The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-06
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 1877.
PASSAGE or THE SILVER BILL--A GENUINE
sURPRIsE-EFFECT OF TIE MEASURE AS
LAw-rHE PROSPECTS IN THE SENATE
ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE.
The silver made genuine surprise to-day. II
<as generally believed that they could force bill
upon the House, md very few suspected tho
vhelmlng vote It would ret OF 1913 to "a. There
nearly a hundred absentees, most of them paired.
Among those absent were General Butler, Gen.
eral Garfield, almost all the New York dclega-
ton and . great many Eastern generally
The silver were, OF course greatly eiatcd-un-
reasonably SO, indeed, for it is considered very doubt
fui by the best informed men that bill pass tho
Senate and at any rate, both in the Finance Commit
tee and in the Senate, which is celebrating body,
there viii be enough delay to give the hundreds Of
thousands Of deposltors in savings banks all over
the country time to think whether they
arc ready to agree to swinde which
will rob them Of at least eight per cent OF their
deposits. II this silver bill law to-day tho
savings banks depositors in New York alone would
suffer OF twenty millions OF dollars by it,
and there savings banks in most OF the States
II remains to be II the depostors these nsti
buttons ready welcome huge loss which would
leave every one Of them poorer.
The strength OF the silver sentiment, II ia evident
to-day, lies in resentment at tho Decentralization act
Of 1873. Probably halt the who voted for the
Bland bill to-day would readily have voted for
\ moderate measure. What they aimed nj was
please their constituents by u vote condemnng the
characterization law. or this prejudice the
wholesale silver men adroitiy took advantage in
tho House, where the rules allow OF chok-
ing Of debate and amendments. and
ming illadviscd and extreme
down its throat Even midst of tho silver cx-
sitement to-day there Is good reason TO believe that
Iuch bill this could have passed after
And II the senate should send it back amended into
ZONE reasonable shape It is unsafe predict that
nost OF the now infurated silver men would gladly
accept the amendments
To-day many OF the steadiest and best informed
IN the House with the current
Such Charles Foster General
J. D. Cox, OF Ohio, Hunton, or Virginia. Knott Lynds,
Mills and Reagan, OF Texas Morrison and waddeli
were along. OF the men who voted against tho
bill twenty-iour republicans and ten democrats
Lwo from Michigan, Two IRON Louisiana one from
Missouri one from Texas (Mr. schleicher) and ono
from Georgia (Mr. Sscphons). The remainder were
from States east OF the Alleghanes.
The Secretary of the Treasury was somewhat sur
prised at the eote by which the bill was
passed. but he is not seriously alarmed.
believing that both the Bland bill and Ewing bill
VIII fail IN tho SENATE Experts hero say that prac-
ticsiy silver could not be coined at the Mint rapidly
enough 10 Crafty the unlimited silver men, and that
merely to substitute silver dollars for the small bills
would require very much longer time than the silver
fanatics imagine.
The President remarked the other day that this
struggle abous silver and against pton, with the
woiul threats of ruin which by the inaa-
utrlaA
fingers to a window SILL and cried with all has
lungs Tor help, and when taken down found that he
had all tho while been hanging with his ieot
about two inches and a halt from the ground
Gao OF the aDttsilver man in the House
said to-day that these silver fanatics like the old
'forty acre and a muie demagogues N the south,
who got The votes oil the negroes on promise that
every coiored family should have forty acres and q
mule BY and by, when nobody got hts share the
biacks began 10 turn against thcm the Western
people Will abandon these demagogues by ana by,
said he
Mr.. ETISGs ANTI-REsUMPIIoS I'LL
Mr.. Ewing finally surrendered at discretion today
He found that he could get his '.nino hole
and ut last gave his bill up debate and amendment
The discussion begins tomorrow is TO last i've fun
days. and there Is prospect that OF tho abest
men in the House Will be heard tho question.
The of the SILVER men would prob
ably somewhat strengthen the vue for tho
Ewing bill II 1t could BIO taken ut
once, SO little DO members comprehend that tho two
measures essentially aniagonistc But tho debate
will enlignien good many men, and IT 10 a question
whether the bill can pass tho House. II is unfair
TO say that probably half OF those who favor Mr.
Ewng's biil do so IN honest ignorance OF It's
and effect raey have been persuaded that 1t will
bring back good times; how they do not know and
cannot tell aud they likely hear some impress
sive truths IN the OF dcbnnr A great deal
OF the present imitation zeul cn6ct at homc Tor
buncombe
TIE NEW COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH SPAIN.
AZ the State Departments to-day thu letter Of the
HERALD's Madrid s,ondent, detailing an inter-
view with the Spanish Munster TOR Foreign Affairs was
read with great interest,": but 1t appears that Senior
hantiIla, the Spanish Minister here, has not so far
rven any notice OF ID desire Intention OF his gov
srnmcnt TO propose more liberal commercial treaty
II no has nstructiors that effect ms would seem TO
Dc asserted at MadJ ia he has disclosed I'll en-.
MR. cox AsD TIE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Mr.. Cox of Now York. intends to oppose any an
preparation for tho Paris Exhibition, and VIII speak
against II ia tise House.