BONDS, Bill for, etc., 54th Congress-Continued.

in gold coin, using for redemption of said notes either gold or silver coins, or both, not at the option of the holder, but exclusively at the option of the Treasury Department, and said notes, commonly called 'greenbacks,' when so redeemed shall be reissued as provided by the act of May 31, 1878."

All amendments being rejected, the substitute as reported was adopted and the bill as amended was passed by the following vote, February 1, 1896 (Record, page 1344), as follows:

The result was announced-yeas 42, nays 35, as follows:

YEAS-42.

ALLEN, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Blanchard, Brown, BUTLER, Call, Cameron, Cannon, Carter, Chilton, Clark, Cockrell, Daniel, George, Harris, Irby, Jones, Ark., Jones, Nev.. KYLE. Mantle, Mitchell, Oreg., Pasco, PEFFER, Perkins. Pettigrew, Pritchard, Pugh, Roach, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Warren, White, Wilson.

NAYS-35.

Allison, Baker, Burrows, Caffery, Chandler, Davis, Elkins, Faulkner, Frye, Gall.nger, Gear, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Hale. Hawley, Hill, Hoar, Lindsay, Lodge, McBride, McMillan, Martin, Mills, Mitchell, Wis., Morrill, Murphy, Nelson, Palmer, Platt, Proctor, Sherman, Thurston, Vilas, Wetmore.

NOT VOTING-12.

Aldrich, Blackburn, Brice, Cullom, Dubois, Gordon, Hansbrough, Morgan, Quay, Sewall, Smith, Wolcott.

Republicans in roman; Democrats in italics; Populists in small capitals.

The party vote being: Yeas-Republicans, 17; Democrats, 21; Populists, 4. Nays-Republicans, 23; Democrats, 12. Not voting-Republicans, 7; Democrats, 5.

The bill was returned to the House February 3, 1896, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means (Record, page 1396), and was reported back to the House February 4, 1896 (Record, page 1427). and was debated for several days. The debate will be found on the following pages of the Daily Record, 1479, 1486, 1538, 1546, 1579, 1587, 1594, 1628, 1637, 1640, 1671, 1674, 1732, 1740, 1787, 1790, 1791, 1847, 1853, and 1883, when the House, on February 14, 1896, non-concurred in the amendments of the Senate. The following is the yea-and-nay vote:

YEAS-90.

Abbott, Aitken. Allen, Miss., Allen, Utah, Briley, BAKER. Kans., Bankhead, Barham, Bartlett, Ga., BELL, Colo., Bell, Tex., Black, Ga.. Bowers, Broderick, Clardy, Cockrell, Cooper, Tex., Cox, Crisp. Culberson, Curtis, Kans., De Armond, Dinsmore, Dockery, Doolittle. Downing, Ellis, Gamble, Hartman, Hermann, Hilborn, Hutcheson, Hyde, Johnson, Cal., Jones, KEM, Kendall, Latimer, Layton, Lester, Linney, Little, Livingston, Lockhart, Loud, Maddox, Maquire, Marsh, McClure, Mc Culloch, McKenney, McLachlan, McLaurin, McMillin, McRae, Meredith, Mondell, Money, Moses, Neill, NEWLANDS, Ogden, Otey, Pearson, Richardson, Robbins. Robertson, La., Sayers. Shafroth, Shaw, SHUFORD, SKINNER, Spencer, Stokes, Strait. STROWD, N. C., Swanson, Talbert, Tate, Terry, Towne Tyler. Underwood, Walker, Va., Wheeler, Williams, Wilson, Idaho, Wilson, S C., Woodward, Yoakum.

BONDS, Bill for etc., 54th Congress-Continued.

NAYS-215.

