The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-10
Now on the House Calendar Just as
it Came From the Sem
ate.
The Report Accompanying tho Bill
Presented by Congressman
Bland.
Next Wednesday n Resol ution for Imme-
diate Consideration viii 10 Of
fered In tho House.

WASHINGTON, July 9.--The house COM
mittee on coinage. weights and measures
met promptly at $3.50 this morning. with the
full voting membership present. without
dilatory motions on the part of the anti
silver men motion to repor. the bill TO the
house was at onoe brought 10 a vote, and
the bill just As II passed the senate ordered
reported favorably by tho following vote:
Yeas. Bland. J. X. Williams. Kilgors. Rob-
ertson, Pierce Epes, Mckeifhap and Bartine.
Nays. Tracey, NJ. 7. Williams, Abner Taylor.
Stone and John Stone. When the silver
men vera thus assured Of getting the bill
on the calendar they gave some thouRht to
the question OF the best means TO secure
action on it. In pursuance of this Bartine
moved that Bland request the committee
on rules to report q cloture rule for the
confederation of and vote upon the bill.
This caused considerable discussion. II
was found the oloture was Questionable to
some members, and Bartine Withdrew the
motion. Bland, therefore. subsequently re-
ported the bill to the house without re-
quest for = special order for vote on it.
In the house Bland presented the report
to accompany the silver bill, in which the
committee says: "Whasever may be the
effect OF the bill as it relates TO treasury
notes issued under the act Of July IA, 1890,
" hich act 10 repealed by this bill, there il
no diverse opinion that the notes are re-
dsemsble in coin derived from the coinage
Of the bullion purchased under the repealed
act. The bill reported compels this coin
age. The notes being therefore rsdsema-
BILE in coin. there 10 necessity for good coin.
"The BILL" says the report. ''prsscribes
as sole requirement upon the owner of
silver bullion that he shall deposit it with
officers of the mints. These officers are to
coin the silver into the standard dollar au-
thorized by the act of Feb. %. 1873. If this
bill should pass silver bullion would be
paid for at the mints on deposit of the
same, in money appropriated by congress,
and kept there by the secretary of the
treasury, as now provided for gold. The Ca
pacity Of the nints 10 limited practically by
appropriations. The mints at Philadel ph ia,
New Orleans, San Francisco and Carson
City, run to their full capacity with two
changes Of workmsn or shifts psr day, can
| coin largely in excess Of all bullion silver
produced from tho minsa from year to
year"
During the afternoon the committee On
rules adopted the following resolution.
which will be reported to tho house next
Wednesday: "fhat i'm sdiately upon tho
adoption of this resolution the house pro-
ceed to the confederation of senate bill 81
not be disposed of on said day. the consid-
Grafton thereof shall be continued during
the next legislative day." Should this rule
for the consideration of the bill be
voted down the advocates of the
measure, will surrender. Should it
hA
their opponents to move that the whole
question be postponed until September, II
the motion to postpone be defeated the
anti-silver men will resort to tlibusterinp,
and then the good Offices of the committee
on rules will again be invoked 10 bring in a
cioture rule. All the democrats of the COM
mittee nre adverse to bringing in such a
rule. and will only do 80 when they are alb.
solutely compelled by force Of circum-
STAGES. such as request from a ma ajority of
the total democratic membership of the
house.
The republicans are still reticent, and
their position on the question is an un-
known quantity. II they see a chance of
defeating the bill they will do it. But they
will not agree in advance to help either fac
tion of the democrats. A careful poll Of
the house, made to-day by Williams
(Mass.). eonvinces him that if. the bill
comes to direct vote on its merits il will
be defeated by majority of from four to
eight, but the arrival of ahsentses may
change the estimate. Opponents of the
bill believe. however, that there will be
much larger majority against its considera-
tlon.
Kil9ore, a member OF the coinage COM
mittee, voted in the committee against the
demand for the previous question on the
motion to report tho bill as it came from
tho senate. He did SO. be says. because he
believes the bill defective in at least three
particulars, and ought to be amended. The
most important defect is that it repeats the
law making obout 500. 100000 in treasury
notes redesmable in coin and legal a. we'll.