The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08
The Silver Issue DON'T Down.

age issue will not down. Gentlemen of
both parties who have been hoping it would
be postponed until after the elections are
tonight are convinced the issue must be
disposed Of by the House before the date
of the national conventions. The free
coinage men, of both parties, are of course,
highly elated. The gold men of the Demo-
cratic party are
FILLED WITH DISMAL. FoREBopINGs
while the anti-free coinage Republicans,
who comprise So per cent of the Republi-
can membership in the House, will surely
pass the Bland bill, so decisive and over
whelming was the victory of the advocates
Of free coinage. 1t was significant feat
ure OF the proceedings, that Of all disputes
that arose on parliamentary questions, the
ant1-free coinage men did most OF the talk
ing. To one unfamiliar with political
methods, the conclusion would have been
irresistible after listening to the denuncia-
ton OF Speaker Crisp's rulings, to the i'm
FASHIONED oratory, TO the direful predic-
tons OF those opposed to the Bland bill,
that Tree coinage men were to be swept
away IN whirlwind OF popular indigna-
ton. Yet when the vote came, not on the
silver resolution alone but all auxiliary
questions, the free coinage men came tc
the front in az unbroken phalanX, and by
vote of over two to one,
ROUTED THEIR OPPONENTS
On the last and vital proposition, that OF
setting apart three days for The considera.
ton of the Bland bill, the free coinage
men won oy an overwhelming vote OF 1916
/ to so.
Before reading the journal, Catchiugs,
81 Afsegsegs,,,,,
setting apart three days for consideration
of the silver bill and the clerk proceeded
to read, and upon its adoption, Catchings
demanded the previous question.
Tracey, OF New York, called attention to
the fact the journal had not been read.
The speaker declared IL was in order t
call up the resolution, and the reading o.
the resolution was concluded.
Dlngley-Has the chair ruled this repor
of the committee on rules can be considere(
before tue journal has been read!
The Speaker-The chair has. That i
the provision of the rule.
Dingley-Then the chair decides tina
business can be done before reading tn
journali
The Speaker-The chair so decides.
Tracey appeal from the decision of tn
chair.
Tracey and his colleague Fitch. of New
ruling of the speaker which was defends
by Bland, of Missouri, and a very war;
cooloQuy ensued between Tracey and tn
. speaker as 10 the right of the former ger
tleman to the floor.
In advocacy of his appeal he said it woul
be an unfortunate precedent TO make tina
the committee on rules, consisting praC
ucally OF three members, could come int
the House and force upon 800 odd member
the consideration of any resolution the
might desire TO call up. The House pro
, ceeded with great caution.
, The eyes of the entire country were O.
I the House this day and this resolution VI
g on matter which concerned the peopl
= more than any question that had come be
fore Congress for thirty years. With re
, gard to the question of reading the journs
, 1t was customary to read the journal ever
! morning before proceeding to business
Knowing this, many members were abseu
and fair opportunity should be give
them TO reach the capitol.
He yielded five minutes to Fitch, VIII
seconded his colleagues remarks, prefRcin
: his own remarks with al expression of III
2 highest respect for the fairness of th
chair, but he concurred fully in what ha
been said in regard to the danger of th
precedent which IL was proposed to sci
Those Democrats who had sat here owe
and over again demanding the reading {
the journal in the last House knew the dc
mand had always been granted and that !
8 q Democratic House in a case like this thu
p refusal should be made was as unfair to b
. mind as anything that had been done
o the last Hovse. There was good deal
|, talk in his state about the premature
/ "sBap' convention. If there was eve
anything premature or unexpected to tnos
who opposed silver legislation it was IL
swapping Of this resolution on them befol
n the reading of the Journal. The Represer
:, tatives from New York would stand b
what they thought right with the san
& steadfastness and courage they had stoC
5 by the present speaker when, as the ge
|, tleman from Georgia, he had proteste
T against things which were no more unju
n than was the bringing of this resolutiC
before the reading of the journal. II
party owed something to the Democrats
New York. 1t had no right to load the
] down and from them il must expect as
r deserved the most emphatic protest.
BY vote Of 1874 nays to 70 yeas the dec
sion of the chair was sustained.
A warm controversy arose after the col
:, clusion of BANDS remarks. In those r
{ marks he alluded to the conversation
e had with Cochran, of New York, and A
drews, of Massachusetts, in which tho
gentlemen stated if consideration OF the r
q solution was postponed until tod the
would be no filibustering on the part of u
q anti-silver men, and he charged those ami
. silver men with bad faith.
To this charge Cochran made fiery
II NAL. He had conversation with the ge
/. tlemen from Missouri, anu DIT that conve
Is sation Bland declined TO agree the resol
= ton should be taken up to-day. Only aft
= he had a talk with members of commit
|: rules then Bland consented to it. Not Oh
k word about filibustering had been said
;, the conversation with Bland.
10 Cochran continuing, expressed himse
r, as opposed 10 tilibusterlnR, methods. III
& ruling of the chair, he SAID, was DANCE
n Gus one. Until the journal was read,
W member could tell whether the House w
b legally in session.