Tariff Bill Passed

Washington, July 26.- The tariff bit] naased its last legislative stage. at 3 p. ::-.. tíaturday when the senatc, by the decisive vote of 40 to 30, agreed to tho conference report on the bill. The announcement of the resul t was greeted with enthuslastic applause by the erowded chamber. This closed the great labor for which the Fifty-fifth congress assembled in extraordinary session, and after stubborn resistance, at times threateniriH a deadlock, the seríate concurred with the house in a resolution for the final , rnment of the session at 9 o'cli iturday night. The . president's tor a curreney coramission was received by the senate and referred to the financial cornmittee; the house bill creating a commission wa3 similarly refei n d. flow the Senators Voted, The final vote on the tariff conference report and the bill was as follows: Yeas - Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Burrows, Carter, Clark, Davis, Deboe, Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Frye Gallinger, Gear, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Lodge, McBride, McEnery, McMillan, Mason, Morrill, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of Connecticut, Platt of New York, Pritchard, Proctor, Quay, Sewell.Shoup, Spooner, Stewart, Thurston, Warren, Wetmore - 40. Nays - Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell. Daniel, Faulkner, Gorman, Harris, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell, Morgan, Murphy, Pasco, Pettus, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Turley, Turner, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, White- 30. Paired - Chandler with Cannon; Cullom with Uray: Wolcott with George; Hanna with Rawlins; Wellington with McLaurin; Mantle with Kenny; Wilson with Heitfeld - 14. Present and not voting - Allen, Butler and Teller. Absent and not paired - Kyle and Pettigrew. Early in the day the debate was listless, though enlivened at times with criticism by Allen and a speech from Burrows. Caffery, Morgan, and Stewart occupied the time up to 3 o'clock, when the vote was promptly taken. Then carne a long parliamentary battle over final adjournment. Opposttlon Overeóme. The oppositlon endeavored to score .a point by compelling a vote on laying the president's message before the senate, and succeeding In this attacked the majority for refusing to act on the president's recommendation. The main desire of those opposing adjournment was to secure a vote on the Harris resolution calling on the president to stop the sale of the government interests in the Union Pacific railroad. The tactics of the opposition were overeóme and shortly before 7 o'clock Morgan withdrew further opposition and the resolution for final adjournment was passed. Complimentary resolutions to Vice President Hobart were adopted and at 0 o'clock the final scène was enacted by the formal adjournment of the session. Dingley Took tlie Pen Along. The last step necessary to make the tariff bill a law was taken at 4:04 p. m. Saturday when the president wrote his líame on the bill with the word "approved" and the date. Th ere were present Representatives Dingley and Hager, in charge of the bill; Attorney General McKenna, Secretary Gage, Pcstmaster General Gary and Secretary Wilson. The president had several pens at. hand, the owners of which had begged might be used to sign the tariff act. But Dingley produced a beautiful mother-of-pearl handled pen, and requested that it be used for the signature. The president recognized the right of Dingley and used this pen, which was carefully put away by Dingley as soon as the president had used it. Synopsis of tlie Curreney Message. President McKinley's curreney message is on the lines suggested by the recent Indianapolis convention. He ?uggests that the executive be authorized to name a eommissicn of non-partisan men of eminent ability and standing. This commission is expected to examine the present system of banking and currency and all schemes and suggestions for its improvement and that may exist now or hereafter, and report by Nov. 1 next. The president refers to the supreme importance of a stable curreney and points out the necessity on the part of this govenrment of maintaining a curreney as good as any in the world. The stability of the nation's curreney, he says, was decisively declared for in the last eleetion, when the people of the United States, by their votes, demanded that their money be made as good as gold.