1886. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-~OUSE. 611 

Thomas R. Cocke, to be :postmaster at Victoria, in the .county of Victoria and State of Texas. . 

Albert C. Snyder, to be j)OStmaster at Cheyenne City, in the county 

of Laramie .and Territory of "Wyoming. 

W. C. Clark, to be postmaster at Paducah, in the county of McCracken 

·ana State of Kentucky. 

George C. Clisby, to be postmaster at Montgomery, in the county of 

Montgomery and State of Alabama. 

J. B. Cooke, to be postmaster at 1.1arion, in the county of Perry and 

State of Alabama. 

Daniel Liddell, to be postmaster at Gaasden, in the county or-Etowah 

and Stateof Alabama. 

..John W. McAlester, to be postmaster at Florence, in the county of 

Lauderdale and State of .AJ.a.bama. 

Reuben A. Mitchell, to be postmaster at {)pelika, in the county of 

Lee and State of Alabama. 

William H. Wilds, to be postmaster at Tuscaloosa, in the connty of 

Tuscaloosa and State of .Alabama. 

A. E. Buddecke, to be postmaster a.t Montrose, in the county of Montrose and State of Colorado. 

Thomas ll. Crawford, to be postmaster at Grand Junction, in the 

county of Mesa and State of Colorado. 

ltfatthew D. Crow, to be postmaster atPueblo, in the county of Pueblo 

and State of Colorado. 

Charles C. Hathaway, to be postmaster at Del Norte, in the county 

of Rio Grande and State of Colorado. 

Milton II. Huntress, to bep6stmaster at Breckenridge, in the county 

·of Summit n:nd State of Colorado. 

Lyma;n Thompson, to be postmaster ~t South Pueblo, in the county 

of I>ueblo and St:l.te of Co~orado. 

C. C. Colclo, to be postmaster at Carroll, in the county of Carroll and 

State of Iow:1.. 

Thomas Hardeman, to bepostmasteriJ.tMacon, inthecounty()fBibb 

ano State ()f Georgia. 

William :Milner, to be postmaste!' ~t Cartersville, in the ·county of 

.Bartow and State of Georgia. 

llenjamin E. Rn se11, to be postmaster nt Bainbridge, in the county 

of Decatur and State of Georgia. 

Y. G. Rust., t.o be postmaster at Albany, in the county of Dougherty 

and State of Georgia. 

Charles noerr, to beJ>ostmaster at Fort Mailison, in the county of Lee 

and State of Iowa. 

Henry Bews, to be postmaster at Hailey, in the county of Alturas 

and Territory of Idaho. 

Charles A. Foster, 'to be lJOstmaster at Bellevue, in the county of AI-· 

turas and Territory of Idaho. . E. B. Williams, to be postmaster a.t IIctch~, in the county of A)-

turas and Territory of Idaho. 

A. H. Dudley, to be postmaster .at Princeton, in the county-of Caldwell and State of Kentucky. 

Thomas 1\1. Goodknight, to be postmaster :at Franklin, in the county 

of Simpson and State of Kentucky. · 

James Kennady, to be postmaster at Owensborough, in ·the county 

ofDa.viess and State ofKentucky. 

James R. :Marrs, to be postmaster at Danville, in the county of :Boyle 

and State of Kentucky. 

Samuel 1\L Peacock, to be postmaster at Lancaster, in the county of 

Garrard and State of Kentucky. 

E. H. Porter, to be postmaster at Bow1ing Green, in the county of 

Warren and State of Kentucky. 

Augustine C. "Respess, to -be postmaster at .Maysville, in the county 

of Mason and .State of Kentuck_y. 

William W. Wathen, to belJostmaster.JJ.tLebanon, :in the county of 

M.:'l.rion and State of Kentucky. 

James D. ·watson, to be postmaster at Mayfield, in the county of 

Graves and State of Kentucky. 

Mrs.. 0. A. Hastings, to be postmaste-r at Port Gibson, in 'the county 

of Claiborne .nnd State of Mississippi. 

James C. Reeo, to be -postmaster at Corinth, in the county .of .Alcorn 

and State of 1\lississippi. 

Fred. B. Bardon, to be postmaster at Madison, in the -county of Mor~ 

ris nnd State of New J e:rsey. · 

William H. "Bennett, to be postmaster at Long .Branch, in the county 

of Monmouth and State of New Jersey. 

Thomas G. Btinnell, to be postmaster at Newton, in the county of 

Sussex and State of New Jersey. · 

George W. Evans, to be postmaster at Ocean Grov-e, in the county of 

1\Iomnonth and State of New Jersey. 

John Fothergill, to be postmaster .at Perth Amboy, in the county of 

Middlesex -and State of New Jersey. 

A.·ugustus W. Irons, to be J>Osbnaster at Tom's River, in the county 

• of Ocean and State of New Jersey. 

