Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-02
A GREAT VICTORY
Silver Purchasing Law a
THING Of the Past.
House ACTS QUICKLY
A Brilliant Flank Movement
Against Silverites.
Repeal Bill Passed and Necessary Sigma.
... lures Attached.


WAsHfNOTON, NOV. a.-Ihe silver pur-
chase repeal bill was signed by the speaker
shortly after it's passage In the house
The announcement that the house had
concurred In the senate amendment was
made to the senate at $40, but IL was
o'clock when the enrolled bill was laid
upon the vice presidents desk for his sig
nature. Immediately after 1t was returned
to the house committee on enrolled bills,
whose duty it was to deliver It to the pres
ident for his signature.
The bill was brought to the White
House by Representative Albert J. Pear
son Of Ohio, chairman Of the house com.
mittee on enrolled bills Mr.. Pearson
was admitted into the presidents Office
while the president was examining the
figures Of the revised vote on the final
passage Of the measure. Secretary Car
Isle and Attorney General Olney were
present
When Mr.. Pearson presented the en-
rolled copy Of the bill to the president,
explaining what 1t was, Mr.. Cleveland
Immediately took up his pen and wrote
these words in the lower left-hand corner:
Approved, Nov. ]. 1893, Grover Cleve-
land"
And the bill became law.
The Days Battle.
The struggle in the house was short.
Only "a men could be rallied for the last
stand by the silver leaders, Messrs. Bland
and Bryan.
MIR. Bland and his colleagues, knowing
that further opposition WAS futile, pre-
ferred to sacrifice the opportunity for q
few hours debate offered by Mr. Wilson
In order to force the majority to bring in
the cloture and concur in the senate
amendment by duress. But even In this
they failed.
Their small following might have sue
ceeded had they been led by experienced
and skillful parliamentary tacticians
Neither Mr.. Bryan nor Mr. Snodgrass, his
lieutenant, Is we'll versed In parliamentary
procedure, and when thrown off their
guard by a momentary distraction, they
exposed their flank by failing to follow
one filibustering motion with another.
Speaker Crisp overwhelmed them by
putting the pending motion to order the
previous question. 1t was carried with
roar. The filibusterers had been caught
mapping, and nothing remained for them
TO do except to submit For 80 minutes,
under the rule, followed the rattle of
oratory amid the greatest confusion and
excitement. AT its conclusion the vote
was thhtu OH bldnub Tree COINAGE
substitute. The majority was 70 against IL.
Then came the final vote on concurring
in the senate amendments. The vote
stood 1913 for concurrence and "a against.
When the original bill passed the house
Aug. % the vote was 2Ol to 100, 30 that al
though the total vote yesterday was
smaller the proportion was practically
the same.
The final vote was taken at ESQ D. m.
The bill was engrossed Immediately, and
In 20 minutes, at 3:l0, the formal an
nouncement was made to the senate that
its amendment had been agreed to by the
house. The bill was hurriedly enrolled by
Chairman Pearson of the committee on
enrolled bills, and at $3.50 was presented to
Speaker Crisp for his signature.
A 1eet-footed messenger carried 1t to the
senate, where it was signed two minutes
later by Vice President Stevenson. Chair
man Pierson, with the bill under his arm,
entered a carriage waiting for him on the
plaza in front Of the Capitol and drove
rapidly to the White House.
At the White House.
The president had been kept duly ad.
vised of the progress OF events. Indeed,
he manifested 30 much interest in the
vote in the house that at his request a
duplicate OF the names of those who had
voted for or against the concurrence was
made soon after the rollcall was COM
pleted. and this list was lying on his desk
when Mr.. Pearson arrived with the bill.
Secretary Carlisle, Attorney General Oh
ney aud Private Secretary Thurber were
present.
After felicitating with each other for
few moments over the victory that had
been achieved, the president took up the
engrossed copy Of the bill and read it
aloud. Then picking up Q quill pen he
affixed his autograph at 4:25 And thus
IS days hours and Is minutes after the
extraordinary session convened the remedy
for the financial distress, which Mr..
Cleveland demanded in his message, was
applied
The analysis Of the vote shows that i24
Democrats, 6s Republicans and one Pop
ulist, Cannon Of California, voted for con-
currence, aud 20 Democrats, Is Republi-
cans and nine Populists against the mo-
tion. The following members voted for
the Bland free coinage substitute and also
for concurrence:
Anderson, Black of Georgia, Brookshire,
Donovan, Edmunds Of Virginia, Geary,
Holman, Richardson, Mitchell, Marshall,
Turpin- Post and Tyler. ghils Neill.