Connecticut western news., 1893-11-09
THE WORK FINISHED
THE SHERMAN SILVER PURCHASE ACT
 REPEALED.

The Voorhees, Bill Passed by Both Houses,
 Signed by the President and Is Now .
 Law-Ths Senate Gave It . Majority of
 Eleven-The House Vote Was 19s to sA-
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Silver purchases by the government are closed. The pur- pose for which Mir. Cleveland called con- gress in extraordinary session was accom- plished when he affixed his signature to the bill to repeal internationally the purchas- ing clause of the Sherman law.
 , The struggle in the house was short. Only N men could be rallied for the last stand by the silver leaders-Messrs. Bland and Bryan. MT. Bland and his colleagues, knowing that further operation was futile, preferred to sacrifice the opportunity for few hours debate offered by Mir. Wilson in order to force the majority to bring In closure and concur in the senate amend ment by duress. But even in this they failed.
 Their small following might have suc- ceeded had they been led by experienced and skillful parliamentary tacticians. Nei- ther MT. Bryan nor MT. Snodgrass, his lieutenant, is we'll versed in parliamentary procedure, and when thrown off their guard by 8 momentary distraction they ex posed their flank by failing to follow one filibustering motion with another. Speaker Crisp overwhelmed them by putting the pending motion to order the previous ques- tion. It was carried with 8 roar.
 The filibusters had been caught mapping, and nothing remained for them to do ex- cept to submit. For 30 minutes under the rule the rattle of oratory followed amid the greatest confusion and excitement. At its conclusion the vote was taken on Mr. Bland's free coinage substitute. The ma jority against it was 73 Then came the final vote on concurring in the senate amendments. The vote stood 193 for con- currence and 94 against. When the orig inal bill passed the house on Aug. 2S, the vote stood 201 to 100, so that, although the total vote was smaller, the proportion was practically the same.
 Signed by the President.
 The final vote was taken at 2:50 p. m. The bill was engrossed immediately, and 20 minutes later the formal announcement was made to the senate that its amend ment had been agreed to by the house. The bill was hurriedly enrolled by Chairman Pearson of the committee on enrolled bills, and at 3:3O it was presented to Speaker Crisp for his signature. A fleet footed mes senger carried it to the senate, where 1t was signed two minutes later by Vice Pres ident Stevenson.
 Chairman Pearson, with the bill under his arm, entered carriage waiting for him on the plaza in front of the capitol and drove rapidly to the White House. The president had been kept duly advised of the progress of events. Indeed, he mani fested so much interest in the vote in the house that at his request duplicate of the names of those who had voted for or against the concurrence was made soon after the roll call was completed, and this list was lying on his desk when Mir. Pearson ar rived with the bill. Secretary Carlisle, Attorney General Olney and Private Sec retary Thurber were present.
 After felicitating with each other for a few moments over the victory that had been achieved the president took up the engrossed copy of the bill and read it aloud. Then, picking up quill pen, he affixed his autograph at 4:25. And thus 85 days, hours and 9 minutes after the extraor- dinary session convened the remedy for the financial distress which MT. Cleveland de- manded in his message was applied