Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-12

To fAs kditor OF ne Register:
SIR:-Wouid like you to answer four
questions regarding the sherman sllver
purchase act, which has brought such us
as What was the reason OF its pass
agel a,,o,0-
ton in the Fifty-frst Congress vote on
fgO VIII YOU please publish the total
vote Of the House and Senate on the meas
ure. II YOU can spare the space.
a. How was the vote pohhcallyt
And greatly oblige,
Wheeling, July II.
The REGISTER confesses its inability
to answer question No. 1. JOHN SHEER
MAN. author Of the measure, explained
that it was a necessary compromise to
defeat free silver coinage. This ex-
PLANTATION, however, is not plausible
since the House had already voted down
q free silver bill which came to it from
the Senate, and President HARRISON
was pledged to veto free silver cola
age.
Question No. is easier. All the West
virginia Democrats then in Congress
Senators FAULKNER aRd KENNA and
Congressman WIN. L. WILSON (Mr. AL
DERsoN being unavoidablY ABSENT
voted against the Sherman act Messrs.
G. W. ATKINSON and c. =. SMITH, Re-
publicans from the First and Fourth
Districts, who, by virtue OF the
Republican majority Of REEDS
Congress were voted successful
contestants Of the seats to which Dem
ocrats had been elected, voted for the
Sherman act
In answer to question No. 3: In the
Senate, when the final vote was taken
on July 10, 1892, there we're nineteen
absentees. The vote will be found on
page 100 of the Congressional Record
and was as follows;
Yeas-Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Blair,
Casey, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon,
Dolph, Edmuuds, Evarts. Farwell, Frye,
Hawley, Higgins, Hiscock, Hoar, ingalls,,
Jones Of Nevada, Mcmillan, Manderson,
Mitchell, Moody, Pettigrew, Pierce, Platt,
Plumb, Pryer, Quay, Sanders, Sawyer,
Sherman, Spooner, Squire, Stewart
Stockbridge, Wsshburn, Wolcott-SS.
Nays-Barbour, Bate, Blackburn, Call,
Carlisle COckrell, Coke, Colqultt Daniel,
Faulkner, Gibson, German, Hampton,
Harris, Jones Of Arkansas, henna, Nc
Pherson, Pasco, Pugh, Ransom, Reagan,
Turpie, Vance, Vest. voorhees,, Walths1
90
In the House, with 116 absentees, the
vote was taken two days later, July -,
and will be found on page 1926 Of the
Record, as follows:
Yeas-Adams, Allen (Mich), Anderson
| CKan.), Atkinson PA, Atkinson West
Va, Baker. Banks, Bartine, Bayne, Beck
With, Belknsp, Bergen, Bliss, Bowden,
Brewer, Brosius, Brewer, Buchanan IN.
-, Burton, Caldwell, Cannon. Carter,
Caswel, Cheadle, COgswel, Coleman,
ComstOck, COnger. Cornell, Cooper (Ohlo),
Cutcheon, Dalzen, Darlington, Dlngley'
Deliver Dorsey, Dunnell, Farquhar,
Featherston, Finley, Flick, Flood, Frank,
Funston, Gear Gest, Clifford, Grosvenor,
Haugen, Henderson (In), Henderson
Iowa), Hermann, Hill, Hit, Hopkins,
Houk, Kelley, Kennedy, Ketcham, Kin
/ sew. Lacey, La Toilette, Laidlaw, Laws,
! Lehlbach, McComas, McChOrd, McCor-
mick, McDufie, McHenna, Mofett,
! Morrill,, Morrow, Morse, Mudd, Niedring-
haus, O'Neil Pa, Osborne, Owen (lnd J,
Payne, Payson, Perkins, Peters, Picker,
| Post, Quackenbush, Raines, Ray, Reed
| QOwa), Reyburn, Rife, Rockwell, RoWell,
Russell, Soul, Simons, Smith In.), Smith
West Va, Snider, SpOOner, stephenson,
| Stewart CVt), Stivers, StOckbridge, Sven
ey, Taylor (E. b., Taylor QL), Taylor
! (J. d., Thomas, Thompson, Townsend
| (CoL), Townsend PA, Vandever, Ven
! Setback, Walker (Mass.) J, Walker on. ~,
! Williams (Ohio), Wilson (Ky), Wilson
I Washington, Wright. Yardley-lS2.
Nays-Abbott, Allen (Miss.), Anderson
! Miss, Bankhead, Barwig, Bland, BlOunt,
Boatner, Breckenridge ark, Breckin-
ridge (Ky.), Buckner, BroOkshire, Brun-
| ner, Buchanan, Bullock, Bynum, Chandler
| (Ga), Carlton, Catchings, Chapman,
| Clancy, Clunie, Cooper Qnd.), Cothrau,
Grain, Crisp, Culberson (Texas), David
son, Dibble, Dockery, Dunphy, Elliott,
Ellis, Enloe, Forman, Forney, Good
night, Hayes, Heard, Hempoin, Hen
| derson IN. c., Holman, Hooker, Kerr,
pa, Lanham, Lawler, Lester, (Va),
Lewis, Maish, Martin, Gnd.G Martin
| CTexas), McAdoo, McClammy, Mcclellan,
McCreary, McMillin, McRae, Mutchler,
Norton, Oates, O'Neall, Qnd.), O'Neill,
| Mass ,, Owens, Ohio, Parrett, Paynter,
Peel, Pennington, Pierce, Price, Quinn,
Reilly, Robertson, Shively, Stewart,
| Texas, Stockdsle, Stone, (Kentucky),
Stone, (MissOu-D, .Tilman, Tracy, Vena-
bic, Wheeler, (Alsbama), Whitthorue,
Wilke Wilcox, Williams, Illinois), VIII
son. (West virginia., Yeder-S7.
AS to question No. 4: In the above
list you may look till your eyes are sore
and you will not find Democrat who
voted for the Sherman act, nor Re-
publican who did not vote for the Sher-
man act.