The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1893-11-03
REPEAL BILL
Passed By the senate ny a Vote Of i5 TO 3s
-Big Crowds Pack the Galleries to Wit
ness the FINAL Struggle.

nEFEAL Dill
Passed By the senate ny a Vote Of IS TO Sc
-Big Crowds Pack the Galleries to Wit
ness the FINAL Struggle.
WASHINGTON. Oct 81 AT 7.2G Mon
day evening, by vote Of - 70 &c, the
senate. after one Of the most remark
able and memorable parliamentary bat
ties Of generation. passed the bill I'M
eonditionally 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 filed with speeches,
amounting in the aggregate TO
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. 20 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 to the doors. every seat in the
senate was occupied. and the walls
were lined with representatives from
the lower branch Of congress The
aegis 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 bitter contest did not spare
each other. Senator Morgan, with
words that fairly burned. heapcd his
denunciation on Senator Voorhees,, the
leader OF the administration forces,
and senator Wolcott, the Colorado
lIotspur. concluded a fierce philippe
against Senator Carey with the Span
ish proverb of sancho Panza, that Il
was waste of lather 20 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
valedic,ory. The democrats were hot
and angry AZ the desertion Of some Of
their colleagues thSt 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 destruc-
ton and desOlation TO the silver-pro-
dueing states Senator Jones, with an
/ emphasis that will never be forgotten
by those who heard him. warned those
ai,Out him that the end Of the fight
marked but the beginning Of the bat
tie that would be waged before the
4 people.
| Following is the vote in detail:
1. -Republieans-A ldrich, Carey
CdfS.n. Davis, Dixon, Doiph. Frye
Galiingrr. riuie, Hawley. Higgins
Hoar. Lodge. Mcmillan. Manderson
Morrill,, Plat Proctor Quay, Sherman
squire. stockbridge. Washburn--s
Democrats Briee. Cafrey, Camden
Faulkner. Gibson, German. Gray, IIill
Hunton. Lindsay. McPherson. Mills
Mitchell lof Wis.,. Murphy. Ransom
smith. Turpie. Villas. Voorhees,, Whit
tof La.l-so Total, e.
Nays Republicans Du
bois Jones lof New Perkins, Petit
grew, Power. Shoup. Stewart Teller
wolcott-lO Democrais-B Berry
blackburn. Butler. Call. Coclsrell. Cox
Daniel. George. Harris. Irby. Jones 10
Ark Martin. PaSeo. Pugh. Roach
Vance, Vest, Walthall-io Populist-
u Allen--i. independently yle-1 Farm
crs' Alliance Pcffer-I Total -
The following pairs were announced
Inc first named would have voted j
the affirmative. Allison. r. witt
/ Mitchell (of orc) r.; Chandler, r
/ with White (of Cali. d; Wilson, L.
! with Colquiit n; Gordon. D.. wit
Morgan. u; Palmer. D., with Hans
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