The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-02
FREE COINAGE PASSED.
ruE VOTE ON THE BILL IN THE
SENATE 40 TO as.


ing q Tie Would Have Shelved the
Bill TIL December Had He Been in
pis Sest-A Belief That the Measure
VIII Be Defeated in the House.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-Vice presidents
MortonIs casting vote would have postponed
the Stewart free coinage bill till December
IN the Senate to-day. but Vice President
Morton, who has lost interest since he was
shelved at Minneapolis, was away on the
Hudson. The motion which had been made
nv Senator Vest OF Missouri was lost on q
10 vote and the bill was subsequently passed
by a majority of four-the votes of David
r. Hill of New York, Rufus Blodgett OF
New Jersey, and J. Don Cameron of Penn
sylyania, the only eastern senators who
voted for the ball, turning the scale In its
favor. The bill as passed is the naked free
coinage proposition, the proposed limitation
70 the American product having been re-
iected, and it provides also for
the coinage of the bullion in the treas
ury purchased with silver or coin certificates,
but makes no provision for issuing paper
certificates The bill will not pass the
Rouse as easily as it passed ahe Senate, IL
indeed, It passes at all. The desire to en-
barrass President Harrison, which moved
so many Of the republicans who voted for
1t in the Senate, will not be 30 strong with
the republicans in the House, and the demo-
cratic anti-free coinage men oan make and
will make a better fight in the House,
nerved as they will be by the thought that
to defeat free coinage for the second time
In tho Housa after IL had OaSsad
the republican Senate would make il almost
certain that the electoral votes of New
York, New Jersey, Connections, Massa-
chusetts. New Hampshire and Rhode
Island would be given to Cleveland
and Stevenson. In the House the bill will,
under the rules, have to be referred to the
committee on coinage, where Messrs. Will
Jams ard Tracy will keep ID as long as
possible Then reported to the House it will
have 70 go on the calendar, requiring
special vote to take 1t up. Then a aciosure
rule would be necessary to prevent filteus-
tering, and while Messrs. Bland and Bartine
are claiming that Speaker Crisp has prom
ised that they should have a closure rule if
the bill ever passed the Senate ID is doubt
full whether they can substantiabe that
claim. The anti-free coinage men are very
hopeful that they will be able to prevent
direct vote on the bill and even that
they will be able to get it
speaker and the majority of the rules COM
mittee will require petition signed by at
least 115 democrats before they will bring
in a closure rule. Mr. Pierce, who has been
circulating the petition for throe months
claims to have 100 signatures now and says
there will be no difficulty. now that the
Senate has passed the bill, in getting twenty
FIVE more from southern and western men
whose reelection to congress depends
upon 1t.
APATHY OF THE REPUBLICANS.
The Senate was more interesting to-day
than on any previous day during the session
The leaders Of the House, especially those
interested in the silver fight, were well re-
paid as were the spectators in the galleries,
ss the Senate was gradually forced 10 the
decisive vote in spite OF the efforts Of the
leading Observation-Disclosures German,
Palmer, Gray, Mcpherson, Carlisle, Brioe
and even Vest--to prevent it by recommisting
or postponing the bill The republican
leaders showed strange apathy.
Chairman Morrill, of the dnance
committee was necessarily absent, but
Senators Sherman and Aldrich, the real
managers Of the fnance committee,
could have been present to see that the
Senate took the adverse action on the bill
which the committee had recommended.
Senator Sherman deliberately left for
Boston by sea, after assenting on Wednes-
to-day. 1t looked very much as though
the republican leaders were playing
politics" for il they made the strong fight
which the democratic leaders made, il in
deed they had had the Vice President in
his place. the free coinage bill would not
have passed.
SMOKED OUT HILL.
The smoking out of David B. Hill, who
finally and formally took his place with the
advocates Of unlimited free coinage Of sill
YER, was almost as interesting tothe Senate,
at least, as the final vote itself. When Sen
ator Hill, during the preliminary stages of
the fight, rose nervously to his feet and
asked unanimous consent 90 speak it was
supposed that he would ia this. his first
speech in the Senate, defend his position,
for everybody saw by that time that he
was standing with the extreme silver men,
but he said nothing-in a clear distinct
voice, nervously tapping the desk
Sf Soid h5s on closed TIC it right with Th' his left #
hand, nothing-that is as to the merits of
the question, though he did boldly declare
for fulfilling the agreement to vote to-day
by way Of maintaining the honor of the
Senate. Senators Palmer aud Morgan, who
had made direct allusions to Senator Hill's
suspicious silence which made even Senator
Hill laugh, had to smile at the way in which
he broke IT,
MORGAN THE LION OF THE HOUR.
BY the Associated Press.
Tonight Senator Morgan is the lion Of
the hour with the friends OF free silver.
Months ego Senator Morgan undertook the
task of smoking out" the senators who
hung doubtfully aloof from any vote that
would commit them on the silver question.
DE has succee led, and has overthrown more
than his enemies, for he has obliged the
reluctant Senate to pass bill that is as
radical In its absolute free silver coinage
requirements as the most devoted friend of
the white metal could desire. Now the bill
goes TO the House, and that body, which
mad buried the question. as it was supposed,
tor the present session ct least, will again be
Obliged TO face the issue The bill will turn
up In the House tomorrow, and IL the usual
course Of legislation is followed it will be
referred to the coinage committee. A
prompt response is expected on the
OH from that committee, and it will
.ske its place on the calendar, follow
lng hundreds of other bills. and with about
as as much chance Of being reached in the or
h ulhary course of business as bill TO bridge
tne Atlantic. But the friends OF the bill
are stimulated by the action Of the Senate
70 point near determination. They are
n Gemocratic in the House by large ma
!oIity, and they hold that it would be bad
p'llcy to allow silver bill passed by re-