Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-22
HOUSE.

bullion, q higher prlce was pald Dy the
treasurp for to-daY's purchases.
HOUSE.
Consideration was resumed in the
morning hour of the bill to repeal and
amend the laws relating to the transfer
of cases from State TO Federal Courts.
Mr.. Frye suggested to Mr.. Towns
hend, of Illinois, who has charge of The
bill, whether in view OF the impOr-
tance of the measure and the lack OF at
tention gwen it he would not consent
to have it referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee or recommittcd to the Committee
on Revision OF Laws, not TO be brought
back at this session.
Mr.. Townshend declined to accede to
the suggestion, and intimated that there
was no lack of interest or attention on
the part of the House. He insisted up
on his demand for the previous question.
The Republican side of the House
therCupOn refrained from voting so
there should not be a quorum, and
then the call of the House was begun.
A call of the House and the yeas and
nays on other dilatOry motions CON
sumed the morning hour, and the bill
went over, which called forth the re-
mark from Mr.. Townsend that the Re
publicans by their filibustering were
Obstructing the appropriation bills and
other public legislation.
The appropriation bill was received
from the Senate and referred to the
Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Cox introduced bill for an inter
national exhibition of arts, manufac-
lures and products in New York city.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs by special order.
The silver bill was then taken up,
the question being on the 4th section as
amended yesterday, on motion of Mr.
Marsh.
The amendment is as follows: The
charge for converting gold and silver
bullion into coin shall be the differ
ence between the market value in New
York city of bullion and the legal ten
der value of the coin.
The fourth section was agreed to; yeas
ll3, nays 100, a result which was greet
ed with applause on the Republican side.
The following Democrats voted in the
affirmative: Beltzhoover Bliss, Covert,
Denster, Hard, Martin, OF Delaware,
Morrison, Morse, O'Relly, Poehler,
Ross, Springer, Talbot and F. Wood.
Mr.. Jones, OF Texas, Greenbacker, also
voted in the affirmative and Mr.. Kelly
in the negative.
The House then, by yeas 10, nays
l09, tabled the motion to reconsider the
vote by which the fourth section was
agreed to. Just previous to the an
nOuncement Mr.. Springer, who had
voted in the affirmative (having sus-
tanned the Marsh amendment in all
its stages, changed his vote to the
negative, thus placing it within
the power of the Speaker to defeat the
motion to lay on the table by making a
tie vote. The Speaker did not exercise
that Constitutional privilege.
The fourth section therefore remains
irrevocably in the bill. The fifth sec
ton which directs the payment OF small
silver coins TO an extent that they may
be required in exchange for gold coin or
for standard silver dollars or for United
States notes at par in sums not less than
fifty dollars, was agreed to.
Mr.. Warner demanded the previous
question on the sixth section, which
makes gold coins and standard silver
dollars legal tender in all payments.
The previous question was seconded.
Mr.. Weaver moved an amendment TO
the sixth section by adding the clause
directing the Secretary OF the Treasury
to cause to be paid out without discrim-
inatiOn, the standard silver coin belong
ing 10 the Government that may be in
the Treasury the same as gold coin in
liquidation Of all kinds of coin obliga-
tions against the Government. Agreed
to. Yeas l42, nays -.
The following Republicans voted yea:
Mcssrs. Anderson, Belford, Boyd,
Browne, Cannon, Caswell, Daggett,
Deering, Dunnell, Fort, Haskell, Hawk,
Henderson, Houk, Kelly, Martin, of
North Carolina, McCord, Neil, Orth,
Ryan, Updegraff, OF Iowa, Valentine,
Van Aernam and White. Messrs. Bliss,
Covert, Morse and O'Reilly were the
only Democrats voting in the negative.
The Greenbackers all voted in the affir-
native.
The s9ction as amended was then
agreed to.
The seventh section, providing that
silver coins of smaller denominations
than one dollar shall be legal tender for
any amount not exceeding twenty dol
lars in any one payment, was then
agreed to.
The eighth section was read. 1t re-
| quires the Secretary OF the Treasury to
receive deposits of gold or silver coin
and bullion in sums Of not less than
twenty dollars, and to issue certificates
therefor in denominations of not less
than twenty dollars; and it pro-
vides that the certificates representing
the coin in the treasury be issued in
payment OF interest on the public debt,
and that certificates of coin and bullion
! in the treasury shall DO received at par