The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-26
GOES OVER TILL
NEXT SESSION.
MEYERS SILVER BILL Is REJEC-
TED IN COMMITTEE.
BANDS Free Coinage Measure Taken
Up in Its Place, and VIII Soon Be
Voted On-Bland Proposes to Push
1t.


compromise the differences between
the free silver and the anti-silver ele-
ments of the House came to naught
today, when Representative BANDS
committee on coinage decided by de-
cisive vote, to lay aside the Meyer
compromise bill for the present session
of Congress and to take up Mr.. Bland
bill for free silver coinage. In view
of the fact that the Meyer bill is said
to have the administration approval,
its displacement was the more signifi-
can't
There were thirteen members of the
committee present when Chairman
Bland called the meeting to order
shortly after II o'clock. The pending
bill was that introduced by Mr.. Meyer,
of Louisiana
Mr.. Harter made a statement to the
effect that Mr.. Meyer was DESTROYS of
having some decisive action of the bill,
for the reason if it were not reported
respects and introduce it in some other
form, and have it referred to another
committee.
This was followed by a brief discus
sion, until finally a motion made by c.
w Stone, of Pennsylvania, that the
bill be postponed until the next session
of Congress was carried by a viva voce
vote, the votes of but two members
being heard in the negative, one being
Mr.. Harter.
The next bill to engage the commit
tees attention was Mr.. BANDS free
coinage measure. Mr.. Bland expressed
his desire to have vote on the bill at
the next regular meeting. Thursday
Of next week was suggested by one
O hnr q q hi ah -
might be taken.
Mr.. Tracey, of New York, objected to
naming a day on which a vote must
he taken. The bill was ordered favora-
bly, reported and the committee adj
journed with the understanding that a
meeting for the consideration of Mr.
BANDS bill would be held Thursday Of
next week
Mr.. Bland says he is determined a.
vote shall be reached if it is necessary
to hold night sessions to accomplish it.
QUEER STORY OF PATTI.
The other day when Patti sailed away
from these shores, one of the ballet girls
of the Abbey & Grau grand opera COM
pany wept bitter tears. 1t was the de-
parture of ring which Madame Patti
carried away on her finger, rather than
Patti herself, which produced the tears.
1t was thin gold ring of rather pc
culiar design. When Madame Patti gave
her first concert here last November the
ballet girl came behind the scenes to
call on one OF the singers. While she
was standing in the wings Patti noticed
the ring on the girls finger.
With an exclamation of delight, she
ran up to the girl and asked permission
to look at the ring. The girl handed it
to the diva and she slipped it on her
finger. Patti went into ecstacies over
it at once.
My dear" she exclaimed, you must
let me keep this ring. 1 will pay you
well for it, l feel-in fact l know-that
it will bring me good luck
In vain the girl assured her that it
was her betrothal ring, and that she
could not part with it. Patti was OBJ
durate.
I'm tell you what I'll do, my dear"
she exclaimed. Let me keep this ring
and l will send you one set with the
finest diamonds that money can buy"
The temptation was too great to be re-
sisted. The girl agreed to accept the
diamonds as recompense. Patti took
her address and promised to forward
the ring without delay. Months went
by and neither word nor jewels came
from the diva. The ballet girl told her
story to the stage manager and he ad-
Vised her to write to Patti at once She
wrote three times, but received no an
swer.
Finally, when Patti was last in town,
the girl called on her again and de-
manded her own ring. Patti, who was
still wearing it, promised faithfully that
the diamond ring should reach her
within two days. The day before Patti
sailed the ballet girl, who was then in
Chicago, received a small box by mail
she tore 1t open eagerly. In the box
lay one Of those little oxidized silver
rings which can be bought at any of
the dry goods shops for seventy-f1ve
cents.--New York Evening Sun.