The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-14

senate substitute, to concur With amendments" and "to non concur" He would ask the committee to vote down all motions to amend so that at 4 o'clock the question of concurrence or non con currence could be voted upon without any qualification. He moved that the committee recommend non concurrence with the senate substitute.
 MT. Crisp, dem,, of Georgia, moved that the committee recommend that the house concur in the senate substi- ute.
 MT. Long, rep, of Kansas, moved to amend by restricting the coinage to the product Of silver mines in the United States. On this amendment there was debate in general terms of the financial question, and of the action of the sen- ate in returning the substitute to the house. Among the speakers were Messrs Grow, rep, of Pennsylvania; Mccall, rep, of Massachusetts; Mcguire, dem. of California and Blue, rep, of Kansas. MT. Blue protested against the unlim- tied free coinage of silver because it would at once reduce the average pen sion of S1O0 year to $50 a year. Further debate was participated in by Messrs. Boatner, dem., of Louisiana, and Hutchinson, dem., of Texas.
 MT. Dingley said that the amendment was open to the objection that it was not in place upon this bill and that it was in no sense solution of the prob lem of free and unlimited coinage of silver The amendment was rejected fl to 11S.
 MT Brumm rep, of Pennsylvania, Of fered an amendment providing that whenever the commercial ratio of the two metals varies from the coinage ra- tio, the seignoirage of the bullion pre- scented for coinage shall be retained by the government. After some debate the amendment was lost-39 to S5. MT Corliss, rep, of Michigan, offered an amendment combining the two pre- viously rejected. He said the coinage | should be confined to the product of American mines, and the seignoirage should be retained by the government. Mr. Dingley opposed the amendment and was asked by MT. Corliss if the house might look to the committee on ways and means. or to any other com- mittee for action at this session, looking to the initiation of a movement in favor of enlarged use of silver.
 Mr. Dingley replied that the senator from Colorado (Mr. Wolcott) had pre- pared in his own language an amend ment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the current year, looking to an international conference, the United States, however, looking to another rla- tion for initiative action. For himself MT. Dingley state, amid applause, that he was in favor of the United States taking primary action to bring about a Conference of the subject.
 MT. Corliss' amendment was repected- MT. Towne. rep, of Minnesota, offered an amendment committing the United States to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 151a to 1, when the hints of Germany and France shall have been opened for that purpose. He said the bill was agreed upon by a conference of economists in Europe last summer, and was to be offered in the English parliament, the German reichstag and the French chamber of deputies,
 MessH Updegraff and Owens spoke against free coinage.
 Messrs Hall and Dearmond, dems, engaged in personal controversy, con- ducted with considerable bitterness over the conversion of the former to the cause of sound money, as contradistin- guished from free coinage of silver
 MT. Dingley opposed MT. Towne's amendment for the reason that the United States was not ready at this time to suggest an international ratio for the coinage of silver. The amend ment das disagreed to.
 MT. Crisp's motion to agree on the vote was: Ayes 30, nays 190. It seemed that half of the democrats voted against the leader. The demonstration of over whelming strength was greeted with applause by the victorious side.
 The chairman announced that the re- suit was the committee agreed to rec ommend non concurrence in the senate substitute.
 The committee then rose and Chair man Payne announced to Speaker Reed the decision just reached.
 MT. Dingley stated that after a speech by MT. Crisp in favor of concurring in the senate substitute tomorrow mem bers of he ways and means committee opposed to concurrence would reply and then he would ask for vote on the recommendation of the committee of the whole.
 MT. Johnson, rep, of Indiana. report ed from the elections committee No. ? it's decision in the contest of Van Horn versus Tarnsey, from the Fifth Missott- Ii district, in favor of Van Horn.
 The minority will file their views here after