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Show t'ui i. (oiwfu: puo'tPi ns. 1 hi: Hvoatu corumlttee on flouni e,by n votuof seven to four, njtctvd Buna (orBtuwart'a free coinage bill, but the House commlttieou coinage, ly h vote of eight to Ave, reported lu favor uf thu Uland bill. Hjenklng on the IstUr mtasuro. Jtradtrtct4 say that apparently thu freo coinage men have a majority lu tho House, aud mn pas tbo Illand bill If they rec It vigorously. Alio , Hint this, rath, r than the Btewart bill, m-iy form th basis of whaUvtr aitlou will bo takm ty the Bennte on the question of frt-u lolnegu, Polltkal couildtrnllous, huwetir, may lu-terfird lu-terfird to cbeik the progreir of the bill. Thu country will, before many mouths, be lu tlu throe of au iltLllon con Ust, an I the party lutnager, f vclally thote ol tho majority In the House, w HI, If thry oro I run to the tradlllouauf their order, rndcatur to revent any action by (he Ho 1Mb which would stem to oommll 1 tlit lr party to any decisive pronouno. I men ton thu imestlou of frte coinage, Bcontur Yei of Mlsnoutl, lu a rtceut Utttr (o a friend, said that trie colnago trado an tsi.ua by Osniocrati In Con igrtM mi int division In hi inrly,aul tbat meant certain defeat, It vvnl buirmemUrtdthat Yfst was uluuilf thu author uf a fuu coloagu bill which last ytarpisfcj the United Btatift Benate. Till 1 tlgnltlcnnt, an J show that tarty couiUeritlon 111 weigh heavily In the resent free coinage controversy. |