The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-20
Thursdays Proceedings.

The Senate substitute for the House
| gold standard bill passed the Senate yes
terday by majority Of seventeen. Every
Republican voted for 1t except Mr.. Chand-
| Ter; every Democrat voted against il Elk
| cept Mr.. Caffery. of Louisiana, and Mr..
Lindsay, of Kentucky. The vote was &c
| 10 20 The bill will now be returned 10 the
| House, and will be sent to conference. the
| conferees probably being Mr.. Overstreet.
who introduced the bill in the House and
prepared the report upon il; Mr.. Brosius.
the chairman of the Banking and Cur
iency Committee, and Mr. Richardson.
the detailed vote on the passage of the
bill was as follows:
yeas-Aldrieh, Allison, Beveridge. Burrows CAT.
fiery. Carter, Clark WyoI. Cullom. Davis Deboe
Depew, Eikins. Fairbanks Foraker Foster FRYE
Gear Hale Hanna, Hansbrough Hawley. Hoar
hean' Lindsay. Lodge Mcbride McComas Ne
Cumber, Mcmillan. Mason Nelson Penrose Per-
kins. Plat Conn., Plat IN ". Pritehard
Quarles, Ross, Scott, Sewen, shoup. Simon.
spooner, Thurston, Wetmore woieott-4s
Nays-Bate, Berry, Butler, Chandler, Chiffon
Clark Montl. Clay, COckrelI, Cuberson. Daniel
Harris, Heitfeld. Jones (Ark) Jones Nevl Ken
ney, McEnery. McIaurin. Martin, Money Morgan
Pettus. Rawlins Stewart. sullivan Taliaferro
Teller, Tiliman. Turley, Vests
Only Two Amendments Adopted.
The session of the Senate previous to
| the final vote was devoted To brief
speeches and the consideration of amend
ments. OF the latter. only two were
adopted one OF these being proposed by
Mr.. Nelson. of Minnesota, as follows:
No association shall be organized with less cap
ital than $losOOO except that banks with capitaI
n - III .rffh
the Secretary Of the Treasury be organized in any
place the population Of which does not exceed 900
Inhabitants and except that banks With cspitaI ~
not less than 325ceo may, with the sanction of the
Secretary Of the Treasury be organized in any place
the population OF which does not exceed COO in
habitants No association shall be organized IN A
city the population Of which exceeds 30 900 persons
With capital Of less than $500 OoO
The other amendment was offered by
the Finance Committee, and read as fol-
lows:
That the provisions OF this act ere not INTENDED
~ place any Obstacles IN the way Of the accom-
plishnent Of International bimetalism provided the
same be secured BY action Of the leading
commercial nations OF the world and al a rstio
which shall insure permarenoe Of relative value be-
tween sold and silver.
This amendment was adopted BY a vote
OF 45 10 30. as follows:
Neas-Aldrich, Allison. Beverage Burrows. Car
ter, Chandler. Clark CXyOmingl CLIlom. Davis. De-
Doe. DeDeE. Elkins FaiIbansS Foraker Foster
Frye. Gear. Hale Hanna. HsRst rough Hswlsy Hoar.
kean. Lodge. AcBfide McCouas MeCunJs-. NJ
MILAN, Mason, Nelson. PeHTose. Perkins. Plat
tcoanecticutl Piatt (Nrw YoTkl. Pritchard oaaries
Ross. Scott seNell. shoup. Simon, Spooaer, Thus
ton. Wetmore, Wolcott-4s
Nsys-Bate. Berry. Butler. csnery. Chutoa. CLARK
Montana. Clay Cockrell. CuIberson Daniel. Har-
us. Heiifed. Jones Arkansas. Jones CNeyadzt
henHey. Lindsay. ncEneTy. McIAurin Martin. Mon-
ey, Morgan Pettus. RaNlins, Stewart, Sullivan
IAhAieFro. Teller. ullHza. Tuflsy, Ves,-sA
Debate Upon BimrtaIIism.
In the debate upon bimetallism. Senator
Hoar asserted that the United States
could go 20 a double standard again when
opportunity offered. while Senator Nor
gan characterized the amendment as "a
miserable makeshift." senator Plat. OF
Connecticut, predicted that the Demo-
Gratis would make their same old tight
this year In their effort 10 force a silver
standard upon the people. a prediction
which Senator Teller accepted with the
remark that he was quite willing silver
should be the issue. Senator CockreU
denounced the demonstration OF silver In
1873 as "a crime against men. against