Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-12
NEWS BY TELE6RiPH.
 From All Quarters. WILL NOT SUBMIT 10 1T. Congressman Bland on the
 Silver Question.
 LENA kaax IS AGAIN ABDUCTED. It is Believed That the TiI-
 tons Have Stolen Her. ARE THREE MORE CHOLERA CASES. Patients Transferred to
 SWinburne Island.
ARE THREE MORE CHOLERA CASES.
BLAND UP IN ARMS.

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 ens-He Says That the Democrat
 Friends of Tariff Reform Did No 1 Intend That the Subject Should b Considered Ftrst-They Wanted l. l Lay Their Hands on Silver an, l DemoRetfze 1t.
 l WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Immediatel
 after the reading of the journal in the hous
 to-day, MT. Wilson of West Virginia offer
 ed for present consideration bill to repea
 part of the act approved July IA, 1890
 the Sherman act.
 It provides that 80 much of the act ap
 proved July IA, 1890, as directs ths secre
 tary of Che treasury to purchase from tim
 to time silver bullion to the aggregat
 amount of 4, ,500,O ,O0O ounces, or so mucl l thereof as may be offered in each month a
 the market price thereof, not exceeding $1 for 3714 grains of pure silver, and to issu, in payment for such purchase treasury notes of the United States, aud the same ii hereby repealed. But this repeal shall rot impair nor in any manner effect the lega tender quality of the standard silver dol 1 lars heretofore coined; and the faith and ! credit of the United States are hereby pledged to maintain the parity of the gold l and silver coin of the United States at the present legal ratio of such other ratio as may be established by law.
 Mir. Bland presented the following or der: "It is ordered by the house that house bill No. shall bs taken up for i'm l m ediate consideration and considered for l fourteen days. During such consideration night sessions may bs held for debate only l at the request of either side The daily l session to commence at Il a. m. and con tinue until p. m. Eleven days of the | debate on the bill to be given to general de- bate under the rules of the last house reg ulating general debate, the time to be equally divided between the two sides as the speaker may direct. The last three days of debate may be devoted to the con- sideration of the bill and the amendments as herein provided under the usual five minute rule of the house as in committee of the whole house.
 General leave to print is hereby granted. The vote shall bs taken, first on an amendment providing for the coinage of silver at the present ratio. If that fails, than separate vote is to be had On sim 1 liar amendment proposing ratio of IT to 1; if that fails, on one proposing ratio of IS to 1; if that fails, on one proposing a ratio of 19 to 1; if that fails, one propos- ing ratio of 20 to 1. If the above amend ments fail, it shall be in order to offer an amendment reviving the act of February 28, 1878, restoring the silver dollar, com monIy known as the Bland-Allison act The vote then to be taken on the engross- ment and third reading of the bill, as amended or on the bill itself, if all amend ments shall have be; voted down, and on the final passage of the bill, without other int
 MT. Henderson of Iowa inquired as to the meaning of the order so far as 1t re- ferred to the division of time between the two sides.
 The speaker eaid that the right of zecog- nition rested with the chair and he would recognize gentlemen on both sides. MT. Raynor said that the adoption of the policy of free silver coinage would tie the United States to the tail of any bankrupt nation of the world. The opening of the l hints to silver might for time, he said, maintain the fictitious value of the coin, but the value of-the bullion would always be regulated by the market price. AS long as the Sherman eilver act remains on the | statute books, 50 lorg will 1t be impossible to effect an international arrangement So long will monetary conferences result in failure. He said that what kept silver and gold at | a parity was a misplaced confidence of the people; and in his opinion if the real con- dition of the treasury were known there would be no necessity of the Sherman law; it would repeal itself. The present oondi- tion of affairs, MT. Raynor said, was far l worse and more serious than @ mere panic | in the stock market. The law had brought | brought about distress, suffering and stag nation which called in the loudest tones for its repeal. The constitution now here establishes gold and silver as the money of | the country; there is no obligation to coin | silver nor to purchase and store 1t for the benefit of the miner.
 MT. Brown, of Indiana, followed. He | was in favor of the coinage of silver, but in view of the havoc wrought by the Sher man law and of the demands of the demo cratic platform, he would vote for it's re peal with or without conditions.
 After some remarks by others MT. Bland demanded the previous question on hii order.
 MT. Reed, of Maine, inquired whether if the previous question were ordered there would be any tims allowed for de
 bate. The speaker replied that in the sb sence of rules there would not be.
 Mr. Reed said that a proposition ha:
 been prese nted, which had been agree; upon by committee of some sort or other of the constitution of which this hous | knew notHlnB oA4claliy, auu lt was uos
 proposed to adopt that proposition withou
 the slightest debate. He recognised tn
 importance of the situation, and had tn
 proposition been simply to repeal the pur
 chasing clause of the Sherman act he coult | see the wisdom of the house coming to
 vote at once.
 MT. Bland said that he had no objection
 to debate after the previous question wa
 ordered.
 But Mir. Bland and Mr. Cannon entere ! a controversy which was 80 animated an
 withal 80 unintelligible, that both wer , called to order by the speaker; and with out any agreement MT, Bland demsnde'
 the question. Mir. Cannon had som difficulty in securing the yeas and nays
 but was finally successful, and the prt yious question was ordered. Yeas 21t
 nays 100.
 MT. Bland then offered his free coinae l 16 to 1-bill as 8 substitute and opene for the free coinage side. The Sherma ;, law was the only one on the statute booh [ that looked to the use of silver as tf
 money of the country. The repeal of tt
 Sherman act had been part of the Oh
 cago platform. Another part had been ' declaration for the use of both gold an
 silver as money. He understood that u
 free coinage of silver in accordance wit | shC H10eAo4W aeSOSSAs0hoNA sAS ASfS<A VA sA Sherman law.
 Mr. Bland reviewed recent silver ar
 financial legislation and eontended that
 was an apprehension that the United Stat
 would repeal the Sherman law that i 2 duced the British government to recor
 mend to the government of India the SD . pension of silver coinage. Gold, MT. Blal
 said, was coming to the country to-da It was coming all the time, and it was t people across the water who were eustai it ing the panic. Gold could not be obtain n from the Bank of England or the Bank France without premium being paid f
 1t; but the American treasury paid 0
 gold to every speculator, because the 6
 ministration was hostile to silver. It "
 the fight on silver which had precipitat
 the panic. The panic which had beg
 had been brought about designedly al
 for purpose. But, he declared, wi
 much emphasis, if the democratic deman
 of the bimetallists were not complied wi
 the panic would become one in earnest. He appealed to members to stand by
 metailism and not to obey the comman = of the shylocks. France, he said, had
 forded medium of exchange for all 1 world during 70 years at ratio of 154 or it silver to of gold. At that ratio Fra1 he had been able to maintain the parity of m- two metals. This was Q proof that 1 le government of the United States could
 SO at the ratio of 16 to 1. If Europe
 fused to accept that ratio the effect wo1 be to divert from Europe the trade of ey'