Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-02
BLAND BILL PASSES.
Victory IN The House for the Silver
Advocate.
YEAS, 1853; NAYS, 129.
That Is the Final Vote on the Measure
Providing for Coinage of tho
seigniorage.

seigniorage.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. March L.
SENATE.-In the Senate to-day a resoiu-
ton was offered by Mr.. Cullom and laid
aside temporarily providing for the ap-
pointment of tariff commission OF nine
members to equalize the rates OF duties
on the basis Of European and American
wages.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
voorhees, appointing Mr.. Mills member
of the Committee on Finance during the
absence and disability of Mr.. Vance was
laid before the Senate, and Mr.. voorhees,
withdrew 1t, saying: by the request. In
deed by the demand Of the Senator or
Texas. from which he refused TO be per-
sladed. | withdraw that resolution"
Mr.. Frye resumed his speech on the Ha-
waiian question, taking 1t up where he
had left off yesterday-the consideration
OF Mr.. Blounts report. He had hereto
fore, he said, expressed his belief that
there was not one plain, unpreJudiced.
unvarnished particle Of truth in that re-
port, and he did not now desire TO revise
that opinion. He discussed the question
whether there had been any conspiracy
to provoke n revolution. The president or
the United States, he said, asserted that
there had been, and Mr. Blount asserted
that there had been. Mr.. Frye argued
that there was no proof OF 1t, and ne de-
nie1 that fherp had been any.
In conclusion he apologies to the Sem
ate for having wearied 1t with the ex-
tensiye extracts from the testimony he
had made. and said: III there Is any
weight 10 be given 10 character, behind
words: If there is any such thing as pre-
ponderance OF testimony, then the founda-
tlon on which President Cleveland has
bulded his structure have disappeared
and the edlfice has fallen forever"
Mr. Gray defended Mr.. Blount and the
matter went over without further discus
sion.
DOLPH ON THE TARIFF BILL.
At 3:l5 the unfinished business was taken
up-beng the Senate bill TO provide addi-
tiOnal accommodations for the Govern
ment Printing Ofice---and Mr.. Dolph CRe-
publican). Of oregon. addressed the Senate.
using the printng-oihce Dill as the text
for tariff speech.
He thought If the Democratic caucus
had agreed that the Wilson bill should be
abandoned and that the existing tariff
law should not be disturbed. there would
be revenue enough to support the govern
ment and to provide for all necessary
public works.
The bill. he said Is to be remodelled.
not I'm the interest Of the country's in
dustries, but that the votes OF the senator's
from West Virginia. Maryland. and Lou
isiana shall be secured. and that the Sena-
tor from Ohio (Mr. Brice) and the senator's
from New York may be- placated.
To-day the destinles of the industries OF
the country are In the hands OF three
senators who were conspicuous in the
Southern Confederacy-the majority of the
Finance Committee.
THAT majority is composed mainly Of
senators who were conspicuous in the
great effort TO destroy the Union, and
another member Of the majority was
conspicuous during the rebellion for his
supposed sympathy with the leaders of
the rebellion"
Mr.. Dolph went on to critlcise the ac-
ton of the Finance Committee in refus-
ing hearings 10 representatives Cf the IA
Dor and industry Of the country and said
that the true reason for that refusal was
that the majority Of that committee was
hOpelessly welded to free trade, blind TO
the object-lesson which the existing con-
ditons afforded, deaf TO the cries OF un-
employed labor and OF idle capital, and
determined to destroy the protective sys-
TEN.
The Wilson bill. he said, was a Sec
tional bill. 1t attacked every industry
of the North. and was admirably de-
signed for the degradation of American
labor
But" said Mr.. Dolph, excitedly "the
day of reckoning is approaching; the
handwriting is on the wall: the Jfople
will repudiate you meaning the Demo-
cratO and the next House of Repre-
sentatives will be as overwhelmingly Re
publican as the present one is Demo-
cratic"
"Populist." Mr.. Allen suggested, by way
of correction.
"The next President OF the United
States" Mr.. Dolph went on. needless Of
Interruption. "wil be q Republican"
"PopulIst." again came from Mr.. Allen
"And the people of this country never
will rest" exclaimed Mr.. DOiph, without
regard to the interruption. until by
their ballots they have placed the party
of protection in a position TO undo the
mischief which this Congress has already
done. and will yet do"
Mr.. Allen challenged Mr.. Dolph TO show
that representatives OF Torkingmen had
applied for hearings and had been re-
fused, and said that he had been in
formed by one OF the great leaders OF a
labor organization, which numbered hun
dreds of thousands of workingmen. that
they had no desire to be heard before
the Finance Committee. 1t was the man
ufacturers who desired TO be heard and
who put themselves forward as the guar
dlans of the laboring man.
The controversy between the two sena-
tors continued for another half hour
and was finally brought to close by
the Senate going into executive session.
after which, at AS. it adjourned Till
Monday next.
House of Representatives.
After the reading OF the Journal, when
was approved without correction. num-
Der of executive communications were
read and referred.
Mr.. Cummings Democrap, OF New
York. asked unanimous consent for pres
ent consideration and passage OF the bill
authorizing the Secretary Of the Navy
TO expend $4,000 for the recovery OF the
wreck of the corvette Kearsarge, on Rom
cador reef.
Mr.. Simpson PopulisD, of Kansas.
asked II IL were a question OF sentiment
or of dollars and cents.
Mr.. Cummings replied that IL combined
both. The disposition of the appropria-
ton was within the discretion of the Sec
retary OF the Navy. IL the attempt 10
raise the wreck was not successful IL
would cost the government only small
part of the amount appropriated.
To a question from Messrs. Simpson
and Cox, Mr. Cummings stated that
Admiral Stanton, who was on the boat
when wrecked. says that the ship can be
utilized II raised.
Mr.. Kilgore demanded the regular or
der and. despite the appeal OF Mr. Outh-
waite OemocraO. of Ohio, to withdraw
IT, for the reason that failure by the
the House to act promptly might result
in the loss OF property valued at nun
dreds of thousands OF dollars, he per-
sisted In his demand, and the matter was
dropped.
The Speaker stated the question TO be
upon the passage of the order from the
Committee on Rules TO take up the Bland
seigniorage bill In the House, discuss IL
two hours. and then proceed 10 vote upon
its passage. or upon the adoption OF any
amendments that may be pending, with
the intervention only of motion to re-
consider and lay on the table.
Mr.. Cultivate asked the yeas and nays.
when Mr.. Reed suggested that the last