Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-14
A TEXAS FREE COINAGE MAN.
He Makes a Vigorous speech in Rep
to Reed.

UeDdtcS IL Was Iue great D3JJle OF the COM
mon people against monopolies. Zap
plaussl This matter Nigh be discussed
at length and might be covered up, but it
would come to the front. It was battle
between the common people and the money
power of this country. He would huri
back to the gentleman from Maine the
charge that the Democratic party was in
favor of debasing the currency of this
country. The charge was unfounded.
Democracy For Sound Money.
From the organization of the Demo-
cratic party until the present day it has
been the advocate and defender of the
sound money of this country. The Re-
publican party through domestic and for
eign bondholders destroyed silver in 1873
and 1874, and robbed the people of the
country of millions in money. [Cheersl
From 1873 to 1873 the representatives of
the people-the Democratic party-strug-
gled as men never struggled before to
break this accursed financial despotism
which had been placed upon the people
In 1878 this object was accomplished
free coinage bill was then passed
In the house, which was non-con-
CURED in by the senate, q compromise was
forced on the house, and on that compro-
NOSE we have accumulated since then
AOuA AlulluItu tIlllIlOlS OF silver uOiltrS.
The Platform Suits Him.
Referring to the silveIA ID ank in the
Democratic platform at Chicago Culber-
son said it was an unqualified declaration
of bimetallism. 1t committed the Dem
ocratic party absolutely to that, and for
that he thanked the representatives of the
people who We're Their r. 1t was one step IN
the march of progress.
The speech of Culberson was the feat
ure of the discussion, AMI he was frequent
ly interrupted by applause. The debate
was closed by Bland, Who went into a
brief technical discuss on of the silver
question, quoting statistics to show the
pre- sent conditions of that metal
Previous Question Ordered.
This brought the house to a vote, and
there was great excitement all over the
chamber. Catchings demanded that the
previous question be ordered, and the yeas
and nays were demaded by Tracey The
vote was-yeas lG3; nay :. I29 This caused
no surprise, and il was really hardly worth
while demanding the roll-call as it was
expected that the previous question would
be ordered. Then the vote of the day was
taken. CatChiugs moved the passage of
the resolution, and the roll-calI was again
demanded. This was a test vote 1t
resulted-yeaS, 1876; nays, 154 and the reso-
luton was dead. Mckeigham rose and
said: Il move to adjourn if Wall street.
Before he could conclude the sentence his
voice was drowned with cries of "Ra,sn
and other unseemly invsctives, the speaker
rapping him to order with his gavel.
Some Details Of the Vote.
There We're III Democrats, all the
Farmers Alliance men OF course, and the
following Republicans Otcd for the resolu-
zion: Bartiue, Bowers, Cheatham, Clark
Of Wyoming, johnson Of Indiana, Jolly,
Post, Sweet, TownseId-9 The Demo.
cratic vote against the -esolution was rs
follows: Amerman, Andrew, Barwig,
Beitzhoover, Bently, Brawlay, Brecllin-
ridge Of Arkansas, Brec kinridge of Ken
lucky, Brickner, Drummer, Bunting,
Busey, Bushnell, Cable, Cadmus, Camp
bell, Caruth, Castle, Causey, Chaplin,
Chapman, Clancy, Clark of Alabama,
Cobb of Missouri, Coburn, Cochran
Compton, Coolidge, Coomb, Covert, Crosby,
Cox of New York, Cummings, Daniel,
De Forces Dickerson, Dunphy,
Durborow. English, Fellows, Fitch,
Forman, Fowler, Geissenhainer, Gillespie,
Greenleaf, Hall, Hallowell, Hamilton,
Harter, Hayes, Haynes, Herbert, Hoar,
Houk of Ohio, kribhs, Lagan, Lapham,
Little, Lockwood, Lynch, McAleer, Nc
Clellan, Mcdonald, Mccain, Mckinney,
Meyer, Miller, Mitchell, Mutchler, O'NeiIl
of Massachusetts, Cultivate, Page of
Rhode Island, Page of Maryland, Patter-
son of Tennessee, Raynor, Riley, Rusk,
Scott, Snow, Sperry, Stevens Steward of
Illinois, Stout, Stump, Tracey, Van Horn,
Warner, Wheeler o. Michigan, Wike,
Wilcox, Williams of Massachusetts, Will
son of West Virginia, Wolverton-94
The Republican Nay Vote.
The following Republicans voted nay:
Atkinson, Belden. Burgin, Bingham, Bro
sius, Buchanan of New Jersey, Burrows,
Caldwell, Cogswell, Curtis, Cunning, Dal-
zell, Dingley, Doan, Dolliver, Enochs,
Flick, Finston, Grout, Harmer, Henderson
of Iowa, Henderson of Illinois, Hit.
Hooker of New York. Hopkins of Illinois,
Houk of Tennessee, Huff, Hull, johnson
of North Dakota, Ketchum, Lodge,
Loud, O'Neill of Pennsylvania, Payne,
Perkins, Powers, Quackenbush, Raines,
Randall, Ray, Reed, Reyburn,
Rife, Robinson of Pennsylvania, Russell,
Sculi, Shonk, Smith. Stephenson, Stone, w.
A. Stone, c. w. Storer, Taylor of Hi.
nois, Taylor of Tennessee ]. d. Taylor.
Wadsworth, Walker, Waugh, Wilson of
Washington, Wright--60.
There were fifteen pairs and the follow.
ing were absent without pairs: Griswold,
Haugen, johnson of Ohio, Lind, Milliken,
Newberry, Springer, Stahlnecker and
Taylor.