Evening journal., 1891-01-06
LODGES BILL PUT OVER.
Federal Elections Must Wait
for Financial Relief.
IMPORTANT VOTE IN THE SENATE,

'.he Statesmen by "a Yeas 10 90 Nays
Decided That the Elections BnI Mast
Give Way 60 the silver BnI-senator
HOar Was Taken by Surprise.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8--In the senate the
credentials of Standardized Dubois. OF
Idaho, were placed on Gle and Senator Nc.
Council, Of Idaho, was sworn in. The con
ference report on the Pennsylvania rail
road bin was agreed TO. When the cleo
tions bill came up the senate, on motion
Of Mr.. Stewart, BY vote Of "a to %, laid it
aside and took up the finance committees
bill, which was debated at length by
Messrs. Sherman, Reagan and others
After the secret session Mr.. George "a.
sumed the floor to continue his speech on
the elections bill commenced lY him last
Wednesday. Mr.. Stewart movdT~to take
up the senate bill to provide against a con
traction Of the currency. Mr.. George said
he would yield for that motion Mr. Hoar.
completely surprised, asked Mr.. George
whether be abandoned the floor. Mr..
George replied that he merely yielded to
have the motion made. II the motion did
not prevail, he would claim the floor Mr.
Hoar commenced to speak. but Mr. Morgan
made the point OF order that the question
was not debatable and insisted upon IL.
He was su4tained by the chair
The Vote.
The vote on Mr.. Stewards motion re-
suited (yens, "a; nays, 30 as follows;
Yeas Messra. Bate, Berry, blackburn, Butler,
Call, Carlisle. Coekroll, Coke Daniel Eustis
Faulkner Gibeon, Gorman. Gray. Harris. Jones
(Ark.l Jones tNoy.A Keana, Mcconnell, Morgan
fasco, fneh. Ransom, Reagan, Shuup Stanford
Stewart, Teller, Vance. Vest walthall, Wash
burn, Wilson tAfd.) and Wolcott-s4
Nays-Messrs. Aldrich Alien, Allison Cameron,
Casey. Callom, Davis. Dixon, Dolph Edmunts
Evnrts, Frye, Hawloy, Hiacock, Hoar, Mcmillan,
Henderson, Mitchell, honin, Piatt Plumb Power,
Suay, Sanders, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner. Stock.
bridge aud Wilson a.)-e9
An Amendment offered.
The silver bill was read by the clerk.
and MIR. Stewart moved TO amend It by
adding the following: That any owner OK
silver bullion not too base for the opera
tions Of the mint may deposit the same in
amouRts Of the value of not less than SlO0
at any mint OF the United States to be
formed into standard dollars or bars Tor
his benefit and without charge. and that
at the said owners option he may receive
therefore an equivalent OF such standard
dollars in Treasury notes Of the same form
aud description and having the same legal
qualities as the Rotss provided for by the
act approved July IA, $50, entitled, "An
act directing the purchase Of silver bullion
aud the issue OF treasury notes thereon and
for other purposes
And all such treasury notes issued under
the provisions Of this act shall be a legal
for Al Al Nr.
ment Of all debts, public and private. snd
shall be receivable for customs, taxes and
all public dues, and when so received may
be fee issued ia the same manner and 20
tho same extent as other treasury notes.
Mr. Stewart argued ~ s-ano-, !, a..
amenaIaen', which he said would re.
sil',, stiEe silver and place it back where It
had been before it was excluded from the
nlhts Of the United States and Europe.
Mr. sherman's Appeal.
Mr. Sherman said that the sudden and
unexpected change OF scene and the in
PRODUCTION OF new topic Of debate should
not allow the revolutionary measure now
proposed (Mr Stewards amendment) 10
pass without the serious and sober atten-
tlon Of every senator He appealed to the
sober senses OF responsibility on the Demo
cratic SIDE OF the chamber against meas
ure which he regarded as revolutionary
and dangerous, and the effect OF which III |
it should become law would be more |
destructive than that Of any measure that |
had been proposed for years.
The amendment afered by the senator
from Nevada would change entirely the /
whole basis Of valuation OF all the proper
ty OF the United States. It would demon /
etize one-half Of the money OF the country
tgold) and would degrade the other hall /
tsilver) to low level, so that It's effect
would be to diminish the volume OF circu-
lation. II the friends Of silver had only
patience and would wait until the element
OF time acted on the silver law of the last
session the policy of the United States gov
ernment and Of the French government.
together with the use Of silver ia the South
American states, would lift up silver again
to the gold standard
The Best Measure OF Relief
The recent rise and fall in silver had not
taken place in the natural course OF bust
ness, but as the effect OF a struggle between
the bulls and bears He sympathized with
the views Of the president and OF the secre-
tary OF the treasury and with the general
feeling OF Republican senators that the
best measure Of relief would be the pur.
chase OF the l2,0000O0 ounces OF silver on
the market, and the first section OF the bill
had made provision for that. That would
have got it ont Of the way He did not
have any sympathy with the men who
kept that silver to control the market in
Ihe hope that il would advance M To the
standard Of gold.
Tho Republican Caucus.