Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-18
CURRENCY MEASURE
GETS0.k. OF HOUSE
Administration Bill Approved
by Overwhelming Vote
of 286 to "a.
GOLDBUG ARGUMENTS
PLAGUE DEMOCRATS
Record Vote Taken on Issue-Inter-
locking Directorate Ban
Is Killed.

The administration currency bill today
reached the end Of the first stage Of its
legislative career. being passed by the
House by q vote of 266 to "a. The meas
ure. completed In detailed consideration.
after three days Of efforts to amend.
reached q final vote In the House. prac-
tically unchanged In its essential pro-
visions.
Bimetallism. the gold standard and in
terlocking directorates came up to plague
the democrats during the last moments.
On test vote .effecting an amendment to
prohibit interlocking directorates. offered
by Representative Walters Of Pennsyl-
vanla. 1t was indicated the bill would
nal passage later. Republicans did not
throw / thing In the way of the ulti-
mate passage Of the bill.
The striking feature Of the last hours
Of the bill in the House was the man
ner in which the long dead gold stand
ard question was Haunted in the face Of
southern democrats.
Gets House on Record.
Representative Wingo. following his
promise of last night to demand sep
arate vote on this propoeitaion, man
aged to get the House on record. Fol-
lowed by many southern democrats Of
the OLD school. Mr.. Wingo had spoken
vigorously against the committee
amendment to .reaffirm the gold stand
ard and TO remove any doubt or sus-
picion that the bill contains any joker
by which the silver standard could be
recognized.
AS soon as the House met today and
q record vote on this separate PROPOSE
ton was called for 1t was seen that
democrats and republicans alike Joined
in majority for the gold standard.
Only sixty-nine silverites could be
members. democrats. republicans and
progressives all voting the gold stand
ard Representatives Lindebergs OF
Minnesota and Roberts OF Massachu-
setts were the two republicans who
voted with the silver men.
The amendment and the vote caused
more lively gossip and brought out
larger number OF members than any
thing else since the early days OF this
special session. The corridors buxsed
can ordinarily keep still. but to whom
the gold question was like Q red rag
TO bull. The old-tme silver demo-
Gratis who wanted to get on record ~
gold standard called the whole scheme
"a dirty. soldbug trick"
Tries to Send Bill Rack.
However. no sooner had the goldbus
done its effective work than Mr.. Wal
tiers, q progressive Of Pennsylvania. Of
fered q motion to send the entire bill
back to the banking and currency COM
mittee, with instructions to that body to
report II out again including Q paragraph
preventing interlocking directorates In
banks
This would be nothing more or Less
than the Recommendations Of the demo
Gratis who formed the Pujo money trust
investigating committee. and up to q
short time ago was considered good dem
ocratic policy.
For some reason or other the democrats
have steadfastly refused to have any
thing to do with interlocktng directofatee.
It Ia one Of those matters Of policy with
which republicans and progressivee plague
the democrats from time to time. The DEM
ocrats tried to dodge q roll call vote. but
Representative Murdock. by . persiStent
bit Of strategy. forced the House - %
on record. OF course, the Walters mo-
ton was lost. and following that roll cal
the final vote began to be taken.
The final vote brought number OF re.
publicans to the support Of the admtnis-
tration measure. Twenty-four republicans
voted for the bin and thres democrats
voted against II.
A final fight on an amendment re-
affirming the present financial policy a