The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-29
THERE Is MUCH
TALK IN THD SENATE.
Amendments offered and as
Quickly Voted Down.
LITTLE NEARER THE END.
The Probate Judge of Beaver County
Confirmed.
Secretary Herbert Gives to the Public the
Dispatch Received from
Stanton at Rio
Janiero.

Washington. Oct. 2S.-When the
Senate convened at IL a. M, there
were ffty-two senators present.
The urgency deficiency bill was
taken UP and passed; also Cullom's
joint resolution transferring the model
battleship at the Worlds fair to the
state of Illinois for an armory for the
state naval militia.
The repeal bill was then taken up
and Wolcott addressed the Senate in
opposition. He was followed by
Sherman. He spoke of the depleted
condition of the treasury and the
invasion of the gold reserve, which,
he said, was reduced to eighty mil
lions To rectify this the secretary of
the treasury should be authorized to
issue bonds. He considered it unwise
to offer such an amendment to the
present bill, but had ready a PROPOSE
ton for the sale of two hundred mil
lion per cent. bonds as the method
he would suggest for relief.
He was followed by German.
German contended that when Con-
gress met the Democratic party was
hopelessly divided on the silver ques-
ton, as were the Republicans. There
was not a majority in favor Of uncon-
ditionai repeal, he asserted, for many
of those who would vote that way
wanted some other measure passed in
place of the Sherman law. Stewart
spoke a few minutes, and Shoup, of
Idaho, took the floor and read a short
speech, predicting that disaster would
follow repeal.
At the end of his speech, Stewart
offered a substitute for the Perkins
amendment, which is practically to the
same ieffeot but differently worded.
The substitute was lost-39 to 20. The
Perkins amendment was lost-30 to Al.
Berry, of Arkansas, offered the Bland
Allison law as a proviso to the repeal
bill.
| At 4:15 p. m. Allen, of Nebraska, Of
fered an amendment to coin the bullion
in the treasury.
At 4:O5 the vote on the Blackburn
amendment, offered some days ago, re-
suited in yeas %, nays AZ.
| Berry said the Bland-Allison act
ought to be the measure which the
| Democrats could agree upon. He
spoke, he said, for the silver Democrats
of the south, whose people had de-
manded something for silver. The vic
| tory of the northern Democrats over
the southern Democrats was obtained
under the leadership of the senator
| from Ohio (Sherman).
| Voorhees, said that many policies
had been proposed as amendments to
this bill, which would under different
circumstances meet his approval. He
was charged with responsibility of
passing this bill uneneumbered and in
sisted that legislation would not end
with the passage of this bill He
would oppose the issue of bonds at
this time. He would also oppose But
lers state bank bill, but not as an
amendment to this bill. When Sec
lretary Carlisle, the great lawyer, told
him that he had authority to issue
| bonds, he believed it. The senate
from Ohio was right in some of his
positions. Provisions ought to be
made for bonds for a shorter date and
Hover interest
Berry's amendment for the restora-
ltion of the Bland-Allison law was re-
ljected by a vote of 80 ayes to 81 nays.
the highest vote any amendment re-
Iceived.
Aliens amendment for the free coin
lag Of silver at a ratio of 16 to l was
lrejected-31 ayes to Al nays.
Blackburn's amendment was rejec-
ted % to 80.
Stewards amendment inviting the
republics of Central and South
America to join the United States in
a convention was rejected-32 ayes tc
AZ nays.
The first section of Squire's amend.
ment was rejected-20 to ~, the second
section being withdrawn.
i Butler did not offer, as he proposed
to do, his amendment for the repea.
of the state bank tax.
An amendment offered by PETER was
rejected-ayes Z, nays So.
Aliens amendment was lost-2S to IL
PETER offered an amendment, which
was voted down without resorting tc
roll call. Harris did not offer or ask
a vote upon his amendment.
Pasco offered an amendment, which
was ordered printed with the under
standing that it could be offered or
Monday.
The Senate then went into executive
session, at the expiration of which {
recess was taken until Monday.