Show orrs BILL passes the senate by a big majority SENATOR CANNONS play abic insisted on his amendment being got eight votes washington jan 29 too senate today passed senator for an international agreement mr vilas of wisconsin bloke against it he hill es mis leading it was wholly illusory perhaps deceitful in the promises it held out and was a fundamental led gement of the theory of the bryan campa gD mr pettigrew of south dakota baid he would merely record bis protest against the bill he believed the united states should act alone and that we should no longer bo suppliants at the feet os european nations if the united stales cachot establish its own ratio 1 then it should do bome abing which it can execute alone mr carter of montana spoke of the recent political contest in which mr mckinley represented the idea ofaf international conference while mr bryan the plan mr mckinley was elected and now tha measure was presented a step in the exe cution ot the conference plan the bill was carefully care lully designed to secure ahe largest possible results and mr carter appealed to mr cannon not to embarrass thia well considered bill by urging hia amendment if the coming adain admin failed to secure satisfactory results irona the conference then it would be demonstrated that such a conference was futile but in making the effort the administration should ba left free to direct its own course mr cannon stated that he and mr carter had stood io to the time of the st louis convection they had entertained the earne views as to monetary conferences if it were net for the tragic element entering into this financial subject the shifting phases of it would become he declined to withdraw ula amend deot and said he would ask a yote on it although if defeated he would vote for the original bill in the course of the debate mr jones of arkansas made a statement of his attitude which in of his position as chairman of thu national democratic committee attracted tome attention lie eaid he believed in allowing the friends of the bill to shape it in their own way but it would fail and yet there were many earnest friends of hilyer who believed it would succeed mr hoar gaya the results of bis observations ions in europe list summer showing the tendency toward bimetal cism he had with M benr geu author of the bimetallic resolution in the french assembly which secured the written endorsement indorsement indor of out of members M meline the french premier had declared that when other nations wanted bimetallism france would not be long behind in london he had an talk with mr B ilour whose championship of bime taliam had absen maintained against the views of mr gladstone and sir william varnon harcourt harr ourt the senator said hp had ref rained from re beating tle stated by mr baar 0 ir although at a dinner party in london a number of eminent men had assured him that the diews balfour were shared by a large part if not a majority of the english people mr hoar read a from germany statina that great progress was being made toward thas these four great nations ae united states great britain prance and germany were steadily advancing to bime taliam it was coming and coming to atay the first vote was on tha cannon substitute making action by the president imperative within ninety days from march 4 h mr chandler moved to table the bu which on a rollar call prevailed yeas 41 nays 8 those voting in the negative were alien bate butler cannon dark peffer bettigrew Fettig rew and koach the amendment of mr bacon add bog a new beckon distinctly the to call the conference was agreed to the bill amended was put on its final cassago pas sago the result wag beyond doubt but the call was followed with seen interest it resulted yeas 46 nays 4 |