The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-01-02

with Republican applause.
Mr.. Hopkins (Rep) of Illinois argue
that there is no necessity for the issue {
bonds. The bonds sold abroad had +
turned to this country. There iva
ample gold here to supply the needs {
the treasury.
Mr.. Payne Rep) of New York calle
attention to the fact that the admins
tration was already preparing to issu
S10O,OOO,OOO of 30-year per cent bond
This was the emergency that the bi
met by reduction of the interest.
THE presidents message" interrupte
Mr.. Linney, Says that the 10000. 90
of silver certificates issued against bu
lion purchased under the act of 1890 cor
stituted gold obligations. Why did no
the ways and means committee proyid
for the coinage of bullion and the re
demption of these notes in silver?"
| "The secretary now has authority t
redeem the Sherman notes." replied MI
| Payne.
But one thing at a time" continued
! Mr.. Payne This bill proposes to civ,
| the government the power to redeem it
obligations in gold" Republican ap
plause.)
He argued that the purpose of the adj
ministration was to sell the bonds to the
Morgan syndicate at an eXorbitant rate
of interest and throw the responsibility
on Republican congress.
Mr.. Russell (Rep) of Connecticut sup
ported the bill briefly.
Mr. Crisp closed the debate for his
side. He said he would endeavOr to
bring the house back to the real issue.
The president has pointed out to congress
that the gold reserve was diminishing
and had appealed to congress not to ad-
jOurn until some relief was asserted.
That was a plain business proposition.
"You gentlemen" he said, addressing
the Republican side, SHOULD either act
upon it or decline to act upon it.
"You are not acting in response to the
presidents message. The president says
there is no deficiency The official state
But the president asks you to retire the
greenbacks and to enable the treasury
to sell gold bonds"
SIS the gentleman from Georgia in
favor of it?' asked Mr.. Boutelle.
81 am not" replied Mr.. Crisp, amid q
roar of laughter on the Republican side.
Our opposition to this measure, he pro-
ceeded, is united. Gentlemen on the
other side believe that the obligations
of the government Should be paid in gold.
You owe it to your treasury, to the tax
burdsned people Of the country, to vote
to obtain gold. If | believed as you do,
l should have felt myself unworthy to
longer be representative of the Amer-
can people if failed to support propO-
sition that would save the people mil
lions.
He called attention to the fact that
Speaker Reed, Mr.. Dingley, Mr.. Payne
and others last year aided in the issue
of gold bonds
SIS my friend from Georgia arguing"
asked Mr.. Boutelle ''that we ought to
follow the advice of the president and
issue gold bonds"
"AIy argument is" replied Mr.. Crisp,
"that if you believe, as you claim, that
the obligations of the government are
payable in gold, you should have the
courage to vote to insert the word gold"
Mr. Boutele-But does the gentleman
think he is going to help the credit of the
country by proclaiming to the world his
belief that he does not like the bonds?
Mr.. Crisp--I am not exposing my views.
| was arguing as to the want of con-
sistency of the gentlemen on the other
side.
81 owe it to myself to say" concluded
Mr.. Crisp, that | do not believe in the
single standard; that do not believe in
contracting the currency of this country,
as it would be contracted by the retire
ment of the greenbacks. Nor do l be-
lieve in expressing the debtors of this
country and the world, as they would be
oppressed by fixing the standard of value
wholly upon one metal" (Applause)
Mr.; Dalzell Rep) of Pennsylvania
closed the debate for the majority. The
vote was then taken on the first section
of the bill and several friends of the
measure, notably Mr.. Dingley. kept iu-
dividual tallies. When the announce
ment of the bill was made-17O to 1856
there was burst of applause.
The second section was agreed to with
out division.
The vote on the bill was as follows:
Ayes-Acheson, Adams, Aldrich, An
Avery, Babcock, Baker of Mary,
land, Barrett, Bartholdt Belknap Ben
net. Bingham, Bishop, Black of New
York, Blue, BOutelle, Brewster, Brom-
well, Brosius, Brown, Bull, Burton of
Ohio, Calderhead, Cannon, Chickering,
Clark of Missouri Codding, Coffin. Con
molly, Cook of Illinois, Copper of Wiscon-
sin, Corliss. Cousins. Curtis of Iowa, Cur.
tbs of New York, Blazell, Daniels, Day
ton, Dingley, Dolliver, Dovenor, Draper
Evans, Fairchild, Faris, Fenton, Fisher
Flascher, Foote, Foss, Fowler. Gamble,
Gardner, Gibson, Gillette of New York,
Gillette of Massachusetts, Griffin, Girls
void, Grosvenor, Grow, Hadley, Hager
Hainer, Halterman, Hanley, Hardy, Har.
mer, Hatch, Heathwhole Heiner of
Pennsylvania, Heminway, Henderson,
Henry of Indiana, Hicks, Hill, Hit,
Hooker, Hopkins, Howe, Howell, Hub
bard, Huff, Hulick, Huling, Hull, Hunt
er, Hurley, Huthcheson, jenkins, John
son of Indiana, Johnson of North Dakota,
Joy. Kieffer, Knox, Kup, Lacey. Lafevre,
Leighty, Leisenring, Leonard, Lewis,
Lorrimer, Loudenslager, Low, Mahany,
Mahon, Mccall of Massachusetts, Nc
Leary, McWan. Meiklejohn, Meyer, Mil
Ter of West Virpinia, Milliken Mines
Miner of Wisconsin, Moody, Mosely,
Northway, Overstreet, Parker, Payne,
Phillips, Pinney, Poole, Pugh, Quigg,
Reybnrn, Rose, Russell, Scranton, Shan
nois, Southland, Southwick, Spalding,
Jersey, Stewart of Wisconsin, G. w.
Stone, Strobe, Strong, Taft, Tawney,
Taylor, Tomas, lacey, Treioar. Upde-
graft, VanVoorhis, Wadsworth, Walker,
Wagner, Warner. Watson of Indiana,
Watson of Ohio, Wellington. White, Will
Der, Willis, Wilson of New York, Wood
man, Weight-Total, 40.
Nays-Abbott, Aitkin, Bailey, Baker,
of Kansas, Baker of New Hampshire,
Bankhead, Barnham, Bartlett of Geor-
gia, Bartlett of New York. Beach. Bell
of Colorado. Bell of Texas, Black of
Georgia, Bowers, Broderick, Buck, Bur-
rell, Burton of Mississippi. Catchings,
Clardy, Clark of Iowa, Clark of Ala