Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-08

ax to provide that treasury notes issued In pur-
suance of the bill shall be legal tender in pay
ment Of all debts, public and private, striking
out the following words: Except where other
wise expressly stipulated In the contract
Payson said that he realized that the substi-
tute would in substance pass this body, and 1t
would be done in obedience to public senti-
ment, which he believed TO be universal in
and OF further increase of the currency of the
country.
If the Government used silver at all it should
be used as a money metal and not as COM
modify. He was opposed to the substitute be-
cause of that, but he expected to give it his
support in the contingency. He hoped an OPP
portunity would be given to strike out the
bullion redemption feature. The bin was
bound to be considered st the other end of
the Capitol It would be amended there. Nine
hundred and ninety nine of every thousand of
the presence of the House and the country that
nine hundred and ninety-nine eaucuses would
never compel him to misrepresent the people
he represented. Applause.
PaySon then proceeded TO criticise the silver
policy of the Hayes, Arthur, Cleveland and Har-
fison administrations. He referred to the de-
nunciation of the Cleveland administration by
the Republican party, and said he Endorsed that
pronunciation all over Illinois Nothing, he
said, afforded him more pleasure than the de-
nunciation of the Cleveland administration for
its treatment of silver. He then came down to
the Republican administration and said it was
the Treasury Department since the agitation
began. and when he was asked TO vote for the
proposition confiding in the Secretary Of the
Treasury'S discretion in the case of silver as a
money metal. If this were the end of it he would
vote against it. There never had been discretion
conhded to the Secretary of this country, where
it was possible to evade 1t, that it had not been
eyaded. The discretion vested in the Secretary
OF the Treasury had been fairly used for the
past six months, let alone seven or eight years,
no such legislation as this would be under dis
1Ccfn To- ax-
fcials were the friends of gold and gold alone.
Instead of being bill for the coinage of silver,
1t was measure which practically prohibited
the coinage of standard silver dollars. Zap
Payson was followed by Mitchilier of Penn
sylyania and Hatch of Missouri in opposition
to the bill.
Hatch said: "If the gentlemen of the other
side who on the floor declared themselves in
favor of free and unlimited carriage would
throw off the caucus shackels before the sun
goes down to-day, silver win be restored to per
Bartine Of Nevada declared himself fiat
footed free coinage man.
Cannon said he would vote for the substitute
because he believed that at the present time,
and under the present conditions, it was the
best that could be procured. While he did not
apprehend that the bill was perfect his judg-
ment was that, take it all in all, it was a sound
measure. The House could originate and pass
il, and from every standpoint and all things
considered it met his unqualified approval and
Endorsement, standing as he did between the
extreme silver men on one hand and the gold
monop0listS on the other.
Anderson of Kansas favored free coinage.
Perkins of Massachusetts said the bill did
not meet his approval but he would vote for il
because he knew that in another form it would
be amended.
Funston of Kansas and Connell of Nebraska
favored the free coinage measure.
Dingley of Missouri supported the bin.
Brewer of Michigan and Sweeney of Iowa
spoke for the bill
Grosvenor of Ohio characterized it as a
fraudulent preteDse of the Democratic party
coinage of silver. 1t had been the shuttlecock
of the Democratic dishonorable method OF
politics.
Mckinley said the bill would utilize every
dollar of the silver product OF the United States
1t provided also that the instant silver was on a
par with gold. that very instant would be free
and unlimited coinage silver. Congress must
see that the money provided for the people
must be absolutely safe from financial wrecks,
and commercial commissions and be absolutely
safe and secure in the hands of politics. This
bill gave the country money that was good for
the people and would be good for all time. The
Democrats knew they would not get free coin
age when they were in the majority, they knew
they could not get 1t now, and SO to defeat this
bill was to defeat all silver legislation,
The hour of 3 o clock having now arrived the
previous question was ordered.
Amendments to the original bill were
offered by Taylor of Illinois and O'Donneli of
Michigan. and informally adopted.
McComas' amendment to the the substitute
was also adopted.
The substitute as amended was then agreed
and the question required upon, agreement to
Dill as amended by the substitute.
Bland of Missouri moved to recomn it the bill,
with instructions to the committee to report q
free coinage bill not later than Tuesday.
Dingley of Maine made point order against
the latter portion of the instructions, which was
sustained.
Bland then modified the motion so as to omit
the provisions for report at a specified date
40.
The bill was then put upon its passage. The
roll call resulted ayes 1885, noes 1l9, so the bill
was passed.
The Republicans voting with the Democrats
were Bartine, Carter, Townsend, Anderson and
Kelly. Clunie announced that if not paired he
would have taken pleasure in voting no and
his nair xy01,ld n eva yofa6 ava