Acheson, Aldrich, Andrews, Apsley, Arnold, R. I., Atwood, Avery, Babcock, Baker, Md., Baker, N. H., Barney, Bartholdt, Bartlett, N. Y., Beach, Bennett, Berry, Bingham, Bishop, Blue, Boatner, Boutelle, Brewster, Bromwell, Brosius, Brown, Brumm, Bull, Burrell, Burton, Mo., Burton, Ohio, Calderhead, Cannon, Catchings, Chickering, Clark, Iowa, Clark, Mo.. Cobb, Mo., Codding, Coffin, Colson, Connolly, Cook, Wis., Cooke, Ill., Cooper, Fla., Cooper, Wis., Corliss, Cousins, Crowther, Crump, Curtis, Iowa, Curtis, N. Y., Dalzell, Danford, Daniels, Denny, De Witt, Dingley, Dolliver, Dovener, Draper, Elliott S. C., Erdman, Evans, Fairchild, Faris, Fenton, Fischer, Fletcher, Fowler, Gardner, Gibson, Gillet, N. Y., Gillett, Mass., Graff, Griffin, Grosvenor, Grout, Grow, Hadley, Hager, Hall, Halterman, Hardy. Harmer, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Hatch. Heatwole, Heiner, Pa, Hemenway, Henderson, Hendrick, Henry, Conn., Hepburn, Hicks, Hill, Hitt, Hooker, Hopkins. Howe, Howell, Hubbard, Hulick, Huling, Hull, Hurley, Jenkins, Johnson, Ind., Johnson, N. Dak., Joy, Kerr, Kiefer, Knox, Kulp, Lacey, Lawson, Lefever, Leighty, Leisenring. Lewis, Long, Loudenslager, Low, Mahany, Mahon, McCall, Mass., McCall, Tenn., McCleary, Minn., McClellan, McCormick, McCreary, Ky., Mercer, Meyer, Miles, Miller, W. Va., Minor, Wis., Moody, Murphy, Noonan, Northway, Odell, Otjen, Overstreet, Owens, Parker, Patterson, Payne, Perkins, Phillips, Pitney, Poole, Price, Prince, Pugh, Quigg, Ray. Reeves, Reyburn, Royse, Rusk, Russell, Ga., Sauerhering, Scranton, Settle, Shannon, Sherman, Simpkins, Smith, Ill., Smith, Mich., Snover, Sorg, Southard, Southwick, Spalding, Sperry, Stahle, Steele. Stephenson, Stewart, N. J., Stewart, Wis., Stone, C. W., Stone, W. A., Strode, Nebr., Strong, Sulloway, Sulzer, Taft, Tarsney, Tawney, Tayler, Thomas, Tracewell, Tracey, Treloar, Tucker, Turner, Ga.. Turner, Va., Updegraff, Van Voorhis, Wadsworth, Walker, Mass., Walsh, Wauger, Warner, Washington, Watson, Ind., Watson, Ohio, Wellington, White, Wilber, Willis, Wilson, Ohio, Wood, Wright.

NOT VOTING-50.

Adams, Anderson, Arnold, Pa., Barrett, Belknap, Black, N. Y., Buck, Clarke, Ala., Cobb, Ala., Cowen, Crowley, Cummings, Dayton, Eddy, Ellett, Va., Fitzgerald, Foote, Foss, Griswold, Hainer, Nebr., Hanly, Henry, Ind., HowARD, Huff, Hunter, Kirkpatrick, Kyle, Leonard, Linton, Lorimer. McDear, mon, McEwan, Meiklejohn, Miller, Kans., Milliken, Milnes, Miner, N. Y.. Morse, Mozley, Pendleton, Pickler, Powers, Raney, Robinson, Pa., Russell Conn., Sparkman, Stallings, Wilson, N. Y., Woodman, Woomer.

Republicans in Roman; Democrats in italics; Populists in small capitals.

The party vote being: Yeas-Republicans, 25; Democrats, 58; Populists, 7. Nays-Republicans, 186; Democrats, 29. Not votingRepublicans, 35; Democrats, 14; Populists, 1.

No further action was taken.

No. 39.

BONDS OF THE U. S.

Senator Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, introduced the following resolution, declaring them payable in silver, which passed the Senate Feb. 18, 1878—, Yeas 42, nays 20; passed the House Jan. 29, 1378-Yeas 1 9, nays 79: "Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring therein), That all the bonds of the United States issued under the said acts of Congress herein before recited are payable, principal and interest, at the option of the Government of the United States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the United States, containing 4121⁄2

BONDS-Continued.

grains each of standard silver; and that to restore to its coinage such silver coins as a legal tender in payment of said bonds, principal and interest, is not in violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditor."

