The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
AGAINST ADMINISTRATION.
HOUSE VOTED HEAVILY AGALNST
 THE SPRLNGER BILL.


 ponents of the Bill-WOrlr in the Senate
 The Hawaiian Cable Opposed by Senator
 Palmer.
 Washington. Feb. 7-At 11:40 the
 house, in committee of the whole, took
 up the bill authorizing the sale of
 $5Oo.OOO,O 900 of gold bonds to maintain
 the gold reserve and to retire the green
 backs, the pending question being MT. Bland's appeal from the ruling of Chair man Richardson that his substitute
 was not in order.
 Tellers were directed to resume their places, and the committee proceeded to vote. The decision of the chair was sustained-13O to 52.
 MT. Brosius, rep. of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment to section 1, di- recting that bonds of the denomination of $2O, $50 and $1O0 be offered for sale at such national banks as the secretary of the treasury may direct. On this amendment MT. Sickles, dem of New York, declared his belief that the honor and welfare of the country were involv- ed in the passage of the bill. He had frequently been compelled to differ from the president, but he forgot all these differences in his admiration of the manly brave action of the president in this financial crisis of the country.
 Then most i1npressively General Sickles said: If a long life given large ly to the public service entities me to appeal to my associates on the floor to hold up the credit and honor of our country, in Gods name take the op- portunity now to do so." (Applause)
 MT. Bowers, rep. of California said he would vote for the substitute pro- posed by MT. Reed. What was needed now more than anything else was an Andrew Jackson, a Ulysses s. Grant or an American czar" in the presidential chair, to stop the raid on the treasury. The trouble was that the men in charge of the affairs did not know how to run the machine.
 MT. Strait, dem. of South Carolina, opposed the bill
 MT Stockdale, dem of Mississippi, of- fered an amendment to the declaration contained in the bill repeating the pur- chasing clause of the Sherman law, that all the moneys of the government should be kept at a parity, but it was ruled out on a point of order. MT. Bro- sius amendment was adopted.
 MT. Wheeler, dem. of Alabama, offer ed an amendment repeating the 10 per cent state bank tax to take effect Jan uary 1, 1897. Lost.
 MT. Raughen, rep. of Wisconsin, moved to strike out that portion of the bill which forbids the issue of national bank circulation based upon the per cent bonds. Agreed to.
 MT. Bell, pop. of Colorado, moved an amendment to make the bonds payable in gold or silver without discrimination 1 against either metal.
 An amendment offered by MT Bland 1 to redeem the treasury, notes issued | under the Sherman law in accordance l with section 8 of that act and to coin | the seignoirage of the silver bullion in the treasury into standard dollars, was l defeated by vote of IA to 2o9 MT. Walker, rep. of Massachusetts, | offered an amendment to give the sec retary of the treasury power, when | ever necessary, to issue bonds of the | denominations of $20 and $50 and null tiples thereof, described in the specie re- and refunding acts, at the rate of interest to be fixed by him and running for four years. Lost, 67 to i.
 MT. Bryan proposed an amendment to the substitute offered by MT. Reed, re- citing that nothing therein contained should be construed to surrender the right oF the government to pay the coin obligations of the government in standard silver dollars at the op- tion of the government in accordance with the terms of the Matthews resolu- tion of 1878.
 A point of order was made against it, but it was held to be in order.
 MT. Brosius, rep. of Pennsylvania, ! made the point of order at 3:3O, that under the rule, the committee must rise and report the bill. which was done. Chairman Richardson did not report the Terry proposition as pending, and MT. Terry protested, but the chair mans position was sustained.
 Several amendments to the text of the bill as originally introduced by Mr. Springer agreed to in committee of the whole were adopted by the house, none of them on division receiving less than L49 votes MT. Bryan's efforts to get Ii the yeas and nays on the amendments relating to tax on retirement of national i bank circulation were unavailing. f When it came to the considering of the substitutes pending MT. Reed stated , It to be his understanding that the one offered by him was to be voted on after he Cox substitute. MT. Cox insisted ] hat the Reed substitute should be first ! voted on. MT. Reed said his proposi- ( ion, coming from the minority, was en- tiled to parliamentary courtesy to the f superior advantage, if there were any. z The speaker ruled that he would have ' o treat them as ordinary amendments t md ordered the vote to be taken first { m Mr. Reeds, The Bryan amendment ' O this substitute on division received V 19 affirmative votes and 132 negative. c The yeas 127, 169 nays; present and I lot voting 8. C The vote on MT. Reeds substitute was | hen taken resulting on division: t Yves 93, noes 163. The yeas and nays S were called with the following result; V Teas 109. nays 187 present and not t roting ?. This was nearly a party r -ote. Messrs. Cannon of California F