Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-10
OK ISLAND, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1893.
SHELVED FOR GOOD.
No Repeal of the Sherman Act
This Session.
The HOUSE FOLLOWS THE SENATE

And Declines to Consider the Matter, Al
though Adopting a Motion Looking to
Debate of the Subject-The Repeal Bill
Recommitted-The Rules Committees
Proposal Denounced as the "Way How
Not to Do It"-Bacon and Bland Cham
pion the Two Causes and Make "Salty"
Remarks.
WASHINGTON, Feb. TO- = Immediately
after the reading and approval of the
Journal in the house yesterday Catchings
called up the resolution of the committee
on rules setting apart this legislativs day"
for the consideration of the bill repeating
the Sherman silver act. Bacon, chairman
of the committee on banking and currency,
took the floor. The house, he said. was
well informed as to the nature of the bill
proposed to be considered The main pur-
pose of the bill was that the purchase of
silver bullion and the storing of it in the
vaults of the treasury as commodity in
metallic form and without coinage should
stop.
Not the Sort of Rule Wanted.
The rule as reported by the committee on
rules was in the form which that commit
tee at this congress had invariably used for
the purpose of bringing important meas
ures before the house And that form of
| rule had always proved to be Intellectual.
The lesson which the house had learned on
the bankruptcy bill ought not to be for
gotten. There was no phase of the silver
question that needed discussion There
was no phase of it that had not
been exploited The discussion of the
bill could serve no useful purpose ur
less the house finally came to vote. he
would if the previous question were voted
down, offer an amendment providing for a
cloture. As the clerk read the proposed
amendment 1t was greeted with loud ap
| plause.l
The Way How Not to Do 1t.
This amendment, said Bacon, had been
| prepared in Difference to the views and
experience of that sound Democrat, the
gentleman from Missouri (Bland) and Wa:
an exact copy of the resolution which that
gentleman had desired to offer in July
last 1t was substantially the rule which
was reported to the house by such sound
Democrats as Mills of Texas and Randall
and by such a good Republican as Reed o.
Maine. 1t presented no novel proposition
He gave notice MISUNDERSTANDING it Il
be the purpose of the committee on rules
to demand the previous question on tn,
adoption of the rule-that gentlemen wht
| desired to come to a vote on the bill mus
vote against that demand. And particu
larly, he said, to those gentlemen whit
united in desire to put an end to this ru
inous practice of purchasing silver as bull
ion and keeping it as bullion, to vot
against ordering the previous question.
| Was Dead Certain of It.
A vote for the previous question was
vote for the death of the bill. A vot
against the previous question would NEE
with the approval of the committee OF
| rules
"How do you know that?" shouted Pierce
one of the most intense silver men.
Bacon replied that he needed no author
ity to make the statement. He knew tina
it was correct. The committee on rule
was not seeking to prevent the previou
question being voted down; and the rejec
tion of the previous question would be n,
affront TO the members of that committee
He insisted that the house should at thi
time fairly and sQuarely meet the question
and not waste time in idle discussion. An
man who voted for the previous question
voted to allow the country to go on in thi
foolish purchase of silver