The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-11-03
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Bill 10 Aid Ten of the Western
states 10 support Mining school,
Passed the Senate.
The Silver Men Not Ready TO Give
I~p-NOting Is the Order
of the Day.

WAsnGNGToN, Oct. 2S.-Ths bill to aiG
the states Of California, Oregon, WASH
ington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyo-
ming, Colorado and South Dakota t.
support schools of mining, allowing each
% percent Of the proceeds of the sale Of
mineral lands within the state, but not
to exceed sl2,O0Opc year, was IN motion
of Dubois Of Idaho considered.
After speeches in advocacy of the
measure by Teller, DUBOIS, Pettigrew
and others, on motion of Washburn,
Minnesota was included and the bill
thus amended passed. Consideration of
the repeal bill was resumed and Stewart
resumed his argument against it. At
1:30 p. m. he yielded TO his colleague
Jones.
After Jones had been speaking a short
time, amid frequent Interruptions, the
vice president stated the question to be
on the amendment of the senator from
Kansas (Peffer). PETER said he was not
ready to vote on the amendment. Re-
ferring to the reports that he had sur
rendered, PETER said: "We have not
surrendered, nor dc we intend to. We
do not intend to interpose factious oppo-
%sition." The question was then put or
the amendment and it was rejected. yeas
%. nays 80. The detailed vote is:
Ieas-Allen, Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Butler, Call, Coke, Daniel, Dubois.
George, Harris, Irby, Jones of Arkansas,
Jones of Nevada, Kyle, Martin, Pasco,
PETER, Power, Pugh, Roach, Shoup,
Stewart, Teller. Vance, Vest. Walthall
and Wolcott-2S.
Nays-Aldrich, Gallery, Camden, Carey,
Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Faulkner,
Frye, Gallinger, Gibson, German, Gray,
Hale, Higgins, Hill, Hoar, Lindsay.
| Lodge, Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Mander.
son, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill,,
Murphy. Palmer, Perkins, Proctor, Quay.
Ransom, Sherman, Smith. Stockbridge,
Turpie, Villas, Voorhees,, Washburn ana
White Of Louisiana-D.
The following pairs were announced,
the first named being the Affirmative
Crockrell and Allison, Cameron and
Brice, White of California and Chand-
Ter, Colquitt and Wilson, Pettigrew am
Gordon, Hansbrough and Mills, Nor
gan and Hawley, Hunton and Plat.
Mitchell of Oregon and Squire.
The amendment thus voted down re-
vived, with some slight exceptions, the
coinage act of 1881 and provided for the
free coinage of silver.
Voorhees, then moved that the substi-
tute reported by the finance committee
for the house bill be adopted. On his
motion the yeas and nays were taken
and by a vote of IS to 8 the substitute
reported by the finance committee was
agreed to. Those who voted against the
substitute were Allen, Bate, Call, Coke,
Irby, Kyle, Petrer, Roach, and Vance.
Perkins, republican, of California, Their
offered an amendment providing for the
coinage Of American silver at the exist
ing ratio, with ~seignorage charge Of 20
per cent; no gold issue of a less denomi-
nation than go to be coined, and no le-
gal tender, national currency, or treas
ury notes of less than s. to be issued;
the holder of any standard silver dollar
may deposit the same at the treasury
or at any subtreasury of the United
States and receive therefor notes OF a
denomination less than $40, which notes
shall have the same legal tender quality
as the coin for which they are exchanged;
there is to be appointed a committee OF
five monetary experts, the members OF
which shall not otherwise be connected
with the government, whose duty it shall
be to keep the treasury and executive
al, ised on all necessary matters relating
to currency.
Stewart, republican Of Nevada, called
attention TO the change over on the part
of Voorhees,. Ransom, Hill. Mills. Turpiv
aud Squire on the silver question, scna-
tors who had last spring voted for fire.
coinage. and now on PETER amendment.
voted against it.