St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-08
SILvER'S STAR IS UP.
The Rule in Favor Of BANDS
Bill Adopted Despite All
Opposition.
Friends Of Free Coinage Get
an Early Cineh on Chances
to Fiilbuster.
Speaker Crisp Has Several
Tits With Members on
the Rules.
an Overwhelming Majority in
Favor Of Consideration
March 20.

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clearly demonstrated by today's after
noon session of the house, and the gem
tlemen III both parties who have been
hoping that the silver question might
be postponed until after the general
elections are tonight convinced that the
issue is one which must be met and dis
posed of by the house before the date of
the national conventions. The free
coinage men in both parties are, OF
course, highly elated at their triumph,
The gold men IN the Democratic party
are filled with most dismal forebodin gs
of the political result if the Democratic
party commits itself to the Bland bill,
while the anti-free coinage Republicans,
who comprise SIS per cent of their full
membership in the house, are disposed
TO view the situation, if not with salts
faction, at least with good deal of
eomplacency, as they regard the contest
as one in which the Democrats in the
end must be the greater losers. The
vote in the house today indicates that
the house will surely pass the Bland
bill-so decisive and overwhelming was
the victory of the advocates Of free coin
age.
1t was significant feature of the pro-
ceedings that on all the disputes that
arose on parliamentary questions the
anti-free coinage men did most of the
talking. To one unfamiliar with polit-
ical methods, the conclusion would have
been irresistible, after listening to the
denunciation of Speaker CriSp'S rul-
ings, to the impasSiOned Oratory and
Dlreful Predictions
of those opposed to the Bland bill, that
the free coinage men we're to be swept
away in whirlwind of popular i'll
dignatiOn. 81 Yet, when the vote came
not on the silver resolution alone, but
on all auxiliary questions - the free
coinage men came to the front an I'M
broken phalanX, and by a vote of over
two 10 one routed their opponents from
every redoubt, behind which they
sought temporary refuge. On the last
and vital proposition = that setting
apart three days for the consideration
of the Bland bill-the free coinage men
won by the overwhelming vote of 100
yeas to 81 nays.
When the speaker called the house to
order at noon The was confronted with
large array of empty seats. Before
the reading of the journal Mr.. Catch
ings, of Mississippi, called up the silver
resolution, and the clerk proceeded to
read it, and upon its adoption Mr..
Catchings demanded the previous ques-
ton. Mr.. Tracey, of New York. called
attention to the fact that the Journal
had not been read. The speaker de-
clared it was in order for the gentleman
from Mississippi to call up the res0lu-
tiOn.
MIR. Dingley-Then the chair decides
that business can be done before the
reading of the journal? The Speaker
The chair SO decides.
Mr.. Tracey appealed from the decision
of the chair, and in advocacy of his APP
peal he said that it would be an unfor
tunate precedent to make that the COM
mittee on rules, consisting practically of
three members, could come into the
house and force upon the 800 odd mem
bers the consideration of any resolution
they might desire to call up. 1t was
customary to read the journal every
morning before proceeding to business,
on that account there were
Many Members Absent,
and fair opportunity should be given
them to reach the capitol. Mr.. Fitch,
of New York. concurred fully in what
had been said in regard to the danger of
precedent Which it was proposed to set.
If there was ever anything premature
or unexpected to those who opposed the
silver legislation, it was the swapping
of this resolution on them before the
reading of the journal. The party
owed something to the Democrats of
New York. 1t had no right to load
them down, and from them it must eX-
pect. as it deserved, the most emphatic
protest.
Mr.. Tracey then claimed the floor, but
the speaker had already recognized Mr..
Bland, who said that when the commit
tee OH rules had reported the resolution.
certain arti-Silver men had come to him
and had said that if the resolution were
postponed for the time being they
would be ready to vote for it today
without filibustering. 1t was fair,
square agreement made by the gentle
men, who were Messrs. Cochran and
Andrew. He thought it fair play and
fair dealing that when they came to him
and to the committee on rules and
made solemn agreement that filibust-
ering tactics ought not to be reSorted
to. If the house proceeded with the
reading of the journal in the temper of
OF the gentleman from New York (Mr.
Tracey the opponents of the resolution
could move to amend the bill from now
until Christmas. He moved to lay the
appeal on the table.
Mr.. Tracey then demanded the floor,
but the speaker stated that the motion
was not debatable.
Mr.. Tracey-1 have the floor. The
Speaker-Che gentleman has not the
floor. Mr.. Tracey replied that if the
chair at any stage of the proceedings
desired to make such ruling he wanted
to know it.
The Speaker-The chair wishes to be
addressed respectfully. Mr.. Tracey
don't desire to be looked at in that
manner. Laughter.
The Speaker-The gentleman must
conform to the rules of the house. The
gentleman will be quiet and the chair
will state the question, and the gentle
man himself will see the impropriety of
his position. The gentleman reserved
his time, whereupon the chair recog-
niZed the gentleman from Missouri, and
that gentleman made motion to lay
the appeal on the table, which cuts OF
debate.
Cochran Explains.
After further discussion on this point
Mr.. Bland withdrew his motion, in or.
der to enable Mr.. Cochran, of New
York, to whom he had personally
alluded, to take the floor. Mr.. CockraG
said that the gentleman from Missouri
had stated that in an interview with
him, he (Mr. Cockran) had undertaken
TO bind a portion of the house to its
action today. That was not correct
though it might be the gentleman'S IN