"With that Mr. Walker eaim' back, but
did not lake a chair, j continued: ‘Now,
1 want to tell you. gentlemen, that the Mc-
Kinley bill will be over in the senate in a
very short time. If you reject our ultima
tum on the silver proposition the silver
men in the somite will move the free coin
age bill as an amendment to the McKin
ley bill, and there are enough democrats
who will vote with, its to carry it. Now,
after that amendment is adopted in. the
somite, all the democrats will vote against
the McKinley bill because it is a protective
measure, and the eastern protectionists in
the senate will vote against it because it
contains free silver. The free silver re
publicans in the senate will be the only
men who will vote for it, and. being pr<»
tectionists, they will be the only consist
ent men in the'somite, being for protection
and for the free coinage of silver.’
"When I got through they were all lis
tening Io me, and before the conference
broke up the silver purchase law known
as the Sherman act was agreed to.”
Senator Jones is known as one of the best
store tellers in the senate, but this is one
of the most interesting that he has told
his senatorial friends for sc.me time.
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