Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-06

WHICH HAS no earthly cndnce TO reacn
the statute books. They ruthlessly
defeated all amendments. Forum
ately the free silver bill which the
senate puts in the place of the house
per cent. bond bill will be killed by
a large majority of the members of
the other end of capitol The vote for
the bill was:
Yeas-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry
Blanchard, Brown, Butler, Call, Cam
eron, Cannon, Carter, Chiffon, Clark
Cockrell, Daniel, George, Harris, Irby
Jones (Ark.), Jones New, Kyle, Man
tie, Mitchell tOre), Pasco, PETER Per-
kins, Pettigrew, Pritchard. Pugh
Roach, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller
Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees,
Walthall, Warren, White, Wilson-42.
Nays-Allison, Baker, Burrows, CAT
ferry, Chandler, Davis, Elkins, Faulk
ner, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Gibson,
German, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hill,
Hoar, Lindsay, Lodge, Mcbride, Me-
MILAN, Martin, Mills, Mitchell (Wis.D.
Morrill,, Murphy, Nelson, Palmer,
Plat, Proctor Sherman, Thurston,
Villas, Wetmore-35.
For Silyer-Republicans 10, demo-
Gratis "A, populists 4 total, AZ.
Against Silver-Republicans 27
democrats Is.
Inc population of the country at
the present time is about II 100000 of
which 3O,000,000 are represented in
the senate by forty-seven silver votes
and the remaining 1000 by forty-two
antisilyer votes The discrepancy is
actually much greater, for the one
vote for silver from Pennsylvania and
the Two votes from Indiana motor
lously fail to represent the views of
the people of those states.
The bill as passed urDides that
from the date of the act the minis of
the United States shall be open to the
coinage OF silver and the dollar shall
be OF the present weight and fineness.
IL also provides for silver certificates.
1t further provides for the coinage of
TIE seigniorage now in the treasury
and authorizes the immediate issue of
certificates upon the same in advance
OF it being coined. One section of the
Dill provides that no bank note of less
than $40 shall hereafter be issued and
those outstanding of less amount shall
be taken up and cancelled as rapidly as
possible. Section 4 provides that the
greenbaclts and treasury notes shall
be redeemed in standard silver dollars
or in gold coin, at the option of the
treasury, and the greenbacks Wnen
so redeemed shall be immediately re-
issued
OF course, this is the end of the
bond bill, and through the radical pol
icy of the silVerites President Cleve-
land is relieved of the necessity of de-
Gliding whether he would sign or veto
that measure.
Washington, Feb. bills were
passed by the house today as follows:
On motion OF Mr. Sparkman dem.
FloridaD, to grant American register
to the barks Minde and Johann Lud-
wig; on motion of Mr.. Flynn Tep.,
Oklahoma), to grant to the st. Louis
and Oklahoma City railroad right of
way TIC 1nuluIl anu OkldlOlla
territories; on motion of Mr.. Little
(dem., Arkansas), to amend the act
granting to the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf railroad right OF way through
Indian Territory, 50 as to allow that
railroad to build a branch to Fort
Smith; on motion of Mr.. Doolittle rep,
Washington, to authorize the secre-
tary of the treasury to pay certain
sums due Reese Y. Voorhees, and John
Paul Jones for legal services to the old
settlers and western Cherokee Indians.
resolution reported by Mr.. Taft
(.ep., Ohio from the committee on for
eign affairs, calling on the president,
if not incompatible with the public in
terest, to transmit to the house all
correspondence between this govern
ment and Germany relative to the ex-
clusion of life insurance companies of
the United States from transacting
business in Germany, was adoptad.
The house then went into committee
of the whole and resumed considara-
ton of the District OF Columbia APP
preparation bill.