The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-25
THEINDICATIONSARE
That Before the Close of To.
days Session of Congress
THE SILVER BILL WILL BE IN A
Fair Way to be Speedily Disposed of-Narrow
Escape of the Bill from Being Pigeon
H0led in Committee.

WASHINGTON, June "a Especial uele-
gram to THE HERALD. The indications
are that before the close of to-1norrow's
session the silver bill will be in fair way
to be speedily disposed of. AT meeting
of the House coinage committee to-day it
was agreed, after brief session, to re-
commend that the House non-concur with
the Senate amendments to the original
House bill. All the members were present
except Mr.. Walker, of Massachusetts, and
Mr.. Mueller, of Pennsylvania: both oppo-
nents of free coinage. Nj. Taylor, of Hi
nois, made the motion that the committee
recommend non concurrence.
Mir. Bland, Of Missouri, moved to amend
this so that the committee should recon-
mend concurrence with the Senate free
coinage amendment. Upon putting the
question the vote was to 6, the affirmative
vote ..being cast by Messrs. Carter, of
Montana, and Bartine of Nevada, the free
coinage Republicans; and Bland, of Mis-
souri,, and Williams, Of Illinois, the freq
coinage Democrats. General Tracy, of
New York, Democrat, did not vote. The
question then came up on the original mo-
ton of Mr.. Taylor to non-concur and this
would have been defeated if the vote had
remained as first announced. The negative
vote was made up of the four
silver men and General Tracy
and Mr.. Knapp, of New York.
The latter two members voted against the
motion, with the idea of tying the hands OF
the committee SO that they could make nc
report and the whole subject would be
pigeon-holed.
Mr.. Bartine, of Nevada, saw the position
of helplessness in wa ich the silver men
would be left and changed his vote TO favor
Mr.. Taylor's motion and getthe bill before
the House in some form. If Messrs. Walker
and Mutchler had been present they
could have defeated the bill by voting as
General Tracy and Mr.. Knapp did. In
their absence, and with Mr. Bartine's
change, the motion to non concur prevailed
6 to 5.
The committee. on rules promptly re-
ported a rule for the consideration of the
bill and for vote tomorrow at o'clock
1t is expected that the motion of the com
mittee will prevail, and that the bill will bt
thrown into conference.
The compromise talked of is substan
tally that already outlined in these dis
patches, but there is some talk of fixing Thu
monthly purchases of silver at 1880, 00
worth instead of 100000 ounces. Th,
Senate will probably accept this compro
mise. Some of the Republican Senator
are little worried over their precipitat
action of last week, and urging members o
the House not to vote for concurrence witt
the Senate amendmen is. Mr.. Reed an,
the r publican leaders seem to have com,
to the conclusion that free coinage canno
prevail in The House.
A good deal of criticism was directed b.
the silver men to-day to the fact that tn
compromise bill which is talked of will pre-
vide for the issue of certificates only to tn
amount of the market value of the bullion
instead of the total amount of its coinag
value.
The expectation to nights that the fire
coinage amendment will be defeated b
/ about dozen votes if a full representatio
of both sides be present when the votin
begins. Speaker Reed thinks the defet
ton from the Republicans in favor of fire
: coinage will be about balanced by the de
i lection of the eastern conservative demo
Gratis from their party. If the speaker
estimate be correct one, free coinage wi
: be defeated by about the normal Republ
can majority.