| Show The Dqbate in the House I Dtate WASHINGTON July 12 Dingley I Maine presented a memorial from tho stato conference of tho Congregational church of Maine for the passage of an original package bilL Referred Conger of Iowa called up the conierenco once report on the silver bill Conger said the bill presented in the report was as all conference bills must be in the nature of a compromise I was not just such a bias bi-as ho thought Congress ought t pass itwas not just such a bill perhaps as any member of the House would like to pass if bo were preparing a measure to suit his convictions but it was a bill that would answer the demands de-mands of the country that would answer tho demands of the silver miner that would answer the demands of the agriculturists laborers and business men of tho country I The gentleman from Missouri Bland would tel the House the bill demonetized silver I did nothing of tho kind On the contrary the whole tenor of the measure I remonetied silver Additional circulation circula-tion had been demanded The bill would give the country at the present price of silver an increase 57780000 year ll silver went up to a parity with gold it would give an increase in-crease of 70000000 The last section q the bill unloeleea dTO000000 nov ticp up for the redemption of bank notes making a total increase of circulation in the next twelve months of 5140000000 Williams of Illinois inquired whether the gentleman in his calculation did not assume as-sume goldConger thnt silver would reach a parity with Conger replied that whether it did or not the increase would be nearly the amount at any rate it would fall short of that only about 13000000 Was the gentleman from Missouri Bland willing to stand here and vote against a measure which would give the suffering people of the west an additional addi-tional circulation of this large amount He wanted the Democratic party t tell the country whether it was unwilling refuse re-fuse to support n bill that would give the people this large measure of relief This was a Republican measure Republican applause The pending measure had been agreed upon by Republicans only it had been passed in the Senate by Ucpublicau votes only that it might pass hero by Republican Re-publican votes only It would then go where it would bo signed by a Republican President and thence it would go to the country that would give such a Republican Re-publican endorsement that many of the gentlemen on the other side would < not bo here to vote in the next Congress The work of the House had been moving tho country rapidly towards the establishment establish-ment of si parity between silver and gold When Congress met silver was 03 cents an L ounce yesterday it sold for 107 Since it had been announced that the conferenne had agreed upon the bill silver has gone up I more than 3 cents an ounce Republican L applause Jutdieon of Michigan regarded the conference con-ference bill as a vast improvement over the jmonlrosity sent here by the Senate which proposed to make the United States mint tho dumping ground for all the silver of the word for the benefit of speculation I vas also an improvement over the bill as originally passed The House would give the country an additional currency of metal and paper for the uses of business Hermann of Oregon said he favored the bill although it did not contain tho fullest recognition of tho equality between gold and silver as money metaCIt was n concession on both sides of the question it was a victory for the popular demand itjvas along stop tward free loiI8J Ho had no doubt tnat after fall elections there would be n strong representation here on the line of free coinage and free silver Ho congratulated the people that such au advance had been I made in eastablishing an equality between the two great money metals of the world Bland of Missouri concurred with tho gentlemen in hoping that the next House would be a freecoinage House but that House would be composed of those who advocated ad-vocated free coinage and stood by their colors It would not bo composed of the Republican party which by the gag rule had voted down and stifled free coinage I free coinage came at all It would come from that party which stood firm to the fag of free coinage and which did not surrender sur-render its principle at the beck of Wall street He denied the bill was the result of a free and fair conference It was the result of secret meetings of the Ropub llcan conferees He as a conferee had known nothing of the measure until it had neen framed and tho report ready t be signed Tho Democratic members had been ignored in tbe preparation of the bill The bill was one which particularly demoni tized silver it was a sugarsoated quinine pill On the first reading it seemed that the secretary was to purchase 4500000 ounces every month but when a man reeled the pll around in his mouth he began to taste tue bitterness of or so