BONDS OF THE U. S.-Paid by Cleveland and Harrison. No.40

Statement of U. S. bonds purchased from March 1, 1885, to March 1, 1893.

Bonds at 5 per cent. interest, payable in thirty years...........
Bonds at 4 per cent. interest, payable in thirty years...............................
Premiums received.....

Thus we pay $607,093,880 for having borrowed $273,481,632, înd this is the cost of a Democratic administration.

BRAZIL.

No. 42.

In Brazil the standard is gold; the monetary unit is the milreis; the value in United States coin is $0.54.6; the coins are gold; 5, 10 and 20 milreis; silver: 1⁄2, 1 and 2 milreis. The ratio between gold and silver is 1 of gold to 151⁄2 of silver.

From these figures it is shown that the farmers of this country had a market in 1892 under the McKinley law for $122,944,350 worth more than in 1895 under the Wilson law.

BRYAN, WILLIAM J.—Populist and the Hired Servant of Bonanza Mine Owners.

No. 44.

[Chicago Chronicle (Dem.), July 11.]

There was a time when the owners of the Big Bonanzas of the far West were glad to occupy purchased seats in the United States Senate.

Sharon, Stanford, Fair, Jones, Stewart and others gratified their fancy in this manner until the novelty wore off and then they deputized attorneys and other employees to take their places and vote for protective tariffs and free silver.

Of late years, owing to the encouragement that they have received from the Republican party, which always "does something for silver" when it passes a tariff bill, the proprietors of the Big Bonanzas have found it profitable to keep a large number of orators, lecturers, and other spokesmen on the road, preaching to people already limping as a result of bites by the free-silver cur the sovereign remedy of applying the hair of the dog to the wound.

Among the men who have been thus employed and carried on the pay-roll of the Big Bonanzas for a number of years is William J. Bryan, of Nebraska. A paid agent of and spokesman for the silver combine, he has not since his retirement from Congress had any other visible means of support.

The richest men in the world, the proprietors of the Big Bonanzas, hire orators like Bryan exactly as other wealthy men hire fiddlers, and value them about as highly. Silver orators, like fiddlers, come in at the back doors of the Big Bonanzas and eat at the servants' table.

BRYAN-Continued.

Since he holds this relationship to the Big Bonanzas, William J. Bryan's nomination at Chicago by their order, and as a result of the free use of their money, becomes an insult to the American people of no small proportions.

The nomination by the Republicans of a traveling sales agent of a tin-plate factory on a platform making the welfare of the tinplate makers the first concern of the country would have been a parallel case.

In addition to this, Bryan is not now and for two or three years has not pretended to be a Democrat. He formally and publicly renounced Democracy in 1894 and with equal formality and publicity joined the Populists.

BRYAN'S CORPORATION WORK-He is Assistant Attorney of the Missouri Pacific for Nebraska.

No. 45.

New York, July 15.-Some little surprise will be caused among friends of William J. Bryan, candidate of the convention at Chicago, on learning that he has been for some time a paid employee of a large and rich corporation. This is the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Bryan, in the intervals of his populistic rhetoric, finds time to act as assistant attorney for the State of Nebraska, under General Attorney B. P. Waggener of the Missouri Pacific.

A representative of the legal department of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company was questioned as to Bryan's connection with the company. He said:

"Mr. Bryan has been in our employ for some time; just how long I can not tell you. His office of Assistant State Attorney is not an important one. In fact, I did not know until within a day or two, when my attention was called to it that Mr. Bryan held an office in this company. Some of his utterances would seem to be incompatible with conscientious service in a railway corporation."

It is not too much to say that the Missouri Pacific Railway Company is not populistic in its nature. The president is Mr. George J. Gould. One of the heavy stockholders is Russell Sage.

BRYAN ON BOLTING, “I am not a Democrat.”
[From N. Y. Sun, July 19.]

No. 46.

The Hon. William Jennings Bryan seems to have a fondness for repeating himself. When he has turned a phrase to his satisfaction he cannot grow weary of using it.