Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-11-02
CLEVELAND SIGNS
And the Government Buys No
More Silver.
RKPEAL BILL Is HOW A STATUTE.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-Silver purchases
By the government have ceased. The pur.
pose for which Cleveland called congress in
extraordinary session has been &C.
complshed aud he has affixed his
signature to the bill to repeal uncondition-
ally the purchasing clause of the Sherman
law. The struggle in the house was short.
Only tweuty-seven men could be rallied
for the last stand by the silver leaders,
Bland and Bryan. Bland and his
colleagues, knowing that further opposi-
tion was futile, preferred to sacrifice the
opportunity for . few hours debate offered
by Wilson in order to force the majority
to bring in the cloture and concur in the
senate amendment by duress. But even
| in this they failed. Their small following
might have succeeded had they been led
by experienced and skillful parliamentary
tac,icans.
Caught the Filibusters Mapping.
Neither Bryan nor SnOdgrass, his lien
; tenant, is well versed in parliamentary
proceedings, and when thrown off their
guard by n momentary distraction they
exposed their flank by failing to follow
one filibustering motion with another.
| Speaker Crisp then overwhelmed them by
putting the pending motion to order the
p, previous question. II was carried with
roar. The filibusterers had been caught
| mapping, and nothing remained for them
! TO do but to submit. For thirty minutes
under the rale followed the rattle of ora
| tory amid the greatest confusion and exc
citcment. At its conclusion the vote was
taken on BANDS free coinage substitute.
The majority against 1t was &C. Then
came the final vote oa cOncurring in the
senate amendments. The vote stood l+3
for concurrence and 9s against. When the
original bill passed the house on Aug. IS
the vote stood 30l to 100, 50 that although
the total vote this time was smaller the
proportion was practically the same.
| Rushing the Fill to Cleveland.
The final vote was taken at 2:50 p. m.
The bill was engrossed Immediately, and
twenty minutes later, at $40, the formal
announcement was made to the senate
that its amendment had been agreed to by
the house. The till was hurriedly enrolled
by Chairman Pearson, of the committee
ON enrolled bills, and at $3.50 was presented
to Speaker Crisp for his signature. A feet
| footed messenger carried it to the senate,
where it was signed two minutes later by
! Vice President Stevenson. Chairman
Pearson, with the bill under his arm, en-
tered carriage waiting for him on the
plaza in front of the Capitol, and drove
rapidly to the White House. The presi.
dent had been kept duly advised of the
progress Of events. Indeed he manifested
SO much interest in the vote in the house
that at his request duplicate of the names
| of those who had voted for and against the
concurrence was made soon after the roll
call was completed, and this list was lying
| on his desk when MIR. Pearson arrived with
the bill.
Who Got that Quill Ten:
Secretary Carlisle, Attorney General Oh
ney and Private Secretary Thurber were
present. After felicitating with each o;he
for few 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 qnill pen he af.
fixed his autograph at As. Aud thus
eighty-five days four hours and twenty five
minutes after the extraordinary session
convened the remedy for the financial dis.
tress which Cleveland demanded in hi.
message was applied.
The eteadfast Ninety.fou
Following are the nay votes in detail
Aitken, Alexander. Allen, Arnold, Bailey
1
RADIO, Bell Of Texas. Blanchard, Bland
Boatner, Boen, Bower Of North Carolina
Branch, Broderick, Bryan, Burns. Cannon
Of Illinois, Capehart. Clark of Missouri
Cobb of Alabama, Cockrell, Cooper o.
Texas, Crawford, Cox. Culberson. Curti,
of Kansas, Davis of Kansas, DeArmond
benson, Dinsmore, Dockery, Doolittle
Ellis of Oregon, Epes, Nthian, Funston
Fyan, Grady, Hainer OF Nebraska, Hal
of Missouri, Harris. Hartman, Heard
Henderson of North Carolina, Her
mann, Hilborn, Hopkins Of Pennsylvania
Hudson, Hutcheson, Ikirt, Jones, Kem
Kilgore, Lane, Latimer, Livingstone
Lucas, Maddox, Mcguire, Mallory, Marsh
McCulloch, McDearmon, McKeighan
McLaurin. McRae, Meiklejohn, Money
Morgan, Moses, Pence, Richardson Of Ten
nessee, Robbins, Robertson Of Louisiana
Isayres, Shell, Sibley, smith, Snodgrass
:. Stallings, Stockdale, straight, Sweet, Tai
bert of South Carolina, Tarsney, Tate
Terry, Wheeler of Alabama, Williams O
Illinois. Williams Of Mississippi, viii
son of Washington-94.
Analysis Of the Roll Call.
The analysis of the vote shows that i2
Democrats, IS Republicansiand Populis
Cannon Of California; voted for concur
renee, and 20 Democrats, Is Republican
and Populists against the motion. Tn
following members voted for the Blan
free coinage substitute and also for cor
currence: Anderson, Black of Georgia
Brookshire, Donovan, Edmunds of Vii
ginia. Geary, Holman, Richardson @
Michigan, Swanson, Marshall, Turpir
Post and Tyler, while Neall, Weaver an
Kyle, who voted for the free coinage sui
stitute, did not vote on the final vote.
FILIeuSTeRS WERE TOO WEAK.
which L. why the EsA Csae 20 Soon
Bland Hopes for the Feature.
There was one very potent reason VII
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