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Show THE SILVER FIGHT. The Free Coinage Amendntat Be jf cled by the House. Tho following is a Washington special to the JlcraUk Speaker Heed has proved himself a true Eropbet. He has been repeatedly re-peatedly quoted in these dispatches as saying, during tho part ten days, that the republicans w ho would vote for the Senate amendments amend-ments to the Houso silver bill u ould be fairly balanced by the democrats who would opjwse tnem. The result re-sult today showed tht Speaker's ctti-mate ctti-mate to be almost matliematicall i-orresct, since nineteen republicans supported the freu coinage proposition proposi-tion while twenty three demoerats urniyed themselves lu opposition to it. It was three o'clock when the House bill, as amended by the Sen ate, was taken up for considerttlou. A test of the relative strength of the two parties was made on tlie first section, which proviot-d for tree coinage, l'i a vote of 151 nays to 145 yeas, which was taken amid a good deal of supfeseed rxciteaienL Tho IIous rt fu-vd to concur in the amendment, uud following this the other amendments amend-ments were disposed of iu even a now summary manner. Tlie twetit -three republicans who voted fur free coinagu were Mesr. Bar-tine-, Carter, Connell, Do Haven, Kealherstom. Funstou, Gilford, Hermann, Kelley, Laur, Morrow, I'erkins. Peters, i'ott, Smith, of Illinois; Illi-nois; Towncend, of Colorado; Turner, of Kansas; Williams of Ohio; Dorse-y, Anderson, of Kansas; Owen, of Indluua; Wade aud Merrill. Mer-rill. Hie following democrats voted with the republicans to nan concur: Messrs. Andrew, Buckley, Cani-bell, Cani-bell, CLincy, Covert, Dunphy, Dor-.rau, Dor-.rau, Flower, Gelssvuhalner, Ma-nn, McAdoo, Mutchler, O'Neil, of Massachusetts; Mas-sachusetts; Quinu. Splnola, Tracy, Turner, of 2t.w York; Vaux, Wilcox, Wil-cox, Husk and Stump. Some su rprise was expressed upon the conclusion of the roll-call that Mr. Payson, of Illinois, who is one of the extreme silver republicans of the House, Iial voted with his party against free coinage. It wassule-queutly wassule-queutly learned that Mr. l'ajson had received assurance that if he ind other republicans would remain inside the (nrty lii.es that when the ill went into conference a compro-mWethould compro-mWethould ou agreed umti fixing the lurchases it -1 5W (KM ounces a m-nth, the notes to to legal tender, redeemable in coin; the bulllou redemption re-demption feature Uiniiuuted and il'solule froa e linage when silver reathtsa parity with gold. I have aliea iy slionu that twentv-three republicans refused to be iiillueiued by this prosjiectlve compromise, but insisted upon voting vot-ing tor free coinage with the democrats, demo-crats, notwithstanding the elfiirts of the party 'whips" to keep them in line. n analysis of the votes shows lhat nil the Ijoltln,; rejiublicans represent nmstltue ut that are clamorous for the unlimited coinage of silver, and hat no un'ter wliat their iersjnal invidious inightbe.thtydared not run fVJinti r tn tuilillr Ai.tnlnn , home. At" one of these gentlemen ai tly tmt it today. "I know that the President will veto a free evinige bill, and as a sensible m in I should pre'er supporting a measure that he III sign, even if it is not all we desire. de-sire. But I nm coming up for reelection re-election ami if I don't vote for free coinage my opponents will bring my record up against me. It will tike nil my time to explain these, anl meaiirhile the other fellows will bo in iking an aggressive cam-1 IMlgii For this reaim I navo tie- I Med to vote as my icoplo wWi, uo matter what the result may lie." Tliere are but two cn-tern democrats, demo-crats, Cumnilngs and Wsgner.of New York, who g-v e the Ir suimort to the free coinage movement All the others from the middle an 1 Si England States either voted with tho republicans or were tairccl against It. There was a curious lorv going the rounds at the ear ital" lodnj, which showed how one dt-tt nninttl nun preventetl tilt) silver bill being pigeon holed in tho committee on coinaire, weights and measures and po-sibly keit there for an iiiielliiito period. Lv: Monday evening -jitMker Iteed and ilepresuta-tlvcs ilepresuta-tlvcs KcKInley ana Cannon, the time republican members of tho comniitkn on rubs, together to-gether with IU-piesenLilive Conger, of iowa, the chairman of the coinage coin-age committee. i.odge. of Massachu-sells, Massachu-sells, and Me Comes of Marjland, met in the appropriation committee i room, and ofter a short cousulta I Hon decided to ait aside the silver bill for the present anl report a spe-i spe-i ial order taking up thefesieralelec- ! Hon bill. Before doing this, lIOW-1 uvtr, It w-vt deciued to consult with i some of tl.o free silver n publicans i and discover how far the proposition I met with their appr ival. Accordingly Accord-ingly Messrs. Paisou and Post, of i Illinois; Carter, of Molilalia, Mor- i row, of Collfornia; Bartlne, of Se- I vnda, nnd Peters, of Kansas, wire it sent for and consulted as to their t wi-hes. iaysou, who is one ,f Uie brainiest and most forcible ' S(-ikers on the republican side, it once uttered a vigorous protect: "My constituents at home," he said, ! "are Insisting that the reference of tills bill to the coinage committee I ' menus that you intend to sti'lo it ' there if possible. What my reople " nd the wtsteni iecple generally " .7. .... ""'"" ss" tsiuei-auon ol thu bill, and w e we will agr to no iMay. Iet us have a vote upon IL If joucan be-it us we shall have !iothlugmoretosa,hut give us a chance to te"t our strength." At this point Speuker flecd Inicr. Iosed with the remark that several of the southern democrat, notably Messrs. Crisp, Iilount and Hem,, hill, were expecting theelretions bill to eorao up and had already pre their speeches In opposition to it Mr. Puyson sarcastically repl ' I that the southern men w ere not d I lng to discuss the elections bill, an ' volunteered the iuformatlon tha' they would willingly forego the I pleasure of Jdns-1ug the House upon the subject if It could be kept In the backgn und, and not brought forward this s-siou. He informed tho stcaker that twrntv live republicans repub-licans had already decided to vote acdnst their partj on tlie silver proposition, nnd hu assured the gen-tlemin gen-tlemin that nearly as many mere w ould join tin in if theovert attenn were made to delay thu measure. Til Is irought the shaker to terms and the conference was closed w ith ??",,tra.1 u'lbindluc; tliat Hu bill should lie brought up on Wednesday Wed-nesday anl that Mr. Patton ami his friends would stand with (heir paity agaiut tho Senate am-ud-rnent, and that the compromise outlined out-lined above should he insisted upon by the House conference. |
