Show I j VOTEDT hallI11 Amlldffillt to Iillallia1 Bill Bfatd 111 the Sllate WHAT POPOSA1 WAS Authorized Commissioners to Bimetallic Conference IT WAS A TEST VOTE I Indicated Approximately the Majority Majori-ty Bill will Have Debate After 12 Oclock Proceeded Under the Ten Minute Rule > and at Times Became Be-came Very Spirited and Interesting Interest-ing Discussion was Had on thd Amendment Brought in by thd Finance Committee Providing thatJ Provisions of the Bill are Not Intended In-tended to Place Any Obstacles in j the Way of International Bimetal ism Somo Democratic Senators Arraigned Ar-raigned Republicans for Reporting the Amendment S Washington Feb Throughout Its session today the Senate had the financial finan-cial bill under discussion After 2 oclock the debates proceeded under the tenminute rule and at times became be-came spirited and Interesting Later In the afternoon a test vote indicating indicat-ing approximately the majority for tho passage of the bill was taken Mr Chandler offered an amendment to au thorise the President to appoint commissioners com-missioners to any international bimetallic bi-metallic conference that might be called and It was defeated bya vote I of 15 to 25 The Chandler proposition out of the amendment brought in by the Finance committee providing that provisions of the bill are not Intended to place any obstacles In the way of International Interna-tional blmelallsm The Democratic Senators arraigned the Republicans for reporting the amendment declaring they were insincere in-sincere and that the proposition was intended to hoodwink the people ana to catch votes No vote on the amendment amend-ment was reached The final vote on the amendment and bill will be taken some time tomorrow The routine business busi-ness was brief Immediately after It was concluded the financial bill was presented and Mr Teller was recognized recog-nized to reply to the speech of Mr Allison delivered yesterday f MR TELLERS ADDRESS k Mr Teller said he had waited In vain for an explanation of the House bill which technically was the measure under consideration He approached all questions relating to the finances of the country with suspicion He thought time House bill ought to bo considered carefully as it might possibly possi-bly become law It had been drafted by a commission composed of acute lawyers and there were force and strength behind IL Mi Teller took strong Issue with Mi Allison who claimed the United Slates was not on the gold standard stand-ard He said We are not on thrt gold standard except by the unauthorized unauthor-ized action of time treasury We are on what Is sometimes called a limping silver Mirndard and sometimes a limping limp-ing gold standard Nobody outside of the United States has considered tho United States on a gold standard hue it may be said that we practically have been forced bv cxcutlve usurpation and transgression of the law to proceed pro-ceed as If wo were on a gold standard stand-ard NO REASON FOR PENDING BILL Mr Teller said there never had beert an hour since 1S79 even In the severest panics when there was the slightest doubt that the greenbacks would ba redeemed in gold He maintained therefore there-fore that there was no reason for the legislation proposed in me ponumg measure conclusion Mr Teller said the Republican Re-publican party had abandoned its principles prin-ciples which were the greatest good for time greatest number It had fallen into evil hands and was being used bv evil influences There Is no hope said he for time country from It Its policy will bo dictated from the greatest commercial centers and be ever borne and weighed down by greed NOT A RALLYING CRY Time Republican party he sakj htyj into existence as a protest against slavery conic Time agencies Avhlch control It would not allow II to stand up now and Justice Ho wW righteousness for In suggesting dint that Mr Dopow gold and glory was a proper motto banner had not the Republican for proposed a phrase that had owr bee rallying cry for the party The POO a pie would rise In tholr might and tear that banner unless the iopub down old It the leaders placed upon Mean and righteousness slogan of Justice equality of all the people CHANDLERS AMENDMENT Chandler proposed an amiefld Mr amendment sthe committee mont tortlie Chandler Stive lo blmetalism The relative w president Sropoiftlpn authorised the propositloll inwrna commissioners to any appoint tlonal conference called by the Unit to rraflgm other country States or any agreenment 5 bimetallIc timat this uvaum smuggesterl Mr Wolcott kCl Mr law and time exIsting amnim4mmmetmh wlthdhaW tlme to Chanullel dint saYihmif dtllntd but Mr Chandler hui i ixl Istiflg amendment was the if 1 U could do no harm to adopt VESTS POSITION 10 Vest announced his purlOSO Mr both the Aldrlch ameflt1 1 agamst tOt tc uncut and the Chandler amendment it becaune hfr regarded the propoBltlon for an International conference as a fraud and pretext JuRt as wa the HKEncry resolution after the rstI11c1 tlon of the Earls treaty whic With merely for the purpoa of Hunl > lyln arne S natora with a shallow ford oVcr which to cross Die stream and had since been entirely Iflorcd The Jntontlon of the pending bill was to Jclll silver and It would prove ui cf ftollvo In that olllce as a dagger or a dose of prussle acid In disposing or Animal life It would be absurd to aeud a commission abroad asking for a blhietalllc conference In view or the 1 declaration for gold