Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-08-31

q provision for the free coinage OF silver At a
ratio Of 10 to he would vote for Its repeal.
| To maintain a gold standard meant TO de-
tronetize silver and to lower the price OF labor.
| The Wilson bill asked the United States Con-
gress TO 50 legslate as To ndd TO the prosperity
| of England and Australia and 10 the distress
and advetsit5 of the farmers and miners OF
America lie had not advocated the sherIaan
law. He had voted against 1t, but 1t was E.ow
the last bulwark of silver. 1t was now tro'
posed to demonetize silver. Now was the
| time to let the country see who were lhe
friends of silver and bimetallism in fhi-
House. 70 strike down silver would .mcLi a
political revolution that would strike aowh
both great political parties. For one, he aas
thoeracy would have to go to the wall.
Monday, August sssh:
| SisNATE.-The Senate to-day by the vote OF
32 to 90 decided MIR. Mantle OF Montana and
Mr.. Allen of Washington are not entitled To
seats and that "A governor OF q state has not
| the right to appoint n senator to ill vacancies
caused by the expiration OF II regular t.rh
not happening by resignation.
The House bill to repeal the Sherman act
was laid before the Senate and referred 10
| the committee on finance. Mr.. Voorhees, an
nounccd there would be prompt action by th :
eommittee Tomorrow.
| Notice. was given by Mr.. Sherman that he
would address the Senate next "Wednesday on
the silver questions, and by Mr.. Wocott fot
| Thursday. Mr.. Platt, from the committee y
| Indian Affairs, reported bill lauthorlz'nS GER
tain Cherokee allottees or claimants 10 pur-
| chase land held by them. He explained thh,
under the recent agreement with the Chcro
KEGS seventy OF those Indians had occupied
and made improvements on the land ctdcd
| In the Cherokee outlet. 1t had turned OUT
that more than seventy Of them Ind equities
| In the land, and the bill simply authorizes
the secretary of the interior to nlow those
who have such equities rights To purchase
their holdings, not over eighty acres, paying
the same price therefor as white people pay,
| The bill was passed.
The bill allowing the bnnks to increase
thelr circulation up to the par value of The
bonds deposited by then was taken up. lh
question being on the amendment OF Mr.
| CockrelI, redemption OF such per cent bond
as may be made and the payment thereforer
ceiyed in u new issue OF treasury notes. The
vote was taken without discussion and the
amendment was rejected; yeas 23, nays ~.
| Mr. Cockrell then offered an amendment
authorizing holders of any United States
bonds to deposit and receive In exchange lesa
tender notes equal to the face value of tho
bonds. The bonds are to be held In the trca-
sury, subject to redemption in the same
amount of legal tender notes, which are then
to be destroyed. No Interest Ia to be paid on
the bonds while they are held In the treasury,
but when they are again Withdrawn the Inter
est to be paddles y cents per annun,
! Discussion on the amendment occupied the
rest of the session.
|
present to witness the final struggle on the
silver BILL 4-
The Wilson bill having been read, Mr..
| Bland, Democrat, of MissouIi, offered his
first amendmcnt-that of free coinage at INC
present ratio of Is to land It was defeated
by vote of yeas l23, Lays 226, amid applause
from the apti-silver men, who received one
more majority than they expected, The yeas
included 100 Democrats 13 Republicans and
II Populists. The nays included lis Demo-
Gratis and Ill Republicans. Not nearly as
much interest was taken In the second vote,
which was on the ratio Of II to l. Ike De
cisive vote on the 16 to ratio seemed to dis.
hearten the silver men and in the place of
the attention which was paid to the first was
4 substituted a listlessness which spread
throughout the vote. The vote resulted In
the defeat of the amendment Yeas lo0,
nays 240. The Populist members did not
vote.
The IS to standard was defeated by vote
of, yeas 102, nays 239.
The House then voted Immediately on the
10 to 1 amendment, and it was defeated,
| yeas l03, nays 23S.
Then came the 20 to ratio, and this was
in turn defeated though 1t showed more
strength, the vote being yeas III, nays =!
The proposition to re-enact The Bland-Alli-
son act as n provision to the repeal Dill re-
ceivcd the strongest support, but even that
was defeated by II majority of II, the vote
standing yeas 1876, nays 2l3
The vote was then taken upon the final
| passage Of the Wilson Dill, ana IL was passeu,
yeas 240, nays ITO.
| The announcement of the vote on the
amendment to the Wilson bil! providing for
| the coinage OF silver at the ratio OF III TO |,
was received with applause and some surprise
at the majority against free coinage, 1t be
Ing nearly double the largest estimate made BY
the anti-silvcr committee. Mr.. Bland, from .
| seat at the extreme left OF the speaker, smiled
| grimly as he heard the result, neryously chew
| ing and rocking to and fro in his pivot chair
| The figures show that a minority OF the Demo
Gratis voted against free coinage. Mr.. Bland
asked yea and nay vote on the question OF
free coinage at the ratio of II to |, and secur-
ed it, AS the clerk began calling the roll
Mr.. Bryan walked down the center aisle calm
and grave around to where the silver leaders
sat They sat in consultation some time and
then Mr.. Bryan by easy stages made his way
back to his seat.
The vote on the second ratio amendment
made slightly better showing for the silvel
men, not because of considerable increase
in their vote but by falling of in the mum,
her of their adversaries. By the time the
third vote was called Mr.. Bland had recovered
his wind enough to make the demand for the
yeas and nays himself, although he did moi
stay In his seat long enough to Gee how thingi
were going The antl-silver men also, who
had united their efforts to prevent further rol
call, concluded to let the thing so and pu
everybody on record on every phase OF thu
question.
H. WashIngtO ton Notes.
The Court of Private Land Claims has con