Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-12-21
HOUSE PASSES The
FINANCIAL MEASURE.
Republican Gold Standard Bill
Adopted Yesterday AZ
ternoon.
PASSES BY VOTE OF 1870 TO $50
Eleven Democratic Representa-.
tiyes Are Recorded in Favor
of the Measure, All of
Them Ensterners.

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Washington, Dec. 2O.-The currency
bill, which was debated all last week,
was passed yesterday by the house
by vote of 100 to $50. 1t had the
united support of every republican in
the house and of eleven democrats,
Iessrs Clayton, briggs, Fitzgerald,
Levy, Rupert, scudder, Underhill
and Wilson, of New York; Mr.>~Alc.
Aleer of Pennsylvania, Denny of
Maryland and Thayer of Massachu-
sets. All the other democrats voted
against the measure or were haired
against it except John Walter Smith.
governor-elect from Maryland: Mr.
Stallings of Alabama, and General ,Jo-
seph Wheeler of Alabama, who were
absent and not paired. When the
speaker announced the result the re.
publicans cheered Justify. After the
vote the speaker rather unexpectedly
announced the committee selections
and the reading of the lists was fol
lowed with intense eagerness by the
members whose opportunities for dis.
tinction depend SO largely upon their
committee assignments. Announce
ment OF the death of the late Repre-.
sentative Bland, of Missouri, which
occurred last summer, caused an early
adjournment.
Almost every seat in the hall was
occupied when the house convened az
the result of the pending vote on tho
currency bill. After the reading OF
the journal the bill was read third
time and placed on it's passage.
Mr.. Overstreet, in charge of the bill
demanded the yeas and nays, and the
demand was seconded generally by
both sides of the house. The call of the
roll was followed with great interest.
There were no demonstrations when
democrats broke away from their par.
ty and voted in the affirmative. The
clerk called the names of the demo.
Gratis who declined to respond twice.
livery republican voted for the bill.
When the speaker announced the
passage of the bill by 100 to $50, the
republicans broke into cheers. The
speaker then announced his commit.
tees
Mr.. DeArmond, of Missouri, an.
nounced the death of Richard'P. Bland,
which occurred last summer, and aft
er the passage of appropriate resolu.
lions the house adjourned
House Committee Chatrmem.
The chairmen of the various com.
mittees were announced by Speaker
Henderson before adjournment, as fol.
lows:
Elections No. /, Taylor. Ohio: cleo.
tons, No. 2, Weaver. Ohio; elections
No. 3, Messick, Mich gan; ways and
means, Payne, New York; appropra-
tons, Cannon, Illinois; judiciary, Ray,
New York: banking and currency,
Brosius, Pennsylvania; coinage,
weights and measures, Sutherland,
Ohio; interstate and, foreign com
merce, Hepburn, Iowa; rivers and
harbors, Burton, Ohio; merchant ma
rine and fisheries, Grosvenor, Ohio;
agriculture, Wadsworth, New York;
foreign affairs, Hit Illinois; military
affairs, Hull, Iowa; naval affairs, Bou-
telle, Maine; postoffices and postroads,
Loud, California; public lands, Lacey,
Iowa; Indian affairs, Sherman, New
York; territories, Knox, Massachus-
etts; insular affairs, Cooper, Wiscon-
sin; railways and canals, Chickering,
New York; manufactures, Faris, Indi-
ana; mines and mining, Crump, Mich.
igan; puolic buildings and grounds,
Mercer, Nebraska; Pacific railroads,
Powers, Vermont: levees and improve
ments of Mississippi river. Bartholdt,
Missouri; education, Grow, Pennsyl-
vania; labor, Gardner, New Jersey;
militia. Marsh, Illinois; patents, Kerr,
Ohio; pensions, Loudenslager, New
Jersey; claims, Graft, Illinois; war
claims, Mahon, Pennsylvania; private
land claims, Smith, Illinois; District of
Columbia, Babcoc<, Wisconsin; revis-
ion of laws, Warner, Illinois: reform
in civil service, Gillett, Massachusetts,
election of president. vice president
and representatives in congress, Cor.
liss, Michigan; irrigation of arid lands,
Tongue, Oregon; immigration and nat
uralization, Shattuck, Ohio, ventila.
ton and acoustics, Prince, Illinois;
expenditures and state debt. Smith,
Michigan; expenditures in treasury
department, Cousins, Iowa; expendi-
lures in war department, Grout, YER
mont; expenditures in navy depart
ment. Stewart, Nevada; expenditures
in postoffice department. Manager,
Pennsylvania; expenditures in interior
department. Curtis, Kansas; expendi-
lures in department of justice, Dolli-
yer, Iowa; expenditures in depart
ment of agriculture, Gillett, New
York: expenditure of public build
ings, Gamble, South Dakota; accounts,
Bull, Rhode Island; select committee
on census, Hopkins, Illinois; library,
Harmer, Pennsylvania; printing, Heat
wole, Minnesota; enrolled bills, Baker,
Maryland.