The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-08-29
BIG SWARM OF G0LDBUCS
Silver Supported by Scarcely One.
Third OF the Members OF
the House.
Unconditional Repeal of the Pur.
chase Clause Carried by
Large Majority.
Those Who Favor Free Coinage Want II
At Ratio of kixtssn to One-Tho
Vote In Full.

Vote In Full.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2S.-The galleries in
the house were crowded long bsfo. the
time for assembling by persons interested
in tho balloting on the silver question after
the two weeks debate. When tho speaker
raped for order at noon nearly everv seat
In the hall was filled. While waiting for
ahe call to order Bland freely admitted that
the claims Of the anti-silver mon of q ma.
iority Of ffty were we'll grounded. and
might be exceeded. II looked as if the
Wilson bill might 40 through with little or
no friction.
After reading the journal, Weaver, Of
New York, appeared at the bar Of the house
and was sworn in. Then the clerk reported
the resolution containing tho order of pro.
cedure Oh the silver question. providing
that the vote be frst ON the free coinage OF
silver at a ratio Of sixteen to one. Bailey,
OF Texas. asked il in case all amendments
a. TO ratio were defeated il would be in or
der TO propose additional amend me en ia.
The speaker thought not, but would hear
the gentleman on the subject when the
MeMillin. of Tennessee. wished TO offer
an amendment for she free coinage of the
product of the silver mines of the Uni ted
States. Bland objected even to its roa ding,
saying 1t was not free coinage at all.
Then tho Wilson bill. repeating the pur-
chase clause Of the Sherman act, was read
and Bland offered his ftst amendment, for
free coinage. At ratio of sixtesn to one.
1t was defeated, yeas 1923. nays 226, amid
applause from the anti-slyer men, who did
n OF expect 30 large majority.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Ysas-Abbott, Aitkin, Alexander, Allen,
Arnold, Bailey. Baker. Bnnkhead, Bell
(Col.) }, Bill tTox.), Black (Ga.). Blanchard.
Bland, Boatner. Boon, Bower, Bowers,
Branch, Bretz, Broderick. B:ookshire
Bryan, Bum, Burns. Caminetti, Cannon
(CaL), Capehart. Clark. Cobb Cookrell.
Cotteen, Conn, Cooper. Cox. Crawford,
Culberson. Curtis, Davis. Dsarmond. Den.
son, Dinamore, DookeHy, Donavan. Doolit-
tie. Edmonds, Ellis. Enloe. Euss. Fithian,
Funston, Fyan. Gcarr, Goodnight. Grady,
Hall, Harris. Hartman. Hatch. Heard.
Henderson. IN: o.. Holman. Hooker. Hud-
son. Hunter. Hutohison, Jones, Ken. Kill
fo,: kyls Lan' a..'i%e' Lsw;9a
guire. Marshall. McDearmon. AcKeighan.
MoLsurin, AoAillin. McRae. Meredith,
Money. Montgomery Morgan, Moses. Muir
ray, Nsill. Newlands, OFsrrall, Payntsr,
Pence. Psndleton, Pickler. Post. Richard
son. Richardson. Robbins, Robertson.
inRs, stoekdale. Stone. straieht, Swanson.
Sweet. Telbsrt. Tarsney. Tate, Taylor,
Terry Turpin, Tyler. Wheeler, Whitine
William: (nl:). Williams (Aiss.). Wilson.
Woodard-l23.
Nays-Adams. Anderson. Aldrich, Epsley,
Rah 12sh R>IA
Barthold. Bartlett. BarwiR Beldon, Beltz-
hoover: Berry, Bingham. Black. (Ill: }. Blair.
Boutslle. Brattan. Brawley, BreokenridR Re
(Arh.). Breckenridge (Ky.), Brickner. Bro
sins, Brown. Burrows. Bynum. Cabiniss.
Cadmus. Caldwell. Campbell. Cannon Ill.).
Childs, CLANCY. Clark. (Ala.). Cobb, Cochran
IN. W, Coegswell. Compton. Cooms.
