The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-07-27


sioual Record of March 81, 1892. that /
there was vote on q bill for me free /
coinage OF silver after tWo davis debate /
ON a special rule ON n motion 10 table the I
biIl and amendments. when the vote was |
ll6 io l1Si being an exact tie, and That
Alr. knloe was absent and not paired, ]
that II took the vote Of Speaker Crisp 10
make said vote q tie, and that had Mr..
Enl0e been present the motion 90 table
would have failed and the bil would
have passed; that Mr. hnloe claimed
that he had been absent from .he hall Of
lhe House in attendance upon special
committee, investigating the pension of
fee, which had 10 leaye 10 sic during the
sessions Of the House, bui that the record
showed that q majority of the members
of said special committee were recorded
as voting on said bin thus showing that
the committee was not iu session at the
time said vote was taken.
Mr.. Sims also showed from the Com
gressional Record that in 1892, on July
b, bill for the free coinage of gold and
silver az thc ratio OF is 10 ] passed by the
Senate, being Senate bin No. 81, was laid
before the House by the Speaker with
the announcement that he would refer
the bill Co the committee on coinage,
weights and measures, OF which Mr. r.
!. Bland was chairman, being a free
coinage committee which committee
would have reported the bin lavorably,
and thus have secured a vote on it in the
House; that Mr. Tracy, a gold Democrat
OF New York, moved TO refer said bill TO
the committee on banking and currency,
a majority OF which committee was OBJ
posed 90 free silver. and would not have
reported said Bill; that there were five
yea aud nay votes on the effort to refer
said BIZ 10 the committee on banking
and currency and thus secure its defeat.
MIR. Sims presented the Congressional
Record showing that Mr. Enl0e was not
present and did not vote on any of the
yea and nay votes, and that on four calls
OF the House on the same day Mr. Enloe
was recorded as being absent
Mr., Sims charged that this record
showed cOnclusively that Mr.. Enl0e was
absenton these important occasions when
the life OF free silver hung in the balance,
and challenged Mr.. Enloe's sincerity as
free silver man and cited the above as
proof Conclusive Of the charge.
Mr. Sims further stated that bin had
been pending before Congress for over 20
years, entitled, "A bill for the relief of
Hiram Johnson and others" the object
OF the bill being to return to forty-eight
persons, living in Chester, McNairy. Hen
derson and Madison Counties, or their
representatives and heirs, the sum OF
50, 27l.26 which was wrongfully assess
ed and collected from them by the Federal
authorities during the war Of therebell.
ion; that Gen. Atkins secured the pass
age OF the bill through the House in the
10th. Congress, and that Senator Harris
secured the passage Of it through the
Senate of the 47th. Congress- that Hon.
John NJ. Taylor got the bill through the
committee of the whole, while he was a
member OF Congress from this district,
that he (Sims) got said bill passed in the
Doth. Congress, and the same had passed
the Senate, being signed by the President
| and that the money had all or about all
been paid to the parties entitled to the
same; that he had examined the Con
gressiona Record closely during the en-.
tire time of Mr. Enloe's service in Con-
gress, which embraced the seth, 5lst,
52d. and 03rd. Congresses, that he found
"lieIe. Ehioe hao had the OIL up twice
ana az a pom times it5 voted down by majority
OF lhe committee OF the whole, but found
mat the bill had never passed the House
Whl'e Mr' llnIoe was member OF Con-
gfess rom TINS district, bat notWithstand-
ing inns he found the following as part
OF Mr. Enlos' s record, accompanying his
announcement III the Jackson Dispatch
Mr.. Euloo secured the passage of bills which
caused GAYS 60 be- pal9 to the Southern war claimants
In Co3grsss At ba tmn t TolfS Te ne WAS
and part OF he Democrats fought every South
err nl war claim i ava when Enoe passed the Hiram
yea and nav g To aeT ard d M aSiea u o
various other similar claims Senafor Horrie