Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-25

ANTI-sILvER MEN vICroRIoUa
The Result Of the First Contest In the HOust
Over the Bland Bill.
MANY SCENES OF WILD CONFUSION DURING TIL
| LONG sEssIoN-THE OPPOSITION MUCH srRoNaRl
THAN WAS AxTIcIPArED-rHR sPrAKERs suL
| ISGs cRIrfcIsED-TEsT ROLL CALL IN DEBATE
The Developments in the silver fight In thu
House last night we're a surprise to every one
who has been Matching the fight. After thu
fercest fighting that has occurred In Congress
during this sessions contest almost a. exciting
a. that in the caucus over the choice Of
Speaker--the anti-silver men won partia
victory.
The silver men have been claiming that they
would have . majority for the Bland bill Of
from twenty to thirty votes and the anti-silver
men greatly feared that this claim was well
founded Their hope was that they might sue
coed by dilatory motions in consuming the
special order, so O. to throw back the bin to the
| calendar.
As it turned out however. they not only were
| able to kill the special order, but bad tie vote
on motion to table the bill. which was Practi-
cally direct vote on the bill
An UNEXPECTED RESULT.
| When, after the debate was closed, Mr..
Bland, at S CLOCK. moved the previous ques-
| ton, there were about 800 members on the
floor. II was moment of intense excitement
! Immediately after Mr.. Bland had made his
motion Mr.. Burrows moved to lay the Dill on
| the table. The roll call on this latter motion
| began at once. One hundred and forty-elght
members voted to lay the bill on the table and
L lao aIO VntQ
that number The Speaker then voted against
the motion, making the vote tie. This re-
| suit was SO unexpected that for moment no
one in the hall seemed to fully appreciate what
had happened. Both sides were taken COM
| pletely BY surprise. With q coming realiza-
| ton of the situation a storm gathered and
! swept over the House. Members vented to
| know IL the tally sheet was all right, and
twenty members were asking at the same time
| how they had been recorded. 1t was shown
/ that the tally was correct Then Mr.. Herbert,
! an anti-silver man. who had failed to vote, came
to realize that his vote would have carried the
! motion and killed the bill. He made an earn
est effort to get his vote in, but as he could not
say that his failure to vote was because he had
| not heard his name, he could not be allowed TO
| vote at that time.
THE VOTE IN DETAIL
The vote in detail Was as follows:
Yeas Ito table the bill) -Messrs. Amerman,
4 AHuIcWs AbAluSOn, DaCOu. I6E"A6. ASSioSh, DcA-
KNAPP, Beltzhoover. Bentley, Bergen, Bingham,
Boutelle, Bowman, Brawley. Brickner, Brosius.
Drummer, Buchanan Of New Jersey, Bunting.
Burrows. Bushnell, Cable, Cadmus. Caldwell.
Castle, Causey, Chaplin, Chapman, Clancy. Cobb
| Of Missouri. Coburn. Cochran, Cogswell, Coo
lidge, Cooriibs Covert Cox Of New York. Craig
Of Pennsylvania. Crosby, Cummings. Curtis,
Doone, Dolhver, Dunphy. English. Fellows,
Fitch, Flick, Gerry, Geissenhainer, Gillespie,
Greenleaf, Griswold, Grout, Hall. Hallowell.
| Hamilton, Hammer. Harter. Haugen, Hayes
Of Iowa. Haines Of Ohio. Henderson of Iowa,
Hit. Hoar, Hooker of New York, HOPKINS Of
Pennsylvania, Hopkins of Illinois, Houk Of
Tennessee. Huff, Hull, johnson of Indiana,
johnson Of North Dakota. ketcham. kribbs,
| Lagan, Lapham. Lind. Little, lockwood Lodge
Loud. Lynch. Wagner, McAleer, Mcdonald
MeGiann, McKaig. McKenna Mckinney, Meyer
Miller, Milliken. Mitchell Mutchler, Newberry
| O'Donnel, O'Neil of Massachusetts,, O'Nell Of
Pennsylvania. Cultivate, Page of Rhode
Island. Page of Maryland, Pattison Of Ohio
Payne, Perkins. Post, Powers. Quackenbush,
Raines. Randall, Ray. Rayner, Reed, Reyburn,
Rife. Robinson Of Pennsylvania, Russell. scull,
Seerley. Shonk, Smith. Sperry, Stephenson.
| Stevens, C. W. Stone, Storer, Stout Stump,
| Taylor Of Illinois, J. d. Taylor. Tracey. Walker,
Warner, Waugh, Viewer, Wheeler of Michigan,
Wilcox, Williams Of Massachusetts,, Wilson Of
Kentucky, Wilson of Washington state, Wilson
| of West Virginia, wolverton. wright-l4s.
Nays-Messra Abbott, Anderson. Alexander,
Allen, Arnold, Babbitt, Bailey, Baker, Bank
| head. Bartine, Beeman. blanchard. Bland,
BlOunt, Bowers Branch. Breckenridge
Bretz, Broderick, Brookshire, Bryan.
Buchanan Of Virginia, Bullock, Bum, Bnsey,
Butler. Bynum, Byrnes, Caminetti, Cspehart,
Caruth, Cate, Clark Of Wyoming. Clarke Of
Alabama, Cobb of Alabama. Cowles. Cox of
Tennessee, Grain Of Texas, Crawford, Gull
berson. Davis. De Almond, Dickerson,
Dixon. Dockery, DUNCAN, Edmunds, Ellis,
Epes, Everett. Fithian, Forney. Fowler, Funs-
ton, Fyan, Gantz, Goodnight. German, Grady.
Halvorson, Hare, Harries, Hatch, Heard,
Hermann, Holman, Houk Of Ohio. John
Kyle, Lane, Lanham. Lawson Of Viz.
ginia, Lawson Of Georgia, Layton, Lester Of
Mansur, Martin, Mcclellan, McCreary, Nc
Ksighan, McMillin, McRae, Meredith, Mills,
Montgomery, Moore, Moses. Norton, o Ferrall.
O'Nein Of Missouri, Otis, Owens, Parrett, Pat
tsrson OF Tennessee Patton. Paynter. Pearson,
Pendleton. Picker, Pierce, Price, Reilly. Rich
sayers, Scott. Shively. Simpson, Snodgrass,
Snow, Stackhouse, Stewart OF Illinois. Stewart
Of Tennessee. Stockdale. Stone Of Kentucky.
Sweet, n. A. Taylor, Terry Iillmsn, Townsend.
Tucker. Turner, Turpin, Warwick. Washing
ton. Watson. Weadock. Wheeler of Alabama,
White. Whiting, Williams of North Carolina,
Williams Of Illinois. Wilson of Missouri. Winn,
Wise, Youmans and Speaker-14s.
SEASON OF GREAT CONFUSION.
While the motion was not carried the silver
men regarded a tie vote as victory and sent
up a great shout A motion to adjourn was
lost by vote Of 1873 to 80.
After the Speaker had announced that the
House refused to adjourn Mr.. johnson (Ohio)
moved to reconsider the vote by which the