Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-02
FORTy-TWO ID TH|RTy-F|VE Vote in the Senate on the Free
 Silver Bill. THE LONG STRUGGLE OVER .e Only Thirteen Democrats Favor the Single
 Gold Standard. TWENTY-SlX DEMOCRATS FOR SILVER Twenty-Eight Republicans Sustain the President in His Financial Views.
 The Substitute Now Goes
 to the House.
THE LONG STRUGGLE OVER
TwENTY-sM DEMOCRATS FOR SILVER

Washington, Feb. 1.-The long strug- gle inthe senate over the question of the free coinage, of silver terminated at D. m today in victory for the friends of silver The great fight was over the finance committees substitute to the house bond bill At o'clock the discus sion was closed, in accordance with the unanimous consent arrived at on Friday, and the effect of that agreement was to exclude from consideration the numerous amendments of which notice had been given from time to time since the report ing of the bill. Much disappointment and bad feeling arose from this exclu- sion, which seemed to take by surprise the senators who offered or favored those amendments. Prior to that time, how ever. MT. Merrill had offered an amend ment reserving to the government the seigniorage on the silver coined, and the senate had rejected it by vote Of SS ayes to A nays. Mr. German had also, in short, earnest speech. moved to lay the substitute on the table, and that mo- tion was defeated by vote of 34 yeas to 43 nays. Then the concluding votes were taken, the free silver substitute being adopted by a vote of 43 to "A, and the bill
 
 30. It's title was changed so as to make it read: ITO restore the coinage of silver dollars and for other purposes.
 All the sections of the house bill are stricken out, and instead of them the bill provides that the hints of the united States shall be open to the coinage of silver and that dollars of 412A grains Troy, of standard silver, shall be coined upon the same terms and subject to the same limitations as regulate the coinage nff rlld O n directs the coinage of that portion of the silver bullion in the treasury that repre- sents the seigniorage, such silver dollars to be used in the payment of the current expenses of the government. It forpids the issue of national bank notes Of de- nominations of less than $10 and it di- rects the redemption of greenbacks and of the treasury notes issued under the act of July IA, 1890, in standard silver=dollars or in gold coin, at the option Of the treas ury department, and their reissue as un- der existing law. .4
 The bill now goes to the house for con- currence in the substitute, and the next move; after the house refuses to concur, will be the appointment of a conference committee. <.
 The debate was begun by MT. Morrill,. who delivered a forty-five minutes speech in opposition to the bill.
 Discussion proceeded under the nve minute rule. ME Daniel opposed the amendment proposed by MT. Butler re- o,liring the secretary of the treasury to pay out either gold or silver, as the case may require. when the two metals were not at parity, as one that was imprac- ticable.
 MT. Buffers amendment was defeated -13 to 60-as follows:
 Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Brown, Butter Cameron, Cannon, George, Hill, Kyle, Peffer, Pritchard, Roach. Stewart, HI man--13.
 Nays-Messrs Allison, Bacon, Baker, Bate, Berry, Blanchard, Burrows, Cail' Carter Chandler Chiffon, Clark, Cock rell. Davis, Dubois, Faulkner Frye, Gal finger, Gibson German, Gray. Hale, Hansbrough, Harris, Hawley Hoar, IT. by. Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, Looge, Mcbride. McMillan, Mantle, Mllls, Mitch ell of Oregon. Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morgan Morrill,, Murphy, Nelson, Pal mer Pasco, Perkins, Pettigrew. Platt Proctor Pugh, Shoup, Squire, Teller, Thurston, Turpie, Vest, Villas, Voorhees, Walthall, Warren, Wetmore, White, Will son-60.
 MT. Allen, populist of Nebraska, of- fered an amendment depriving the sec retary of the treasury of the power to IS. sue bonds without the prior authority or congress.
 MT. White, democrat, of California, thought 1t was unwise to load the meas ure with "Greek" amendments. Gifts of that kind resulted in the defeat of the substitute.
 Mr.Mills said he would vote for the sub-committee's amendment in oroer 10 defeat the house bill The house plii, II passed. might become law. but he was perfectly satisfied that if the substitute was carried it would never become a law.
 In the course of a colloquy MT Lind say, democrat, of Kentucky declared that the president had gone as far as he could he required to go in maintaining the cred 70 and he hoped he would not take another step in the way of selling bonds but put the responsfbih- ty where it properly belonged, upon con eress. and if calamity should come, let It rest where it ought to be-
 MT Allen pOpu1ist, of Nebraska, de- clined to withdraw his amendment. The country has had too much professed loy- alty to silver when there was no oppor- tunity of enacting a silver measure into law and too much "scuttling into the moss and deep places of the poor when if came to voting on measure or this kind. yeas 21, nays 54--as follows:
 Yeas-Messrs. Allen. Bacon. Baker, Berry, Blanchard r Brown .r Bq.ier' qrhH Call' Lindsay. Mills, Peffer, Pritchard, Roach, Stewart, ,Thurston-2l.
 Nays--Messrs. Allison Bate. Burrows. Carter Chandler. Chiffon. Clark. Cockrell, Daniel, Dubois Eikins. Fauik- ner. Frye. Gallinger, Gear, George, Gib- son German, Gray, Hale, Hansbrough, Harris liar Hawley. Jones of Arkansas, Lodge, Mcbride. McMillan. Mantle Mar fin. Mitchell of Oregon, Mitchell ot Wis consin, Morgan, Morrill,, Murphy Nelson Palmer. Pasco, Perkins. Platt, Proctor, Purh. sherman, Shoup, Squire, Teller, Tiliman Vest, Villas, yoorhees. Walthall, Warren. Wetmore, White, Wilson -o4.
 MT. Morrill,, republican, of vermont. offered an amendment providing that the seIrniorace on all coinage of silver under this act shall be retained by the United States equal in amount to the difference between coining value and the commer- cial value of the silver bullion when pre- tented at the mint. He said he thought