Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-14
TORREY BILL is DEFEATED
THE HOUSE I<xOCI<s OUT THE
UtNl<Kt Piggy BILL.
The Vote comes Un~N pccteatl! and
Results Ia the Defeat of the Meas
mre-l 1: to II1-The Vote IL Not IL
Strict Party One.

WaShin=i,n Dee. 3.--Thc Torr"y bank
T., ptcy bill WAS >lril. %lcd unexpectedly
by the house itl>r as the consideration Of
Tie bill under lhr h,r-l:.:nutc rule was
;.Enu t" begin. trl. Oates. the champion
of the mr;'>urr. had declined to p"rmi,
tie hnu<,. to vote on his substitute pro
v;ding simply for Il voluntary system of
bankruptcy. whrrrllpon Mr. Bland of
Missouri prrcipitalr'l the entire question
ly moving to Strike on, the cnacing
clause of the bill. Nainy 1l-, advocates
Of the measure protested that it was. VIII
| fair to reject the bill before the house
! h;d had Il chance to perfect il Ivy amend
| ln,mt. Their plralin=$ We're unHvaiing.
| The vote Ma> decisive II was carried
| by Il majority of 142 to H. Judge
T,rrry of ST. Louis. the author of the
measure. VIII" mas been here for ten
years promoting the interests of the bill.
sat diSron>oatcly in the gallery. The
vote was not Il strict party one. An
analysis shows that ll5 Democrats, IS
Republicans and ? PopuliSts voted 10
strike out the cnactng clause and "a
Republicans and a. Democrats voted
against it. The full strength of both
sides was pollcd on the vote. and the
lelra, of the advocates of the bank
luptcy bill was crushing. The motion to
strike oul the rnuctiny clause was us
follows:
Yeas Anderson. Alexander. Arnold
Avery. Bailey, Barker N<an.). Bankhctl,
Barnes. Rarwig. Bell (Colo.l. Reltzhoovcr.
Berry, Black U;a.l, Black Gll.l. Elancll
ard Bland. Been. Bowers. Branch. Draw
ley. Brett. Rri"knrr. Brook shire. Brown.
Bryan. Rynum. 'ab"niSSa. Cidnn,<. Can-
Lon Nal.). C"p"lart. Caruh. Cockrrll,
Coticrn, Cooper HuhD. Cooper tTcx.l.
Cousins. Cox. Crawford. Culbcr<cn. Dan
iel>. Davis n\an.,. DrarmonI. benson.
Dockrry. Donovan, English. Enlnr. Epcs,
Fellows. Funston. Fyan. GciS>ruhcllcr,
Gillr't NIaS>D. Goodnight Grady. Groul.
iIager. IIainc>. Hall tMo.), Harmon,
Hare, Hartman. Hatch. Heard. Hcndcr-
son (N. c.. Hepburn. Holman. Hudson.
Hunter, Ikirr. johnson HnhD. Johnson
t\. d., kilgnrc, KrilbS. Kyle. Lacey,
Lane. Latimer. Livingston, Lucas, Lynch,
Maddox. Mcguire. Mallory, Martin Ind.).
McCreary ,ky.), McCullocll. NcDannnlh,
McKais. McAlillin. MrLaurin. McItac
Montgomery. M,r:, n. Moses. Mutchler,
Pasrhal. Patterson. payntrr. Pearson.
Pence, Pcnd'rton ;Tcx.,. perdlrton W..
Fa.), Pirkler. Reilly. Richard lOhio).
liitchle Robbins: Robertson u.a.', Russell
";.'. schermcrhorn' shell Slbley. Slmp-
son. Sipc. Snodgrass. Springer. Stallings.
Stock,lale, Stone CIV. Va.). Talbcrt g.
-, Ialbert MIDI, Tate. Taylor nnd),
Taylor lienn.l. Terry, Tucker, Turner,
Turpln. Tyler, Washington, Wells, Wheel
or 'Alal. Wheeler dl', Whiting. Will
lamS ul.L " n!mms tAllss.). Wise,
Wright tpa)
NayS-AdamS. Aldrich. Babcork. kak-
or IN. 10, Baldwin. Bartlett, Ball tTex.),
hia'r. b"ati'r' Bontclle. Brodcritk.
hr'slns. Bnndy. Caldwell, Campbell ca"
ron tlll.). thlldS. Clancy. Cobb Nlo.).
t"Ssweh. C"ombs. Cooper lWis.) Covert.
Cummings Curtis l>ap.). Curtis N. ",
Oavcy lLa.i, Doolittlc, Dhrborrcw. Er'l.
man, Everett. Fletcher, Funk, Gardner.
Gear. Geary. Gol'lzlrr, Griffin, Haincr.
Hall (Minn). Harm"r. Hausen. Hicks.
Hit. Hooker IN. ~, llouk (Ohio). Hull
lex. JOY, Meier. Lawson, Layton. Lester.
lev