Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-01
THE REPEAL BILL.
It is to Be the Regular Senate I'm
finished Business.
LISTENING TO SENATOR VANCES SPEECH
Cloture Amendments Offered in the
House.
A L IRE DEFE A T E D
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
In the Senate calendar of today the House
bill repeating part of the act of July IA.
1890, stands under the head of unfinished
business" and the bill for the issue of cir
culating notes to the national banks stands
at the head of the bills under the
head of general orders" The mean
ing of that is that at o'clock
pm. each day df not previously taken up
on motion) the Vice President will lay the
repeal bill before the Senate; and If prior
to O'Clock, the calendar be taken up, the
bank bill will be first in order. and will re-
main before the Senate till pm.
Many petitions for the repeal of the Sher-
man act were presented by Senator'S, one
of whom was Mr.. Cameron Pa) and
another Mr.. Harris Tenn).
silver Purchased and It's Cost.
Mr.. Teller (Col) offered a resolution d.
recting the Secretary of the Treasury to
furnish the Senate with p statement giving
the aggregate amount of silver bullion pur-
chased under the act of 1890. during the
month of August, 1885. with the cost there
of. the amount. date and price of each pur-
chase, with the amount of silver bullion
offered for sale in August, and the amount
and price Of each offer.
Mr.. Voorhees, Und.) said that he knew Of
no objection to the resolution, but his col
league Mr.. Turpie, said that he would like
to have an additional inquiry inserted in
the resolution-that was, the question ''how
paid for?" The statute provides, said Mr..
Teller how silver bullion shall be paid for
In treasury notes. Nevertheless. said Mr..
Turpie, l would like 90 have II put In the
resolu ton. There was no objection TN the
part of Mr.. Teller, and so the resolution
was amended to meet Mr.. Turpie's wish,
and was then agreed to.
The Repeal Bill Up.
Mr.. voorhees, remarked that the House
bill to repeal part of the act Of July IA,
1890 tthe silver repeal bilD, had been yes
terday made the unfinished business" and
that 1t would in the regular course be plac-
ed before the Senate at 2 O'Clock But, as
the Senator from North Carolina OIr.
vance, wished to address the Senate now.
he CIr. VOorhees) would move TO take up
the repeal bill in order to accommodate
that Senator. He did not understand thu [
such action would interfere with the bill 8
being the regular order of business at and
after O'Clock. He asked the Vice Presi-
dent whether he was corr ct IN Il at under
standing. and the Vice President said that
he was.
ThereupOn the House bill to repeal part
of the Sherman act WAS taken up, and
Mr.. Vance IN. c.. one Of the minority
members of the finance committee, ad-
His remarks will be found elsewhere in
this issue of The Star
How MIR. Vance's Speech Was Re-
ceived.
Mr.. Vance delivered the speech from
printed slips. brought close to his vision ty
a half dozen large volumes piled upon his
desk. His manner was. as usual. very hu-
morous. and the witticisms which glit.ered
all over the production were provocative Of
freUuent meals of 1onpbtar no md
in the galleries. Not one-half of the re-
publican Senators were in their seats and
these. for the most part. seemed to give
more attention to their correspondence than
the chamber, however. almost every chair
was occupied, half q dozen of them by re-
publicans. and all seemed TO enjoy the en-
tertainment to the utmost. For the first
hour of the speech Mr. Voorhees, was not
in his place. and when he did come into the
chamber he sat en- the republican side.
Statement as to Gold and silver.
At one point in the speech Mr.. Vance
allowed Mr.. Cockrell to put in a statement
FURNISHED by the director OF the mint
showing the aggregate production and coin
age of gold and silver in all the nations of
the world from 1873 to 1898. the recapitula-
ton being as follows:
Gold-productOn, 81 30, 600 900: coinage
s., 49, OO0,O0o
silver-production. s2.4oo.ocoooo: coinage,
s.. 322 O0o.OC0.
And Mr.. Cockrell laid stress upon the fact
that the coinage Of gold exceeded its pro-
Guction by $S77. 10000. while the coinage of
silver was SSoOO,oOO less than production
Mr.. Venice resumed his seat at D. H. hav-
ing occupied an hour and forty minutes.
He was soon surrounded by Senators Offer
ing their congratulations
Immediately the Vice President announced
that House bill No. i. to repeal part of the
act of July IA, 1880, was before the Senate,
In oTf foo boil
question was on the amendment offered by
the finance committee by way Of a substi-
tute.
Asking for n Vote.
Mr.. Voorhees--If nofurther debate is pro-
posed at this time ask for a vote on the
substitute. "Oh. no." came from Mr. Tel
Ter. Additional notices have been given of
speeches intended to be made next week.
There is not a Senator in this body who
dos not know that / desire every Senator
who, in good faith. wishes to occupy the
time of the Senate to have ,ulI oooor-
tunity of doing SO. But / cannot take the
responsibility (nor will 1 attempt 10 do so)
of being a party to delay-mere delay And
when vacancy in talk has been reached
] shall want that vacancy filed by a vote
] desire every Senator to be heard but stu
ated as am and with my appropriations Of
the demands of the country / cannot be a
party to the delay of a single hour of waste
to go on with the discussion trust that we
are ready to go on with the vote.
Mr.. PETER Ran): don ut desire to post
pone action on this measure, sofar as
am personally concerned, Il minute longer
than until 1 have done all that can do
honoraby and inside Of parliamentary
rules to defeat hits measure or, IL that
cannot be DONE so TO amend IL as that
1t shall provide for a substitute in the way
OF free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio which the people Of the country
understand that we have promised them.
/ have two amendments which propose to
offer.
A discussion started at this point as to
what parliamentary form should be OBJ
served In regard to the bill-whether amend
ments should be offered to it, or whether 1t
would not be more simple and convenient to
agree to the substitute pro forma and let
all amendments be applied to it. This latter
course was suggested by Mr.. Allison 0owa).
and was assented to and favored by Mr.
Voorhees,. But ii was stated by Mr. Har-
ris CTenn.) that this would require unani-
nous consent; and when the Vive President
asked whether there was any objection it
came promptly from Mr.. Cockrell GIo),
who stated that he should object to the SUBJ
stitute until the matter was fully discussed.
THE HOUSE.
After the reading of the Journal, Mr..
Weadock GIich) offered n resolution pest
poning from tomorrow until September Is,