Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-07
FREE SILVER IN THE SENATE.
The Bill Called Up and Passed by a
Vote of 20 to IS.
senator Hill Among Those Who Voted
in Favor of Its Passage--NOt Likely to
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vote OF ~ TO 20.
senator Hill Among Those Who Voted
in Favor of Its Passage--Not Likely to
pass the House.
WASHINGTON, d. G., July 1.-Vice-presi-
dent Alorton's casting vote would have
postponed the Stewart Free Coinage bill
till December, which was passed in the
Senate to-day, but Vicc-president Morton,
who has lost interest since he was shelyed
at Minneapolis, was away on the Hudson.
| The motion, which had been made by
| Vest (Mo.), was lost ON Il tie vote and the
bill was subsequently passed by y ma.
| jority of four, the votes of David b. Hill
| IN. W, Rufus Blodgett (N. j., and j.
! Don Cameron Qa.) Qhe only eastern
senators who voted for the bilD, turning
| the scale in its favor.
The bill, as passed. reads ms follows:
THAT the owner of silver bullion may
deposit the same at any mint of the
| United States to be coined for his benefit,
| and it shall be the duty Of the proper oili-
GERS. upon the terms and conditions which
are provided by law for the deposit and
coinage Of gold, to coin such bullion into
the standard dollars authorized by the act
| Of February 2sth 1873, entitled an act to
| authorize the coinage of the standard sill
| yer dollar and to restore its legal tender
| character, and such coins shall be legal
tender for all debts and dues, public and
| private. The act of July 18th, 1880, en-
| titled an act directing the purchase of sill
yer bullion and the issue Of treasury notes
thereon and for other purposes is hereby
repealed.
"Provided, that the Secretary of the
| Treasury shall proceed to have coined all
| the silver bullion in thctreasury purchased
with silver certificates"
THE OUTLOOK IN THE HOUSE.
| The bill will not pass the House as easily
| AS it passed the Senate, if. indeed, IL passes
at all. The desire to eEbarrasS HARRISON
| which moved SO many of the Republicans
! who voted for il in the Senate, will not be
SO strong with the Republicans Of the
House, and the Democratic anti-free.coin-
| age men can make and will make Il better
| fight in the House, seconded ls they will
| be by the thought that TO defeat free coinage
for the second time in the Democratic
House, after it had passed the Republican
Senate, would make 1t almost certain that
| the electoral votes of New York, New
| Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
| Hampshire and Rhode Island would be
| given to Cleveland and SteYcnson.i
In the House the bill, under tho rules,
| will have TO be referred to the committee
on coinage, where Williams and Tracy
Will keep it US long as possible. When re-
ported TO the House. it will have to 20 on
the calendar, requiring special vote to
take ii up. Then Il ClUturc rule would be
necessary to prevent iilibustering. Bland
ana Bartine are claiming that Speaker
Crisp has promised that they should have
II clotllrc rule If the bill ever passed tho
Senate, but il is doubtful whether they
can substantiutc this claim.
The anti-iree coinage men are very hope
full that they will be able to prevent a tli-
rect vote on the bill, and even that they
VIII be able to get IL postponed To Deem
Der, They say that the Speaker and the
majority OF the Rules committee will re.
quire petition signed by ut least llj
Democrats before they will bring in q
cloture rule. Pierce, who has been circll.
lating the petition for three months
claims to have 100 signatures now. ID
says there will be no difficulty, now 4.
the Senate has passed the bill, in getting
% more from southern and western men
whose reelection To Congress depends
upon it.
THE FINAL VOTE.
The vote by which the bill passed the
Senate was rs follows:
Yeas--Allen, Bate, Berry, Black burn
Blodgett, Butler, Cameron, Cockrel
Dubois, Faulkner, George Harris, Hill
Jones (Nev.), Kenna, Kyle, Mills, Mitchell
Morgan, PETER Ransom, Sanders, Shoup
Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, Vest, VOL
cott-29.
Nays-Allison, Brice, Carey. Carlisle
Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph
FELTON,, Gallinger, German, Gray, Hale
Hawley, MCPHERSON, Henderson Palmer
Perkins, Proctor, Sawyer, Stock bridge
Warren, Washburn, Whites.