The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-09
sTttE BATTLE OVER.
Passage of the Bill Repeating the
 Sherman Act.
An Exciting But Interesting Scene in tho senate-Dignified Senators Get Warm The Vote d3 yeas to 3a
 Nays.

SCl- Ot.-ht l.SO Q CIOcH last evening by a vote of 48 to S2 the senate, after one of the most remark. able and memorable parliamentary battles of generation, passed the bill internationally repeating the purchas. ing clause of the sherman silver law. The end was reached at the conclusion of a continuous session of fourteen days, after sixty-one days of debate, during which five volumes of the Congressional Record had been filled with speeches amounting to in the ag- gregate about 20, 0O0 900 words, a stream of talk that would stretch in cold type from the seaboard 1,60O miles into the interior, from Liberty Enlightening the World in New York harbor to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
 The closing day of the great struggle was one of intense excitement The galleries were packed to the doors, every seat in the senate was occupied and the walls were lined with repre-. sentatives from the lower branch of congress The aegis of senatorial courtesy was no protection in the last moment Gray-haired men did not spare each other. Senator Morgan fairly heaped his denuncia. tion on Senator Voorhees,, the leader of the administration forces, and Sena. tor Wolcott, the Colorado Hotspur, con. cluded fierce philippic against Sena- tor Carey, with the Spanish proverb of Sancho Panza that it was "a waste of father to shave an ass"
 The silver republicans-Teller, Stew art, Dubois, Wolcott and Jones, Peffer, the populist, and Morgan and the old war governor of Tennessee, and Harris, each made his valedictory.
 The democrats were hot and angry at the assertion of some of their col leagues that made their defeat possible; the populists warned the senate that the doom of silver was the doom of the old parties, but there was something tragically pathetic in the despairing cry of the silver senators It meant, they say, ruin and destruction and desolation to the producing states. Senator Jones, with an em- phasis that will never be forgotten by those who heard him. warned those about him that the end of the fight marked but the beginning of the bat tie that would be waged before the peo- pie. In tones deep and tragic he re. peated Dundee's famous defiance of Gordon.
 There be hills beyond Pentland,
 And triths beyond Forth
 If there be lords on the lowlands
 There be chiefs in the North
 Senator Stewart had the last word. When the white bearded Nevadan, looking like an ancient patriarch, sank back in his seat Vice President Steven. son for the last time announced the bill was before the senate for an amend lment He paused.
 Senator Voorhees,, the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash, arose. The decisive moment had come. The vice president flashed his eye about the chamber. The galleries leaned over. The flood of light from the ceiling poured down upon the senate. The chamber was still as death. Not soul stirred. Everyone seemed to hold his breath.
 'If there are no further amend ments," said the vice president, slowly aud solemnly, "the clerk will call the roll"
 "Mr. Allen," began the clerk. The suspense was over, the Rubicon had been passed. The roll was at last be- ing called on the final passage of the bill From all over the chamber came a sigh of relief. Mir. Bland, the silver champion of the house, stood like statue behind the row of desks while the roll was called. Mir Sherman and MT. Voorhees, facing each other bolt upright, did not move a muscle. Mir. Peffer stroked his beard. Mir. Mills and Mir. Cockrell paced impatiently up and down in front of the vice presidents chair. Mir. Hill sat in the front row talking to Mir. Butler. It took almost ten minutes to call the roll and arrange the pairs
 When the vice president announced the vote Mr Voorhees, strengthened up to his full length. It was personal victory for him.
 q now move," said he, with a note of triumph in his voice, that the sen- ate adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock"
 Before the question could be put, the occupants of the galleries were jostling each other in their attempts to crowd out of the doors. The senators fled from the chamber. In sixty seconds none but a few employees remained upon the scene. The long battle was over. The vote in detail was:
 Yeas-Aldrich, Brice, Gallery, Camden, Carey. Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Faulkner, Frye. Gsllinger, Gibson, German. Gray, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Hoar, Hunton, Lindsay, Lodge, McMillan McPherson, Manderson, Mills, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill,, Murphy, Platt Proctor, Quay, Ransom, sherman, Smith, Seuire, Stockoridge, Turpie, Vilas Voorhees,, Washburn. White of Louisiana Total i3
 Nays-Allen. Bate Berry, Blackburn, But Ter, Call Cameron, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Du- bois, George, Harris, Irby Jones of Arkansas, Jones of Nevada Kyle Martin, Pasco. Peffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Powers, Pugh, Shoup. Stewart, Teller, Vance, Vest Walthall Wolcott Total 32
 The following pairs were announced, the first named would vote in the affirmative: Allison with Mitchell of Oregon, Chandler with White of California, Wilson with Colquit', Gordon ,rft IDaI I,oar yrit