The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25


bill, which was passed by a vote of ia to
b. AS the final act of the session the
speaker announced the appointment of the
committees.
AS soon as the speaker called the House
TO order Mr. Dngley moved a recess until
$3.50 p. m. In reply to a question, he ex-
planned that the Senate would vote on the
tariff conference report at O'Clock, and II
was exceedingly important the House
should be in session when the engrossed
bill came back from that body.
Mr.. McRea attempted to draw out Of Mr..
Dingley a statement as TO whether cur
rency commission bill was TO be passed this
afternoon, but the latter evasively replied
that there was no such proposition before
the House. MIR. McRea said If the passage
of such bill was not contemplated many
Democrats would like to go home.
RECESS TAKEN.
The speaker then stated, in view of the
approach of the end of the session. that in
his opinion il was the duty of every mem
Der TO remain. Otherwise" said he, I'VE
may find ourselves without a quorum, and
to that extent every absent member will be
responsible" The recess until $3.50 was then
ordered.
The throngs which crowded the Senate
galleries when the vote was taken al
O'Clock fioeked over TO the House side and
the galleries were packed when the lower
pfdnch or Congress reconVened At 3:3O.
MAYOR Pruden. the Presidents executive
clerk, announced a message from the Pres
4utHl OF the united states. ana the SeCfe-
tary of the Senate afterwards announced
the adoption of the conference report on
the tarin bill. The Republican side Of the
House broke into q storm Of applause that
arose and swept the galleries. The bill was
carried TO the speakers rostrum and laid
on his desk Private Secretary Hines
handed the speaker pen, with which Mr..
Reed Immediately affixed his signature All
this time the Republicans and the galleries
continued their cheers and applause, which
only subsidized after the clerk had an
nounced the speakers signature.
Mr.. Dingley the floor leader of the ma
jority then presented from the ways and
means committee a resolution Cor a final
adjournment at o'clock tonight. This
resolution was made the occasion for two
brief speeches Mr.. Wheeler described how
the Democrats of the House would be
obliged TO return to their constituents with
bowed heads and tell them that the pros
peTity the Republicans had promised was
increased taxation and inability to meet
their obligations.
Mr.. Grosvenor, in reply. said that he
deemed this a proper occasion to congratu-
late the country and the people on the aus
picious closing of this Congress. Looking
at the history. of the brief period since
March IN dispassionate manner, he de-
clared no candid man could deny that
there had never been better management of
affairs than that Of the present admins
tration and the two houses Of Congress.
1RepubDcan applause) Il believe" said
he. that If we had not adopted the policy
we did in this House, If we had not dis
played the unerring and unhinching cour-
age we have this tariff bill would never
nave become Il law. He said moreover
that he believed many on tho other side
were as convinced as those on his side of
The importance to the prosperity of the
country OF the event the people would cele-
The resolution was then adopted without
d1vision. and the speaker laid before the
House the special message of the President
recommending the appointment of a cur
rency commission. It's reading was closely
followed and literally applauded by the
Republicans.
MIR, STONES BILL.
Mr.. Henderson, from the committee on
rules, Immediately presented a special or
der for consideration of the Stone currency
commission bill, with an allowance of one
hour for debate. He agreed to allow twenty
minutes debate on a side on the order
AFTER few remarks by Mr. Henderson. in
which he said the Republicans of the House
were in sympathy with the executive and
meant business, the debate was opened
The time of the Democrats was consumed
by Messrs. Wheeler of Kentucky Dockery
and Pierce of Missouri. Ermantrout Of
Pennsylvania and McMillin of Tennessee in
denunciation of the attempt to create a
currency commission.
Mr.. Dolliver stirred the Republicans by
an eloquent speech. AT the conclusion Of
q brief review of the features of the last
campaign he declared that it was no cause
Tor wonder that the leader of tire remnant
OF the Democratic party which AWas now
noundering around in the bad lands of poll
tics had become an organizer of book
agents and a holy terror to the lyceums of
the country. He denounced efforts to array
class against class and said: II now VEN
ture the prediction that never again will
we be as near as we were last fall to the
fapothesis of the organs of speech and the
dedication of the winds of heaven"
daughter and applause on the Republican
side and in the galleriss.)
Referring to the statements that it was
meant to help cut Mr.. Hanna in Ohio this
gan Mr.. Henderson stated his emphatic be-
1llustrious leader, William Mckinley, would
send Senator Hanna back to the Senate"
The special order was then adopted-ayes,
100; noes, i02; present and not voting, 10
There were two breaks in the Republican
lines on this vote. Messrs. Linney, of North
Carolina, and Mahany, of New York, voted
with the Democrats and Populists against
the order.
The debate proper on the BILL which the
order limited to one hour, then began. Mr..
Stone, author of the bill in opening the de-
bate, referred to the Presidents declara-
tions in his inaugural, when he said that
this question should be considered when
adequate revenues had been first provided
The proposition was simple. 1t proposed
that the President should appoint a COM
mission of fevel-headed business men to
make the broadest investigation, to consider
all the schemes which We're presented and
report TO him what if any, legislation was
needed
Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, who was the lead
ing minority member of the committee on
banking and currency of the last House.
dieting that the work of the commission
would be valueless. He asserted that the
Republicans of the House did not want to
pass this commission bSl, but feared to
raise the issue with the President.
Mr.. Johnson. of Indiana, tried to get his
bill substituted for the, pending measure
which, he said, was crude.
Mr.. Dolliver (Rep. Ia.) and Mr.. Hill
SRep.. Comm supported the bill, and
2dessrs. Simpson pop, Kan), Shafroth
Wheeler dem. Ala.). Miers Dem, Ind.)
Handy (Dem., Del) and Lentz (Dem., Ohio)
opposed it,
Mr.. Dingley said a few words in favor of
grounds: First, that the President had re-
quested this action; second, that business
men of the country who were little accus-
toned to engage in political disputes earn
estly urged this investigation; and third
that the Information secured by the COM
mission would be of value to Congress.
Mr. Stone closed the debate with a few
words in which he argued in reply to the
criticism that the commission should be
mixed that the President of the United
sponsibility for the creation of a commits
sion and he should be empowered to COM
pose it of such persons he saw fit.
MIR. JOHNSON'S SUBSTITUTE.
After considerable wrangling the speaker
ruled that it was in order to move TO re-
commit and Mr. Johnson of Indiana made
the motion with instructions to report back
his bill as a substitute. To this motion Mr..
Carmack Dem, Tenn) offered an amend
ment by the terms of which the commission
created by the bill should be directed to
report a bill on the lines of the financial
plank of the Chicago platform. and to in
clude in the bill provision for the free coin