Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-08-29
REPEAL IN THE SENATE
WILSON BILL SUEEcsSSEDE.D ID
BV VOORHEES, MEASURE
Wilson BliI Passed the House
Easily ISnOuEh-The Detail of
the VOse-rO Moye On Tarin
Reform.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2o.-In the
House Monday, the Wilson bill,
having been read, Bland offered his
first amendment, that OF free coinage at
the present ratio of 16 to 1, and it was
defeated by score of yeas, 124; nays,
226. The ratio of II to 1 was defeated,
100 yeas, 24O nays; Is to 1, 1O2 to 293;
10 to 1, 121 to 222. The proposition to
re enact the Bland Allison act was de-
featcd by yeas. 136; nays, 213. Final
passage, yeas, 24O; nays, 10; majority,
13O.
After a little routine business, Catch
ings called up the report of the commit
tee on rules, reporting the rules to gov
crn the House of the SD Congress.
The House is now q p. m.) consider
ing the code of rules under the general
debate.
The committee on ways and means
will proceed at once with the prepara-
ton of the general tariff bill and will
give hearings in the course thereof to
persons and parties interested. Chair
man Wilson has announced the
following sub-commmittees: On Gus
toms, Wilson, Whiting, Breckenridge
of custom laws, Turner, Stevens, Tars-
ney, Payne and Gear; on internal rcvc-
nue., Mcmillan, Montgomery, Bynu1n,
Hopkins and Payne; on public debt,
Byan, Mcmillan, Whiting Burrows and
Dalsell; on reciprocity and commercial
treaties, Cochran, Gear and Dalsell.
The Senate committee on finance this
morning decided to report back to the
Senate the Wilson repeal bill with a
recommendation that the VIC orhees bill,
already on the Senate calendar, be sub
stituted for it.
The committee also resolved to set
aside the National bank circulation bill
which is now unfinished business in the
Senate. in favor of the Voorhees, bill and
press the latter measure as rapidly as
| the temper of the Senate will permit.
| The differences between the House bill
and the Voorhees, bill Is found in the at
tachment to the latter OF a paragraph
declaring that it is the policy of the
United States to use both gold and sill
yer as money metals and to preserve the
parity between them.
The program of the committee, as far
as it contemplateS the setting aside OF
the national bank BILL can only be car
| ried out through the aid of majority in
the Senate, tor the national bank bill
cannot be withdrawn or set aside save
| through a maj jority vote in favor of CON
| slider alton of the repeal bill. The silver
men in the Senate profess to he Indifferent
| as to which bill is considered by the Sen
( ate, holding that the bank bill is almost
| as Objectionable as the repeal bill, but
there are indications that the program
will meet with prolonged resistance
nevertheless, and silver men say they
will fight repeal at every step.
Chairman Voorhees, reported the VOor
| hees bill to the Senate as substitute fo1
the House bill at 1915 today and gave
notice that he would call it up immedi
| atelv.
Teller objected to it's immediate CON
| Sideration and it went oyer until to1nor
! row. The Stewart resolution, iuquirine
into the condition of the treasury wa:
then taken up.
The resolution was referred to th'
finance committee and Gordon addressed
the Senate in advocacy of the uncondi
tional repeal of the Sherman act. He de
clarcd that he could not vote for an,
measuresthat involved delay, aud tina
he was therefore opposed to the substi
tute report today.