The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-12-23
HOUSE PASSES THE
FINANCIAL MEASURE
Republican God Standard Bill
Adopted Yesterday At
ternoon.
PASSES BY VOTE OF 1870 10 $50
Eleven Democratic Representa-
lives Arc Recorded iii Favor
OF the Measure, All of
Them Customers.

Washington, Dec. 20.-The currency
bill, which was debated all last week,
was passed yesterday by the house
by a vote of 100 to $50. 1t had the
united support of every republican In
the house and of eleven democrats,
Messrs Clayton, briggs, Fitzgerald,
Levy. Rupert, Scudder, Gnderhill
and Wilson, of New York; Mr.. Nc
Aleer of Pennsylvania, Denny OF
Maryland and Thayer of Massachu-
sets. All the other democrats voted
against the measure or were paired
against it except John Walter Smith.
governor-clect from Maryland; Mr..
Stullings of Alabama, and General Jo-
seph Wheeler of .Alabama, who were
absent and not paired. When the
speaker announced the result the re-
publicans aheered Justify. After the
vote the speaker rather unexpectedly
announced the committee selections
ard the reading of the lists wa fol-
lowed with intense cagerness 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 III the hall was
occupied when the house convened as
the result of the pending vote on the
currency bill. After the reading of
the journal the bill was read Il third
time and placed on its 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 Gull of the
roll was followed with great interest.
There We're no demonstrations when
democrats broke away from their par
ty and voted i'll the affirmative. The
clerk called the names of the demo-
Gratis who declined to respond twice.
Every 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 rcsolu-
tons the house adjourned.
House Committee Chnirmcn.
The chairmen of the various com
mittaes We're announced by Speaker
Henderson before adjournment, as fol-
lows:
Elections No. j, Taylor, Ohio; cleo.
tons, No. 9, Weaver, Ohio: elections
No. 3, Messick, Michigan; ways and
means, Payne, New York; nppropria-
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
hnrbors, Burton, Ohios merchant ma
rine and fisheries, Grosvenor, Ohio;
agriculture, Wadswortl,, New York;
foreign affairs, Hit Illinois; military
affairs, Hull, Iowa; naval affairs, Bou-
telle. Maine; postoffices and post1oads,
Loud. California; public lands, Lacey,
Iowa: Indian affairs. Sherman. New
York; territories, Knox, Massachns-
cts; insular affairs. Cooper. Wiscon-
sin: railways and canals, Chickering,.
New York; manufactures, Faris. Indi-
ana; mines and mining, Crump, Mich
igan; public buildings and grounds,
Mercer. Nebraska; Pacific railroads,
Powers. Vermont; lcvees and improve
ments of Mississippi river, Bartlioldt,
Missouri; education, Grow, Pennsyl-
vania; labor, Gardner, New Jersey;
militia, Marsh, Illinois: pntents, Kerr,
Ohio; pensions, Loudenslager, New
Jersey; claims, Graft, Illinois; war
claims, Mahon. Pennsylvania: private
land claims, Smith, Illinois: District OF
Columbia, Babcock. Wisconsin: reyis.
ion of laws. Warner, Illinois: reform
in civil service, Gillctt, 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: eNpendi-
lures in war department, Grout, Ner-
mont; expenditures in navy depart
ment, Stewart, Nevada; expenditures
in p~ostotlice department, Manager.
Pennsylvania; eNpendituresin interior
department, Curtis, Kansas; expendi.
lures in department of justice, DOLL.
YER, Iowa; expenditures in depart.
ment of agriculture. Gillctt, New
York; expenditure of public build.
ings. Gamble, South Dakota; accounts
Bull, Rhode Island; select committee
on census. Hopkins, Illinois; library.
Harner. Pennsylvania; printing. Heat.
wole, Minnesota; enrolled bills, Baker.
Maryland.
Fails Heir tn & $1,000
Sioux Falls, SD, Dec. 19.-lT. w
Dwight, of Bridgewater, is the envy
of all his friends and acquaintance.