(wis.J, Cornish. % Cousins, Covert, Cove. .n Crane,
Cumminss. Curtis IN. W. Dalzsll, Dan
iels, Dnyy. Deforest DinRley. Dollivsr.
Draper, Draper; Dump. Dunphy, Dasoborsy, Fills,
Fielder. Fitch, Fletcher. Formas. Funk.
Gardner. Gear, Gsissenhainsr. Gillette,
IN. W. Gillette. (Nass.). Goldzisr. Cor
man, Gresham, Grosvenor. Grout. HaRer,
Hainer. Hatnes, Hall. Hammond. Hare,
Harmer, Hartsr. Haghsn, Hayes. Haines,
t.;na. h:nas''en. 1ia:9' Henderson; !lovs(, Hen
Hines. Hit, Hooker. Hopkins. Hll.). Hop
kins, Pa. }, Houck. (Ohio). Houek. (Tenn.) J,
Hulick. Hull. Hikert. johnson, (Ind.j !,
John SOD, IN. d.. johnson. (Ohiol. Joy.
Kiefe'. K,ipps. Laoey. L.phan, Laksn.
LeFevsr, Lilly. Linton. Lisls Lockwood,
s"sen S1s 0G%asnss'' %a1i.s M.fss ss1' sass M.'sa.
Marvin, MoAlser, Mccall. MeClsary. Mo
Creery, NcCullooh. MoDannold, MoDowsll,
MoEttriek. AcGann. Mck,iR. McNaany,
Meikleiohn. Merser. Meyer. Milliken,
Moon. Morse. nutehler. Northway. O'Neill
Mass.). ONsill (Pa.), Outhwaite. Page,
Parshall: Patterson, Payne. Pearson. Pen
dleton. Perkins. Phillips. Piaost. Powers.
Price. Randall, Ray, Rsvnor. Reed. Keilley,
Reybutn, Richards. Ritchie. Robinson, Rust,
Russell Conn. Russell tGa.). Ryan, sober
merhorn. Scranton. Settle. Shaw, Sherman,
Siokles. sipe. Smith. Somera sperry, Spring
o.. Stevenson. Stevens. G. W. Stone (pa.)
bot. Towney. Taylor, Thomas, Tracy.
Tucker. Turner. Updearatf, Van yorhis,
Wndsworth. Walker. Wagner. Warner.
Washington. Waugh. Weadock, Wells
Weaver. White, Wilson. (Ohio). Wilson.
(w ,s v' Nv Wise; we. Me,vsr.on; "po woo"er'
The vote on the amendment was divided
politically az follows: For fres coinage:
Democrats 100. republicans l3. populists 10;
total. 123 Against free coinage: Republic
ans lO7. democrats III; tota', 226.
The vote on tho other amendments Of
fersd by Bland were as follows
For free coinage At ratio Of seventeen
10 ons: For 100. against 2+0; majority 140.
Eighteen 10 one. For l02, against 239;
majority 1877.
Nlnetssn to one: For lo5. against 237;
ms jority l32.
Twenty TO one: For 49, against 222;
majority lob.
he amendment 20 enact the Bland
Allison aot was defeated by avots of 1873
to 2l3.
The Wilson uneondit itonsl repeal bill was
then passed by vote OF 239 to no.
On the vote On seventeen to one. besides
the loss Of the votes of popalists. the men,
bers OF that party withholding their votes.
several negative votss were cast by those
who favored the ratio Of sixteen TO one.
CstehInas. democrat. of Mississippi
gave notice that hs would max the house 10
consider the rules to- morrow; then the
house Adjourned.
Bland. from his scat At tho extreme left
Of the speaker, smiled 9rimly ss he heard
tho resuls. nervously chewing rocking to
and FRO ON his pivot chair. The figures
show majority of ths' democrats voted
ngninas frse coinage. Bland asked . yea
and nAy vote on the question OF free coin
age AZ the ratts of seven teen TO one and So
ht.1 ~