The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-18
CURRENCY BILL
WILL Be PASSED
BY HOUSE TODAY
Detailed Consideration of
Measure Completed
Last Night
NO CHANGES OF
IMPORTANCE MADE
Eleventh Hour Revolt Among Demo-
Gratis Threatened to Reach Serious
Proportions, But Leaders Re-
gain Control of Situation
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
SENATE.


Not In session: meets tomorrow
Banking committee cor nped hear
ings on administration rency bill.
Tariff conferees cons ed deliber-
ations.
HOUSE
Continued diseusison If currency
oill for Amendments.
Recessed al $3.50 D. M t. p. M.
Completed detailed consideration of
administration currenes bill ana
agreed to take final vote today
Adjourned at Il p. m. to noon to-
day.
Washington. September iT--The admin-
istration currency hin viii be passed
by the House and sent TO the Senate
tomorrow. In order to complete the de-
tailed consideration of the measure and
leave nothing but the formal vote for
tomorrow. the House sat tonight and
concluded the voting on proposed amend
ments. No material changes We're made
In the bill
An eleventh hour revolt from the will
of the caucus and the leadership of the
currency committee spread among demo-
Gratis of the House tonight when the ad-
ministration currency bin was within the
shadow OF the final vote upon its passage.
1t threatened for time 10 reach serious
proportions, but the party leaders finally
got the situation in hand again.
Chairman Glass of the committee aud
other leaders who sided with him were
plainly worried and their predieament af-
forded unconeealed amusement to the re-
publicans and particularly to Progressive
Leader Murdoch. The revolt lasted
through many speeches on the democratic
side, several from across the aisle and
one vote on which more democrats de-
serted the committee than had left its
standard on any of her mooted questions
brought up before.
Amendment Causes Trouble
An amendment by Representative Eess
of Ohio, designed to maintain all legal
money at a parity and insure the reten-
tion of the gold standard, caused all the
trouble Some democrats professed to
see In it revival of the old issue of BIZ
metallism and openly charged that the
committee In ndorsing such amendment
was offering a gratituous insult to four
fifths of the democratic party. That Is
sue, they pointed out, was settled 16 years
ago.
Representative Wtherspoon of Missis-
sippi was the first to announce thai with
such an amendment tackled to the bill,
he would bolt the caucus and vote against
it,
Il will never vote for It., he shouted
"for | am an honest man"
II challenge the right of the commit
tee to bring in such an amendment as
this" said Representative Wingo. Some
body is playing politics and trying TO
humilate four-fifths Of the democratic
party. II is useless; it is childish
M Wilson and Mr.. Bryant talked
with Mr.. Bryan tonight-want this amend
ment."
Representative Murray of Oklahoma de-
elared that it was an insult to democrats
to indorse such an amendment. Il want
to say now he shouted. walking toward
the democratic committee table that the
people of this country will not follow you
to the polls next November on this IS
sue"
Representative Sherley poured oil on the
troubled waters only to have them stirred
again moment later by Representative
Murdoch. AIR. Sherley said rhat the
amendment could 90 no harm ana might
do good. and that il was time for demo-
Gratis to forget what was behind and
reckon with what was b. fo-e.
Pay No Heed to Warning
''The republicans are playing politics
with YOU" was the taunt of Mr.. Murdock
"They propose ito get a separate vote OIL
the amendment and the bin in the House
and put you democrats on record. IT'S a
trap that they are asking you to walk
into-if you want to walk inso it go
ahead.
At the conclusion of Mr. Murdoek's
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