Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-08-17
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
Repeal Of Purchasing
Clause the Subject.
MCCALL MAKES A SPEECH.
House Steering Committee Still Pur'
suing the Work Of Organization.

WASHINGTON, Aug 1.-THE debate In
the house We .terday was characterized by
the ebn aud flow Of eloquence and by the
NIB sence OF interest. II was started by Nc
Call 0Rep OF Massacausetts) I'm favor OF
the repeal OF the purchasing CLAUSE Of the
Sherman hill, aud was closed by Moses
Oem. of Georgia. io opposition thereto.
Sandwiched between these two speeches
were remarks by Coombs (Dem. OF New
York;, Bryan Dem. of Nebraskah and
Henderson A(Rep. OF Iowa). The first
named made IN address from . business
STANDPOINT in favor Of the Sherman law.
Bryan was the apostle OF bi-metallism.
Taken altogether the days debate might
be pat down as drawn battle
The senate spent only three hours In
session, but that time was well filled mp.
Mr.. Vests bill appropriating 100000 for
a site and building In Washington to be
known as the "Hall of Records" was
passed The bill To increase the circula-
tion of national banks was postponed for
n day, but before 10 was so laid aside an
important amendment proposed to II by
Mr.. Cockrell-to authorize the redemption
(at par aud accrued lnterest) Of such Q per
cent bonds Tor s25, 900. 900 In alp as may be
offered, and 10 authorize the Issue OF new
treasury legal tender notes In payment
thereof.
This produced considerable discussion.
Another amendment to the bill was
offetrd later on by Mr.. Allen Of Nebraska
for the cessation of interest on the bonds
ON which the increased national bank cir
culation sh ,uld be based. After that
there were two speeches delivered, one by
Mr.. Berry in favor Of bi-metalism, and
one by Mr. Gallinger against tariff legis-
lation before 1897.
senator PETERS Scheme.
Senator PETER of Kansas came to the
front yesterday with bill directing the
secretary OF Che treasury to coin OF print
$500. 100000 In aluminium or upon paper
and pay on the entire Indebtedness Of the
country at once The bill had q lot of
whereasas which recited that "A nation
which can make good bonds can make
better money and nation which can
make dollar OF gold can make another
of aluminium or paper, and nation which
won't or can't pay Its debts has no right
20 exist on this earth"
The two house steering committees, sil-
yer and anti-silver, are assiduously at
work organizing their forces and securing
recruits. The free silver advocates claim
that they aEs gaining every day and that
sbe debate as a rule is helping them. The
friends of the administration, on the
other hand, manifest more confidence In
their ultimate success than at any time
since the contest began. A poll of the
house has been practically completed by
the canvassers I'm the interest of Me anti
silver facton, which is said by one of the
leaders to show an impregnable majority
OF "a In favor OF unconditional repeal OK
the purchasing clause as provided In the
Wilson bill.
Agreement OF Opipiop.
There is su ubstantial agreement Of opin-
ion among the silver and anti-silver lead
ers as to what is to be the real test Of the
strength of the two parties on the several
questions to be- voted on at the close OF the
present debate, but a wide divergence ex-
lists as to the number of votes that will be
cast by the two sides thereon. Mr.. Harter
estimates that il the hou successfully
passes what he calls the danger point OF
the vote on free coinage at a ratio OF ~ TO
4, the majority for the Wilson bill, which
will present the naked question OF repeal
or no repeal, will be 100 or more
On the other hand, Mr.. Bland says there
are represent tatiyes who may vote against
the coinage of silver at any specific ratio
who will not vote to wholly abolish the
use of silver "a money metal. which
would be the effect, he says, Of the pas
sage of the Wilson bill. IF there are any
representatives from silver district who
would thus vote" said Mr.. Bland. "they
had better make terms with the admins
tration, for they cannot do 1t with their
people"
Doubt ms to the Result
Mr.. Harter's doubt as to the result OF
the vote OH the proposition to coin silver
Mt n ratio of 20 to l ia said to be due to
Information conveyed to the anti-silver
executive committee that there are up.
wards of 40 Republicans who will vote for
establishing coinage at that ratio Mr..
Bland, however, believes that the ratio OF
IB to I will be stronger In the house than
any other, despite the reported 20 Repub-
lican votes for 20 to l.
The members Of the senate finance COM
mittee hold their first meeting today, and
will continue In session daily with q view
of trying to reach an agreement upon
eome measure that will be satisfactory to
the two extremes They admit that they
have very difficult task before them, but
they are In hopes that some compromise
will be effected.
Senator voorhees, said yesterday that he
intended at the earliest opportunity to
press the bill reported from the finance
committee to allow the national banks TO
issue circulation mp TO the par value OF
their bonds He has the assurance Of both
the Democrats and Republicans that they
will support him in his efforts to secure
an early passage Of the measure.