Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-12
LONG TALK BEGUN.
An Oratorical Cyclone Opens
in the House.
SILVER THE BURDEN OF THE STORM

The Anti-Silver Compromise Accepted and /
the Great Question Goes to the Front
Rayner Opens in Opposition to the ,
White Metal and Bland Predicts a Bolt
II His Side Is Sat Upon-The Two Propo- |
sitions-The Presidents Health.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-The PIN sug- /,
gested by the anti-silver men by which to
get the silver question "on' in the house
hts been agreed to, and the question is
son for two weeks at least. This was set
Il d upon at a meeting held before the
no Ise met by the leaders of the two fac
tionS of Democrats. so that when the house
W ready for business the programme was
at once entered upon, and developed as it
is written in the following. OF course the
house was excited before and after the
speakers gavel fell. Members met in
groups, talking over the situation, and the
universal question was: "Have the silver
and anti-silver men reached an agree
ment;" Silver was on every mans tongue,
and silver will be on every mans tongue
for the next fortnight.
The Anti-Silver Proposition.
West Virginia arose and offered for pres
ent consideration a bill to repeal part of
the act approved July II, 1890 (the Sher-
man act. 1t provides that so much of the
at approved July IA, 1890 as di,ects the
secretary of the treasury to purchase from
time to time silver bullion to the aggre-
gate amount of 100000 ounces, or so
much thereof as may be offered in each
month at the market price thereof, not
exceeding 81 for 81 4 grains OF pure silver
an1 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and the same is hereby repealed.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 stan
dard silver dollars heretofo- coined and
the faith and credit of the United States
are hereby pledged 10 maintain the parity
of the gold and silver coin of the United
States, at the present legal ratio, or such
other ratio rs may be established by law.
This is the anti liver proposition.
The Order for Consideration.
Then uprose Bland with the following
order:
at is ordered by the house that house
bill No shall be taken up for immediate
consideration and considered for fourteen
days. During such consideration night
sessions may be held for debate only, at
the request of either side, the daily ses-
q, sions to commence at II a. m. and con-
'tinue until p. m. Eleven days of the
debate on the bill to be given to general
debate, the time to be equally divided
between the two sides as the speaker may
direct The last three days of debate
may he devoted TO the consideration of
y IKE bill and the amendments as herein
provided, under the usual fve-minute rule
of the house as in committee of the whole.
General leave to print is hereby granted.
when 1t Comes to a Vote.
'The vote shall be taken first on an
amendment providing for the coinage of
silver at the present ratio; if that fails
then separate vote to be had on a similar
amendment proposing ratio of Il to l. if
that fails, on one proposing a "a 10 of IS 20
/; if that fails, one proposing ratio of 70
to l; if that fails, one proposing a ratio of
90 to l. If the above amendments fail it
shall be in order to offer an amendment
reviving the act of Feb. p, 1878, restoring
the standard silver dollor, commonly
known as the Bland-Allison act. The vote
then to be taken on the engrossment ara
third reading Of the bill, as amended, or
on the bill itself, if all amendments shall
have been voted down, and on the final
passage of the bill without other interven-
ing motion"
Many Sides to the Question.
In reply to inquiries the speaker said the
chair had the right of recognition of those
desiring to speak, and would recognize
gentlemen on both sides of the question
Grosvenor said there were more two sides,
and Simpson remarked that there appeared
to be so many sides to the question that the
Republicans were not able to distinguish
themselves from the Democrats any more
1t was right that the Populist party should
have an allotment of time, and he sug-
gested that the members of that party be
given three hours. Henderson said lie
wanted it understood that there was not
going to be two sides both controlled by
the Democrats.
4 Republican 1G-to-1 Man.
Bowers of Californ IA, the only Republi-
can who went into the free silver caucus,
said the issue was be ween those who
favored free silver and those who opposed
it and he did not propose to have anti-sil-
yer Republicans controlling his part of tie
time. Then there was a little fight over
calling the previous question, during
which Bland and Joe" Cannon got into a
controversy which was animated and
unintelligible and was stopped by the
speaker. Cannon gained the point of
having the yeas and nays called on the
previous question and in due time il was
ordered-2l7 to 100.
FREE COINAGE AT THE OLD RATIO.