Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-06
SILVER'S INNINGS.
A Great Day for the White
Metal.
The Question Before Both
Houses of Congress.
The House Proceeds to Consideration
of the Caucus Measure.
In the Senate Sherman Comes Out Boldly
Against Free Coinage-The Silver
Market Stimulated.
Associated Press Dispatches.

day Mckinley, from the committee on
rules, reported resolution providing
that the house shall proceed immedi-
ately to consideration of the silver bill
and that It's consideration continue un.
til Saturday, when the previous ques-
ton shall be ordered. The previous
question having been ordered on the
resolution, forty minutes for debate was
allowed.
Blount, of Georgia, had no objection
to the time limited for debate, but he
was informed that the chairman of the
committee on coinage will be allowed to
offer amendments which were admis-
sible under the rules of the house. When
they were offered there would be left no
opportunity to the minority to offer any
amendment; there would be given no
opportunity on the part of the minority
to ask the house to vote on the free coin
age of silver. At the Republican caucus
last night there had been much discuss
ION, and 1t was necessary to whip
in the friends of free silver by means Of
this resolution. 1t had worked shame
full outrage on the minority. There were
many men on the other side who would
vote for free silver but for the fear that
the president was in accord with the
secretary of the treasury, and both were
in accord with Wall street.
Bland, of Missouri, said he had no
doubt that large majority of the house
favored unlimited coinage. To prevent
that fact from appearing on the records
it was proposed to gag every Democrat
in the house and many Republicans
Every gentleman who voted for this reso-
luton voted against free silver.
Cannon, of Illinois, said the resolu-
tion was simply aproposition that under
the rules of the house the house should
proceed at once to consider bill of
great interest to the country the
minority could offer every amendment
to the bill they could under the general
rules. The minority which was now
clamoring for free coinage had held the
house in the forty-ninth and fiftieth
coinage. They could not now fool the
country or even fool themselves.
Springer. of Illinois, said Demo-
cratic house passed free coinage bill; +;
the senate limited it, and the house was
obliged to accept the limitation. 1t had
been vetoed by Hayes and passed over
his veto. He wanted to call the atten-
tion of the house to the fact that no
amendment was to be offered to the bill
except as suggested by the chairman of
the committee. He denounced the ac-
ton as one to prevent the representa-
tives of the people from carrying out
their will.
Williams, of Illinois, said the resolu-
ton was intended to prevent the ma
jority from legislating. He appealed to
the members of the other side who fa-
vored free coinage to stand by the inter-
ests of their people.
Mckinley said the resolution was in
tended to give the house an opportunity
to pass some silver legislation and give
the country silver bill which would be
in perfect response to the general senti-
ment of the country; it was to give the
house an opportunity to pass a bill
which would take all the silver bullion
of the United States and utilize it for
money purposes was to give the people
not $4,000, 900 a month, but $4,500,0 900.
If the gentlemen ON the other side
wanted to vote on free silver, they could
move to recommit with instructions to
the committee to report back a free coin
age clause, and the gentlemen on the
other side could not have been
when for four years they never
even brought in a bill from their COM
mittee. Talk about throttling the will
of the majority by the minority Why
one man az the white house had silenced
the majority in the forty-ninth and fif-
tieth congresses. In the forty-ninth and
fiftieth congresses single man, elected
to execute the laws and not to make
them, had commanded the majority to
be silent, and it was silent.
The resolution was adopted-yeas, 120 (;
nays, III. The Republicans who voted
in the negative were Anderson, of Kan
sas; Bartine, Connell, Dehaven, Feath-
erstone, Funston, Kelly Morrow, Her
man and Townsend, of Colorado. The
Democrats voted in the negative.
Blount, of Georgia, voted negative, but
changed his vote to the affirmative and
moved reconsideration.
Mckinley moved to lay this on the
table. Agreed to-yeas, 124 nays, 118.
Featherstone and Vandever, who
voted with the Democrats on the first
question, voted with the Republicans on
the motion to table.
The bill having been read, Conger
offered the caucus bill as substitute.
1t is substantially as follows:
Inc secretary OF Lne treasury is dl-
rected to purchase from time to time
silver bullion to the amount of four and
half million dollars worth of fine
silver each month, at the market price,
not exceeding one dollar for 371.25
grains of pure silver, and issue in pay
ment treasury notes to be prepared by
the secretary of the treasury, and sum
sufficient to carry into effect the pro-
visions of the act is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Section 2 provides that the treasury
notes shall be redeemable on demand in
coin, and when so redeemed may be re-
issued, but no greater or less amount of
such notes shall be outstanding at any
time than the cost of the silver bullion
then held in the treasury, purchased by
such notes such notes to be legal tender
payment for all debts, public and pri-
vate, except where otherwise expressly
stipulated in contract; shall be
receivable for customs, taxes and
all public dues, and when so received
may be ressued. Such notes held by
any national banking association may
be counted as part of its lawful reserve.
Upon demand of any holder of such
notes, the secretary of the treasury NAV,