The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-07
FREE COINAGE MEETS A REBUFF.
MIR. BANDS Silver Amendments
Overruled by the Speaker,
And His Appeal Defeated by n Narrow
Eote--seven Democrats Vote to Sustain
the Speaker, and Eleven Republicans
go With the Opposition--The Worlds
Fair Commission Condemned and Gown
Inended.

AsIIiNoToN, Feb. 6.-[Speciall-In
the House this morning Mr.. Mckinley
asked unanimous contest tor con-
sideration of tho bill providing that
nothing in the tariff act shall DO held to
peal or impair the reciprocity treaty
with the Hawaiian Islands. Failing to
secure this he withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Bingham, from the committee on
postoifices and post roads, reported
the postoffice appropriation bill which
was placed on the calendar. The House
then went into committee of the whole
on the sundry civil appropriation bill.
The pending question was the decision
OF the chair upon the point of order raised
by Mr.. Dinglcy, of Maine. against Mr..
Islands free coinage amendment.
The chairman sustained the point of
order on the ground that the amend
ment is not germane to the paragraph
TO which 1T Is offered and further that
1T changes existing law. Mr.. Bland
appealed from tho decision of the chair,
but 1T was sustained by vote of 1874 to
LET.
When tho question was put there
arose Immediately great eXcitemcns in
the hall; and as Cannon md Bland took
their places as tellers, nearly every
member in the House rose and anx-
iously watched the count. The f.llow-
ing Democrats voted in the affirmative:
Andrews, Mutcher, VauX, Spinola,
Dunphy, Wiley and Clancy. The fol-
lowing Republicans voted in the mega
tive. Carter, Townsend, of Colorado;
Lind, Bartinc, Turner, of Kansas;
kelley, Laws. Connell, Herman, Sweet
and Clark. Wyoming. The vote was
very close, and not until the last moment
was 1T evident which side would tip the
scales. When the chair announced the
vote to be 1874 to 1877 the Republican
side burst into applause.
MIR. Dockery, of Missouri moved to
strike out the appropriation Of $50, OOO
for rccoinage and insert the words
land so much as may be necessary to
meet the expenses of such rccoinage is
hereby appropriated out of the silver
profit fund.-. 1t was adopted.
The committee then REQUIRED to tho
Worlds Fair paragraph. Messrs.
Adams, Taylor, and Mason, of Illinois,
defended the Worlds Fair commission
and deprecated criticisms which had
been made upon Chicago and everybody
connected with tho exposition rs being
entirely unwarrantcd. Mr. Coleman, Of
Louisiana said that the exposition had
done far more for the industries of the
South than any action taken by Con-
gress for years past. Mr.. Butterworth
had no doubt of this fact, and he con-
tinucd at some length to defend the
city of Chicago from aspersions cast
upon 1t in the matter of raising money,
and laid stress upon the point that the
proposed exposition was not an enter
prise OF Chicago nor of Illinois but of
tho whole country. There ought, he
said, to be national pride in this mat
tor. Mr.. Gambler then offered an amend
mont criticising tho fair commission
and reducing salaries. and MIR. Mason
raised point OF order. Pending the
decision the committee rose and the
House took recess until o'clock. Tho
evening session was devoted to the con-
sldcration of private pension bills.