Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
FREE SILVER SETBACK
rhe Proposed Vote on 1t This After
noon Knocked Clear Out
EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MEASURES
Railrosded Through Both Houses to Have
Money in Time.
IMPORTANT DOINGS At THE CAPITAL

IMPORTANT DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, June 30 - When the
Senate adjourned on Wednesday 1t was
with the arrangement, fixed mp by unani-
nous consent, that the bill for the free COIN
age of silver would be voted on at p. NJ.
on Friday. but when the Senate adjourned
to-day that arrangement had been entirely
broken up, and the prospects for final action
on the bill appeared to be as remote as ever
1t was Mr.. Mcpherson who wrought the
-Iange in the situation. When the bill
ss laid before the Senate he repudiated
unanimous consent of the day before,
ause it had been made in his absence and
the absence of every member of the
nance Committee, and because it was in
practical violation of the agreement made
before the Minneapolis convention, that no
-ote would be taken on the bill until after
h conventions-which meant, he con-
ded, until Senators who had been attend
ing them had returned to Washington-
which they had not yet all done.
Mr.. Morgan denounced Mr. McPherson's
unwillingness to abide by the unanimous
consent of yesterday as a violation of good
faith and of the traditions of the Senate for
q century, and he declared that the policy
of delay would not succeed, but that the
Senate would pass the bill and send it to
the House in time for that body to pass
1t also. As to Its being vetoed by the Pres
ident, Mr. Morgan expressed his conviction
that it would not be vetoed. but would be
signed. A motion to recommit the bill to
the Finance Committee was pending when
the Senate adjourned, as was also an amend
ment to Mr.. Stewards substitute, which
would seem to confne the free coinage priv
ileges of the bill to the product of Ameri- |
can mines after the bill becomes law.
Conference reports on the naval, the Dis |
trict and the agricultural appropriation |
bills were agreed TO. The last bill being |
the only one of the three however, in |
which all the points in dispute were ar
ranged. In view of the fact which is |
without precedent, that not single appro- |
priation bill has vet been sent to the Presi |
dent, although the fiscal year expires to-
day, joint resolution to continue the ap- |
preparations for the expenses of the gov
eminent for Is days of the new fiscal year
was passed by both Houses and sent to the /
President, who signed il at once.
THE joint resolution extending for Is |
days the appropriations for the support of
the Government passed the House te-day |
after some discussion. The Republicans of /
the House then proceeded to filibuster |
against the tin plate bill and their effort
was successful in preventing its considera-
tion. 1.-The bill will not pass this House."
was the prophecy of one of the leading
Republican members of the WAYS and
Means Committee, and 1--WE will pass it"
was the dictum of prominent member on
the Democratic side. 1t being apparent
that no conclusion could be reached to-day,
the friends of the measure yielded to Mr..
Dockery, of Missouri, to call up the con-
terence report on the District of Columbia,
appropriation bill. A fight ensued on the
proposition making an appropriation for
he entertainment of the G. A. R encamp-
1ent. The report was sent back to confer |
nee. Mr. Hatch, OF Missouri, submitted
le conference report on the agricultural |
preparation bill. Peuding action the
use adjourned.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NErTLEToN, |
no represents the Treasury Department
/ its relations to the Worlds Columbian
Exposition, having had his attention called
20 dispatch announcing the bankruptcy
of the Worlds Columbian Commission,
stated that in his judgment the publication
without the accompanying facts was mis-
leading and calculated TO do mischief Con-
gress has heretofore appropriated sum of
money to meet current expenses of the Ma
tional Commission, these expenses being |
chiefly in connection with the holding of
occasional meetings, the travelling expenses
of the members Of the commission, and a |
few salaries at their Chicago Office Dur
ing the fiscal year Just ended these expenses
have exceeded the years appropriation by
a few thousand dollars, and certain dis
bursements necessarily await the passage of
the new appropriation bill now pending in
Congress. The term Bankruptcy" he
said, has no application to the case, and the
condition of this special appropriation has
nothing to do with the finance of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition itself or with the
progress of the work.
The Secretary of the Treasury had con-
ference with the President this afternoon.
in regard to the American representatives
in the international monetary confereees
There will be five of these confereees and
the selection is said to have been narrowed
down to seven persons. Out of these is
Senator Jones, of Nevada, whose appoint
nent is practically settled. 1t is said that
he appointment of Francis A. Walker of
and h. W. Cannon, of New
York These three names are undoubtedly |
included in the seven under consideration.
The remaining four cannot be stated posi-
lively, but it is believed that Senator Carlisle,
Judge Lambert Tree, and ex-senator Hill,
of Colorado, are included in the list Sec
-etary of the Treasury Foster said this
afternoon that the conference was an assured
act, inasmuch as every important foreign g
Government except Russia has decided to =
axe part in it. The failure to hear from
Russia on the subject is attributed to the
emporary absence from ST. Petersburg of
he Russian Minister of Finance. Secre-
ary Foster said he thought the corre-
pondence on the subject might be ready
or transmission to Congress before the ad-
ournment.
MORE than two months ago the silver
question was sprung upon the unsuspecting
'enate through the presentation of the
House bill amending the Arizona funding
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