Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-01

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would do much to restore public con-
fdence. He expressed the hope "that
the senate would take speedy action on
the silver question.
THE GREAT BATTLE.
Detailed Account Of the Last Days
Fight in the House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Under the
impression that the order under which
this house has been operating the past
two weeks,so far as the hour of meeting
was concerned, prevailed, the public
galleries of the house Of representative s
were filled before II a. M. and many
members were in their seats on the
floor at that hour. The surrounding
corridors and lobbies of the floor were
also filled with a throng of people,
curious to know the outcome of the
oratorical contest which has been going
on within the chamber for IA days.
No New Amendments.
After the reading of the journal Mr..
Weaver of New York appeared at the
bar of the house on the arm of his COL
league. General Tracey. and was sworn
in by the speaker. The resolution con-
tanned in the order of procedure on the
silver question was reported by the
clerk providing for a vote first upon
free coinage of silver at the present
ratio of IL to l.. Representative Bailey
of Texas asked if, in the event of all the
amendments included in the order be.
ing defeated, it would be in order to
propose an additional amendment
germane to the subject. Speaker
Crisp replied that as at present advised
he would answer no; that the order
provides exhaustively all that the house
may conclusively consider, but when
the time came to formally present the
question the gentleman from Texas
might be heard. Representative Nc
Millin of Tennessee desired to offer an
amendment providing for the free COIN
age of a product of the silver mines of
the United States, but Mr.. Bland oh.
jected I'VE to having read. saying that
such a proposition was not free coinage
at all.
The Balloting Begun.
The roll vas called upon the amend
ment to the Wilson bill providing for
free coinage of silver at the ratio of IL
to l. 1t resulted, yeas 1923. nays 2e5.
Not nearly as much interest was taken
on the second vote. which was on the
ratio of II to /. The decisive vote on
the IL to / ratio seemed to dishearten
the silver men and in place of the at
tention which was paid to the first was
substituted a listlessness which spread
throughout the hall. The vote re-
suited in the defeat of the amendment,
yeas 10O, nays 225. The 10 to / stand
ard was defeated by a vote of yeas 1Os,
nays 239. The house then voted imme-
diately or the ~ to l amendment and
it was also defeated by a vote of yeas
1O4, nays 23S. Then came the 20 to 1
amendment and this in turn was de-
feated though it showed more strength,
the vote standing yeas 121, nays 2222.
No n who voted for 10 to l voted
against 20 to /, but there was a decided
gain. The proposition to e.enac the
Bland-Allison act as a proviso to the
repeal bill received the strongest sup.
port, but even that was defeated by a
majority of II, the vote standing yeas
1856, nays 213. The vote was taken
upon the final passage of the Wilson
bill and it was passed, yeas 240, nays
ITO. Those voting against repeal were
as follows:
Observation-Disclosures. Abbott, Alexander,
Allen, Arnold. Bailey, Bankhead, Bell, Blanch-
ard. Bland. Boatner, Bower, Branch, Bryan,
Bnrnes, Caminetti, Clark, Cobb, Cockrcll,
Gotten. Cooper. Cox. Crawford. Culberson,
Ellis, Enloe, Epcs, Fithian, Fyan. Goodnight,
Grady, Hall, Hatch, Heard. Henderson, Hook.
or, Hutchinson, Ikert, Jones, kilgOrc, Kyle,
Lame, Latimer, Livingstone, Maddox, Mcguire,
Mallory, Marshall, McCulloch, Mcl)carnlont,
McI.aurin, McIac, Money, Morgan. Moses,
Ncill, Richardson c%rcnnJ, Robbins, robert.
sOn, Sayers, Sibley, S%n0dgrass, Stallings
Stnckdale, Strait, Talbcrt, Ta,sncy, Tate,
Terry, Wheeler, Williams. Williams, Wood.
ward.
Experimentation, Bowers, Frederick,
Cannon. Curtis. Ellis. Funston. IIavcr. Hui.
ncr, Hartman, Hepburn. hermann, niiDorn,
Hopkins. Loud, Lucas. Mcikcljohn, Picker
Smith, Sweet, Wilson.
Populists--I,ukcr, Bell, Boon, Davis, Harris
KEN, Hudson, McKcighen, Ncwlands, Pence,
Simpson.
The anti.silver men knew that they
were playing a winning game from the
start and when this overwhelming ma.
jority was shown for the Wilson bill
its advocates did not indulge in enthu.
siastic cheers, but contented themselves
with q single round of applause.
Mr.. Catchings lDem.. Missy gave