The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-02
SILVER BUYING STOPPED.
The House Passes the Repeal Bill and
the President Signs Ii.

The Vote on the Passage of the Meao-
ure 1913 to 81 = Representative
Bland's Free Coinage Substitute De
feated by Majority OF 7s-The
President Loses No Tina in Afiixing
His Signature to the Measure The
Closing Speeches of the Debate.
Washington, Nov. 1.-Silver purchases
by the government ceased to-day. The
purpose for which MIR. Cleveland called
congress in extraordinary session was
accomplished at 4;25 o'clock this after
noon, when he affixed his signature to the
bill to repeal Internationally thepurchas-
ing clause of the Sherman law.
The struggle in the house was short.
Only 27 men could be rallied for the last
stand by the silver leaders, Nessrs.
Bland and Bryan Mr.. Bland and his col
leagues, knowing that further opposition
was futile, preferred to sacrifice the op-
portunity for few.hours' debate offered
them by MIR. Wilson in order to force the
majority to bring in a closure rule and
| concur in the Senate amendment by du-
ress. But even in this they failed.
CAUGHT OFF THEIR GUARD.
Their small following might have sue
ceeded had they been led by experienced
| and skillfull parliamentary tacticians.
Neither Mr., Bryan nor Mr. Snodgrass,
his lieutenant is well versed in parlia-
mentary procedure, ard when thrown OF
their guard by momentary distraction,
! they exposed their flank by failing to fol-
low one filibustering motion with
| another. Speaker Crisp over
whelmed them by putting the
| pending motion to order the previous
| question. ii was carried with roar.
hlibusterers had been caught mapping and
nothing remained for them to DO except
submit. For thirty minutes under the
rule followed the rattle of oratory amid
| the greatest confusion and excitment.
| At its conclusion the vote was taken on
| Mr.. BANDS free coinage substitute. The
majority against it was 70.
Then came the final vote on cOncurring
in the Senate amendment. The vote
stood 1913 for concurring and "a against
When the original bill passed the House
| on Aug. 2S, the vote stood POI to 100, and
| although the total to-day was smaller
| the proportion was practically the same.
The final vote was taken at ? so o'clock
p. IN.
AFFIXING THE SIGNATURES.
The bill was engrossed Immediately,
tlLANl III Clllg db O .IOO CLOCK. ne
| formal announcement was made to the
| Senate that its amendment had been
| agreed to by the House The bill was
| burriedly enrolled by Chairman Pearson,
| OF the committee on enrolled bills, and at
| $50 o'clock was presented to Speaker
| Crisp for his signature. A feet
| footed messenger carried it To
the Senate, where it was signed two min
! utes later by Vice PRESIDENT Stevenson.
1 lha Il,
| his arm, entered a 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 ad-
vised of the progress of events.
A LIST OF THE VOTERS.
Indeed he manifested so much interest
in the vote in the House that at his re-
| quest duplicate of the names of those
who had voted for and against concur.
renee was made soon after the roll call
was completed, and this list was lying on
his desk when Mr.. Pearson arrived with
| the bill. Secretary Carlisle, Attorney
| General Olney and Private Secretary
! Thurber were present After felicitatina
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 a Quill
| pen he affixed his autograph at 4:2s
o'clock And thus sixty-fve days, four
hours and twenty-five minutes after the
extraordinary session convened the
remedy of the financial distress which
Mr. Cleveland demanded in his message
was applied.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE.
An analysis of the vote shows that 124
democrats, IS republicans, and one popu-
! list, (Mr. Cannon, Of California voted
| for concurrence, and 10 democrats, Is re.
publicans, and populists against the no
tion. The following members voted for
the bill and free coinage substitute. and
| also for the concurrence: Messrs. Alder
son, Black, OF Georgia; Brookshire, Don
ovan, Edmunds, of Virginia. Geary. Hol-
man, Richardson, of Michigan: Swanson,
Marshall, Turpin Post and Tyler.
Messrs. White, Neill, Weaver, and
Kyle, who voted for the free coinage, sub
stitute, did not vote on the final vote.
The Georgia delegation voted as fol-
lows on the final passage: Messrs. Black,
Cabaniss and Turner for it, and Messrs.
Livingston, Moses, Tate and Maddox
against it. Messrs. Lawton, Lester and
Russell are in Georgia, and their votes are
| not recorded but they would have stood
as on the first vote in the House
THE VOTE.
Following Is the aye and nay vote on
the repeal bill;
Ayes-Messrs. Adams, Anderson. Aldrich.
Apsiey. Avery. Babcock, Baker OF New
Hampshire, Baldwin Barnes Bartlett. Bar
wig 1elden, Beltzhoover, Berry Bingham.
Black Of Georgia. Black Of Illinois Blair.
Brawley, Breckenridge OF Arkansas Bretz.
Brickner, BrcOkshire, Brosius. Brown Bum.
Bynum, Cauanlss, Cadmus, Caldwell Camp
bell. Cannon Of California Caruth, Catchfngs.
Causey Chickering, Clancy. Cobb
ton, Coombss Cooper OF Florida,
consin, Cornish Covert, Grain, Cummings.
Curtis, Of New York, Daniels, Davey. OF
Louisiana, DefOrest, Dingley Donovan
Draper, Dunn, Dunphey, Dubrow, Ednunds
English, Erdman, Everett, Fellows Fielder,
Fitch, Fletcher. Forman. Gardner Geary.
Geissenhainer, Gillet, Of New York Goldzicr.
German Gresham. GTout, Haines Ham
mC7d, Harmer, Harter, haugen Henderson,
OF Idaho, Hendricks, Hines Hit Homan
Hopkins, Of Illinois, HOuk, Of Ohio Hoult. OF
| Tennessee. johnson, OF Indiana. johnson,
Joy, Kiefer, Knbbs, Ian.
ham, Layton LeFever T.fiiv.
Linton, Lisle, Lockwood, Loudenslager.
Lynch, Magner, Mahon. Marshall Martin OF
Indiana Marvin OF New York, AdcAleer Nc
Call, McCleary Of Minnesota McCreary OF
Kentucky, Mcdonald Mcdowell McEttrick,
Mcaann, MckQig. McNagnY Mercer Mere.
dlth, Meyer, Milhken, Mon tQomery Moon.
Morse, blutuhler, Oates, ONen OF MAssachu-
setts, Outhwaite, Paschal Patterson PAYNE.
Paynter. Pearson, Pendletou Of West Vir-
ginia. Phillips Pigctt, Post, Power Price.
Randall, Ray, Rayner, Reed. Reilly. Reyburn
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