 7:05, 10:15, 30, 6: Ou Sunday 5:30, 7 2 10:25 AM. 7:00, at 6 INE tty da Delaw Bri days, t Street WI ys culls), 10:00, 11:00 AM. ad 11:35 P.M. dail For Cupe Mas, 10:00, 11:00 A.M., 12:45 days, 11 M. datiy Ticket offices. corner Fifteenth and G streets, and at the station, Sixth and B streets, where orders can be left for the checking of baggage to destina- tion from hotels and residences. M. PREVOST, J.B. Woop, oa Manager. General Pass. Agt. oy idge, 3 2 daily; (Seturd vk days, SOUTHERN RAILWAY, PLEDMONT AlK LINE. edule in effect June 14, 1896. AN trains arrive uod leave at Peansyivanla pas- senger station. ) A.M.—Dally.—Local for Danville. Ceunecta lanassas for Strasburg, daily except Suida: and at Lyn urg With the Norfolk and Wester Gall, and with the Chesupeake a for the Natural Bridge and Clifton Forge. 11:15 A.M.—Daily.-THE UNITED STATES FAST IL, Carries Fallman Buffet Sleepers. New York ashington to Jacksonville, ‘unit Salis: with Pallman Sleeper Asbeville and Hot \. C.; Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn. at Charlotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta also Pullman Siseper New York to New Onl via Montgomery, connecting at AUanta with Pui man Sleeper for Birmingham, Memphis and St. Lows. 4:01 P.M.—Tacal for Front Royal, Riverton and Stresburg, daily, except Sunday. ‘1 PAM.—Daily.—Local for Charlottesville. 10:43 P_M_Daily_ WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. WESTERN VESTIRULED LIMITED, composed of Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers, Dining Cavs and Day Coaches. Pullman Sleepers New York. to. Ashe. ville and Hot Springs, N. C.; New York to Tampa, via Charlotte, Columbla, Savannah and Jackson ville, and New York to Memphis, via Birming- ham; New York to New Orleens, via Atinata aa Montgomery. Vestibuled Day Coa-h Washington to Atlanta. thern Railway Diaing Car Greensboro to Montgomery. AND OHIO DIvis- RAINS ON WASHINGTON ION eave Washington 9:01 a.m. duily, 1:00 p.m. 4:45 p.m. daily, except day, and 6:25 p.m. Sundays only for Round Hill, 4:32"p.m. daily, ex: cept Sunday, fr Leesburg, and 6:25 p.m. dally for Returning, arrive at Washington 8:26 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. daily, and 3:00 p.m. daily © cept Sunday, from Round Hill, cept Sunday, from Herréon. mt Sunday, ‘rom Leesburg. rough trains from the south arrive at Wash- ngton, 0:42, a-m.. 2:20 pin, and 9:40 p.m. daily, Manrssas Division, 10:00 a.m. daily, except Sua: day, and 8:40 a.m. daily from Charlottesville, ‘Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and informa- tion furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania avenue, and at Pennsylvavia railroad passenger 06 a.m. daily, e3 234 a.m. daily, ex- ation, Poth thr ath Sanagee W. A. TURK, Gen. Pass. L. & Brown. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY, TEROUGH THH GRANDEST SCENERY IN AMERICA, ALL TRAINS VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED. ALL MEALS SERVED IN DINiNG CARS S8TA- TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. Schedule in effect May 17, 1890, P.M. DALLY—Cincitnati and St. Louts Spe- efal—Bolld train for Cincincati Pullman sic~pers to Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville, indianapolis and St. Louls without change. Connects at Cov- ington, Va., for Hot Springs. Parlor ca:s Cin- cinuati to Chic a 11:37 P.M. DAILY—F. F. V. Limited—Solid train for Civciunati. Pullman slecpers to Cincinnati, Leaington vend Louisville without change. Pull- man sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs, without change, Tuesdzys, Thursdays and Saturdays.” Daily conuection for the Springs. — Observation car. Sleepers Cincinnat! to Chicago and St. Louis. 10:67 A.M. EXCEPT SUNDAY—Via Bi for Old Voint’and Norfolk. Only rail Line a P.M. D*ILY—For Gordonsville, Charlottes- fille, Stauaton and for Richmond, daily, except nday. Reservations and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio offices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue, 1110 F at. n.w., and a: the station. H.W. 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