Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-02-15
56th CONGRESS-.
Test Vote on Financial Bill
Insures Its Passage.
The Final Voc on The Measure viii
Be Taken, Today.
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Tie Missouri Election Laws Create a Breeze
in the House.

late in the afternoon, q test vote
indicating approximately the majority
On the passage of the bill. was taken.
Mr.. Chandler, Rep. y. H.. offered an
amendment to authorize the President
70 appoint commissioners to anv in
tornationdl bimetallic conference that
might be called. and it was defeated
hy a vote of 10 to %.
The Chandler proposition out of the
way the discussion proceeded on the
amendment brought in by the finance
committee providing that the provis-
ions of the bill are not intended to
place any obstacles in the way of in
fcrnational bimetallism. The Demo
cratic senators arraigned the Republi-
cans for reporting the amendment, de-
claring they We're insincere and that
the proposition was intended to hood
wink the people and to catch votes
No vote on the amendment was
reached. The final vote on the amend
ment and the bill will be taken. some
time tomorrow.
The routine business in the Senate
was brief. Immediately after il was con
cluicd the financial bill was presented
by the Chair. 1t was agreed that after
230 o'clock. Wednesday. the pending
measure and amendments thereto
should be considered under the 10
minute rule.
Teller was recognized to reply to Jhc
speech of Allison, delivered yesterday
He had waited in vain, he said. for an
explanation of the House bill which
technically was a measure under con
All :;
relating to the finances Of the country
with suspicion. He thought the House
bill ought to be considered carefully as
it might possibly become the law. II
had been drafted by commission com
posed of acute lawyers and there were
strength behind it.
Teller took issue with Allison that
the United States was now on the gold
standard. We are not on the gold
standard except by the unauthorized
action Of the treasury. We are on what
is sometimes called limping silver
standard and sometimes a gold stan
dard. Nobody outside Of the United
States has considered the United States
on the gold standard. Teller said there
never had been an hour since 1879 whom
there was the slightest doubt that the
grecnbacks would be redeemed in gold.
In conclusion Teller said that the Re
publican party had abandoned itS rrin-
ciples ana had fallen into evil hands
and was being used by evil influences.
He said that DepeW in suggesting
Gold ana Glory as a proper mott"
for the Republican banner, had not pro-
posed a phrase that had ever been a
rallying cry Of the party.
Chandler. n H.. proposed an amend
mcnt 10 the committee amendment re-
lating 70 bimetallism. The Chandler
proposition authorized the President to
appoint commissioners to any internal
tional conference called by the United
States or any other country to arrange
bimotallic agreement. Wolcott suE-
gested that this was the existing law
ana asked Chandler to Withdraw the
amendment. Chandler declined. saying
that if the amendment was existing
law it could do no harm to adopt it.
Vest. Mo. announced his purpose 70
vote against both the Aldrich amendment
and the Chandler amendment to it. he
cause he regarded the proposition for an
International conference a fraud and Pre-
text.
Aldrich declared that Chandler was de-
ccivinE no one with his amendment ana
he hoped that the amendment would he
defeated. He was sure. he said. that the
proposition was not one that would meet
with general appreciation.
The amendment, in the opinion Of Mo
ney, Miss. was entirely pertinent, but he
WAS satisfied there was no desire on the
part of the administration or of Republi-
can senators To advance the interests OF
bimctallism
Teller said the Republican press
throughout the country was opposed to
the himetaIlic amendment. 1t would hc
ridiculous To put such an amendment on
this bill.
The vote was then taken on Chandlcr's
tmcndmcnt To the committee amendment.
1t was defeated As 10 %, AS follows:
Ycas-Alcn. Bate. Berry. Butler,
Chandler. Chiffon. clay. Cockren. Gut
herson, Harris. Hcitfeld: Jones, Ark.'
Money Morgan. Pcttus. Rawlins. SulI-
van, Teller Tillman. Turley. Turncr--',
Nays Aldrich, Allison, burrows. Caf-
fiery. Carter. Clark, Wye, Cuilom. Davis
peboc. Dcpew, EIl<ins, Fairbanks. Fora
ker, Foster. Frye. Gallinger. Hale; Hanna
Iansbrough. IItwIey. kcan, Lindsay
,."Ien. Mcbride McComas;, Me- Cumbrr'
kins. Piatt, Ct., Plat, n: y. Proctor.
"uarlcs Koss. Sewel. Shoup, simon.
Spooncr. Thurston. Vest, Warren wet
moro, W0lcOtt-i5.
Chandler then asked Aldrich if h would
consent to the insertion before jhr
finance committees amendment 81 thos"
words from the national platform 81 thy
Republican party Of l>92: "Thc ntru
States from tradition and interest, faN"FS
bimetallism." His vote. he said Wa "l
no special Importance. but ne Would N'i'
for the measure his proposition WAS ao-
ccptcd.
Il object" replied .Aldrich. ITO thc re-
enactment Of the Revised Statutes ana -
the recital in this bill Of the various p!t'-
forms OF political parties. lie mann
tanned that there was no provision ~ tie
bill which was an obstacle to bimrtlIllSh
Platt, Conn. said no step could br
taken more likely IL advance ~" cause
Of bimetalism than to have II underSt""u
that until the United States should So
cure an International agreement ON silver
this country would continue on tine gold
standard.
Jones. Ark. expressed surprise that the
bimetdlic amendment had not been made
a part 81 the bill when the latter WIS re-
ported. He believed il was an after
thought and had been brought about by
demands of Republican bimetdll1Sts.
Il want to put question 10 the Scnd-
tor from Rhode Island" said CoCkrel ri
want him to answer it as an honest man