New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-02
VOTING TO COIN A VACUUM.
HOUSE PASSES BLAND'S BILL.
a MAJORITY OF THIRTY-NINE FOR Sill
YER INITIATION.
JUST A QUORUM SECURED on THE ADOPTION
or AN ORDER FROM THE RULES COM
MITTEE Tt CLOSE DEBATE-TwENTY
REPUBLICANS voTD FOR THE
BILL AND FORTY-sEvEN DEMO-
Gratis AGAINST IT.

Washington. March 1.-The passage In the
House of Representatives late this afternoon Of
the Silver Initiation bill hailed with loud
and lusty cheers from the Populist-Democrats
who control that body and stand ready ito coin
a vacuum" do anything else to cater to the
demand for more money"
As passed the bill contains all the bad feat
and mischievous provisions with which 1t
marked when IL emerged from the Com
mittee on Coinage, including the one which pro-
vides that the Secretary Of the Treasury in his
discretion may issue silver certificates in sGv
vance Of the coinage OF the bullion into dollars
for their redemption, provided that the amount
Of certificates 50 issued shall not exceed the
coinage value Of he so-called "seignorage"
bullion If the bill should become law in this
form the Secretary Of the Treasury, If he saw
fit. might Immediately cause to be printed and
issued, in payment of the current expenses OF
the Government silver certificates TO the amount
Of more than $50 O00 COO every one Of which
would bear lie upon its face during the first
eighteen or twenty months after 1t vas issued;
because there would not be behind it in tho
Treasury a standard silver dollar certified on
the face of the certificate.
MAJORITY OF THIRTY-NINE
The bill passed b. vote Of l6S to 129.
majority of 80. which was considerably larger
than Mr.. Bland had expected. The Republicans
who voted in the affirmative were:
Aitkin Of Michigan Bowers, Of California; Brod;
fTiGT srmann a' Of ao 0regon G;' PG9e and Wilson q
Washngton HARTMAN of M9n5ana Heg6grb ggTb n fnd
@s sey ariS la i2"a and Pos " Of limos Mceary of
saS Gs43aa s and Of wSs Of oR6c M
The Democrats who voted in the negative
We're:
Barnes Barwig somsrs. Wells. BricII;ner and
Mutchler. OF Pennsyvania ,Cadmus Cornish.
Fielder and Ge.ssenhaner, Of New-jersey; amp
ockwood Masner Ryan. schsrmerhorn Sb;.ss siGdss
Straus, Tracey and Warner Of Ne%4 4pH NacEKs.
4nd Tat9o ID 2t Everett M Ne and stevens
~ MassschHsetts: 6ioldseer OF illinois Griffin Of
Michigan: Harter Outhwlite and Johnson. OF ohio;
Hsy aG of !G%a yer~ LaPna% az f%a 7fS m ali
The only Southern Democrats, with the ex.
cepuon Of Meyer Of Louisiana r,H who m voted ,n o,
Delaware Maryland and Missouri six IN All.
counting the Louisiana vote. Massacnusett3
gave three Democratic votes against .ne DlL;,
Rhode Island gave > Connecticut 3. New.fork
IA, New-Jersey T. Pennsylvania 3. Ohio 3. Illinois
/. Michigan I. Iowa l and Wisconsin g.
MI Outhwaite's amendment 10 strike out sec
ton . which provides that after the So
called "seignoirage bullion has been coined tne
stock of bullion from which IL has been an
stracted shall be coined into standard dollars
and certificates thereon issued TO replace Treas
ury notes. was defeated by a vote OF l29 yeas
to IA nays, to the surprise and disappointment
OF its author and other Democrats VINO sup
ported it.
ITS PASSAGE FOREsHADOwED.
The defeat of that amendment clearly FORE
shadowed the passage Of the bill by larger
majority than that by which the amendment
was rejected, and nobody was surprised TO see
Mr.. Tracey's motion to recommit voted down
by majority OF thirty-fVe votes. the count
being 1872 in the affirmative and l67 in the mega
tive When the Toll called on the motion
to alopt the special order reported by the Demo-
cratic majority Of the Committee on Rules 10
close debate and bring the House 70 vote on me
bill II seemed doubtful whether quorum could
be mustered although the attendance or menu
bers was unusually large. After the roll had
been called and corrected IL was found that' IN
cluding the Speaker. l79 members-eXacty a
quorum without a single vote To spdre-hai
voted 1866 i'm the affirmative and 13 in the mega
tive Il was marrow escanc. indeed