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Show Tue Presidential Veto. Washington, 28. Tbe passage of the silver bill over tbe presidential I veto was almost universally considered ia foregone conclusion, but the actual accomplishment of the result, and especially the emphatic promptitude which characterized tho action of both houses, caused great excitement at tbe capital to-day, and little else is talked about to-night throughout Washington. The president's unqualified un-qualified denunciation of the bill as a traud upon publio and private creditors cred-itors incensed and Bolidified all theme who had previously voted for it, and tbe only legislative eflect of the message was to cause several members mem-bers of tbe bouse to vote for the measure who had previously voted to lay it on the table. Townsend, republican, from the Troy, N. Y., district, was one of those who came over to the silver men under this pressure. Davis voted to sustain . the veto. All tbe other Bacifio coaet rspresentatives voted to override it. There were no changes from the former votes of tbe eenators on this questien, except that of Hill, who made a speech against tbe bill, and was beretefore announced aa paired against it, voted for it to daj, Sargent and Mitchell voted to Bmtain (be veto. Jones and Grover were rscorded against sustaining the veto, and Booth would also have voted for the final bill, but was paired. Taking Tak-ing into accouut the three opponents of the bill and the six ol its friends against whom they were doubly paired, and assuming that Chriitiancy and Sharon, who ware absent without pairs, would have voted on opposite sides, the full vote of the senate on the question of overriding tbe veto would have bean 33 against 23. The unprecedented feature of the day's proceedings concerning the veto was the entire absence of any eflort or apparent desire to debate it. |