The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1893-11-03
REPEAL eILL
Passed By the senate Ry Vote Of I3 to 3e
Blg Crowds Pack the Galleries to Wit
ness the Final Struggle.

REPEAL BILL
Passed By the senate Ry Vote Of 43 to 80
blE Crowds Pack the Galleries to Wit
ness the Final Struggle.
WASHINGTON, Oct 81 AT I:2G Mon,
day evening, by vote,of 43 TO 32, the
senate, after one Of the most remark
able and memorable parliamentary bat.
ties Of a generation, passed the bill un.
conditlonally repeating the purchase
clause OF the Sherman silver law The
end was reached at the conclusion OF a
continuous session OF fourteen days,
after siXty-one days OF debate, during
which five volumes Of the Congressional
Record had been filled with speeches,
amounting in the aggregate 20
about twenty million words, stream
Of talk that would stretch in
cold type from the seaboard six
teen hundred miles into the interior,
from Liberty Enlightening the World,
in New York harbor, 10 the foothills Of
the Rocky mountains The closing day
Of the great struggle for the repeal Of
the purchase Of silver was one Of in
tense excitement The galleries were
packed 90 the doors, every seat in the
senate was occupied, and the walls
were lined with representatives from
the lower branch Of congress, The
acgis OF senatorial courtesy was no
protection in the last moments Gray
haired men infamed by the fiery pas
sions that always characterize the
close Of a bitter contest did not spare
each other senator Morgan, with
words that fairly burned, heaped his
dcnuneiation on Senator Voorhees,, the
leader OF the administration forces,
and Senator Wolcott, the Colorado
I lIotspur concluded a fierce philippe
! against Senator Carey with the Span
ish proverb OF Sancho Panza, that II
was waste Of lather TO shave an
ass The silver republicans, Teller,
Stewart, Dubois, Wolcott and Jones;
PETER, the populist and Nor
! gan and the old war governor
= Of Tennessee Harris, each made his
vnledictory, The democrats were hot
and angry at the desertion Of some OF
4 their colleagues th1t made their defeat
| possible; the populists admonished the
senate that the doom of silver was the
doom Of the old parties, but there was
something tragically pathetic in the
despairing cry Of the silver senator's
| il meant they said, ruin and dcstruc.
/ ton and dcSOlation to the silver pro
ducing states, Senator Jones, with an
emphasis that will never be forgotten
10y those who heard him, warned those
about him that the end OF the fight
marked but the beginning Of the bat
tie that would be waged before th,
people:
| Following is the vote in detail;
/ Yeas Republicans Aldrch, Carey
cutiSma Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Frye
| Gnllinger, riuie, lInwley, Higgins
Iloar, Lodge, Mcmillan, Henderson
Morrill,, Platt Proctor, Quay, Sherman
Squire, StockbridCc Washburn- %
Democrats Brice, CatFrey, Camden
Faulkner, Gibson, German, Gray, Ilill
! lIunton, Lindsay, McPhcrson, Mills
Mitchell tof Wis.,, Murphy Ransom
Smith, Turpie, Villas, Voorhees,, Whit
J.. lof La 90 Total, a.
Nays Republicans Cameron, Du
bois, Jones (of New Perkins, Petit
grew, Power Shoup, Stewart, Teller
Wolcott-l0 Democrats Bate, Berry
blackburn, Butler Call, Cocl,rclI COX
Daniel, George, Harris, Irby Jones 10
Ari, Martin, PaSco, Pugh Roach
Vance, Vest Walthall-la Populist
}, AIlcn--l Independent KYLE Farm
crS Alliance peiTer-l, Total %.
Tho following pairs were announced
The first named would have voted j
the affirmative: Allison, r., wit
Mitchell tuf Ore r. Chandler, r
with White lof CALI, d Wilson, r
! with Colqnitt n; Gordon D., wit
Morgan, D.. Palmer. D., with Hans
= hrnnph Il