ALDRICHS IDEA Mr Aldrich declared that Mr Chandler Chand-ler was deceiving1 no one with hlfl Amendment aiid wo sure that the liropoBltJnn was not one that would meet with general approval iJJr ftewnrt referred to the measure n a subterfuge and said he would not Bupporl It Mr Lindsay said If there was any virtue in the present bill It wis Hiatlt jJetllcd the question of finance lie did not bellf ve In IncumberlnR the bill with Cither the committee or the Chandler amendment Nott was the time he be J Jl ived for the determination of the j I iTnandnl question and It could not bo determined If only a halfway law was I anactwL The amendments were wholly unnecessary In view pf existing law ot were not offered In good faith TtArrPrT OF STANDARDS 1 Mr Caffcry said the country In hln opinion had been on n sold standard V slnco 1871 and that this bill was Intended I tended merely to perpetuate It The battle of the standards clared Mr Carfery was fought and lost by the fillverltes In 1S9G rue probable contest Ante yonr will be only a shlrmlrh The forces of the sllverltos have been routed rout-ed and their efforts to uphold sliver must meet with failure lie believed tho proposed amendment woa a sop to Cerberus and that the American people would so regard It V ACCORDING TO MONEY a The an mhnent In tho opinion1 of Mr jMonoyVas entirely pertinent but ho as satisfied there was no desire on thopnrl of the Administration or the Hepblfcan Senators to advance the Interests of blnietallsm I MV Teller said the Republican press throughout the country was opposed lo the bimetallic amendment lie said It j vVould bo ridiculous to put such an amendment on this bill as It would have nojforcjjOr effect It was trifling with n grave Question simply to catch votes lUwna a great lotting down on the part of the Finance committee ami a chlldlah treatment of the subject AMENDMENT DEFEATED I The vote was taken on Mr Chandlers Amendment to the committee amend mont It was defeated 15 to 25 ag follows I fol-lows k VITAC U Allen Bate Berry Butler Chandler Ghllton Clay Cockrell Culberson Uar a rls Hcltfeld Jones Ark Jones NoV JCcnny McEncry Martin Money Mor firan Pcttus Rawlins Sullivan Teller TlllruanTurlcy Turner 25 NAYS > Aldrlch Allison Burrows CafTqry Carter Clark TVyo Cullom Davis Dsboe Depcw Klklna Fairbanks For IL akcr Foster Frye Galllnger Hale Ifanno IlansbrouKh Ilawley Kcan Lindsay Lodge McBride McComaa MeCumber McMillan Mason Nelson Pcnroso Perkins Platt Conn Platl N YJ Proctor Queries Ross Sewcll Shoup Simon Spooncr Thurston Vest Warren Vctmore Wolcott 15 CHANDLER SUGGESTS A CHANGE Mr Chandler then naked Mr Aldrich I JC he would consent to the Insertion bc orb the Finance committees amend infent of the words of the national plat form of the Republican party of 1S92 i The United States from tradition and Interest favors blmctallsm He would vote for the measure if his proposition were accented i oojcct replied lLr Aldrlch to thC reenactment of the Revised Stat Ute and to the recital In this bill of the various platforms of political par ties He maintained there was no pro vision In the bill which was an obstacle to blmotaJism A GOLD MEASURE Mr Allen declared the bill was a gold measure front core to cuticle and that It would bo necessary to repeal the bill In order to obtain blmetalism Mr Rawlins said the bill was prac tically a declaration against bimetal 31r Allison suggested that the trou t lc with Senators on the Democratic ilde was that they were not bimetal tets They stood for the free and un limited coinage of silver rind were sil ver monomctalislij He said There Is I not a single line or syllable in this bill tvhlch puts In the pathway of Interim I 1 I llonal bimetallism a single obstacle He lid not think It would be wise for the J i i United States to make another propo I eltlon lo Europe for an International bimetallic agreement but ho believed the United Stales ought to wait tor other nations to take the initiative and i be prepared to receive their advances I JONES SURPRISED I Mr Jones of Arkansas expressed his surprise that the bimetallic amendmont had not been made n part of the bill when the latter was reported He be lieved it was an after thought and had been brought by Democrats or Repub lican blmetallsts It Is the same old fraudulent straddle he declared that was put Into the Republican platform or 1K > C In order to deceive the voters The reason for the presentation of the Senate substitute was that the House measure was too specific and placed tho country too squarely on the gold standard to suit the present straddlers who by the pending amendment sought to hoodwink the people as they had been hoodwinked In the pastAS past-AS A GOOD INDIAIC It want to put a question to the Son ator from Rhode Island said Mr Cockrell 1wanb him tonnswer It as on honest manas a good Indian IIe than Inquired what SS he would take for 15000 ounces of sliver In London If this Congress should pass a free silver coinage law Mr Aldrich replied that he would doubtjeas ask S123 an ounce for could get it or It if he but bUtU WAS doubtless truS true that the > TTtnc Amount the United pf silver poured into States would cause tho 0 to dropto its lrlce bullion value tor aIr that Coelrell declared that all the stI could come to this der country un a free coinage law would be absorbed by thUnited cisIly States said not the shiIitest end be dllhlcultv would 0xpt11ei in ot the sihq dollar maintaining the vau At 51U p mth Senate adjourned |