Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — FREE COINAGE DEFEATED [ARTICLE]

FREE COINAGE DEFEATED

A Majority of Seventeen Against It in >lio House. Free and unlimited coinage has for the second time failed in the House of Representatives’: The majority against it on the 25tli was seventeen. The proposition came up in the form of a motion to non concur in the Senate’s amendments to the Windom bill, the principle of which was free coinage. Several Democrats, including Mr. Mills, labored hard to defeat the motion, believing that the President would veto a free coinage hill if passed, and thereby give them political prestige. Their labors were fruitless, however, as twentytwo Democrats voted with the Republi cans, while twenty-three Republicans offset this by voting with the Democrats. There was a very perceptible agitation on both sides of the House as the toll was being called upon the first amendment providing for free coinage. A number of Senators from both sides of the chamber were on the floor of the House urging their friends to stand to their convictions. There was hut one yea-and-nay vote taken, that upon the question of concurrence in the Senate's amendment for free coinage. The other votes were viva voce, as it became apparent that the anti-free-coiuage men had a firm majority of 17. The following Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor of the free-coinage amendment: Messrs. Bartine, Carter, Connell, DeHaven, Featherstonc, Funston, Gifford, Hermann, Kelly, Laws, Morrow; Perkins. Peters, Post, Smith (111.), Townsend (Col.) Turner (Kan.), Williams (O.), Dorsey, Anderson (Kan.), 'O ven (Ind.); Wade, Morrill—23. The following Democrats voted with the Republicans to non concur : Messrs. Andrew, Buckalcw, Campbell, Claneey, Covert, Duuphy, Dargan, Flower, Geissenhaner, Muish, McAdoo, Mutch*. Icr. O’Neil (Mass.). Quinn. Spimola, Tracey, Turner (N, Y.), Vaux, Wiley, Wilcox, Rusk, Stump--22. The free-coinage men in both houses have given up the contest. It is conceded that the conference committee will agree to a bill providing for the coinage of $4,500,000 or 4,500,000 ounces of silver monthly, and that the certificates issued for the purchase of the bullion will be mane a full legal tender for public and private debts.