Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-13
than three cents an ounce. Republican

conference bill as a vast improvement
over the monstrosity sent here by the
senate, which proposed to make the
United States mints dumping ground
for all the silver of the world for the
benefit of speculation. There was also
an improvement over the bill as origin
ally passed by the house. 1t would give
the country additional currency and
paper for the uses of business.
Hermann, of Oregon, said he favored
the bill, although it did not contain the
fullest recognition of the equality OF gold
and silver as money metals; it was a
concession on both sides of the question !;
it was victory for the popular demand /;
it was a long step towards free coinage.
He had no doubt after the fall election
there would be a strong representation
here on the line of free coinage of silver.
He congratulated the people he repre-
sented that such an advance had been
made in establishing equality between
the two great money metals of the
world.
Bland, of Missouri, concurred with
the gentleman in hoping that the next
house would be a free-coinage house,
but said that house would be composed
of those who advocated free coinage and
stood by their colors. 1t would not be
composed of the Republican party,
which, by the gag rule, had voted down
and stif1ed free coinage. Ii free coinage
came at all it would come from that
party which stood firm to the flag Of
free coinage, and which had not sur
rendered it's principles at the beck of
Wall street. He denied that the bill
was the result of free and fair confer
ence, and said it was the result of secret
meetings of the Republican conferees.
He, as a conferee, had known nothing of
the measure until it had been framed
and the report ready to be signed. The
Democratic members had been ignored
in the preparation of the bill. The bill
was one which practically demone-
tized silver. 1t was sugar
coated quinine pill. On first reading it
seemed that the secretary was to pur-
chase 100000 ounces every month,
but when man rolled the pill around
in his mouth, he began to taste the bit
terness of cor so much thereof as may
be offered" There could be traced in
this measure a stealthy Italian hand.
The bill surrendered every principle of
bi-metalism. 1t surrendered free coin
age. 1t made a combination with the
bullion spectators of Wall street. Ir
the interest of Wall street it departed
from the legal ratio, and changed that.
the ratio was to pile up so much capital
people, and in the interest of Wall
street and bullion owners, and he de-
nounced it as fraud and cheat on the
people who were demanding a ratio of
16 to 1. The bill made silver a simple
commodity to be measured by gold,
upon which money shall be issued at its
gold value. 1t was true the measure
might make an increase in circulation,
but would make it by concession to
the gold standard and the desertion of
silver. 1t was declaration that con-
gress would not make any further fight
for bi-metalism. 1t was neither a silver
bill nor a greenback bill, but simply a
political device concocted to tide over
an emergency. He denounced it as a
fraud and would denounce any measure
as fraud that did not provide
for free coinage. When the bill that
has his name was passed. He (Bland)
had fallen into trap. Every silver
representative then felt perfectly conf
dent that the next president would sign
free coinage bill. He would refer to
history those members now willing to
accept this report as leading to free coin
age. Now was the time to make the
fight. If the conference report was re-
jected another. conference would be held,
and the Objectionable features of this
report stricken out. That was what he
had undertaken to do.
Morrow, of California, expressed his
approval of the conference report, and
proceeded to argue that the depression
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suited from artificial manipulation.
In the course of the debate, Towns
end, of Colorado, said he and some
other Republicans had voted for free
coinage, and if the gentlemen on the
other side had stood solid a free-coinage
bill would have passed the house. Then
they had recognized that the only way
to get silver legislation at this session
was to 60 back to the Republican party,
where they had always belonged, and
get that from that party.
The conference report was finally
agreed to by strict party vote-yeas,
1922 nays, 90; as follows:
Yeas-Adams, Allen, Michigan; An
derson: Kansas; Atkinson, Pennsyl-
vania; Atkinson, West Virginia; Banks,
Bartine, Bayne, Beckwith, Belknap,
Bliss, Bowden, Brewer, Brosius, Brewer,
Buchanan, New Jersey; Burton, Cald-
well, Cannon, Carter, Caswell, Cheadle,
Cogswell, Coleman, Comstock, Conger,
Connell, Cooper, Ohio; Cutcheon, Dal-
zell, Darlington, Dingley, Deliver, Dor
sey, Dunnell, Farquhar, Featherstone,
Finley, Flick, Flood, Frank, Funston,
Gear, Gest, Clifford, Grosvenor,
Haugen, Henderson, Illinois; Hender-
son, Iowa; Hermann, Hill, Hit, Hop
kins, Houk, Kelly, Kennedy, Ketch-
am, Kinsey, Lacey, La Toilette,
Laidlaw, Lehlbach, McComas, Nc
Cord, Mccormick, McDuffie, Nc
Kenna, Moffit, Morey, Morrill,, Nor
row, Morse, Mudd, Niedringhaus, O'Neill,
Pennsylvania; Osborne, Owen, Indiana
Payne, Payson, Perkins, Peters, Pickler,
Post, Quackenbush, Raines, Ray, Reed,
Iowa; Reyburn, Rife, Rockwell, Rowell,
Russell, Scull, Simmons, Smith, Illinois
Smith, West Virginia; Snider, Spooner,
Stevenson, Stewart, Vermont; Stivers,
Stockbridge, Sweeney, Taylor, Illinois ;
f. B. Taylor, J. d. Taylor, Thomas,
Thompson, Townsend, Colorado; Town
send, Pennsylvania; Vandever, Van
Schaick, Walker, Massachusetts, Wal
lace, New York; Williams, Ohio; Will
son, Kentucky; Wilson, Washington ;
Wright and Yardley-122.
Nays-Abbott, Allen, Mississippi ;