Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-02-13
FEDERALLAW MAKERS

FEDERAL LAW MAKERS
Washington, Feb. 1.--Free coinage
of silver Is the answer which the SEN
ale Of the United States has made to
the sppeal of the president and the
house OF representatives for whole
some financial legislation. 1t was
carried by majority of 9, the roll call
standing 43 for the silver substitute TO
the house bond bill and 40 against
On adoption of the bill as amended
the majority was Z. 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 8 majority for a 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
per cent bond bill will be killed by
large majority If 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,
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.
For Silyer-Republicans 10, demo-
Gratis "a, populists 4; total. A.
Against Silver Republicans 81,
democrats 10.
The population of the country at
the present time is about III 100000, of
which 30,0o0,000 are represented in
the senate by forty-seven silver votes
and the remaining 900 by forty-two
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
the United States shall be open to the
coinage of silver and the dollar shall
be OF the present weight and tineness.
1t also provides for silver certificates.
1t 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 it being coined. One section of the
bill 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
greenbacks and treasury notes shall
be redeemed in standard silver dollars
or in gold coin, at the option of the
treasury, and the greenbacks when
50 redeemed shall be Immediately re-
issued.
OF course, this is the end of the
bond bill. and through the radical poll
icy of the silyerites 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.,
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
dem, Arkansas), to amend the act
granting to the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf railroad right of way through
Indian Territory, SO as TO allow that
railroad to build a branch 70 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.
A resolution reported by Mr. Taft
rep, Ohio from the committee on for
eign affairs, calling on the president,
il 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 i'll Germany. was adopted.
The house then went into committee
of the whole and resumed considera-
ton of the District OF Columbia ap-
preparation bill