The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-06-04
ARR OPPOSED TO BONDS
Bill to Prohibit Their Issue
Passes the Senate by a
Vote Of 50 to IS.
Flood OF Amendments Offered
but They All Met Defeat
When Voted On.
House Adopts the River and
EarbOr Bill Over PreSi-
dents Veto.

WASHINGTON, June 3.--At o'clock
last night the long struggle i'll the SELL
ate over the bill to prohibit the issue of
bonds came TO an end and the bill was
passed by a vote Of 81 TO 20. The bill
as passed covers only three lines, as
follows:
BE it enacted that the issuance Of inter
est bearing bonds 81 the United States for
any purpose whatever, without further au-
thority of congress, is hereby prohibited.
The vote on its final passage was as
follows:
Yeas: Republicans - Brown, Cannon,
Dubois Hansbrough. Mitchell (Or.), Pet
tigrcw, Pritchard, Teller, Warren, VOL
cott-lO. Bacon, Bate, Berry,
Chiffon, Daniel, George, Harris, Jones
(Ark.) Mills, Morgan, PascO, Pugh, Till
man, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, Whitc-l7.
Populists-Allen, Butler, Jones (Nev.) },
PETER, Stewart-5. Total, 81.
Nays; publicans-Aldrich, Allison,
Burrows, Chandler. Cullom, Davis, Gal
lingcr, Hale, Hawley, Lodge, Mcbride,
Nelson, Platt, Quay, Wctmore Wilson
l6. Democrats-Brice, Caffery, Faulkner,
Hill, Lindsay, Mitchell (Wis), Palmer,
smith, NilaS-9. Total, %.
Many Amendments Voted Down.
The voting did not begin until 80 p.
m, at which time the chamber was
dimly lighted and the galleries almost
empty. A flood of amendments was
first voted on, all being defeated. One
by Mr.. Aldrich gave the exc, :utive
power to issue bonds in certain emer-
gencies another by Mr.. AldriCh pro-
vided that the act should not impair the
obligation to pay Ill coin. Mr.. Hills
amendment that treasury notes be re-
tired when redeemed was Tablets to
II. Mr.. Quay's amendment for the
substitution of coin notes for treasury
notes was defeated without Il yea and
nay vote. The last preliminary vote
was on Hills motion TO postpone the
subject until next December, which was
defeated. Then came olle fl lal vote. n.
Debate Lasted All lay.
The debate on the bond bill lasted
throughout the day. Mr.. Cannon of
Utah made a spirited reply to criticisms
of the five Republican senators, includ-
ing himself, who voted against the
Dingley tariff bill, and declared that
the measure was a Legislative mon-
strosity. Mr.. Cannon assert ed that the
Inter Mountain states took Henry M.
Teller as leader rather than the sena-
tor from Ohio (Sherman). Mr.. Allison
expressed his strong belief that the
United States could not enter alone
upon the coinage of silver at 16 to l..
Nh Chandler appealed to senators on
the other side of the chamber
To Join in Il Patriotic Measure
to sustain the country's honor. Mr..
Chandler also paid a tribute TO the per-
sonal integrity of President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle. Mr.. Teller
spoke in favor of making silver the first
and paramount question. Mr.. Burrows
declared that it would have been better
had the country gone down i'll the storm
of war than that measure taking
away the last prop to its credit should
pass. Mr.. Palmer of Illinois also op-
posed the bill. Before the bond bill
was taken up Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont,
chairman of the finance committee,
spoke on tariff and finance.