People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — REPEAL TRIUMPHS. [ARTICLE]

REPEAL TRIUMPHS.

The Senate Passes the Voorhees Bill by a Vote of 43 to 32. The End of the Long Fight Rather Tame —How the Senator* Voted—The House Will Probably Adopt the Voorhee* Substitute for Its Own BILL VOTED FOR UNCONDITIONAL REPEAL. Washington, Nov. I.—Unconditional repeal has carried the day in the United States senate. At 7:20 o’clock Monday night the Voorhees bill was passed by the decisive vote of 43 to 82, It was the same repeal majority of 11 indicated when the voting began three days ago. The full vote is as follows: Yeas»-Aldrich, Brice, Cattery, Camden, Carey, Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gibson. Gorman, Gray. Hale, Hawley, Hipgins, Hill, Hoar, Hunton. Lmdsay, Lodge. McMillan, McPherson, Manderson, Mills, Mitchell (Wis.), Morrill, Murphy, Platt, Proctor, Quay, Ransom, Sherman, Smith, Squire, Stockbridge. Turpie, Vilas, Voorhees, Washburn, White (La.) □Nays—Allen, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Butler, Call, Cameron, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Dubois, George, Harris, Irby, Jones (Ark.), Jones (Nev.), Kyle, Martin, Pasco, Peffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Power, Pugh, Roach, Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Vance. Vest, Walthall, Wolcott The following pairs were announced (the first named would vote m the affirmative): Allison with Mitchell (Ore.), Chandler with White (Cal.), Wilson with Colquitt, Gordon with Morgan, Palmer with Hansbrosgh. When the vice president announced the result there was not the slightest sound of applause nor the slightest sound of approval. Momentous as was the result, the senators and spectators were too weary to give any evidence of their approval. An analysis of the vote shows that it was passed by twenty-three republicans and twenty democrats, while the negative vote was cast by ten republicans, nineteen democrats and three populists. From this it is apparent that both parties were badly divided. The announcement of the result was immediately followed by Senator Voorhees’ motion to adjourn until noon today, which was carried without dissent Thus ended one of the most remarkable and memorable parliamentary battles of a generation. The end was reached at the conclusion of a continuous session of fourteen days after sixty-one days of debate, during which five volumes of the Congressional Record had been filled with speeches amounting in the aggregate to about 20,000,003 words. When the senate met the bill to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was taken up and Senator Hunton (dem., Va.) defined his position, saying he would vote for unconditional repeal and then stand ready to join with the friends of silver in a fight for the metal. Senator Morgan (dem., Ala) then addressed the senate. He said the passage of the bill would be an irrevocable surrender to the demands of the most insolent and overbearing corporations. Senator Morgan then read slowly and with great emphasis these sentences from Senator Gorman’s (dem., Md.) speech of Saturday: “We were compelled to take the terms offered by the senator from Ohio. He held the key of the situation. You have dictated terms to us.” Impressively, Senator Morgan continued: “I thank Almighty God that the senator from Ohio has never had the power to dictate terms to me as a democrat He may have dictated them to the president to the committee, to the minority of the democrats on this side, but he cannot dictate to me.” Again quoting from Senator Gorman’s speech Senator Morgan read a sentence as to Senator Sherman laying down the conditions, he said, contemptuously: “He laying down a condition to democracy 1 What is the democratic party worth to itself or to the country or to posterity when the senator from Ohio has the key to the situation and can lay down conditions to it? What is your majority here worth [addressing the democratic senators], thus trifled with, thus deceived, thus overrun and finally handed over to the tender mercies of the senator from Ohio?” After considerable further discussion Senator Pasco (dem., Fla.) called for the reading of his substitute, of which he gave notice on Saturday. It provides for the coinage of silver with a seigniorage charge to be determined by the market price of silver.

Senator Stewart (rep., Nev.) presented an amendment which took precedence. This was for the reduction of the size of gold coins. The basis was the dollar, which was to contain 15.90 grains, or other coins in like proportion. He said he offered it on his own responsibility. It was voted down. Senator Pasco (dem., Cal.) yielded while Senator Gray presented a report on the Chinese extension bill. Senator White asked that it be made a special order for Wednesday. Objection being made, the bill went to the calendar. The vote on Senator Pasco’s amendment resulted in its defeat—yeas, 20; nays, 47. Senators Peffer (pop., Kan.), Harris (dem., Tenn.), and Stewart (rep., Nev.), then made speeches in denunciation of the action which they said they knew the senate was about to take, and at 7:20 the vice president put the question on the engrossment of the amendment and third reading of the bill, which was agreed to without division. The vote was then taken by yeas and nays on the passage of the bill as amended. The vote resulted, 43 yeas, 32 nays, so the bill as amended was passed. Senator ,Voorhees here moved that the senate adjourn until 12 o’clock, and at 7:30 p. m., for the first time since October 14, the senate adjourned.