Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-31

( to proceed, anu HiiiIS ~. u
officer reminded him that he was on
the floor by the courtesy OF Senator
Jones. This had the effect OF stoppNng
| him and he sat down with an apology
to Senator Jones. who then went on
with his speech and soon concluded II.
The suggestion was made by Dir.
Morrill, that an hour TO day q D: NJ be
fixed for the final vote but Ar. Har,
ris. while asserting MS readiness to end
the matter at any moment, Wouta MOI
agree 10 unanimous consent.
Mr.. PETER SAYING that he desired TO
occupy bat fifteen minutes, proceeded
10 show up what he called the crown
ing tiffany of this century"
Mr.. Harris in few closing remarks
said ne had been described the other
day BIZ Sir. Voorhees, as being as weak
as any man could be, except for his al
lies. He admitted it. He had allies in
the State which he in part represented.
But he wanted to state TO the Senator
from Indiana and 10 the balance OF the
world TIaughter that the time would
never come when be (Mr. Harris would
desert the convictions ola lifetime in
order to obtain alliesin the camp OF the
enemy.
Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada, took the
floor to make few closing remarks
also. He opened with the quotation,
"The die is cast" and he followed it by
saving that the snrreptitious and fraud
ulent act Of 1873, demonetizing silver,
,rac ratified and confirmed: that the
gold ring was victorious, and that the
Trojan horse was within the walls: But
the betrayal and capture of the White
House and OF the two Houses of Con-
gress was not the end of the war. Let
the vote be taken, he said. Let the
deed be done. Let the object lesson be
given. We will abide the result.
Mr.. Stewart closed at 7:4O, and then
the Vice President stated that if no
further amendment was offered the vote
would now be taken on the engross-
merit and third reading of the bill.
That was agreed 10 without division,
and then the vote was taken by yeas
and nays or the passage of the bill rs
amended, and it was pasSed-yeas -
NAYS 80, as follows:
Yeas-Mcssrs. Aldrich, Brice, Gallery
Camden, Carey, Crllom. Davis, Dixon
Dolph. Faulkner, Fry. Gallinger, Glib
son, Gor:0an, Gray. Hale, Hawley
Higgins. Hill, Hoar, Hutton, Lindsay
Lodge. Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Mauder
son, Mills, Mitchell Of Wisconsin, Nor
rill, Murphy, Plat, Proctor, Quay, Ran
som, Sherman, Smith. Squire, Stock
bridge, Tnrpic, Villas, VOORHEES,, Wash
burn. AMI White Of LouiSiana-43.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Bate, Berry
Blackburn, Butler, Call. Cameron
Cockrell. Coke, Daniel, Dubois, George
Harris, Irby. Jones of Arkansas. Jone
of Nevada, Kyle, Martin, PascO, PETER
Perkins, Peltigrcw. Power, Pugh
Roach. Shoup. Stewart, Teller. Vance
Vest. Walthall and Wolcott-32.
The following were the pairs:
Messrs. Mitchell of Oregon and Ali
son: Chandler and White of California
Colquitt and Wilson: Palmer and Hans
brough Gordon and Morgan.
The majority WAS composed of TWEEN
ty-two republicans TO twenty-one dem
ocrats.
As soon as the vote was announced
Mr.. VOORHEES, made motion to ad
iourn. and the Senate, at 7:30 p. M, ad
journed till to-day at noon.
The xt Of the bill is as follows:
That so much of the act approved Jul!
: IA. 1890, entitled An act directing the pun
chase Of silver bullion and issue OF trcasur.
notes thereon aud for other purposes, as di
reefs the Secretary Of the Treasury 20 pun
, ch 4sc from time to time silver bullion TO tn
. aggrega' amount OF 100000 ounces, or 5
} much thereof as may be offered in cac
month at thu market price thereof. not eX
ceeding 81 for 81 25-l0O grains Of pure 81
!, yer. and to issue in payment for such pm:
chases urcasIry notes Of the United States. i
and the same is hereby repealed. And 1t
: hereby declared to be the policy of III
[ United States to continue the Use of both COL
and silver as standard money. and to col
, both gold AMI silver into money of equal ir
trinsic and exchaugcablc value, such equalit
10 be secured through international agrecmen
or by such safeguards of legislation as will in
; sure the maintenance Of the parity in valu
{, Of the coins Of the two metals and the cqus
/ powcr OF every dollar ut all times in the MAJ
: kets and in the payment of debts. And 1t
hereny further declared that The efforts of tn
government should be steadily directed to tn
; establishment of such n safe system of bimct
alism as will maintain at all times the cqua
2 power of every dollar coined or issued by th
. United States in the markets ard in the pay
(, mcut of debts
, The repeal bill is now before tn
House for action, and the House will
doubtless, soon concur in the Senat
, bill, which is an amendment in the na
7 L.
The President will sign it, withou
question, at toe earliest possible INC
: ment.