Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-12
BLAND AGAIN HEARD FROM

He Wants Appropriations Paid fl
 Silver Coined From the BuIIioI
 Now i'm the Treasury-A Long De
 bate in the House-Mr. Holman,
 Amendment Against the Buildin;
 of a New Mint Agreed Upon-
 Bland's Motion Ruled out Of Order | WASHINGTON, May 11.-In the house to
 day MT. Bland offered an amendment t.
 the sundry civil appropriation bill requir
 ing the coinage and issue in payment O
 appropriations of the silver bullion nov
 in the treasury.
 l MT. Tracy made a point of order agains
 the amendment and Mir. Cochran of Nev
 York moved to further amend by suspend
 ing the further purchase of silver bullion
 The chairman of the committee of tn,
 whole ruled out of order MT. Bland'i amendment.
 MT. Cochran withdrew his amendment
 Mir. Bland appealed from the decision oi the chair.
 No one desiring to continue the general debate the bill was read by paragraph for amendment.
 1 MT. Holman moved to strike out the ap. propristion of s820, 800 fot the purchase of site and the commencement of & build ing for a new mint at Philadelphia. The old mint, he said, would answer every pur. pose for the present. MT. Otis of Kansas favored striking out l the clause. Why not, he asked, build the mint out westl The mint should be built | where the people were in favor of free | silver.
 Mir. Bingham of Pennsylvania and others advocated the appropriation. Mr. Bland moved to amend the clause in the bill by providing that all silver bullion now in the treasury the property of the government, or hereafter purchased by or becoming the property of the government, shall be immediately coined into standard silver dollars, and the seignorage or gain arising therefrom covered into the treasury and paid out to meet the appropriations herein provided.
 Mir. Tracy of New York made a point of order against the amendment.
 Mir. Bland contended it was in order and expressed the hope that if it were ruled out or voted down the entire clause would be stricken out.
 Mr. Cochran of New York offered as an amendment to Mir. Blsnd's amendment (and subject to the same point of order) proviso that on and after the first day of July next all further purchases of silver bullion by the treasury shall be discontin- ued.
 MT. Dingley of Maine addressed himself to consideration of the point of order. arguing that the amendment was not ger mane and that it changed existing law, and thus, in both instances, was in con- travention of the laws.
 Mir. Tracy also contended that MT. Bland's amendment was out of order.
 The chair sustained the point against Mir. Bland's amendment on the ground it was not germsne.
 Mir. Cochran withdrew his amendment.
 Mir. Bland appealed from the decision of the chair, but subsequently, withdrew the appeal, stating that there was another place in the bill where he would offer his amendment.
 MT. McMillan of Tennessee in advocating Mir. HoIman's motion to strike out urged the needing of giving thought to the sub ject of expenditures. A deficiency in the face of this congress in 1893 was as inevitable as fate, if the laws heretofore enacted and those being made were carried out. He appealed to his democratic friends not to initiate the congress which had preceded them and which they had severely criticised. They could not afford to go beyond where the republicans had called halt. If this was to be another billion dollar congress it might as we'll, in the estimation of the people, not have been a congress at all.
 MT. O'Neil of Pennsylvania appealed for the retention of the clause.
 MT. Blount of Georgia, in favoring the motion to strike out, said that the state ment had been frequently made that in could not expect to meet the requirements of the sinking fund. Congress should not run up the expenditures of the govern ment heedlessly at such a time.
 MT. Breckenridge of Kentucky favored retaining the clause in the bill. He be- lieved congress was spending good deal too much money. But it would have been we'll if these speeches in support of econo- my had been made before the passage of the river and harbor bill.
 Mr. Pendleton of West Virginia said that if this house had been extrsvsgant it had not been the fault of MT. Holman. If gentlemen did not hear the voice of the people now they would hear in thunder terms.
 Mir. Breckenridge of Kentucky com for having kept the letter in his pocket until the tail end of the debate. He should have presented it to the committee.
 MT. Holman said he understood it was on the files of the committee.
 MT. Tillman of South Carolina-Give us a free coinage bill and we will give you mint.
 The vote being taken the motion to strike out was agreed to-95 to 92.
 MT. Bingham gave notice that he would demand yea and nay vote in the house.
 In speaking to a verbal amendment MT. Townsend of Colorado read the Associated Press dispatches stating that MT. Goschen had announced that England would accept the invitation of the United States to take part in the international conference to dis cuss the silver question. The reading of the cablegram was received with loud ap- plsuse.
 Pending further action the committee rose and the house adjourned.