Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-28
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
VICTORY FOR VOORHEES,.
The Senate Has Adopted His
Substitute Bill.
MILLIONS WENT Up IN FLAMES.
Pittsburg Has a Very De-
struCtive Fire.
QUAkeRs DESERTED BY PRINCETON.
They Will Lose Half Their
Football Team.
QUAkeRs DESERTED BY PRINCETON.
VOORHEES, GAINS THE DAY.

VOORHEES, GAINS THE DAY.
His Substitute to the House Bill was
Adopted by the Senate Amid Grea,
| Excitement After the Amendment,
Introduced by Senator Peter Had
Been Re jected-The Amendment OF
Mr.. Perkins Was Taken Up But
without Acting on 1t the Senate
| Took a Recess Until To-day-Senator
| PETER Saysthe SILVER Men Will Not
1 Surrender.
| WASHINGTON, Oct 27.-The senate this
afternoon rejected the PETER amendment
| and adopted the voorhees, bill as a substi-
tute to the house bill, which Is etill pend
| Ing. 1t was not done though without
| some debate and exhibitions of i'll feeling
| on the part of some of the senator's. SEN
| ator Stewart commenced talking at II
o'clock and at 80 yielded the ioor to Sem
ator Jones of Nevada. When he did 80 he
| announced that he had not finished, but
being tired he would allow his colleague to
/ say "a few words.
Senator Jones continued to speak until
| 3:45 o'clock when he, too, pleaded fatigue
and said that he would prefer TO finish to-
| morrow what little be had to say
Senator Worries then called for vote on
/ the pending amendment offered by the
| senator from Kansas.
MIR. Allen called for the reading of the
| amendment, and 1t was read. 1t provides
| for the coinage of silver bullion deposited
by any owner thereof as under the act of
| January IS, 1887, and revives and re enacts
| that act and repeats all acts inconsistent
Herewith.
Mr.. Voorhees, inquired how much time
the senator from Kansas desired and add
ed that If the various amendments were to
lead to long debate he would ask to have
them considered under rule (iimiting de-
| bate to five minutes). Otherwise he would
resort to another mode of dispoaiDg of
them.
| Mr.. PETER suggested that this was not a
very good time to resort to the old tactics
that had been tried couple of weeks ago.
He only wanted to occupy a short time.
he did not propose to surrender. Neither
did his political frlende.
Mr. Voorhees, said he had every DISPOSE
ton to yield, but there was so much I'M
derstanding as to what short time was
that he should like to be treasured on that
point.
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time. The amendment which he had Of
fered, somewhat similar to the pending
one, had been unceremoniously disposed
of, and now he discovered by the public
papers that he had surrendered and had
recommended his political associates to
surrender. "We have not SURRENDERED"
he said with some warmth, "nor do We in
tend to surrender. We do not intend to
interpose any faotious opposition, but we
intend at every stage of the bill to inter-
pose determined resistance"
There was no further objection inter-
posed to taking up the vote on MIR. PETERS
amendment. 1t was taken amid much ex-
element, and the vote was finally an
nounced, after much shifting of pairs as
yeas 2S, nays SO.
Mr.. Voorhees, then asked unanimous
consent to have the vote taken on his sub.
stitute to the house bill, with the under
standing that 1t would be treattd as the
original measure, open to amendments.
After some discussion of his request it was
corcsdsd aud the vote taken on the substi
tlte. 1t WIS agreed to, yeas 5S nays9.
| The substitute as agreed to strikes out
the whole of the house bill and inserts in
lieu of it the following:
That so much Of the act approved July
IA, 1890, entitled can Act Directing the
Purchase of Silver Bullion and Iseue of
Treasury Notes Thereon, snd for Other
Purpc ses," as directs the secretary of the
| treasury to purchase from time to time
silver bullion to the aggregate amount of
500, 600 ounces, much thereof as
may be off .red each month at the market
price thereof, not exceeding 81 for 81 and
25-100 grains of Pure silver, and to issue
| in payment for such purchases treasury
| notes of the United States, be and the same
is hereby repealed. And 1t is here
by declared to be the policy Of
| the United States to continue the
use of both gold and silver az standard
| morey and to coin both gold and silver
| into money of equal intrinsic and ex-
| chspgeable value, such quality to be se-
| cured through international agreement or
by such safeguards will insure the
maintenance of the parity in value of the
| coins of the two metals and the equal value
| in the markets and in the payments of
debts. And 1t is hereby further declared
that the efforts of the government should
be steadily directed to the establishment of
| tUch safe system of bimetalliem as will
maintain at all times the equal power of
every dollar coined or issued by the United
| States, in the markets and in the payment
of debts.
Mr.. Perkins then offered the amendment
, Of which he gave notice on the 18th Of o.
tober. 1t proposes to opsn the minis to
the coinage of silver of proved American
prod uction at the parity of Is to l, with a
mint;ng or seigpiorage charge of 20 per
cent which IL to be paid into the treasury.
| No gold pieces of less denomination than
$40 are TO be coined. Silver dollars may
be exchanged at the treasury into legal
tender notes of not less denomination than
$40, and a commission of five monetary
| experts Is to be appointed, whose duty i;
1 obon no 10 nd ha ive
advised of all necessary matters relative tc
the currency.
| Mr.. Perkins addressed the senate at some
length In advocacy of his amendment
| Mr.. Stewart commented sarcastically or
the change which had taken place in the
| votes Of senators since last spring, wher
the bill to repeal the Sherman act Wal
| voted down. Among the senators who
had voted against 1t then he mentioned ths
names of Messrs. Voorhees,, Gordon, Ran
som, Hill, Mills, TuIpie and Squire.
Mr.. Allen expressed his regrets to wit
: ness the "back down" on the part of sena
tors who favored the free coinage of silver
If he had had their experience in legisla
tive work he would stey here all through
next year rather than have uroondttions
repesl of the silver purchase act.
MIR. Teller said he would vote for tn
| pending amendment although he had no
| favored the exclusive coinage of American
silver. Still, if it passed it would be som
relief to the silver producing states and
| great relief to the people of the Unite
4 States. He declared thst he was neithe
caet down nor detected, but he did not dis
guiae the fact that the people of his stat
? were about to 90 "tbreugh the valley G
the ehadow of death" He knew what
. was to turn over 90, 900 miners out of wer
in the fall.
Mr. Teller spoke with bitterness of til
desertion of the cause by some senators
The states of Nevada and Colorado hs
. been held republican for years. They ha
stood by their eastern brethren who b.
lieved in the protective system, even whe
{ 1t would have been to their interest to vol
against them.
Concluding he eaid: The men who sw
:. the money of the world know that If the
can put this country on gold standsr
n and can keep 1t there for five years, the
Z will have put the world on that STANDARD
u And then we return to the condition
things which existed prior to the discover
of gold in California. Prices will 60 low,
and lower. Individual opportunities wi