Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-08-17
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Bills for the Repeal of the Sherman Act
introduced.

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introduced.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 9-In the
Senate yesterday afternoon bills for the
repeal Of the Sherman silver purchase
act were introduced by Mr.. Hill and
Mr.. Stewart. Senator Vest presented a
bill to fix the number Of grains Of gold
and silver In the gold and silver coins
of the United States (the silver dollar to
contain 464.4 grains pure silver, or SIC
grains of standard silyer.) Other bills
were introduced in the Senate as fol-
lows: Repeating all acts and parts of
acts discriminating IL taxation against
the circulating of notes of state banks
and state banking associations; provid
ing for an income tax of 40 cents on each
$500 owned by persons or corpora
tons in excess of s., 1000; appropriating
Sl333 ,OO0, 900 for Notifications and other
sea coast defenses, and 81 ,OO0, 900 for the
establishment of a gun factory on the
Pacific Coast; for the admission of New
Mexico as state.
In the House the Richardson-Bel-
KNAPP seat contest was taken up and a
Democratic resolution to seat Richard
son was adopted, and he was sworn in.
Mr. Reilly announced the death of his
colleague, William Mutchler, and as a
mark Of respect the House adjourned
till Thursday
WAsHINGroN. d. c., Aug. 1O-The
chaplain's opening prayer yesterday
morning was eulogy on the late SEN
ator Stanford. The journal of yes
terday having been read, the
House joint resolution for the
payment of seasonal employees of
the House and Senate was laid before
hn 70 oforr To ho
committee on appropriations. Mr..
German then moved that the Senate
adjourn, and Mr.. Platt, of Connecticut,
demanded the yeas and nays on that
motion. The vote resulted: Yeas, 4S;
nays, 2l; and the Senate at 1920 adj
iourned until tomorrow at noon.
The negative votes were all given by
Republicans-Mr PETER pop. of Kan
sas, voting with them, and Mr.. Kyle
(Pop.) of South Dakota, voting with
the Democrats. The Democrats all
voted for adjournment and were joined
in thatvote by the following named Re-
Jones, of Nevada; Perkins, of California;
Power, of Montana; Shoup, of Idaho;
Stewart, Of Nevada Teller and Wolcott,
of Colorado.
There was no session of the House.
A caucus was held by friends of silver
Of both parties, the following resolu-
tons being adopted:
Resolred, That we will support bill re-
pealing the purchasing clause of the Sher-
man act and concurrently providing for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver with
will provide and maintain the parity be-
tween gold and silver. Be it further
Resolred, That committee Of seven be
appointed by the chairman of this confer,
ence to draft and introduce such a bill and
| take proper steps to secure the full and free
discussion and consideration thereof and
vote of the House upon the bill and all
| proper amendments.
WAsH1NGroN, ID. c., Aug. 1O.-Brief
sessions of House and Senate were held
to-day. No action was taken by either
| body, the Senate adjourning until Mon
day and the House until to-mor-
row Several conferences were held
! by the Democratic caucus of the Senate
and the friends of free silver. Wilson,
of West Virginia, was selected to frame
| the administration silver bill. Bland,
of Missouri, has free coinage measure
prepared.
WAsf1INGToN, d. c., Aug. 1.-THE
silver and anti-silyer men in the
House have locked horns. Representa-
tive Wilson, of West Virginia, pre-
scented bill to-day for the repeal ofthe
silver purchase clause of the Sherman
act. Mr.. Bland, the apostle of free sill
yer, followed with a bill for free
coinage, introduced as substitute
for the repeal bill. Representative
Bland also offered the agreement made
of debate. q limits DEBATE to four
teen DAYS, sessions continuing from
ia. NJ. to 5 P NJ, and with night ses-
sions for debate only If desired; the
vote first to be taken on the bill present.
ed as a substitute for the Wilson bill,
providing for free coinage at the ratio
of is to L. If that fail, then at
ratios running from IL to up to 70 to J;
if they all fail, then on the revival Of
the Bland Allison act of 1873; and then
on the original measure.
Mr.. Bland demanded the previous
question on his order, but this was an
tagonized by the Republicans under the
leadership of Mr.. Cannon, who wanted
time to debate the question. Under
the ruling OF the Speaker, in the alb
the previous question would cut off
debate. By the operation of voting
| bv tellers Mr.. Cannon secured
/ sufficient support to secure vote by
yeas and nays; and at 1885 the calling
of the roll begain. The vote result ed:
Yeas, 217; nays, 100. So the previous
| question was ordered. The Republic
ans generally voted with the Demo-
Gratis in support of the motion. The
resolution was then adopted.
At five minutes after l o'clock Mr..
| Ravner Dem. J, of Maryland, began the
debate in support of the Wilson bill for
| the unconditional repeal OF the silver
! purchase clause.
|