Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-29
REPEAL TRIUMPHS
Winning by More Than a Two
Thirds Majority.
NO FREE COINAGE AT ANY RATIO.
The Majority Against Eli the PROPOSE
tions Averaging Over Ioo-Bland-
Allison Bill Rejected.

A Ihrong in the House, Both on the Floor
and in the Gallery-Only Four Members
of the Whole Roll Not Present-DetaiIed
Vote on the 16 to / Amendment-A Wet
Blanket at the Start-BaiIey of Texas
Tries UnsuccessfuIIy to stave OF the
Inevitable.
WASHINGTON Aug. 29-The house has
acted on the Sherman law and the result
is the repeal of the purchasing clause
thereof by a vote of 240 ayes against 10
nays. There never was larger audience
in the chamber than the one which listen
ed to the members as they said "aye" or
mo" as the names were called on each pro-
position. Nor was there very often a
fuller house. All the members on the roll
except four answered to the roll call. The
only business done other than voting was
the reading of the journal, and as soon as
that was done the order of business as
provided in the order adopted at the COM
mencement of the debate was read by the
clerk. The Wilson bill was also read
Text of the Wilson Bill.
1t is as follows: so much of the act ap-
proved July IA, 1890, as directs the secre-
tary of the treasury to purchase from time
to time silver bullion to the aggregate
amount of 100000 ounces, or so much
thereof as may be offered in each month at
the market price thereon, not exceeding 81
for 81 "a grains of pure silver and to issue
in payment for such purchase treasury
notes of the United States, be and the
same is hereby repealed But this repeal
shall not impair nor in any manner affect
the legal tender quality of the standard
silver dollars heretofore coined, and the
| faith and credit of the United States are
hereby pledged to maintain the parity of
the gold and silver coin of the United
States at the present legal ratio or such
other ratio as may be established by law"
The six Calls on Amendments.
In accordance with the order referred to
above the voting began on the first
| amendment allowed the free coiners and
went on to each of the others, the results
being as follows: On the frst-l6 to ra-
tio-l24 yeas to 226 nays; second-17 to l
ratio-100 yeas 10 2C4 nays; third-1s to l
ratio-102 yeas TO $50 nays: fourth-19 to
ratio-lO5 yeas to 237 nays; fifth-2O to l
| iotlO IL" CdS 70 --- nays, slAGn-JO re-
enact the BlanStA llison law-l36 yeas to
% nays. Every Illinois vote save one
was recorded On the 16 to l proposition,
and the six who voted yea We're Post, Filth
| ian, Williams, Lane, Marsh and Hunter
Free Coinage at IG-to-1 Ratio.
The detailed vote ON the amendment
providing for free coinage at the ratio of
16 to l was as follows:
Yeas-Abbott, Aitken, Alexander AL
len, Arnold, Bailey, Baker of Kansas,
Bankhead, Bell of Colorado Bell of Texas,
| Black of Georgia, Blanchard. Bland, Boat
ner, Boen, Bowfr, Bowers, Branch, Bretz,
Broderick, Brookshire, Bryan, Bum,
Burnss, Caminetti, Cannon of California,
Capehart, Clark of Missouri, Cobb of Ala
bama, Cockrell, Gotten, Conn, Cooper of
Texas, Cox, Crawford, Culberson, Curtis
o. Kansas, Davis, De Almond,
Denson, Dinsno ore Dockery, Dono-
van, Doolittle, Edmunds, Ellis of
Kentuck, Enloe. Epes, Fithian, Funston,
Fyan, Geary, Goodnight, Grady, Hall,
Harris, Hartman, Hatch, Hard, Heuder-
son of North Carolina, Holman, Hook
er, Hudson, Hunter, Hutchison, Jones,
KEN, Kilgore, Kyle, Lane Latimer, Law
ton, Lester, Livingston, Lucas, Maddox,
Mcguire, Marshall, McDearmon, Nc
Meredith, Money, Montgomery, Morgan
of Kentucky, Morgan of Missouri, Moses,
Murray, Neill, Newlands, O'Ferrall,
Paynter, Pence, Pendleton, Picker, Post,
Richardson of Michigan, Richardson of
Tennessee, Robbins, Robertson, Sayers
Sibley, Simpson, Snodgrass, Stallings,
Stockdale, Stone. Straight, Swanson,
Sweet, Talbert, Tarsney, Tate, Taylor,
Terry, Turpin, Tyler, Wheeler, Whiting,
Williams of Illinois, Williams of Missis-
sippi, Wilson, Woodard-123
Nays-Adams, Anderson, Aldrich, APPS
ley, Avery, Babcock, Baker of New Hamp-
shire, Baldwin, Barnes, Bartholdt, Bart
lett, Barwig, Belden, Beltzhoover, Berry,
Bingham, Black of Illinois, Blair, Boutelle,
Brattan, Brawley, Breckenridge of Arkan-
sas, Breckinridge, of Kentucky, Brickner,
Brosius, Brown, Burrows, Bynum,
Cabaniss, Cadmus, Caldwell, Campbell.
Cannon of Illinois, Caruth, Catchings
Causey, Chickering, Childs, Clancy, Clarke
of Alabama, Cobb, Cochran, Coggswell,
Compton, Coombs, Cooper of Indiana,
Cooper of Washington, Corning, Cousins,
Covert, Grain, Cummings, Curtis of
New York, Dalzell, Daniels, Davey, De-
forest, Dirgley, Dolliver, Dunn, Dunphy,
Durborow, Ellis of Oregon, English, Ed
man. Everett, Fellows, Fielder, Fitch,
Fletcher, Forman, Funk, Gardner, Gear,
Geisenhainer, Gillett of New York, Gill
lette of Massachusetts,, Goldzier, German,
Gresham, Grosvenor, Grout, Hager
Hainer, Hines, Hall, Hammond, Hare, Har-
mer, Harter, Haugen, Heiner, Hayes,
Hen derson of Illinois, Henderson of Iowa,
Hendrix, Hepburn, Herman, Hicks, Hll-
born, Hines of Pennsylvania, Hit, Hooker
of New York, Hopkins of Illinois, Hopkins
I nf Sx-1v
Hull, Ikert, johnson of Indiana, John
son of North Dakota, johnson of Ohio,
Kiefer. Joy, Lacey, Kribbs, Lapham, Lay
ton, Lefever, Lilly, Linton, Lisle, Lock
wood, Loud, Loudenslager, Lynch, Mag
ner, Mahon, Mallory Marsh, Martin, Marvin,
McAleer, Mccall, McCleary, McCreary,
McCulloch, McDannold, Mcdowell, Nc
Ettrick, McGann, McKaigh, McNagny,
Meickleiohn, Mercer, Meyer, Milliken,