The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19
THE TINE HAS COME.
The United States Senate Will
Go on Record
On Senator Jones' Unrestricted
Coinage Bill.
SILVER IS ON TOP
And the Bills Expected to Pass
And the Bills Expected to Pass
Today.

parfame ntary move the silver men OF
the senate, under the leadership of
Senator Jones of Arkansas, forced
aside all other pending business, in
GLIDING appropriation bills, and by
vote of 80 to 81, made the bill for the
unrestricted coinage of silver I'M
finished business before the senate.
Having succeeded in this Mr.. Jones
gave notice that the silver bill would
be kept before the senate until final
vote was secured before adjournment
TODAY. From the strength shown by
the silver men on the vote, there was
little doubt of Mr.. Jones' ability to
secure the vote unless obstructive
tactics or a test of physical endurance
are inaugurated. which is regarded as
unlikely.
The move of the silver men came as
the climax of an exciting day in the
senate. For two hours at the open
ing of the session there was renew
al of the attack and defense, the
charge and countercharge, concern
ing the course of the president and
secretary of the treasury in negOtlat-
ing the recent bond contract with
foreign bankers. The two nota BILE
speeches of the day were made by
Mr.. Gray, of Delaware, whose rela-
tions with the administration are
such that his utterances in defense of
the president and secretary were re.
garded as rejecting the attitude of
the executive branch; and by Mr..
Sherman, whose fnaI views are
always received with atten-
ton.
Mr. Sherman's criticisms of the
pond contract were none the less
severe because of the calm and inn
passionate manner in which he set
forth what he termed Its hard and
impolitic'' features and the ''exces-
sive" rate of interest allowed on
thirty year bonds. Mr.. sherman de-
clared that no bonds should be issued
except to be taken by the people of
the United States and he asserted the
abundant ability of Americans to
furnish all the gold necessary. The
Ohio senator did not, however, ques-
ton the presidents position in favor
of gold payments, but presented the
facts of all bonds issued since 1869,
showing that the government had
always received gold for its bonds,
and was bound by common honesty to
pay in gold for them. The agricul-
tura1 appropriation bill was finally
passed.
The following is the vote on the
Jones resolution:
Yeas-Allen, Bate, Berry, Black
burn, Butler, Call, Cameron, Clark,
Daniel, Dubois, Hansbrough, Harris,
Hunton, Jones of Arkansas, Jones
of Nevada, Kyle, McLaurin, Mantle,
Morgan, PETER, Perkins, Pettigrew,
Puph. Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie,
Voorhees,, Walsh, White. Total, 30.
Nays-Al1ison, Brice, Carey, Cam
den, Chandler, Davis, Dixon, Frye,
Gallinger, George, Gibson, Gray, Hale,
Hawley, Hill, Hoar, McMillin, Me
! Pherson, Henderson, Mitchell of Wis
consin, Palmer, Pascoo, Platt, Proc
tor, Quay, Ransom, Villas. Total, 81
Pairs - First named would have
voted yea. Mitchell of Oregon and
Aldr1ch, Blanchard and Burrows,
Cockrell and Cullom, Coke and Dolph
Faulkner and Higgins, Gordon anG
Wilson of Iowa, Roach and German,
Irby and Morrill,, Mills and Sherman,
Wolcott and Murphy, Power and CAT
ferry Shoup and Smith, Vest and
! Wash burn.
In the house the following bill:
were passed under suspension of the
rules;
To promote the efficiency of The
revenue service; to equalize the pen
] sion of Mexican veterans by making
them all S12 per month under thu
general law; to equalize the duties
and paw of steamboat inspection
service, and to authorize the Alt;
Monte Water company to construc
dams across the St. Louis and Cloque
rivers, Minnesota. The first and tn
last bills failed to secure the neces
sarv two thirds.