Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-02-06

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The annual effort OF Mr.. De Among
(dem) of Missouri was made to com
pei the district OF Columbia to bear all
the expense of the district govern
ment, but figures were adduced to
prove that the value of the govern
ments property in the district ex-
ceeded that OF private individuals by
over $7,000,000. The chair finally
ruled the amendment out on point q
order
A bin to pension Susan b. Wright
who, prior to her marriage to Arte-
mus Wright, had been the widow OF
James w. Wells, Company l., tenth
regiment, New York volunteer corps
met with opposition on both sides q
the house General Curtis of New
York was in charge of the bill and re-
fused to withdraw it. The result was
that it went to a vote and Mr.. Miles
(dem.) of Maryland made the point OF
mo quorum" After some further
filibustering the house adjourned.
Washington, Feb. 1.-Free coinage
of silver is the answer which the SEN
ate of the United St@tes has made to
the appeal of the president and the
house Of representatives for whole
some financial legislation. II was
carried by a majority of 8, the roll call
standing 43 for the silver substitute to
the house bond bill and 43 against.
On adoption of the bill as amended
the majority was T. Senator Mills
changing his vote to the sound money
side, his position being that he pre-
ferred free silver to bonds, but after
defeating the bonds did not want free
silver.
These figures emphasize most strik-
ingly the power which the silver men
WELD in the senate They are able to
summon majority for q measure
which has no earthly chance to reach
the statute books. They ruthlessly
defeated all amendments. Forum
ately the free silver bill which the
senate puts in the place OF the house
8 per cent. bond bill viii be killed by
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 (Ore), Pasco, PETER, Per-
kins, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Pugh,
Roach, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller,
Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees,,
Walthall, Warren, White Wilson AZ.
Nays-Allison, Baker, Burrows, CAT
fiery, Chandler, Davis, Elkins, Faulk-
ner, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Gibson,
German, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hill,
Hoar, Lindsay, Lodge, Mcbride, Nc
MILAN, Martin, Mills, Mitchell (Wis.).
morrill,, Murphy, Nelson, Palmer,
Plat, Proctor, Sherman, Thurston,
Villas, Wetmore35
Z For Silver Republicans 10. demo-
/ Gratis "a, populists 4; total, AZ.
/ Against Silver Republicans ~,
democrats Is.
The population of the country at
the present tire is about 7l000, 600, OF
which 30,000,000 are represented in
the senate by forty-seven silver votes
and the remaining Al 900 by fortytwo
antisilver votes. The discrepancy Is
actually much greater, for the one
vote for silver from Pennsylvania and
the two votes from Indiana motor
iously fail to represent the views of
the people of those states.
The bill as passed provides chat
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.
1t also provides for silver certificates
II further provides for the coinage Of
the seigniorage now in the treasury
and authorizes the immediate issue OF
certificates upon the same In advance
of 1t being coined. One section OF the
bill provides that no bank note OF less
than SO shall hereafter be issued and
those outstanding oil less amount shall
be taken up and Cancelled as rapidly as
possible. Section provides that the
greenbacks and treasury notes shall
be redeemed in standard silver dollars
or in gold coin, at the option Of the
trea sury, and the greenbacks when
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 Cleye-
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,
Florida, to grant American register
to the barks Minde and Johann Lud-
wig; on motion of Mr.. Flynn rep,
oklahoma, to grant to the st. Louis
and Oklahoma City railroad right OF
way through the Indian and Oklahoma
territories; on motion of Mr.. Little
I fdem, Arkansas), to amend the act
granting to the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf railroad right Of way through