The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-23
HOUSE LEADERS
 CET HARD FALL Substitute Adopted for Philip
 pine Coinage Bill PAYNE MAKES GALLANT FIGHT Statehood Bill Occupies Entire Time of the Senate, and Mir. Burnham Fails to Conclude His Speech
 In Opposition.
PAYNE MAKES GALLANT FIGHT

Washington, January 22.-The house 1 leaders went down to a signal defeat to- I day when the house, by a vote of l4o 10 ] 12s, rejected the Philippine coinage pil' reported by the insular affairs committees and adopted the substitute offered by the
 minority for the introduction of American currency and the American coinage sys-
 tenn in the islands. The insular commit- tee includes in It's membership the chair
 men of the most powerful committees Of the house, MT. Cannon, chairman of the appropriations Mr. Hill. chairman of
 foreign affairs; Mir. Payne. chairman Of the ways and means committee; Me-
 Hepburn chairman of interstate com merce and MT. Tawney, chairman Of the committee on expositions.
 They reported a bill to establish the
 gold standard In the islands and to au-
 thorize the coinage of silver pesos Of 4lS grains: to be made legal tender at the
 rate of two pesos for one gold dollar The majority members made gallant flight for their bill, but considerable
 number of republicans, twenty-eight on the final vote, under the lead of MT. Hill of Connecticut, MT. Fowler of New Jersey and MT. Mccall of Massachusetts, joined
 with the democrats and carried through the substitute.
 The fact that Secretary Shaw and other high treasury officials were quoted on the floor as fayoring the substitute, aided in the overthrow of the committee bill.
 Their opinions were advanced as against
 those of Governor Taft and other mem
 bers of the Philippine committee. u. 8. Money Legal Tender. The substitute passed provides that the lawful money of the United States shall
 be legal tender in the Philippines, ano declares the coinage laws or the United States to be in full force there. It pro- vides for the redemption Of the Mexican and Spanish silver. not including any | Mexican pesos imported into the islands after March 15 1903, at their bullion value, | as declared from time to time by the Philippine commission, the silver coin au- | thorized by the Philippine government | act to be redeemed at the rate Of two pesos for $1 of United States currency After six months no coin except that o' the United States shall be legal tender
 with the following proviso:
 | That all debts except those otherwfst | provided for in the contract, owing or l the date when this act shall take effect | or contracted within six months there
 after shall be payable in silver coin'
 now in circulation in the Philippine isl
 ands or in the lawful money of the Unit
 ed States at the rate of exchange pre-
 scribed at the time by the Philippine | commission
 | The bill provides that the pesos coine'
 under the Philippine government act ant | the Mexican and Spanish coin, when re | deemed or received for public duties ol | the above basis. 1t shall be coined int
 United States coin at the mint authorizes
 to be established in Manila.
 The Alaskan delegate bill was taken III
 and was supported by Mr. Cushman, re
 publican, of Washington; Mir. Wooten
 democrat. of Texas, and Mir. Sulzer, dem | ocrat, of New York, and opposed by MT Warner, republican, of Connecticut.