The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-11-08
REPEAL BILL PASSES
The Senate After a Continuous
Session OF Fourteen Days.
End of Remarkable Parliamentary Bat
tie -Forty-three Memb'rI Vote for
the Measure and Thlr y.tvo nrs
Recorded Agn'nst It s.Ivsr
Senators .Ito Hard.

galleries were crowded yesterday Wnen
the senate met; and u roll call showed
the presence of tifty-two senators. AS
soon as the vice president entered the
chamb ber he announced that the senate
resumed its session and that house bill
No. (ths silver purchase BILLY was now
befor the senate. is. at.tst
Mr.. Hunton, Of Virginia, explained
briefly the situation which he had oc-
cupisd and still occupied on the repeal
bill. He subscribed in good faith to
the Chicago platform, which demanded
the repeal of the Sherman act He
should vote for its repeal But he stood
ready to join his silver friends in
fight for silver and should strive earn
estly and manfully for victory
Mr.. Morgan, Of Alabama, next ad-
dressed the senate. He said that he
had come to the chamber contrary -
the advice of his physician, for the pur-
pose of expressing in the final stages
of the bill, some opinions which he had
formed about it.
At $3.50 Mr. Morgan was still speak
ing, with no indications of bringing
his speech to close. The uncertainty
Of the time at which the final voting
would come was such that all the mem.
bers OF the other house withdrew from
the senate chamber. Mr.. Voorhees,
showed signs of impatience and had in
terviews with Mr.. Jones and other
anti-repeal senators. But Mr.. Morgan
needed not and went on with his
speech as II there was no need Of hurry.
At 2:4o p. m Mr.. Morgan said that he
had now finished what he had desired
TO read to the senate. lie left the sub
ject with the knowledge that the die
was cast
Mr.. Vest expressed sympathy with
the silver producing states and de-
clared with much feeling that no car
or kaiser would have desolated an in
surrectionary province as congress was
desolating the silver states.
Mr.. Dubois, of Idaho, then spoke and
at the close of his remarks there was
brief lull and the vice president an
nounced that the Voorhees, substitute
was before the senate and open to
amendment Mr.. Pasco, (dem), Of
Florida, Immediately moved to take up
the amendments Of which gave he notice
last Saturday to appoint commission
Of three TO establish ratio between
gold aud silver by the first day OF jan
uary next, after which silver dollars
are to be coined OF a weight fxed by
the secretary Of the treasury and TO be
q legal tender This amendment, Mr..
Pasco said. was now in order unless
there was any other amendment to pre-
code IL.
At this point Mr. Stewart hurriedly
entering the senate from the lobby in
the rear OF the presiding officer said,
amidst laughter, II have another
amendment" Mr.. Stewart proposed
an amendment reducing the amount Of
gold in the coinage 25 per cent, so that
the amount of gold In the standard dol
lar should be 10 and S5 hundredths
grains.
This amendment was negatived with
out a division. Then Mr.. Pasco's
was rejected by vote Of
20 10 81.
Mr.. PETER, saying that he desired to
occupy but fifteen minutes, proceeded
70 show up what he called 1.-THE crown
ing infamy of this country"
Mr.. Stewart took the floor TO make
few closing remarks also. lie opened
with the quotation: "The die is cast"
and he followed It by saying that the
surreptitious and fraudulent act Of
1878 demonetizing silver was ratified
and coniirmed that the gold ring was
and that the Trojan horse
was within the walls. But the betray-
nj aud capture OF the White House and
Of the two houses Of congress was not
the end of the war. Let the vote be
taken" he said. Let the deed be
done. Let the object lesson be given.
We will abide the result"
Mr.. Stewart closed at 7:20 and then
the vice president stated that IL no fur
ther amendment was offered the vote
would now be taken on the engross-
ment and third reading OF the bill.
That was agreed to without division,
and then the vote was taken by yeas
and nays, on the passage of the bill as
IL was amended, and II was passed.
yeas 4S, nays S2, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs Aldrich, Brice, Caffery,
Carey, Cullom, Davis, Dixon,
Dolph, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Glib
son, German, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hig-
gins, Hill, Hoar, Hunton, Lindsay,
Lodge, Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Mander-
son, Mills Mitchell, wis.,, Morrill,.
Murphy, Platt, Proctor, Quay, Ransom,
Sherman, Smith, Squire, stockbridge,
Turpie, Villas Voorhees,, Washburn and
White,stia).-4
Nays--Messrs Allen, Bate. Berry,
Blackburn, Butler, Call, Cameron,
Coclkrell, Coke, Daniel. Dubois, George,
Harris, ,Irby, Jones Ark, Jones
(Ney)yEkyle, Martin, Pasco, PETER,
PerkinAS Pettigrew, Power, Pugh,
Roach, shoup, Stewart, Teller, Vance,
Vest, wElthall and wolcott-S2.
The following were the pairs; Messrs
Mitchell (0re.) and Allison, Chandler
and White (CaL) !, Colquitt and Wilson,
Palmer Phd Hansbr0ugh,, Gordon and
Morgan. -
Death OF s,ri John Abbo,L fu h.