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stances, would have the benefit of the difference 

 and in it the mine owner-." 



Senator ! Massachusetts, said: 



" 31 r. President, I am in favor of this amendment, 

 but I do not rise for the purpose of discussing it at 

 this moment. As all debate is to end at 3 o'clock, I 

 desire to explain at this time an amendment which 

 J propose to offer to this bill when it comes out of 

 Committee of the Whole and into the Senate, an 

 amendment which has already been laid before the 

 Senate, and on winch there has been some slight 

 discussion. The bill that came from the House of 

 Representatives, as I said before, it is quite obvious 

 can not pass the Senate. The silver substitute re- 

 ported by the majority of the Finance Committee, 

 to which I am utterly opposed as a measure utterly 

 disastrous to business and leading directly to silver 

 monometallism, can not pass the House of Repre- 

 sentatives. We know that it is merely to go into 

 conference and end there. The amendment I in- 

 tend to offer does not bear on the question of gold 

 or silver or the redemption of greenbacks ; and as 

 this free-silver substitute is an amendment to a bond 

 bill, it is attempted to make provision for a popular 

 loan, to be paid for in lawful money as needed for 

 the purpose of coast defenses. 



The Secretary of War has informed the country 

 that it would take twenty years, at the present rate 

 of progress, to supply the guns necessary for coast 

 defenses; that it will take seventy years, at the 

 present rate of progress, to supply the positions to 

 put those guns on. The highest military authorities 

 say that with a lump appropriation for a compre- 

 hensive plan we can have our coasts defended ade- 

 quately and as they ought to be inside of three 

 years ; and it should be done in a simple, economical, 

 intelligent method. 



" The amendment which I propose to offer bears 

 simply on the creation of a popular loan in order to 

 put that money into the Treasury. Xo one would 

 undertake to "raise $80,000.000 or $100,000,000, 

 which is needed for coast defenses, from revenue at 

 once. It can not be done. The only way is a 

 loan. 



' I desire to offer the amendment at this time. 

 If the silver substitute is to perish in conference, as 

 we know, and the bond bill is to perish in confer- 

 ence, there seems to be no good reason why out of 

 the wreck we should not at least save a measure 

 which will provide for coast defenses to be estab- 

 lished by law hereafter under such acts as Congress 

 may see fit to pa--. 



" I merely desire to give this explanation of the 

 amendment which I propose to offer, because I can 

 see that the debate will be cut off before the bill 

 reaches the Senate." 



Senator Gorman, of Maryland, moved to lay the 

 amendment reported by the Committee on Finance 

 on the the table. The Senate refused by a vote of 

 34 yeas to 43 nays. 12 not voting. The question 

 then recurring to Senator Mori-ill's amendment, it 

 svas lust by a vote of 33 to 44 not voting, 12. 



Action on other amendments having been cut off 

 by an agreement entered into the day before, that 

 the question should be put to vote at two o'clock, 

 the vote was taken upon the substitute reported by 

 the committee, and it passed yeas, 43 : nays. 34; 

 not voting, 12. 



^Following is the vote upon the bill as amended : 

 YEAS Allen, Bacon. Bate. Berry. Blanchard, 

 Brown, Butler. Call. Cameron, Cannon, Carter, 

 Chilton, Clark, Cockrell, Daniel. George, Harris, 

 Irby. Jones of Arkansas. Jones of Nevada, Kyle. 

 Mantle, Mitchell of Oregon, Pasco, Peffer, Perkins, 

 Pettigrew, Pritchard, Pugh. Roach. Shoup, Squire, 

 Stewart. Teller. Tillman, Turpie, Vest. Voorhees. 

 \Valthall, Warren, White, Wilson 42. 



NAYS Allison. Baker. Burrows. CalTVry. Chan- 

 dler. Davis. Elkins. Faulkner. Frye. Gallinirer. 

 Gear. Gibson. Gorman. Gray. Hale." Ilauley. Hill, 

 Hoar, Lindsay. Lodge. McBride. McMillan. Martin. 

 Mills. Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill, Murphy, 

 Nelson. Palmer, Platt, Proctor, Sherman, Thurstoii. 

 Vilas. Wet more 3.1. 



NOT VOTING Aldrich. Blackburn. 13 rice. Cul- 

 lom, Dubois, Gordon. Hansbrough, Moriran. C^uav. 

 Sewell. Smith, Wolcott 12. 



So the bill was passed. 



