The Portland daily press., 1892-03-25
THEY MUST MAKE THEIR
FIGHT OVER AGAIN.
Pandemenium Reigned Supreme and
a Vote Could Not Be Taken.
OWE 1,ITrLE LULL CAUSED BY MIR.
REED,s SENSIBLE WORDS.

From the Time the Previous Question Was
Moved, Confusion Prevailed-The Ser
gent-at-Arms Was Kept Busy, and
Friends and Foes of the Bill Pretty
Evenly Balanced - How Mr.. Hatch
Treated Mr.. Williams to some Hot
Shot for Mugwumps.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-At 1886 this
morning Mr.. Bland gave up the battle in
the House and acknowledged that, after
one of the most exciting sessions of re-
cent years, the friends of the silver bill
were powerless to bring it to vote. The
House then adjourned. During the
days session, number of speeches were
made prior to Mr.. Bland's motion to or
der the previous question. Mr.. Dingley
of Maine took 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 Congress. If enacted into
law. it would revolutionize the standard
of value in which all exchanges We're
made and all business transacted.
Practically it provided that any holder
of bullion could deposit at the mint 80
cents worth of bullion and receives there
for ST 30. The effect of the bill would
be to give silver owners $21, ,000, 900 more
than they now received for their bullion,
and dump into the United States the
silver of Europe.
Mr.. Bartine, of Nevada, followed in a
speech in favor of the bill. He COM
batted the arguments in opposition claim
ing that they were not sustained by the
facts.
Mr.. Hatch, of Missouri, said that no
amount of sophistry, no selfish or
sectional appeal, could drive from this
question the pledges made by the Demo-
cratic partysin % states in which that
party had declared that silver would be
restored to the place 1t occupied in 1873
when it was demonetized by a Republi-
can Congress. The Democrats who
could not stand on the platform on
which the Democratic party had stood
for 50 years
Had Better Hunt Hole
somewhere else. Laughter and ap-
plause If the gentlemen from New
York and Maryland [Messrs. Cochran
and Raynor] could fix the policy of the
Democratic party, they would carry that
party into the wilderness of absolute
def eat The gentleman from Massachu-
setts Mr.. Williams] had attempted to
read him out of the Democratic party.
Laughter The gentleman, with an
egotism he had never heard equalled, IN
this House, had declared substantially
that only those who agreed with him on
this question were Democrats. The first
duty of a Democrat is to abide by the
decision of his caucus and his conven-
ton. TApplause. sAnd when gentle
man undertakes to read me out of the
Democratic party" said Mr.. Hatch, II
simply resent it with the indignation of a
Democrat who never scratched ticket
and never bolted nomination" f"
[Laughter.]
Mr.. Williams-"Ca you refer me to a
Democratic platform that ever declared
for free silver?''
Mr.. Hatch-''When you want Demo
cratic platform you will get 1T from
Democrats, not from
Men Whose Swadd1ing Clothes
have not been on for a week, or month,
or years" [Laughter].
I Mr.. Williams-"You want to read me
out of the party?'
Mr.. Hatch-''No, sir; but you stated
that the time was coming when the Dem
| ocratic party must choose between the
Democratic New England and the Ali.
ance party of the South and West. am
ready to take my stand now. will swap
YOU for the barefooted statesman from
| Kansas. loud and long continued
laughter1. And L will take your col
| league and give him if can win back
! the Young Democrat from Georgia MI,
Watson] who has gone astray." Laugh
| ter
After some further debate, Mr.. Bland
demanded the previous question on the
pending bill.
Mr.. Burrows moved to lay the bill OF
| the table and demanded the yeas ano
nays on his motion.
| Speaker Crisp-''The Chair will heal
the gentleman on the question whether
or not that motion takes precedence"
| Mr. Burrows read from rule 16, clause
a. 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
rows's motion, which brought the ques
ton to a square test vote. The excite
ment became more intense Us the cal