Rock Island Argus., 1896-02-15
NINETY THE LIMIT.
Apparent Full Strength Of the
House Silver Vote.
SOUND MONEY" MEN NUMBER 2l5

A They stood Up To He Counted In the
Final Vote ON the senate Free Silver Sub
stitute for the Bond Brll-List Of the Free
Closing Observation-Disclosures ON the Pa.
eiHc Railways.
WASHINGTON, Feb Is The majority
against silver in the house, yesterday when
the final vote was taken on concurrence in
the senate free coinage amendment was
larger than that Of Thursday in committee
Of the whole. Thursday the motion to con.
cur was defeated 100 to 50, q major.ty OF 110:
yesterday it was beaten els to 80, ma
jority Of l25. The vote yesterday was .
rccord.making vote, and counting the
pairs but thirty-seven out Of 356 members
were unaccounted for. Perhaps a few
absentecs lodged, but most Of them were
unavOidably absent and were unable to
secure pairs. The silver men who on
Thursday predicted . much greater show.
ing Of strength yesterday were again dis.
appointed The Sound money leaders
had been disposed to conccde the silver
forces 100 votes.
Analysis Of the Vote.
An analysis Of the vote of yesterday
shows that Isl Republicans and 81 Demo
Gratis voted against concurrence. and s.
Democrats, 90 Republicans and z Popu.
lists for concurrence. The silver vote was
rs follows: Abbott, Aitken, Allen Of
Mississippi, Allen Of Utah. Bailey. Baker
Of Kansas BankheaG, Barham. Bartlett
of Georgia. Bell Of Colorado, Bell Of
Texas, Black Of Georgia, Bowers, Brod.
srick, Clardy, Cockrcll. Cooper Of Texas.
Cox, Crisp, CulbcrsOn. Curtis of Kansas,
ID, Almond, Dinsmorc Dockcry, Doo-
little, Downing. Ellis, Gamble, Hartman,
Hermann. Iilborn, Hutcheson. Hyde,
johnson of California, Jones, KEN, Ken
dali, Lntimcr, Layton, Lester, Linncy,
Little, Livingston, Loclhart. Loud, Mad
dox, Mcguire, Marsh, Mcclure. McCul-
loch. Mckcnncy. McLachlan. McLaurin,
Mcmillan. McRac, Meredith, Mondcll.
Money. Moses, Ncill, Newlands, Ogden,
Otcy, Pearson, Richardson, Robbins,
Robertson Of Louisiana. Sayers, Shat.
roth, Shaw, ShuforG, Skinner, Spencer,
Stokes. Strait, Stroud, Swanson, Talbert,
Tate. Terry, Townc, Tyler, Underwood.
Walker Of Virginia, Wheeler. Williams,
Wilson OF Idaho Wilson Of South Caro-
lima, woodarG Yoakum-total 10.
Debate Was not Sensational.
The debate which preceded the vote was
of an interesting character, but devoid OF
any sensational features. The galleries,
as usual on field day i'm the lower branch
Of congress, were crowded to the doors,
and quite number of senators, includ-
Ing Palmer of Illinois, Bacon Of Georgia,
Cockrell Of Missouri and Butler Of North
Carolina. sat through the five hours. Secre-
tary Herbet was also present. Ex-Speaker
Crisp presented the closing argument for
the silver men, and was replied to by
Turner. a Democratic colleague from
Georgia, in n two hours speech. The per-
sonal rivalry between the two leaders Of
the opposing factions Of the Democratic
side of the house added to the interest OF
the occasion. Dalzell closed in behalf Of
the Republicans. The partisans of the re.
spcctive champions missed no opportunity
To applaud them.
DaIzeirs View of the Remedy.
During Dalzell's speech he left the sub.
ject of free silver coinage and branched
off on protection. He said what the coun.
try wanted was not free silver, but more
revenue through the custom houses, more
blazing furnaces, more factories and
mills, more and cheaper transportation,
more CONSUMPTION to stimulate produc-
ton, increased wages to decrease tho
hours Of labor. "These are the things we
want and will have" he concluded,
''in our march to the conquest Of our
manifest destiny as the leader OF the
world i'm agriculture, manufactures and
commerce whose life.blood shall be Q
monetary system as good as gold and ns
respected as the national flag"