Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-08-29

THE WILSON BILL PASSED
BY THE HOUSE YESTERDAY BY
A Two-THIRDs VOTE.
The Arkansas Members Cast Five
Votes Against, and One
For tho Measure.

The whole country was deeply in
terested in the action of Congress
yesterday, lin the lower Housel, re-
garding the vote then taken on the
silver question. 1t was conceded that
the Wilson (or administrator bill
would pass by a safe majority, but no.
body contemplated its securing two
thirds majority as it did. Below we
give resume of some of the House
proceedings, together with the result
of the different votes taken:
When the Speaker commanded or
der at 70 o'clock, nearly every seat in
the hall was filled with unmistakable
evidence of general and individual in
terest of the matter in hand,
Chaplain Hsddaway prayed briefly,
and in voice inaudible at distance
of more than ten feet from his desk,
He asked for the especial gift Of wis
dom and judgment to rightly settle
the great question before the House.
After the reading of the journal,
Mr.. Weaver, of New York, appeared
before the bar of the House on the
arm of his colleague, Gen. Tracey, and
was sworn in by the speaker,
A resolution contained in the order
of procedure on the silver question
was reported by the Clerk, providing
for vote, first upon the free coinage
of silver at the present ratio of16 to l..
Representative Bailey Of Texas,
asked if in the event of all the amend
ments including in the order being
defeated, it would be in order to pro-
pose additional amendments.
Speaker Crisp replied that as at
present advised he would answer no,
that the order provides exhausGvelY
all that the House may consider, hut
that when the time came to formally
present the question then the gentle
man from Texas might be heard.
Representative McMillin, of Tennes-
see, desired to offer an amendment
providing for the free coinage Of the
product of the silver mines of the
United States, but Mr.. Bland objected
to even having it read, saying such a
proposition was not free coinage at
all.
The House began the vote on the
Bland free coinage substitute at 1912.
BANDS 16 to 1 free coinage PROPOSE
ton was defeated Yeas, 1873; nays,
225.
Seventeen 10 one amendment was
defeated. Yeas, 100; nays, 240.
Eighteen to one free coinage amend
ment was rejected. Yeas, 1902; nays,
239.
Nineteen to one amendment was
rejected. Yeas, 105; nays, 237,
Twenty to one amendment was
likewise rejected. Yeas, 119; nays,
220.
The vote was then taken upon the
final passage Of the Wilson bill, uncon-
ditionally repeating the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law, and it was
passed. Yeas, 240; nays, 10.
All of the Arkansas members, eX-
cept Breckenridge, voted for silver
coinage every time, and against the
Wilson bill. T
The House, Immediately after the
passage of the Wilson bill, sent a mes
sage to the Senate announcing the
fact, and that body at once referred
the matter to the finance committee,
on motion of Mr. VOORHEES, the chair
man, who stated that the committee
would meet today, when there would
be very prompt action in connection
with the House bill and with the
measure already reported from the
finance committee.
The Arkansas Gazette, in comment
ing upon the passage Of the Wilson
bill, says;
"The House by decided vote yes
terday rejected the Bland free coinage
bill and all amendments fixing the
ratio between the two metals, and
passed the Wilson bill repeating the
purchasing clause Of the Sheaman
act. The majority in favor Of the
Wilson bill was l3l, while the major
ity against the Bland bill and amend
ments ranged from 10l to 132. Inter-
est in the silver question will now be
centered IN the Senate, where the bill
introduced by the finance committee
for the repeal is now under Discus
sion. 1t is somewhat different from
the one passed by the House, and II
the Senate insists on considering this
bill instead Of the Wilson bill, further
unnecessary time will be consumed
before the question is settled. II is
probable, however that the Senate
will take up the House measure, and