The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-22
FOR GOLD
STANDARD
House Passes Currency Bill,
Favored by All Republicans.

Eleven Democrats Voted With the
Majority of 39-Senate Bill in
House-New Jersey Members
Well Cared for on Committees
The Senatorial "Big Four.
Especial Correspondence
Was hington, Dec. 21-The House
passed the Currency Bill on last Mon
day by vote of 189 yeas to $50 nays.
Every Republican member of the
House either voted for the measure Or
was paired in favor of it, which Of
course was equivalent to voting for
it. Eleven Democrats voted for it,
and three were absent and neither
voted nor were paired. Thus the ma
jority of 80 was made up. The bill
was hurried over to the Senate on
Tuesday, by it referred to the Com
mittee on Finance, and by that Com
mittee reported back to the Senate
the same afternoon with the bill pre-
pared by the Republican members Of
that Committee as substitute
amendment. The differences be-
tween the two measure are mostly of
detail. Both agree on the essential
: of establishing the gold standard in
!. unequivocal language. The debate in
the Senate will last anywhere from
: six weeks to three months. The Demo
. Gratis say they will content themselves
: with making such speeches as will
. keep their records straight, if any thing
!. SO crooked as Democratic record on
the money question can properly be
" spoken of as straight, and then grace
fully submit to a vote. They de-
% nounce the gold standard as usual,
y but recognize that, in the speech of
2 the day, they are "up against it. "
The differences between the two
- Houses as to the details of the measure
Il Will be settled in conference and
= whatever is agreed on there will con-
stitute the law as it will hereafter ap-
Ipear on the statute books. The Dem
= ocrats are mighty anxious these days
> to keep the money question out Of the
4 campaign next year. Just how they
% can do it in view of their opposition
q to the gold standard bill, they do not
u explain. They cannot keep the plank
II demanding the free and unlimited
y coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
!. out of their platform without losing
II all the silver men of the country, in
!, Guiding the Populists. The faction
s known as Silver Republican, the
J. chairman of whose National Com
u mittee is former Senator Dubois, of
u Idaho, will hold convention on the
:. same day with the Democrats and will
> do everything in their power to force
j. their pet theory on them. From any
/ point of view the outlook for the
J. Democrats next year is very bad.
J The committees of the two Houses
Of Congress have been named. The
New Jersey Senators are members of
the following committees: Senator
L Sewell, Appropriations, Inter-oceanic
: Canals, Military Affairs, Territories,
i immigration, and chairman of En-
; rolled Bills. These are all important
committees.
; Senator Kean, Audit and Control of
the Contingent Expenses of the Senate,
Claims, Geological Survey, Inter
state Commerce, Public Lands, and
o chairman of National Banks. These
d are good committees for new Senator.
d Over in the House Speaker Hender-
9 son treated the New Jersey members
S quite we'll. They are on committees
:. as follows:
DAILY, Merchant Marine and Fisher
r les.
8 Fowler, Banking and Currency,
Q Foreign Affairs, and Reform in the in
l Civil Service.
: Gardner, Postoffices and Post roads,
i Chairman of Labor, and Chairman of
t the Joint Commission ON Labor,
Agriculture and Capital.
Howell, Public Buildings and
: Grounds and immigration and Natur-
l alization.
: Loudenslager, Naval Affairs and
, Chairman of Pensions.
Parker, Judiciary, Military Affairs,
, and Militia
: Salmon, Revision of Laws.
} Stewart, Interstate and Foreign
J Commerce and chairman of Expendi-
( lures of the Navy Department.
The New Jersey delegation in the
/ House has Jared much better than the
, average. Taking the two Houses
there will be little legislation enacted
Z by this Congress that some Jersey
man will not have say about in
: committee as we'll as on the floor.
1t has long been recognized that in
all legislative bodies few men direct
and control affairs. 1t is so in Con-
gress and in each branch thereof.
The Senate has it's "Big Four, made