Its title was amended so as to read : "A bill to 

 restore the coinage of silver dollars and for other 

 purp< 



In the House the bill as amended was referred to 

 the Committee on Ways and Means Feb. 3, from 

 which it was reported back with the recommenda- 

 tion that the House nonconcur in the Senate 

 amendment and insist upon the bill as it originally 

 passed the House. The minority report recom- 

 mended concurrence. The House resolved itself 

 into a Committee of the Whole for its consideration 

 Feb. 5. and after long debate the vote was taken 

 Feb. 14, on concurring in the Senate amendment 

 with the result : 



YEAS Abbott. Aitken. Allen of Mississippi. Allen 

 of Utah, Bailey, Baker of Kansas, Bankhead. Bar- 

 ham. Bartlett of Georgia. Bell of Colorado, Bell of 

 Texas, Black of Georgia, Bowers, Broderick, Clardy, 

 Cockrell. Cooper of Texas, Cox, Crisp, Culberson, 

 Curtis of Kansas, De Armond, Dinsmore, Dockery. 

 Doolittle. Downing, Ellis. Gamble, Hartman, Her- 

 mann. Hilborn, Hutcheson. Hyde, Johnson of Cali- 

 fornia. Jones, Kem, Kendall. Latimer, Layton. Les- 

 ter, Linney, Little, Livingston. Lockhart, Loud, 

 Maddox. Magoire, Marsh. McClure. McCullough, 

 MeKt/nney. McLachlan, McLaurin, McMillin. Me- 

 Rae. Meredith. Mondell. Money. Moses. Neill. New- 

 lands, Ogden, Otey, Pearson, Richardson, Robbins, 

 Robertson of Louisiana. Savers. Shafroth, Shaw. 

 Shuford, Skinner, Spencer, Stokes, Strait, Strowd 

 of North Carolina, Swanson, Talbert, Tate, Terry. 

 Towne. Tyler, L T nderwood, Walker of Virginia. 

 Wheeler, Williams, Wilson of Idaho, Wilson of 

 South Carolina, Woodard. Yoakum 90. 



NAYS Acheson, Aldrich, Andrews. Apsley. Ar- 

 nold of Rhode Island. Atwood, A very, Babcock, 

 Baker of Maryland. Baker of New Ham'pshire, Bar- 

 ney, Bartholdt, Bartlett of New York, Beach. Ben- 

 nett, Berry. Bingham, Bishop, Blue. Boatner, Bou- 

 telle, Brewster. Bromwell, Brosius, Brown. Brumm. 

 Bull, Burrell, Burton of Missouri. Burton of Ohio. 

 Calderhead. Cannon, Catc-hings, Checkering, Clark of 

 Iowa. Clark of Missouri, Cobb of Missouri, Codding, 

 Coffin, Colson, Connolly, Cook of Wisconsin, Cooke 

 of Illinois, Cooper of Florida. Cooper of Wisconsin, 

 Corliss, Cousins. Crowther. Crump. Curtis of Iowa, 

 Curtis of New York, Dalzell, Danford, Daniels. 

 Denny. De Witt, Dingley, Dolliver, Dovener. Draper, 

 Elliott of South Carolina. Erdman, Evans. Fairehild, 

 Faris. Fenton. Fischer, Fletcher, Fowler. Gardner, 

 Gibson, Gillet of New York, Gillett of Massachu- 

 setts, Graff, Griffin. Grosvenor, Grout, Grow, Had- 

 ley. Hager. Hall. Halterman, Hardy. Harmer, Har- 

 ris, Harrison, Hart, Hatch, Heatwole, Heiner of 

 Pennsylvania, Hemenway, Henderson, Hendrick, 

 Henry of Connecticut, Hepburn. Hicks, Hill, tlitt, 

 Hooker, Hopkins. Howe, Howell, Hubbard, Hulick, 

 Huling, Hull, Hurley, Jenkins, Johnson of Indiana. 

 Johnson of North Dakota. Joy, Kerr. Kiefer. Knox, 

 Kulp. Lacey. Lawson, Lefever, Leighty, Leisen- 

 ring. Lewis. Long. Loudenslager, Low. Mahany. 

 Mahon. McCall of Massachusetts. McCall of Ten- 

 nessee. McCleary of Minnesota, McClellan, McCor- 

 mick. McCreary of Kentucky. Mercer. Meyer. Miles. 

 Miller of West Virginia. Minor of Wisconsin, Moody. 

 Murphy, Noonan, Northway, Odell, Otjen, Over- 



