New-York tribune., 1890-07-13
THE SILVER BILL PASSED.
PRESIDENT HARRISON WILL APPROVE IT.
STRONG SPEECHES OF CONGER AND DINGLEY
BLAND AND HIS FRIENDS WORRIED
A STRICT PARTY VOTE.

rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TkIBUSE.r


Washington July 12.-Bv a. strict party vote
a vote of 1872 to 9O-the House adopted the re-
port of the Conference Committee on the Silver
bill, which will now be sent TO the President for
his action. No doubt is felt that he will approve
il. Onc-half OF the four hours which had been
allowed for debate was employed by Bland and
still smaller Democratic statesmen" in
trying 70 plain why, champions Of silver,
they would vote against the bill From the
energy with which they spoke it was obvious
that they were not satisfied with their own cx-
plantations or the attitude which they were forced
10 assume for the benefit of their party. Why
they should have made a party question OF the
matter al all il is difficult to conceive. unless 10
be true that certain Democratic statesmen hope
by some hook or crook to cheat somebody. In
his speech to-day which it would il would he
base hattcry TO call an argrmeht-Mr. Bland
virtually admitted single standard. and silver
that standard, in bold and open a manner
that no Obscrvant person could be deceived
TO his real purpose. Tie other speeches on the
Democratic side hardly deserve any notice. being
mainly the rant of ignorant demagogues. and not
much regarded even by Democrats. After they
had spoken tLeir pieces they seemed 10 feel
sense OF relief, in which everybody who had
been compelled 10 listen kccnly sympathized with
them An exception. perhaps, ought TO be made
in behalf of Representative Lawlcr Of Illinois.
and few other Democrats. whose idea was that
the Democratic members ought 10 walk ont Of
the House in a body and leave the whole business
t. the Republicans.
On the Republican side two notable arguments
were made in support Of the conference report
by Chairman C0nger and Ex-Governor Dingley.
Major CongerS speech was one Of unexpected
force and repeatedly greeted with hearty ap-
plause on the Republican side II was apparent
from the earnest remarks of Mr Townsend, Of
Colorado, that the silver representatives had
become thoroughly disguised with and perhaps
trittc ashamed of themselves, because they had
been so deceived by Democratic promises that they
had allied themselves with the Democrats on n
| question which had no relation to the real issue
In the course of the running debate the letter
Of Grover Cleveland to General Warner and Others
in 1895 called for by Republican member
and the Democrats did not applaud even seem
| 10 enjoy il. Everybody remembered the letter,
| and seemed TO realize its applicaton-nO silver
| legislation in Democratic Administration. And
| yet every Dcmocrat-well, no, not every one, but
! most of the Democrats-whO voted as one man
! to-day against any silver legislation is counted
| as Cleveland man. q who favOrs Cleveland's
| nomination in 1892. Perhaps people who hope 70
! derive some benefit from silver legislation may
| find moral here. They Will remember, beside
! The letter Of Mr.. Cleveland and the attitude Of
! his Administration toward existing law, the fact
! that their successive Democratic Houses of Repre-
| sentativcS refused even 10 consider the subject
of silver legislation which the present Republican
! Administration and the first Republican Con-
gress in seven years has promptly taken up and
dealt with in a manner 10 command the united
support of the party not only in the great silver
producing States and the agricultural States of
the West, but in the manufacturing States and
commercial cities of the East