much thereof as may be offered There could be traced in this measure a stealthy and Italian hand The bill surrendered every principle of biinetalism it surrendered free coinage it made a combination with the bullion speculators Wall street In the interest of Wall street it departed from the legal ratio and changed that ratio from 10 to 1 to 20 to 1 To change the ratio was to pile up so much capital in the treasury at the expense of the people and in the interest fPV t tPac tbu n ee terest of Wall street and bullion owners He denounced it as a fraud and cheat on the people who were demanding a ratio of 16 t 1 The bi made silver simply a commodity com-modity to be measured by gold upon which money shall be issued at its gold value I was true the measure might make a small increase in tho circulation but it would make it by a concession I con-cession to tho gold standard and the desertion deser-tion of silver it was a declaration that Congress Con-gress would not make any further fight for bimetnlism it was neither a silver bill nora nor-a greenback bill but simply a political device de-vice concocted to tide over an emergency Ho denounced it as a fraud and would denounce de-nounce any measure as a fraud that did not provide for free coinage When the bill that had his name was passed he Bland had fallen into a trap Every silver representative repre-sentative then felt perfectly confident the next President would sign a free coinage bill He would refer to the history of those members now willing to accept this report as leading to free coinage Now was the time to make the fight I the conference report was rejected another conference would be held and the objectionable features of the report stricken out and that was what he had undertaken to do Morrow of California expressed his approval ap-proval of the conferemo report and proceeded pro-ceeded to argue that tho depression in tho I price of silver in recent years resulted from artificial monipulatiop In the course of the debate Townsend of Colorado said he and some other Republicans Repub-licans had voted for free coinage and if the gentlemen on the other sido had stood sold a free coinage bill would have passed the House Then they had recognized that tho only way to get silver legislation at this session was to go back to the Republican can party where they had always belonged be-longed and get it from that party Tho conference report was finally agreed to by a strict party vote yeas 122 nays 90 as follows v YEAS Adams Allen of Michigan Anderson of Kansas Atllnsonof Penua Atkinson of W Va Baker I Hanks Bartine Banc Beclwih I BelUnap 9 B11S3 h Bclmap Uls I I Bowden Brewer Broslus Brewer Buchanan of N Y Burn Caldwcll Cannon Carter Caswell Clieadlc Cogswell Coleman Comstoclt N Conger Council Cooper of Ohio Cutcheon Dalzcll Darlington Dlngley Dollher Dorbcy Dunnell Fcathorstone Farquhur Featbortone a = Flick I Flood Proud Funstm Gear Cost Glord Grosvenor lIaueri ileudersonef Illiools 1tenlersonof Iowa Haria Trill 111th ilopllnS Ilornk Kelley Kennedy Ketbam Kinsey Lacey La Jolelc Laldlow Laws Lebibach McComa cCor McConnicl MlDulc McKenna MolItt ore Merrill More MUlt Neldriugbaus ONel or Penn Osborne Owen or Indiana PaIno Payson Iatrrinrsi Pelers PickIer p st Quncitnbmh Itmne hey Heed or Iowa Hcybur Ire Rockwell nowcl Russell Soul iQOlls Smith or Illinois Smih or W Vn Snider Spooucr Steven on Stewart of Vermont Stevens Jfecront Stoclibridge Sweney 2sylor of Illinois g iaylor Pnyler J D Thomas Thompson Townsend of Colorado Townscnd of Penna Vandevcr Vnncslialek Walker of Mass Wallace of Now York Williams ot Ohio allle lew WIlson of Kentucky Wibou of Washington Wright Yardley 12J SAYS Abbott Alien oJ lass Aldcr ol of Miss Banlbead Balwlg friend Blount Bostner Brclldnridge or Ark Urecicinitg < or Iy link kner Bro11hlrc Brunger lucbanan of Va luloci Bynum Caudicr Gcorgla Carlton Clnnlc Chipman Cutchngs Cooper of Indiana Clancy Uran Canc CUIIn Culbcron or Tex1s Crisp Dibble Dqxrrrzon Damph Docttcry Elis Elliott roreman El Enoc GOJdwrlght Forey IeaId Hare leDdloa or N C liernplilll Hooker Hemphi Kerr of Pennsylvania Lmhan Leer of Virginia Laler MriI1n Lewis Martini of Texas Malt or Maryland cClammy MCAdoo McMilirrn McCelpan ncRoso McCreary Norton Mutchler ONeal or Indiana Oates Owens of Ohio ON01 or Mass Payneter Prrnrnitt Pierce Feel Pace Pci Prcc PennIngton Robertson Quinn Reilly Hogcr Husk Sawyer Shively Stewart or resins Stocldale Stewart Stone of Kentucky Stone of Missouri llnmn Trcey Venable Wheeler of Alabama rVhitthorn wnw Wicox Vbltbor Wllams of Illinois Wilson or W Va hoicerUO fifty pairs were announced The blowing blow-ing members were absent and not paired Blanchard JB Brown Indiana Clark ofAlabama Covert Dickerson Fowler Lee Mansur McCarty Phelan Rowland Stohlnecker Spinola Taylor of Tennessee Tennes-see Vaux and Wilkinson The bill now KQCS Adjorurned to the President for his signature I |
