Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-08
BLAND WINS.
He Finally Secures a Quorum on
His Measure.
The Silver seigniorage Bill, After Rocky
Road, Finally Passes the House by
Good sfajority-The Vote
in Detail.
se,gniorage Bill Passed

Selgniorage Bill Passed.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-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 167 to 13O, ma
jority in favor of the bill of 81. The
special order to bring the bill to vote
was adopted by a bare quorum inlme-
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
q 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
Gf ''practica
Mr.. Bland took the floor in support
of his substitute. He explained the
SSCOA0 SSCIlOA O1 tIl0 SUBSTITUTE 1t
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 Re CfSaraI 70 III
were voted down, the last one being
Mr.. Outhwaite's to strike out the Sec
ond section.
The vote was then taken on the
Bland substitute. No attempt to break
a quorum was made on this vote, and
then the Bland substitute was adopted
IN to 90. Before the vote could be
taken Mr.. Tracey, of New York, moved
to recommit the bill, without instruc-
tions, to the committee on coinage,
weights and measures. The motion
was defeated-132 to 161. The vote was
then taken on the final passing of the
bill. 1t was passed-167 to $50. Loud
cheers and hand-clapping greeted the
final announcement of the victory won
by the advocates of the measure.
The following is the vote in detail:
YEAS
MeSSrS- AODOtI A1tkeI, AlQerSOnt Alexander,
Arnold, Bailey Baker of Kansas, BAnkhead,
Bell of Colorado, Bell of Texas Berry Black
Of Illinois, Black of Georgia, Bland BoItner,
Boen- Bowers of California Br inch, Breckin-
ridge of Arkansas, Breckinri ige Of Kentucky,
BretZ BrookShtre, Broderick, Brown, Br an.
Bum. Bynum, CabaniSs Camanetti, Cannon
OF Calf rnia, Caruth CatchinEs. Clark of Mis-
souri, Clarke of Alabama. Cobb OF Alabama.
CoclSrell, Coffeen of Innectic1t, Cooper of
Florida, Cooper of Indiana Cooper of Texas,
Cox. Crawford, Culberson, Curtis of Kansas,
Davey, Davis DeArmond, benson Dinsmore,
Dockery, Donovan. Dooiittle, Durborrow. E
munds, Ellis of Kentucky. Ellis of Oregon.
Enloe, Epes, Fithian- Forman, Funston. F IAN,
Geary Goodnight. German. Crazy Gresham,
Hall of Missouri, Hamm md, Hare, H Irtm IN,
Hatch Heard, Henderson of orih Carolina,
Hepburn, Hermann Holman. Hooker of Mis-
sissippt, Hudson, Hunter, Hutcheson Jones,
KEN kngorc, Kribbs Kyle. Lacev, Lane,
Latimer, La-ton- Lester, Isle, Livingston,
Lucas Maddox, Mcguire, Mallory Marsh.
Marshall, Martin of IniianA McCle .ry of
Minnesota McCreary of Kentucky McCul-
loch, Mcdonald, McDearmon McGann, Nc
Keighan, McMillin, McNagly, McRea,
Meredith None Montgomery, NJ T.
gan, Moses, Murray Neil. New
land, Paschall, Patterson, Pdynter, Pearson,
Pence, Pendleton of Texas, Pendleton of
West Virginia, Pickler, Post Price, Reilly,
Richardson of Ohio Richards on of Michigan,
Richardson of Tennessee Ritchie. Robbins,
Russell of Georgia, Settle, Shell, Sibley, Simp-
son, Snodgrass Springer, Sttlliugs. Stockdale,
Stone of Kentucky, Str Iit Swanson. >wert,
Talbert of South Carolina, Tate, Taylor of In
diana, Terrv, Tucker, Turner of Georgia, Tur
ner of Virginia, TurpiA, Tyler, Weadock,
Wheeler of Alabama White Whiting, VIII
Hams of Illinois. Williams of Mississippi. Viii
son of Washington, Wise, ,'Woodward-16E
NAYS
Adams of Kentucky, Aldrich. ApsIey, Avery,
Babcock, Baker of New Hampshire, Barnes. Bar
wig, Beldon, BeltZhoover, Blair, Boutelle Brick
ner, Brosius, Burrows, Ca linus, Caldwell Camp
bell Cannon of Illinois Ctusey, Chclzering.
Clancy, Cobb of Missouri CogSwell, Compton,
Coombs, Cooper of Wisconsin. Cornish Cousins,
Covert, Cummings, Curtis of New York, DalZel,
Daniels. De Forrest Dingl Y, Dollfver. Draper,
Dunphy, Erdman, Everett, Fielder, Fletcher,
Funk. Gardner. Gear. GetSSenhainer Gillett of
New York, Goldsier, Griffin. Grout, Hager. Hahn
er, Haines. Harmer, Harter. Haughen HAYES,
Heiner, blenders n of Illinois, Hit, Hooker of
New York. Hopkins of L linois, Hopkins Of
Pennsylvania Huiick. Hull, Johnson Of Indiana.
johnson of North Dakota, johnson of Ohio,
Jov, Kiefer, Laphanl Lockwood, Loud. Lou
denslager, Lynch. Magner MahoR Nc cAleer,
Mccall McEttorick, McKain, Meiklejahn,
Mercer, Meyer, Mutchler. ONeil- Ouihwaite,
Page, Payne, Perkins, Phillips, Pigott, Quigg.
Randall, Raw. Reed, Raybourn, Robinson of
Pennsylvania. RYAN, Schemerhorn, Scranton
Shaw, Sherman Sfckles, Somers, Speray. Ste
phenSon, Stevens c. w Stone, w a Stone.
Storer. Strauss, Strong. Talbot of Maryland
Tawney Tracey. UpdegraI Van Voorhis of
Ohio, Wadsworth, Walker. Wagner. Warner.
Waugh, Walls, Viewer. Wheeler of Illinois.
Wilson of Ohio, Woomer and Wright of Masss-
chusetts.-Is0
On the final passage of the bill 19 re-
publicans and populists voted with
the silver democrats for the bill and so
democrats voted with the majority of
the republicans against it.
Congressman Wilson Improving
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, March 6.-Wil-