Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-09-17

ing was said after the bill was called
| Mr.. Holman. / suppose 1t is In
tended to have the bill read before i
is put on its passage.
The Speaker. The substitute vii
be read.
Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts.
hope not. 1t is a long bill, and thos'
who are interested in it are perfectly
familiar with its provisions.
Mr.. Kerr. The rules can not b'
suspended SO as to dispense with the
reading of the bill.
The Speaker. They can be.
Mr.. Kerr. ! Iwant the House tc
understand that it is attempted to put
through this bill without being read.
The Speaker. Does the gentleman
from Massachusetts Mr.. Hooper
move that the reading of the bill be
dispensed with?
Mr.. Hooper, OF Massachusetts. !
will SO frame my motion to suspend
the rules that 1t will dispense with
the reading of the bill.
The Speaker. The gentleman from
Massachusetts moves that the rules be
suspended and that the bill pass, the
reading thereof being dispensed
with.
Mr.. Randall Can not we have a
division of this motion?
The Speaker. A motion to sus-
pend the rules cannot be divided.
Mr.. Randall. l should like to
have the bill read, although | am
willing that the rules shall be sus-
pended as to the passage of the bill.
The question was put on suspend
ing the rules and passing the bill
without reading; and (two-thlrds not
voting in favor thereby the rules
W net suspended.
Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts. l
now move that the rules be sus-
pended and the substitute for the
bill in relation to mints and coinage
passed; and l ask that the substitute
be read.
The Clerk began to read the bill.
Mr.. Brooks. Is that the original
bill?
The Speaker. The motion of the
gentleman from Massachusetts Mr..
Hooper applies to the substitute and
that on which the house is called to
act is being read.
Mr.. Brooks. AS there is to be no
debate; the only chance we have to
know what we are doing is to have
both the bill and substitute read.
The Speaker. The motion of the
gentleman from Massachusetts, being
to suspend the rules and pass the sub
stitute, it gives no choice between
the two bills. The House must eth
er pass the substitute or none.
Mr.. Brooks. How can we choose
between the original bill and the sub
stitute unless we hear them both race?
The gentleman can vote Say" or
'no" on his question whether this
substitute slall be passed.
Mr.. Brooks. Lam very much in
the habit Of voting "no" when l do
not know what is going on.
Mr.. Holman. Before the question
IS taken upon suspending the rules
and passing the bill, l hope the gen.
tleman from Massachusetts will ex-
plain the leading changes made by
this bill in the existing law, especial
ly in reference to the coinage. 1t
would seem that all the small COIN
age of the country is intended to be
recoiued.
Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts. This
bill makes no changes in the existing
law in that regard 1t does not re-
quire the recolnsge of the small coins.
The mystery is only depended
when we consider what other persons
wac we're in Congress at the time,
say about the passage of this bill.
Senator Thurman, on the 18th of
February, 1878, in debate said:
81 cannot say what took place in
the House, but know when the ball
was pending In the Senate we
thought it was simply bill to re-
form the mint, regulate coinage and
fix up one thing and another, and
there is not single man in the Sen
ate, | think, unless member of the
committee from which the bill came,
who has the slightest idea that it was
even a squint toward demonetiza-
ton. ."-Congressional Record, vol
ume I, part 2, Forty fifth Congress,
second season, page 1864.
Senator Conkling, in the Senate,
on March 80, during the remarks of
Senator Bogy on the bill Is. 263) to
amend the laws relating to legal ten
der of silver coin, in surprise inquir-
ed:
"Will the Senator allow me to
ask him or some other Senator q
question? Is it true that there is
now by law no American dollar?
And. if so, is it true that the effect
of this bill is to make half dollars