| Show THE FRIENDS OF FE COINAGE say the bland bill will pass the house AND HARTER SAYS IT SHALL NOT bland mand will insist that final action be ba taken when the bill comes up etc I 1 feb 20 26 the free coinage men illen of oaths house rouse feel elated over the action of last nights caucus in refusing to consider s ant any proposition for delay of of the free coinage legislation egis 4 a aaion harter and his friends content themselves es today to day by si simply in p announcing bouncing noun cing that they will oppose t the I 1 bland and bill by every parliamentary tactic in their power powe when it comes up in the house and that it will twill never pass pas tile atlie lower branch of congress congre s if the genc generosity rosity of the democratic committee on oil rules has placed at their dis disposal ai the parliamentary 1 weapons I 1 I 1 of obstruction rl lon nece necessary ary to tire out and i weary the frie frends ids of the measure by weeks de 0 of d delay ide laynese the free coinage people ope openly I 1 y I 1 deride r I 1 these pretensions and say that the democrats A who io J oppose the free coinage bill will for the most part merely content i bliem themselves elves by recording their votes against the bill bland pierce and other leaders of free coinage are today to day compiling corn piling and arranging petitions etta ett 8 to be presented tomorrow to morrow to the committee on oil rules asking for a day for the consideration of the free coinage bill these petitions contain the signatures of all the friends of free coinage Ile pierce today to day said that there is no doubt that the rules committee will report an order at an all early day and a date will also be set when a dual final vote will be taken so far as the he free coinage men are concerned he said they did not want more than three or four days for debate certainly not more than a week bland will insist however that final action shall b be e t taken a klen w brou hen n t the I 1 i e ifill bill comei comes up we will pass it t through i i 11 I 1 the ron house said mid pierce send I 1 it t to the cenate senate and the responsibility will rest with that body the bill has he lie said a clear majority of forty fort votes in the house so there is la not the slightest doubt of its passage with ith ten republicans favorable to free free coi coinage n a th they wi will ill have about votes for ti the ie bill V ill ZT of athe the remainder er the republicans and thirty five or forty be democrats will vote against the bill hartch of ohio denies dentes that he lie la is discouraged by alast last nights caucus which lie said aid I 1 showed wed that the strength of the craze I 1 is not t so great asit as it was wag supposed and that reason ia Is reasserting itself if all classy of citizens throughout the country reach their members of congress here with protests against such measures the ultimate defeat of the outrageous demands of the vilver people will N ill be assured The passage of th elfland bill will disrupt the democratic party as completely as did the slavery question in congressional THE BY NATE washington feb 20 consideration ti oil of the he laahs idaho election case was re s at the close of vances speech the conference report on the census deficiency bill was presented and arid agreed to and a bill reported I and placed on the calendar appropriating 4 aw for a public building at bok boke e city idaho clag claggett Ol aggett ett llie the idaho contestant then addressed dresse the senate at length he ile discussed the details of the question and en the majority report ho ile was frequently interrupted by questions and so 0 much of his time was occupied in listening to and replying to them that the tho lim iggi limit t 0 of f hi hn s time was withdrawn he ile created general laughter when he wound up his description of duboiss election tactics by saying that to use a western phrase the sitting men wa wan s bound to get there ell after he had bad ilpo spoken ken about two hours but without finishing his speech claggett yield yielded ed the and the idaho case went over without action A bill appropriating footo 00 tor for a public building n at rand J island slana I 1 neb aeb was reported or 1 and gil d placed on the calendar and the glenade banate adjourned till monday the democrats indrea increased ed their majority in the bouse of representatives by one today andrew stewart of the alth pennsylvania 15 district was unseated and alexander craig his democratic contestant declared regularly elected the first vote I 1 was on the minority resolution confirming the right of stewart to the seat and itwara it wag defeated 68 to ISO the majority resolution I 1 seating craig was adopted without division cockran oc kran of new york and babbitt of wisconsin voted in favor of the ite publican contester con savers submitted the conference report on oil the urgent deficiency bill and it was agreed to as agreed to althe the bill appropriates 0 OS WI being more than a it originally passed the house rouse and less les than as it passed the female senal e the unfinished business it b being ig private 1 v a te bill day was the tile bill for the reffe relief f 0 of f abilla jones and it passed 1181 to ga decess was then taken until 8 this evening before the house committee I 1 feb 28 26 the hearing in in the utah local government and statehood bills by the house committee on oil territories closed to dav kev J 11 smith of salt I 1 ake e lle publican in politics and one of th the k t twelve J ive apostles of the II 11 mormon orm ca church made the tile only argument he ile is opposed sali to the local government bill bluit if any change at all is to be made in the existing order of government it should be belli in the direction of absolute statehood |
