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Show CONGIUiSMoXAL. SENATE. Washington, Juue ."i.-The silver bill as taken up and Hiseock addressed the senate-on the proposition of free coinage Ho believed the majority of the people opposed opening the mints to free coinaue The national convention conven-tion of both political parties would by decisive majorities repudiate such a proposition. HOUSE. McKenlcy from the committee on rules reported a resolution providing that tho house shall proceed immediately to tho consideration of the silver bill and that the consideration continue uutil Saturday Satur-day when the previous question having been ordered ou the resolution, forty minutes dobalo was allowed. blotint of Georgia. had no objection to the time limited lor a debate but he was informed inform-ed that a chairman of the committee on will be allowed to offer amendments which were admirable under tho rules of the house, When they were offered there would be' left no opportunity to tho minority to otter any amendment. There would be given no opportunity on tho part of the minority to ask the house to vote on tho free eoinage of silver. At the republican caucus last night there had been much discussion and it was necessary to whip in the friends of free silver bv moans of this resolution. It has worked a shameful outrage on the minority. There were many men on the other 'side who would vote for free silver but for fear that the president was in accord with the secret tary of the treasury, and both were in accord with Wall street. Bland, of Missouri, said there was no doubt but that a large majority of the house was in favor ot unlimited coinage. To prevent that fact from appearing on record, it was proposed to gag every democrat iu tho house and many republicans. Every gentlemen who voted for this resolution voted against free silver. Cannon of Illinois said the resolution was simply a proposition that under the rules of the house, the house should at once proceed to consider. Tho bill is of ' great interest to "tho whole country. The minority could offer every amendment to the bill they could under tho general rules. The minority, which was now clamoring for free coinage, had held the house in the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses but passed no bill for free coinage. They could not now fool the country or even fool themselves them-selves A motiou to reconsider was tabled. Yeas 124, nays 118. ' Mills submitted to the house committee commit-tee on Pacitio railroads a report in favor of tho bill previously agreed upon, to refund government indebtedness of the Union and Central l'aeiffe railroads. Tho report was adopted by tho committee. |