St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-14
THE SUBSTITUTE BOND sIEAsIRE
OVERWHELMINGLY DEFEATED
IN THE HOUSE.
MR.. T0WNE HAD A PLAN.
5s~e4.=siss
BUT 1T WAS VOTED DOWN IN COM
PANY WITH NUMEROUS
AMENDMENTS.
Two MEMBERS GROW Personal.
tween Messrs Hall and Dear
mOnd.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.-After ten
days debate, the house today, by vote
of so to 100 in committee of the whole,
rejected the senate coinage amendment
to the bond bill, and reported the bill
to the house, with recommendation
to non-concur, and insist on the house
bill. The strength developed by the
silver men was disappointing. They
had been confidently claiming over 100
votes. After two hours debate to-
morrow, the final vote will be taken.
Mr.. Dingley will close for the majority
and Mr.. Crisp for the minority. Prop
ositions were offered during the day to
concur with the amendments as fol-
lows: To coin the American silver
product, for the retention of the
seigniorage by the government and to
open the minis to the free coinage Of
silver at the ratio of 151a to 1, when
Germany and France should have
agreed upon similar action. All were
defeated by large majorities. The last
proposition, offered by Mr. Towne
(Minn), mustered So votes, the highest
number of any Mr. Towne had stated
to the house that similar propositions
would be submitted to the reichstag
and the French parliament at the pres
ent sessions The most significant state
ment today came in the form of an
intimation from Mr.. Dingley that bill
might be reported from the ways and
means committee looking to the initia-
ton by this country of a project for
another international monetary con-
ference to meet within a year. While
Mr.. Dingley said he was simply eX-
pressing his personal position in the
matter, it was generally understood
from the manner in which he spoke that
the suggestion had already matured
into well defined intention on the
part of the Republican leaders of the
house. Although the galleries were
thronged today, and there was a good
deal Of outside interest manifested in
the closing of the debate, the debate it
self was only saved from utter stagna-
ton by very spirited and personal
encounter between Mr.. Dearmond and
Mr.. Hall, both Missouri Democrats. on
different sides of the financial question.
The gentlemen had paid their respects
to each other before during the debate,
but each in the absence of the other.
Today the encounter was at close quar-
tiers. Mr.. Hall took the initiative Mr.
Dearmond had criticised the language
Mr.. Hall had used in announcing his
conversion to the cause of Sound
money" Mr.. Hall opened bv refer
ring to the fact that Mr. Dearmond
had mentioned the names of Benedict
Arnold and Judas Iscariot without the
application" Proceeding he indignant
ly denied that he had been
WASHINGTON CONVERT"
to the cause of sound money and advert
ed to standing challenge he had
posted in Missouri last summer to dis
cuss the issue on the stump. He also
denied that he had intended to charge
nus free silver friends in the house with
personal corruption. why should the
gentleman feel that he has been hit ."
he asked turning, to Mr. Dearmond. .I
90 not know unless the resolution is
found in the old adage that the bird
which has been hit 7fiutters''
Mr.. Dearmond had fire in his eve
when be arose to reply. He did not
feel, he said, that anything that the
gentleman had said had struck him.
but he felt as one of the representa-
tlves from Missouri, that when the
newest convert from that state to the
so-called sound money doctrine saw
proper In making his platform to class
the Chinese, people from the East In
dies and the depths of Africa and the
lower animals in-the- category of those
VINO did not change their opinions. that
perhaps it might not be inappropriate
to suggest that there might be changes
OF opinion that would evidence no ire
mendouS eXaltation above those re-
ferred to. Gaughter)
Mr.. Hall sprang to his feet when Mr.
Dearmond sat down. Il do not wish to
emulate this gentleman in billings
gate, said he holly. 'I do not expect
to equal him in it. But [ wish to reply
to some pertinent matters that he has
ceferred to. He says I do not repre-
Gent my constituents I desire to call
his attention to the fact that we have
but five Democrats here from Missouri,
instead of fourteen, as in the Fifty-third
congress; that of these five Democrats
three OF US are sound money men Zap
plause) and that the leader of the 1e
to 1 idea in the United States is now
at home upon his rocky farm in Lac
lede county, unless he is still featuring
TO MS one man audience in the South
daughter and applause)
BOND BILL TAKEN UP.
The session of the house from II 80
to II o'clock this morning was devot-
ed to general debate on the bond bill
the speakers being Messrs. Grout (Rep
Vt.), Mccall Rep. TENN, Hadley Rep.
lid, and Willis Rep. DELI, against,
and Mr.. Doolittle Rep. Wash.) in favor
of free coinage. This closed the gen
eral debate. The house immediately
reconvened. General debate on the bond
bill having closed, the senate substi-
tute for the bond bill, under the ar
rangement effected, was then open for
amendment and debate under the five
minute rule. Mr.. Dingley Rep. Me).
chairman of the committee on ways
and means, explained the parliament
airy situation. He would make the mo-
ton to nonconcur in the senate free
coinage substitute, while Mr. Crisp
representing the minority of the com
mittee, would move concurrence The
latter motion took precedence, and
would be the pending motion, open for
amendment until o'clock, when the
vote in committee of the whole would
be taken. Under an arrangement made
with the minority, he said, two hours
would be allowed tomorrow for closing
the debate in the house. an hour side,