Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — REPEAL BILL PASSED. [ARTICLE]

REPEAL BILL PASSED.

Senator Stewart anil the Popullite Vote with the Democrat*. Washington dispatch: Tho bill repealing in toto all Federal laws regulating the* control of Congressional elections ha< passed both houses of Congress, and only awaits the signature of President Cleveland to become a law. After several weeks of discussion the Senate finally came to a vote on the House bill, anu it passed by a vote of 31) yeas to 28 nays. Numerous amendments were presented by the Republicans, but they were voted down, the Democrats not even taking the trouble to join in the debate on tho amendatory propositions. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, voted with the Democrats on evory proposition, giving as his reasons that he thought the power of the executive was already too great and that the centralizing tendency of the age should be checked at once if tho republic is to survive. The three Populists—Senators Allen, Kyle and Poffer—also voted with the Democrats on every amendment, as well as on the main bill. The measure as it pasted the Senate is identical with the bill as it passed the House, no committee amendments having been proposed.