The sun., 1893-08-29
SILVER MIN ROUTED.
The House Votes to Repeal
the Sherman Act.
AMENDMENTS VOTED DOWN,
Large Maioritios Against Free
Coinage at Any Ratio.

The Grcnteh STRENGTH OF the Free Co,aazs
Men Was shown In tho Vote on the
Amendment to Revive the Biand-Ai,,-oa
Act, and Their Least Strength In the
Amendment for Free Coinage nt u Entio
OF II TO 1.-The Wilson Repeal Biu
Passed by IA Vote OF ESQ to no. aud Sent
to the Senate. Where II Was Preu,prIy
Referred to tho Committee financ.-
Senator voorhee. Announces that His
Committee win Act without Delay.
WAsHIEGToN. Aug. 22--By an overwhelming
vote the House of Representatives this after
noon passed House bill No. l. otherwise
known as the Wilson bill" providing Tor the
unconditional repeal Of tho purchase clause Of
the sherman act. The bill was ongrossed and
sent to the Senate. where ii was referred to the
Committee on Finance and may or may not be
substituted for the Voorhees, repeal bill. al
ready on the Senatc calendar. The voting in
tho House to-day was devoid OF any unusual
interest. it having long been n ioregone con-
clusion that tho bill would to passed. and the
only noteworthy features OF tho day were the
action OF large number Of members. heroto-
fore known as silver men. in changing In the
face OF defeat and voting with the majority.
thus max ing the vote for repeal much larger
than even tho most enthusiastic anti-siiver
men had predicted. The voting was done in
the most perfunctory mannor. and SO
thoroughly was the resulted discounted that
when Speaker Crisp announced that the
Wilson bill had passed. by vote Of $50 to 10
there was only a slight burst Of applause from
tho floor and the galleries.
The great audiences that sat all through the
entertaining speechmaking Of Saturday did
not seem to be satisfied. and cnme hack to- day
in almost as large numbers as ever. They
neda ssih la foot pf N all
galleries and doorways and aisies. and good
naturedly sweltered in the extremely hot and
stutfy atmosphere Of tho hall. They were not
richly rewarded. either. for there was nothing
to entertain them except seven long and
dreary roll calls. the result OF each OF which
was known long in advance. Still thero
was great popular desire to see
the formal repeal OF the obnoxious law that 10
supposed TO DO responsible for all tho ills
under which the country is now suffering. and
nobody soomcd to grumble. Tho FREQ coinage
men seemed to be little astonished at the big
vote against them on the first roll call. but
after that they took their medicine very
philosophically.
The largo majority for the rcpea! bill beyond
what has beon estimated was duo to two
causes: First. the members in charge OF the
canSassing for tho anti-silver men purposely
rofraining from overostimating their strength:
repeal of whom they had positive assurances:
and. second. many silver mon. as soon they
saw that their case was hopeless. made haste
to get into the band wagon before 1t got out Of
sight.
But everywhere and on all sides great satis-
faction is expressed that decision has been
reached after the long and weary debate. and
the consensus of opinion is that the result OF
the voto will have beneficial effect upon the
a., al cit, A
tion OF confidence in the country will. in the
opinion Of IA largo majority Of the members.
follow the announcement of the heavy vote for
repeal. Representative John Allen. however.
thinks he illustrated in pointed way his are
gument that the much talk ed-of lost cona.
dence will not be reGained as tho result OF to-
days voting. Just aftor Mr. Crisp had an
nounced tho passage OF the Wilson bill Mr.
Allen walked up to Representative Fitch. and.
with serious face, said:
Fitch. l am little short Of money Just now.
owing to some unexpected demands upon me.
and it would be very great favor II you could
lot me have 500 for a little while
Mr.. Fitch was n little surprised. and also o
little short himself. and in a hesltatng. en-
barrassed way. he said:
John would like to obligo YOU o! course.
but really l don't think | have that much
money about me-"
OH" slowly drawsd out Allen. with sar-
castle smile. Il didn't want your money.
only wanted to show you that confidence had
not been restored"
After the House adjourned. group OF mern-
bers on both sides We're channg each othar
about the long contest. and some commsnt
was made upon the fact that even such M
compromising friends OF free coinage as Mg.
Millin Of Tennessee who made a bitter speech
against repeal on Saturday night: had sud
denly come in out Of the wet and voted Tor the
group thereupon remarked that IreSident
Cleveland seemed to have cornered all the
:Wel," said Tom Reed, 1T would take
mighty little capital to corner that product"
The votes In the House to-day were renark-
corded On the last two roll calls 34a mem:
bers responded to their names. Shell and
Graham were paired. leav Ing only three Hep.
354 apparently unaccounted for Ono Of these.
Mr.. Cooper OF Wisconsin, would have been
present and voting. but was called out Of tho
the approaching death OF his father Speaker
e sence was unexplained MIR. Nowlands Of
Nevada,
One Of the causes Of the uncSpectodly large
vote against free coinage OF silver was the
changed attitude OF memoers from the SOUTH
ern states. 1t had been supposed that thess
were practically sol id in favor OF free coinage.
hut an analysis Of tho vote as cast shows that
thiswas not the case to large degree, ~, The
act made the best showing for the silver men,
the total beng: Yeas. 1876; nays. 2l3, divided
among tho States as follows:
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