Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-03-15
SILVER rs STRONG
In the Upper House Of the Ma
tional Legislature.
rwO TO ONE ON A TEST VOTE.

Motion to Reconsider the Third Reading
of the Seisni"rase Bill Beaten by About
That Figurc-Passasc .pf the Bill Fully
As>ured-Cnion Pacific Railway To BE
Tackled in Court With the biggest Suit
on Kccord-News from Brazil.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The test vote
e'hich was to be taken on the seigniorace
bill-the vote on Allison's motion to re-
consider the vote by which the bill passed
II the third reading-had the effect of at
tracing II large attendance to the gallery
The senate early took up the consideration
of the hill, and Teller and George spoke in
favor of its passage. the former criticising
severely some statements made 10y Sher-
man in his recent speech against the bill.
Before George had concluded his remarks
the hour of . o'clock arrived. and Harris
insisted on the vote being then taken on
Allison's motion. with the result that it
was defeated by 2s to II. II is expected
that the bin will pass by about the same
vote. Manlcrson moved then to commit
the bill To the finance committee, and this
motion also was defeated by ii vote of -
to IL
Yeas and Nays in the Vote.
Following i the vote in detail on the
motion to reconsider: Neas-Aldrich, Al
lison, Brice, Gallery, Carey, Chandler
CU!loEi, Davis, Dolph, FRYE. Gallinger
Hale, llawley. Hoar, Lodge, McMillin,
Mcpherson, Nanderson, Mitchell OF Wis
cons;n, Morrill,, Palmer. Proctor. QUAY,
Smith, Stockhridgc, Villas. Washburn,
WilSon-2S
Nays-Allen. Bate. Berry. Black burn.
blanchard, Butler. Gail, Camden. Cock
rcll, Coke, Colquitt. Daniel Dubois,
Farlk3er. Gibson, Gordon, HanshrouCh,
Harris. Hill, Irby, Jones of Arkansas.
Kyle, Lindsay, Martin. Mills, Mitchell OF
Oregon, Morgan. Murphy, Pasco. PETER.
Perkins, Petticrew, Power, Pugh. Ran
som. Roach, Shoup, Squire. Stewart. Tel
Ter, Turp!e, Vest, voorhees,. White, Vol
cott--il.
Teller Makes Sarcastic Remarks.
In his speech advocating the passage Of
tie seignioraCe bill Teller sarcasticaily
resented the assumption OF certain senas
tors, that they Were THE custodians Of
all the honesty and all the wisdom and
knowledge on financial subjects and that
they alone were interested i'll preserving
the credit of the country. The statement
- freq uent!y made of late that the coUn-
try WAS III danger Of being placed on a
silver basis he characterized as untrue.
bat, he added. 1--WE are TN a gold basis
now, and does any one think that the con
dition of the nited States l. now a happy
one: If We do get to a silver basis we can
not he worse off than we are. and il j a
notorious fact that the countries which
are on "A silver basis are much better of
than we are"
Wished 1t Was Free Coinage.
George promised his remarks by stating
that he tried to speak and vote in such a
way that his remarks and his vote could
not show whether he lived north or south
OF Mason and Dixon's line, and this wa,
not "A sectional nor political question. This
Is not :! Tree coinage measure, he said. and
added: Il wish it were. 1t requires only
in specific terms the coinage of silver al
ready owned by the government. In pass
ing this bill We introduce no new law"
The house got through forty pages o.
the sundry civil bill. leaving only sixteen
pages TO consider. No amendments of inn
portanre Were adopted. All tina; increased
TIE SUM appropriated We're defeated