Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-03-31

Monday, March 2l-The Senate: A
number II bills were acted on
The Hpu-r The Army Appropriation
bill was passed and the Free Wool bill wa
further considered; the House Committee
on River, and liarDor, completed it. gen
eral bill
Tu~>day.-Hou>e The debate on the
Free Silver bill was begun. and evening
sessions were ordered
Senate The bill, to improve the Mis-
sis>ippI RIVER and for the relief Of settlers
on public lands, were passed,
Wednesday Senate: The Pre,i-
dent transmitted Lord Sali-bury'- note Of
Sunday. relating to the Brhring Sea con.
troyersy, together with the rrjpindtr OF
this Government, and these were read in
secret session and referred; the Indian
Appropriate bill was considered
The House: The debate on the Silver
bill went on.
THURSDAY Senate: The latest notes be
tween the State Depar nrnt on the Beh-
ring Sea question were made public.
House: TIE debate on the Silver bin
Was closed, and administering proceedings
were continued with great confusion.
Fridsy.-Senate: The consideration Of
the arbitration treaty was finished in exc
] cufive session, but the vote deferred
House AZ II 50 this morning MIR. Bland
gave up the battle in the House and &C
/ knowledged TINT, after one of the III bst
exciting sessions OF recent wears, the
friends of the silver bill Were p0werless to
bring it - a vote The House then adj
Jnurned. During the days session. a num-
her of fpeeches were made prior to Mr.
BANDS motion To order the previous aue.-
ton, Mr.. Dingley of Maine, took a hand
in opposition, and Mr. Hatch of Missouri,
IN support of the measure, said some sharp
things to Mr.. Williams of Massachusetts
Mr.. Dingley regarded the pending bIll
as the most important measure brought,
or which would be brought. before the
present COngre :. If enacted into law. it
would revolutionize the standard of value
in which all exchanges were made and all
business transacted. Practically it pro
vided that any holder Of bullion could de
post at the mint 80 cents worth of bullion
and receive therefor 81 20. The effect of
the bill would be to give silver owners
s2l,0O0,0O0 more than they nos receive
for their bullion, and dump into the United
States the silver of Europe
After some further debate Mr. Bland
demanded the previous question on the
pending bill.
Mr.. Burrows moved to lay the bill on
the table and demanded tie yeas and NAYS
on his motion.
Speaker Cri>p-"The Chair will hear the
gentleman on the question whether or not
that motion takes precedence
Mr. Burrows read from rule l6, clause
4. giving the order in which motions
might be made. The Chair
Decided in Favor of Mr.. Burrows
and then amid intense excitement. the
clerk began to call the roll on Mr. Bur
rowss motion, which brought tue ques-
ton to square test vote. The excite
ment became more intense as the call pro-
crossed. AT the conclusion of the roll
call the excitement had risen to fever heat.
The recapltulation being completed, the
Speaker directed the clerk to call his name.
MIR. Crisp cast his vote in the negative
amid the deafening applause of the advo-
Gates Of the measure.
Mr. Bland changed his vote from the
negative to the affirmative that he might
have an opportunity to move a reconsider
alton but, being advised that the motion
was defeated by tie vote, again changed
to the negative. The motion was lost
BY Tie Vote, 14s to I4s.
The Maine members all voted. Mr. Outh-
waite of Ohio. at once moved to adjourn.
Mr.. Bland asked if the effect of adjourn
ment would be to make another special
order necessary to call up the bill and the |
Speaker said it would. Many pronounced
anti-silveri,es voted in opposition to the |
motion. and it was lost, 90 to 1879
Mr. johnson, of Ohio, moved to recon- |
slider the vote bv which the House refused |
to table the bill and Mr.. Bland moved to |
lay Mr.. Johnson's motion on the table.
Mr.. Breckenridge. of Kentucky, moved |
to take recess until 10 O'Clock tomorrow
morning.
1--WE do not want a recess" came in q
chorus from both sides of the House Mr.. |
Breckinridge then withdrew his motion,
and the motion to table the motion to re-
consider was rejected-yeas, AS: nays,
l49. Applause by the anti-silver men
The Speaker stated the vote required
on the motion to reconsider and Mr.. Reed,
of Maine. demanded the yeas and nays.
Mr.. Bland, discouraged at the last vote,