Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-16
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Bills for the Repeal of the Sherman Acc
introduced.

Bills for the Repeal of the Sherman Acc
introduced.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 9.-[n the
Senate yesterday afternoon bills for the
repeal Of the Sherman silver purchase
act were introduced by Mr.. Hill and
Mr.. Stewart. Senator Vest presented
bill to fix the number of grains of gold
and silver in the gold and silver coins
of the United States (the silver dollar to
contain 1914 grains pure silver, or 5l6
grains of standard silver.) Other bills
were introduced in the Senate as fol-
lows: Repeating all acts and parts Of
acts discriminating in taxation against
the circulating of notes of state banks
and state banking associations; provid-
ing for an income tax of 40 cents on each
500 owned by persons or corpora
tons in excess of $1,000; appropriating
S133 900, 900 for Notifications and other
sea coast defenses, and 81, 900, 900 for the
establishment of gun factory on the
Pacific Coast; for the admission of New
Mexico as state.
In the House the Richardson-Bel-
KNAPP seat contest was taken up and a
Democratic resolution to seat Richard
son was adopted, and he was sworn in.
Mr. Reilly announced the death of his
colleague, William Mutchler, and as
mark of respect the House adjourned
| till Thursday.
WAsH1NGToN. D. c., Aug. 1O.-The
chaplain's opening prayer yesterday
morning was eulogy on the late Sem
ator Stanford. The journal of yes
terday having been read, the
House joint resolution for the
payment of seasonal employees of
| the House and Senate was laid before
| the Senate and it was referred to the
! committee on appropriations. Mr..
/ German then moved that the Senate
adjourn, and Mr.. Platt, of Connecticut,
demanded the yeas and nays on that
motion. The vote resulted: Yeas, 48;
nays, 81; and the Senate at 1920 adj
! iourned until tomorrow at noon.
The negative votes were all given by
Republicans-Mr. PETER Pop. of Kan
| (Pop.) of South Dakota, voting with
| the Democrats. The Democrats all
voted for adjournment and were joined
in that vote by the following named Re-
publcans: Messrs Dubois, Of Idaho;
Jones, of Nevada; Perkins, of California;
! Power, of Montana; ShOup, Of Idaho;
Stewart. of Nevada; Teller and Wolcott,
of Colorado. 4
There was no session of the House.
A caucus was held by friends of silver
Of both parties, the following resolu-
tons being adopted:
Resolred, That we will support bill re-
pealing the purchasing clause of the Sher
man act and cOncurrently providing for the
! free and unlimited coinage of silver with
| full legal tender quality on such raiO as
will provide and maintain the parity be-
tween gold and silver. Be it further
Resolred, That a committee Of seven be
| Ni,1to Nv no oI,aIr Of
! enceto draft and introduce such bill and
take proper steps to secure the full and free
! discussion and consideration thereof and
| vote of the House upon the bill and all
| proper amendments
! WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10.-Brief
sessions of House and Senate were held
to-day. No action was taken by either
day and the House until to-mor-
row. Several conferences were held
! by the Democratic caucus Of the Senate
and the friends of free silver. Wilson,
| of West Virginia, was selected to frame
the administration silver bill. Bland,
Of Missouri, has free coinage measure
prepared.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 1.-THE
! silver and anti-silver men in the
House have locked horns. Representa-
tive Wilson, of West Virginia, pre-
| ocuUGu q D1ll UO-Ody 1OI GLG It pcdl VI tuO
silver purchase clause of the Sherman
act. Mr.. Bland, the apostle of free sill
yer, followed with bill for free
coinage, introduced as q substitute
for the repeal BILL Representative
! Bland also offered the agreement made
this morning governing the course
of debate. It limits debate to four
teen days, sessions continuing from
II A. NJ to 5 P. NJ, and with night ses-
sions for deb2te only if desired; the
vote first to be taken on the bill present.
ed as a substitute for the Wilson bill,
providing for free coinage at the ratio
of Is to l. If that fail, then at
ratios running from II to up to 20 to l;
if they all fail, then on the revival of
the Bland-Allison act of 1873; and then
on the original measure.
Mr.. Bland demanded the previous
question on his order, but this was an
| tagonized by the Republicans under the
| leadership of Mr.. Cannon, who wanted
| time to debate the question. Under
the ruling of the Speaker, in the alb
SERGE of rules or agreement, ordering
the previous question would cut off
! debate. By the operation of voting
! by tellers Mr.. Cannon secured
sufficient support to secure a vote by
yeas and nays; and at 1885 the calling
of the roll begain The vote resulted:
| Yeas, 217; nays, 100. So the previous
! question was ordered. The Republic
ans generally voted with the Demo-
Gratis in support of the motion. The
resolution was then adopted,
At five minutes after l o'clock Mr..
Rayner (Dem. of Maryland, began the
debate in support of the Wilson bill for
! the unconditional repeal of the silver