Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-08-31

great question and then proceeded to
speak in favor of the Wilson bin. Mr..
Lane dem. ND was in favor OF free
silver and denied that the silver dollar
was false dollar At no place in TINS
country was it worth less than 100 cents.
| The next speaker was Mr.. BSnum (Dem.
| indy, who advocated the repeal OF the
purchasing clause of the Sherman bill. (,
Washington, Aug 2i.-Iee Nantes
claim to- a seat in the senate from the
State of Montana has been Regretted
ayes, rs: nays. so. Mr.. Henderson
| tRtp. Neb.). who charged his vote-nay
to sye-in order to mike a motion to re-
consider. made that motion. motion
to lay the motion to reconsider on the
table was made by Mr.. Vance. but, with
out action on it, the senate ADJOURNED
leaving the Mantle case still open. Among
the bills introduced in the senate was one
by Mr.. Pascoe Dem. MaSs.) Il substitute
for the minority bill of the finance COM
mittce proposing silver coinage at ~ to
~. The substitute proposes commas
sion of three citizens of the United States
to ascertain and report before January,
1894, the intrinsic relative value OF
gold and silver. and that on that report
the secretary of the treasury shall Tx
and determine the ratio. a resolution
offered yesterday by Mr.. PETER pop.
Kan.) as to the violation of the law by
the national banks in declining to pay
depositors' checks in currency was taken
up to-day, and motion to refer it to
the committee on finance made by
long and somewhat excited discussion.
The resolution went to the foot OF the
calendar. where it can be reached only
by an affirmative vote.
The house met at 10 o'clock and the
silver debate was opened ut once by Mr..
c. w. Stone (Rcp. Pa.), who spoke for
repeal and adjured members to disre-
gard partisan feeling in dealing with the
subject. Mr.. Covert Dem. n. W plead
ed for unconditional repeal, and ,ompar-
ing silver to faithful servant fallen into
bad habits held that nothing would SUI
fee to restore it but the gold cure. Mr..
Fitch dem. n. w. followed in the same
lire Mr.. Dslzell utep. Pa.) contanded
for the repeal Of the purchase act, and
ascribefl the difficulties of the present sit
uation to Democratic hostility to the
tariff. Mr.. Hatch Oem. Mo- spoke in
favor of free coinage.
Washington, Aug. 25.-The five-minute
debate in the house ON the Wilson bill
began with speech by Mr.. Waugh
0tep. Indy, Who spoke for repeal as in
the interest Of bimetallism. Mr.. Somers
Dem. Wis., favored bimrtallsm. but
would not vote for unconditional repeal.
Mr.. joins on R"p. n. d. spoke for sill
YER Mr.. Picker (Rcp. S. d. asked
unanimous consent to change The eX-
istirg order so rs to talk" Il vote on Mon
day OH an amendment confnng the free
coinage to the American product. This
WAS objected to by Mr.. Wilson. in Charge
of the administration bill. Mr.. Picker
then tried to arrange for vote on the
American product free coinage proposition
after the Wilson bill had been passed,
but again objection was made. He
then proceeded to criticiSe President
Cleveland rs being under English in
iluence. Mr.. Lucas Qtep. S. d. and MIR.
Hartman Qep. Montl spoke for free
coinage, the latter intimating that his
people would not remain protectionists if
the party failed to observe the himetallic
plank.
In the senate Mr. PETER Q'op. Kan.)
spoke in favor of free coinage. The Lee
Mantle senatorial case went over for Il
day.