The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-09
THE SILVER BILL PASSED.
Mr. Blsnd's Measure for Coming the seign.
forage Finally Passes the House-Ths

Mr.. Bl.nd's Measure for Coming the seign-
forage Finally Passes the House-Ths
Vote
WASHINGTON, March 2-The long
struggle in the house over the Bland
bill for the coinage of the seigniorage
and the silver bullion in the treasury
was ended yesterday by the passage of
the bill by a vote of 49, to 1870, ma
jority in favor of the bill of 81. The
special order to bring the bill to vote
was adopted by bare quorum imme-
diately after the house convened.
This broke the opposition of the fill
busterers. and they were powerless to
do anything further to place an OBJ
stacle in the way of the bill. All the
amendments offered to the measure by
its opponents were defeated. the one
which polled the most votes being Mr..
Outhwaite's amendment to strike out
the second section
Mr. Bland was recognized and offered
substitute for the original bill The
first section of the substitute is ident-
ical with the first section of the orig
inal bill. except that the coinage is to
proceed as fast as possible" instead
of ''practicab
Mr. Bland took the floor in support
of his substitute. He explained the
second section of the substitute II
made the coinage of the remainder of
the bullion in the treasury begin after
the coinage of the seigniorage. and a
specific proviso was added to the effect
that nothing in the act shall be deemed
to change or alter existing law as to
the legal character or mode of redemp-
ton of the treasury notes This would
set at rest all alarm on the point
All amendments offered to the bill
were voted down, the@last one being
Mr.. Outhwaite's to strike out the Sec
ond section.
Bland substitute. No attempt to break
a quorum was made on this vote, and
then the Bland substitute was adopted
III to &C. Before the vote could be
taken Mr.. Tracey, of New York. moved
to recommit the bill, without instruc-
tons to the committee on coinage,
weights and measures The motion
was defeated-132 to 49,. The vote was
then taken on the final passing of the
bill 1t was passed-167 to 100. Loud
cheers and hand-clapping greeted the
final announcement of the victory won
by the advocates of the mea
The following is the vote in detail:
YEAS
Hessrs Abbott Aftken. Anderson. Alexander
Arnold. Bailey Baker Of Kansas, Bankhead,
Bel OF Colorado Bell OF Texas Berry, Black
OF Illinois Black OF Georgia. b ani 30 ltner,
Boon. Bowers of California Branch, Breckin-
ridge Of Arkansas, Breckinriige OF Kentucky.
Bretz Brookshire, Broderick. Brown. Bran.
Bum. BTnum, Cabauiss CamanettL Cannon
OF Calf rnia, CIruth. Cltchinss Clark Of Mis-
souri, Clarke OF Alabama. Cobb OF Alabama.
Cockrell. Coreen of Connecticut Cooper OF
Florida. Cooper of Indiana Cooper OF Texas
Cox Crawford, Culberson. Curtis of Kansas
Dsvey. Davis DeArmond, benson. Dinsmore,
Dockery. Donovan. Doolittle, Durborrow, E =
munds. Ellis OF Kentucky. Ellis OF Oregon
Eu!ce, Epes, Fithian Form IN. Funston. Fyan.
Qeary Goodnight GormIn. CRAZY, Gresham,
Hall OF Missouri Hammond, Hare. Hartman,
Hatch. Heard Henderson OF North Carolina,
Hepburn Hermann Holman. Hooker Of Mis-
sissppi, Hudson. Hunter. Hutcheson Jones,
KEN kilgor kribbs. Kyle. Lacey, Lane.
Latimer, LAYTON. Lester. Isle, Livingston,
Lucas Maddox. Manure. Mallory. Marsh.
Marshall Martin Of In llama McCle lry OF
Minnesota McCreary OF Kentucky. McCul-
loeb. MeDoualt. McDearmon McGann, Nc
keighan McMillin, McNagly McRea,
Meredith, None Montgomery, MT
gan. Moses, Murray. NciIl New.
land PaschaI, Patterson. Payntsr, Pearson.
Pence. Pendletol of Texas, Penieton of
West Virginia. Picker Post Price. Reilly,
Richardson OF Ohio Richard on Of Michigan
Richardson OF Tennessee Richie Robbins,
Russell OF Georgia. Settle Shell. SibleT, Simp-
son, Suodgrass. Springer, StIllings. Stockd1le
Stone OF Kentucky, StriiL Swanson. Swert,
TIlbert Of South Carolina. Tate. Taylor OF In
diana, Terri, Tucker. Turner of Georgia Tur-
uer OF Virg mia Turpin. Tyler. Weadock.
Wheeler Of Alabama White. Whiting. Will
liams OF Illinois Williams CT Mississippi, VII
son Of Washington. Wise. Woodward-I6;.
NAYS
Adams OF Kentucky, Aldrich. Apsley, Avery,
BabcocE. Baker OF New Hampshire, Barnes Bar
wig Beldon. Beltzhoover Blair Boutele Brick
ner, Brosius, Burrows. Ca linus, Caldwell Camp
bell, Cannoa OF Illinois Ctusey, Chickering
Clancy. Cobb OF Missouri Coyswell. Compton.
Coombs, Cooper Of Wisconsin Cornish Cousins
Covert Cummings, Curtis OF New York. DIlzel,
Daniels, De Forrest Dingl Y. Deliver. Draper,
D"nphy. Erdmau. Everett, Fielder, Fletcher.
Funk Gardner. Gear Geissenhainer. Gilett OF
New York Goldsier, Griffin. Grout, Hager Hahn
Heiner. Henders OF Illinois, Hit. Hooker of
New York, Hopkins OF illinois, Hopkins Of
Pennsylvania Hulick Hull, Johnson OF Indiana
Johnson OF North Dakota Johnson q OHIO,
Jo-. kiefer, Lapiam Lockwood, Loud. Lou
deuslager, Lynch Magner. Mahon Nc Ale,r,
Mccall MeEturick. McKain, Meiklej lhn,
Mercer. Meyer, Mutchler. ONeilL Outhwaite,
Page, Pavne, Perkins, Phillips, Plgott Quigg.
Randall, RI. Reed, Raybourn, Robinson Of
Penns ylvanias Ryan, Schemerhorn, Scranton.
Shaw. Sherman Sickles, Soncrs, Speray. Ste
phenson. Stevens C. W. Stone, W. Stone.
Storer. Strauss, Strong. Talbot Of Maryland
Tawncy, Tracey, Updegrah Van voorhis of
Ohio. Wadsworth, Walker. Wagner, Warner.
Waugh. Walls, Viewer Wheeler OF Illinois.
Wilson Of Qaio, Woomer and Wright Of Massa-
chus-t ts--lSQ
On the final passage of the bill 10 re-
publicans and populists voted with
the silver democrats for the bill and so
democrats voted with the majority Of
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