The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-08

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Silver pur-
chases by the government ceased today.
The purpose for which Mr.. Cleveland
called congress in extraordinary session
was accomplished at 4:25 o'clock this
afternoon, when he affixed his sigma
ture to the bill to repeal Internationally
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
law.
The struggle in the house was short.
Only twenty-seven men could be rallied
for the last stand by the silver leaders.
Messrs. Bland and Bryan. Mr.. Bland
and his colleagues. knowing that fur
Their opposition was futile, preferred to
sacrifice the opportunity for a 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
succeeded had they been led by expert
enced and skiIlfu parliamentary tao
ticians Neither Mr.. Bryan nor Mr..
Snodgrass, his lieutenant, is we'll versed
in parliamentary proceedings, and when
thrown Off their guard b. a momentary
distraction they exposed their flank by
ton with another. Speaker Crisp over
whelmed them by putting the pending
motion to order the previous question.
1t was carried with roar. The fill
busters had been caught mapping. and
nothing remained for them to do ex-
cept to submit
For thirty minutes under the rule fol-
lowed the rattle Of oratory amid the
greatest confusion and excitement. At
its conclusion the vote was taken on
Mr.. BANDS free coinage substitute. The
majority against it was seventy-three.
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 stood POI to 100, so
that although the total vote today was
smaller the proportion was practically
the same. The final vote was taken at
2:50 p. m. The bill was ehgrossed i'm
mediately, and twenty minutes later,
at $40, the formal announcement was
made to the senate that the amend
ment had been agreed to by the house.
At $3.50 the bill was presented to
Speaker Crisp for his signature A
fleet-footed messenger carried il to the
senate, where it was signed two min
utes later Oy Vice-President Stevenson.
Chairman Pearson, with the bill under
his arm, entered a carriage waiting for
him on the plaza in front of the capt.
tol, and drove rapidly to the white
house. The president had been kept duly
advised Of the progress Of events. In
deed. he manifested so much interest
in the vote in the house that at his
request a duplicate OF the names of
those who had voted for and against
the concurrence was made soon after
the roll call was completed. and this
list was lying on his desk when Mr..
Pearson arrived with the bill
SECRETARY Carlisle, Atorney-General
Oiney and Private Secretary Thurber
were present After felicitating with
each other for a few moments over the
victory that had been achieved the
president took up the engrossed COPY of
the bill and read it aloud. Then pick
ing up a quill pen he affixed his auto
graph at 4:25. And thus the sixty-fve
days, four hours and twenty-five min
utes after the extraordinary session con-
vened the remedy for the financial dis
tress which Mr.. Cleveland demanded
IN his message was applied
The analysis Of the vote shows that
124 democrats, sixty-eight republicans
and one populist Cannon of California;
voted for concurrence and seventy dem
ocrats, fifteen republicans and nine pop
ulists against the motion. The follow
ing members voted for the Bland free
coinage substitute and also for concur
renee:
Anderson, Black Of Georgia, Brook
shire Donovan, Edmunds Of Virginia,
Geary, Holman, Richardson Of Michigan,
Swanson Marshall, Turpin, Post and
Tyler. while Neill, Weaver and Kyle,
who voted for the free coinage substf-
tute, did not vote on the final vote.