The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-24
COMPLEXION OF THE COMMITTEES
The House Organized for FREQ Coinage
and Tariff Reform,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9a-[SpecialI An
inquiry into the records of members of
the House committee on coinage,
weights and measures shows that by
past utterances or votes in or out of
Congress, eight out of thirteen mem
bers of the committee have declared in
favor OF free coinage, while four of the
other members have been outspoken
against free coinage, and the fifth is
said by his friends to be unquestionalby
against FREQ coinage, though his re-
cord is unknown, he not having been
in Congress.
The members in favor of the free
coinage are: Bland. Williams, of Illi-
nois; Kilgore, Of Texas; Robertson, of
Louisiana; Pierce, of Tennessee; Epes,
of Virginia; McKeighan, of Nebraska;
Bartine, of Nevada. Those opposed
are; Tracy, of New York; Williams, of
massachusetts, Taylor, of Delaware,
and Stone, of Pennsylvania.
VI the free coinage members, Bland
and Williams, Of Illinois; Kilgore, Rob-
ertson and Pierce, of Tennessee, and
Bartine, were in the last Congress and
recorded themselves as in favor of the
passage of the free coinage bill.
Epes, of Virginia, was elected on q free
coinage platform; Mckeighan comes
here as an independent elected largely
by the alliance votes and committed to
the free coinage of silver.
Ot the anti-free coinage members of
the committee Tracey and Taylor, of
Illinois, were in last Congress, and as
members of tho free coinage committee
worked and voted against free silver.
Williams, of Massachusetts, takes the
place on the committee formerly held
by Walker, of Massachusetts, who,
through the present Congress. was not
given an opportunity to serve on his
old committee. Williams, like his pre-
decessor, however, is strong anti.free
silver man. The fourth man placed in
tho anti.free coinage list is Stone, of
pennsylvania. Stone was not in the
last Congress. He is not in the city,
but his friends say he is undoubtedly
against free silver. Johnson, of North
Dakota, the fifth man in the anti-free
free coinage list, was not in tho last
Congress.
wilcox, of Connecticut, is one of the
Democratic voting members of the COM
mittee in the last Congress-, who was
reelected but who is not on the COM
mitteo this time. lie voted against
free coinage. Vaux, OF Pennsylvania,
was not elected and Mr.. Joseph, of
New Mexico, being a delegate, had no
vote.
OF the ten Democratic members of
the ways and means committee. all
except Stevens, of M Massachusetts,. and
Ryan, of Nebraska, who are in their
hrst term in Congress, were members of
tne tltleth Congress, and of these
eight members all except Whiting, of
Michigan, are recorded as voting for the
Mills bill on its final passage.
whiting made several speeches favor
lug clauses of The bill relating to wool
and salt and upholding tbs tariff mes
sage Of President Cleveland. He is one
OF the fourteen members recorded as
mot voting on the final passage of the
bill, and was probably paired in favor
OF the bill. The five Repu blican MON
bers OF the CONN mite of course all voted
against the Mills bill and in favor of
the Mckinley bill in the last congress.
Daizell, of Pennsylvania, is a new
member of the committee from the Re-
publican side of the house and McMil-
len, Turner and Wilson of West Vir-
GINA are Democratic members who
have in recent years been identified
with tariff reform as members of the
committee
The three Democratic members last
named aided in framing the Mills bill.
Springer, the chairman, has always
voted for tariff reform measures, but
has by published interviews recorded
himself as in favor of passing specific
Dills to put few articles on the free
list, and against general revision of the
tariif by the House at this session. A
majority of his Democratic colleagues
have stated in public that they were in
favor of his line of policy at the present