The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-28
AGAINST FREE SILVER
The PETER Amendment to the Re-
peal Bill Defeated,
TELLER SEES BREAKERS AHEAD.

Colorado's Republican Senator Moved TO
Tears by the Defeat of the Amendment.
Sir. Perkins Gets in a Conditional Sill
yer Coinage Proposition.
WASHINGTON, oct. s.-The beginning Of
voting upon the amendments to the re-
peal bill, which took place i'm the senate
late yesterday afternoon does not neces-
saiily bring the matter any nearer q final
vote because thc voting was begun upon
an understanding that speechmakinp
should be allowed to continue within the
limits no senator was prepared TO take
the floor when Mr. Jones expressed q de
sire to- discontinue his speech until to-
day and Mr. Voorhees,, by previous ar
raugemeut. moved to take up the pending
amendments Mr. Faulkner. the repeal
whip. had previously seen the senator's
who had expressed a desire to speak, and
assured them that the new order should
not cut them out. He thinks that all fu-
ture speeches, except MIR. Jones', win be
brief and is hopeful of reaching the defin-
ite vote very soon.
The first amendment to be brought to a
vote was that of Mr.. PETER, the Populist
senator from Kansas, providing for free
coinage This was quickly defeated by
vote of 2s to 80. The detailed vote on the
peffer amendment was MS follows.
How the Senators Voted
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Frya GaIiinger Gibson G9rman Gray
Hale ITiooing Hill. HoaI. Lindsay. Lodge
Mcmillan Mcpherson. NIandarson Mitch
ell of Wisconsin. Morrill,. NTurpbv. Pal
mar PERKINS Proctor. Onav Ransom
Sherman smith Stockbridge. Turpie
Wins VOORHEES,. WashburD and White of
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The following pairs were announced.
first named being in the affirmative: Cock
rell and Allison. Cameron and Bryce.
White Cali and Chandler. Colouitt and
Wilson. pettigrew and Gordon. Hans
broupb and Mills. Morgan and Hawley.
Iunton and PIatt Mitchell UOrel and
Squire.
Mr. voorhees, then moved that the sub
stitute reported bv the finance committee
for the bouse bill be adopted and asked
unanimous consent that. after it's adop.
tion il might he treated as an omen amend
mont os tbe ORIGINAL hill would he 10
the latter request there was no objection.
On his motion the yeas and nays were
taI,en. and nv a vote of So yeas TO 9 nays
tbe substitute reported by the finance
committee was agreed
Those who voted against the substitute
were Senators Allen. Bate. Call Coke.
Irby. KYLE. PETER, Roach and Vance
sa,,ror P,rt,ins, Amendment
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NJ, l,,II f.. ~ Iogs do,,o,,ino+ion ti,an
st0 sr,. td' he coinod and nn iag,ai ten5a,.
ratioroI c,,.re,,c,, or treae,,.,, notes Of ~
iag 1,,,,,i,a+o, tbo e. a,, t, I,o iss,,ad
rThn boIder of an,, standord silver dol.
Io,e ,,,,,- ,Iar,o-it the Same With tba trans
urer of the United States i'm anv sum and
receive therefor notes of denominations
less than $40 only, which notes shall have
the same LEGAL tender quality as the coin
for which they are EXCHANGED. There is TO
be apnointed a commission of five mon
etarv eyperts. the members whereof shall
not be otherwise connected with the gov
ernmeut whose duty it shall be to keen
CONGRESS and the executive advised on all
necessary matters relatingt the currency.
MIR. Stewart DNevD called attention to
the change of votes on the part of Messrs.
VOORHEES,. Gordon. Ransom. Hill. Mills,
Turpie and Squire on the silver question,
who last spring voted for free coinage,