Jacob G. "Van Riper, to be postmaster nt .Rutherford, in the county 

of Bergen and State ofNew Jersey. 

Charles Rittenhouse, to be.postmaster at -:Hackettstown, in the county 

of Warren aud State of New Jersey. 

William X. Vansciver, tO he J>Ostmaster at Beverly, in the county of 

Btrilington and State of New .Jersey. 

William G. Lewis, to be postmaster at Statesville, in the county of 

Iredell and State ofNorth Carolina. · 

B. F. Cheatham, to be postmaster at Nashville, in the county ofDavidson and State of Tennessee. 

James M. King, to be postma.ster.at.Knoxville, in the county of Knox 

and State of Tennessee. 

Thomas J. Lane, to be postmaster at Greeneville, in the county of 

Greene and State of Tennessee. 

Henry Clay McLaurine, to be postmaster at Pulaski, in the county of 

Giles and State of Tennessee. 

William L. Norton,' to be postmaster at Tullahoma, in the county of 

Coffee and State of Tennessee. • Samuel W. Shields, to be postmaster at Morristown, in the county of 

Hamblen and State of Tennessee. 

Frank White, to be postmaster at Murfreesborough, in the county of 

Rutherford and State of Tennessee. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

TUESDAY, January 12, 188G. 

TheHousemetat12 o'cloCk m. P.r.ayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W.H. 

11:1ILBURN, D. D. 

The Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of the proceedings of yes~ 

terday. 

Mr. BLANCHARD. J: move that the.reading of so much of the Jour~ 

·mu as relates to the introduction and reference of bills and reso1utions 

be dispensed with. 

There being no objection, it was orilered .accordingly. 

The .Journal ~.read was approved. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

The SPEAKER. In accordance with the rule the Chair will lay before the House seve-ral executive cOmmunications. 

COAST .A:ND .GEODETIC SURVEY. • 

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from tbe Secretary of 

the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the ex_penditnres--on account 

of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for theiiscal year-ending June 30, 

1885; which was Teferred to -the Committee on .Expenditures in tho 

Treasury Department, ·and ordered to be printed. 

"RECEIPTS A~"'D :EXPENDITURES FISCAL YEAR 1882. 

The SP.E.AKER also laid before the Rouse a letter from the -BecretaryoftheTreasury,transmitting detniled.aceountofihereceiJ)tBand 

expenditures of -the United -states for the :fiscal year ending J-une 30, 

1882; which -was referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the 

Treasury Department, .and ordered to be printed. -

:REFERENCE D.F .sENATE -BILLS. 

·The .SPEAKER also, in accordance --with the rule, laid before the 

Rouse .Senate bills of the fo1lowing titles; which were referred as .follows: · 

A bill (S . .10) to amend .an act enii-fJed '~act to :amend section 

5352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in :reference to big~ 

amy, :and -for other1ffiiPoses," a:mrroved .March 22, '1882-to the· Com~ 

mittee on the J"ndiciary. 

A bill (S. 22) for the :relief of M.a:rtha.Mur_phy and J>. B. Murphyto the Committee on.Ap__propriations. 

4- hill (S. 68) .f:or the relief oi S . .B. Cranston, of Oregon-.to:the Committee on Claims. 

A bill (S. 82) to amend a-n --act entitled "An aet to amend the stat-

'llies :in :relation to immediate trnnsportation of dutiable goods, and 1'or 

other _purposes,'' .approved 'J nne 10, 1880~o the Committee -on Ways 

and Means. 

A bill (S. '141) to extend the prmisions of the act of June '10, 1880, 

eneitled ''An act to amend the statutes in :relation to immediate-tra.nsportation of dutiable ·goods, and for other purposes," to the _port of 

Omaha, in the State of Nebraska-to the Committee on Wa_ys and 

Means. 

A bill (S. 208) for-the relief of Alexander Swift & Co. and the Niles 

Works-to the "Committee on War Claims. 

A bill (S. 416) for the relief of J. W. "Lobban-to the Committee on Claims. 

A. bill (S. 633) to change the name of Uniontown to A:nacostia-to 

the Committee on -the District of Columbia. 

ACTS OF .ARIZONA. TERRITOBY. 

The SPEAKER also, in accordance with the statute, laid before the 

House a copy of the acts of the Legislature of the Territory of Arizona; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Territories. 

UKINDORSED PETITIONS. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to call -the attention of members 

of the House to the fact that quite a number of petitions .and -memo:. rials have been sent to the petition~boxwithout anyindorsement n,I>On 
612 QONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 12, 

them showing either the name of the member introducing them or the 

committee to which they should be referred . . The clerks of the House 

are unable to dispose of them in making up the Journal and the Official 

Reporters c.1.n not properly insert them in the RECORD. If gentlem~n 

will examine and see that they are properly indorsed the clerks can diSpose of th_em. 

REGENTS SXITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

The SPEAKER announced the appointment of the following Regents 

of the Smithsonian Institution for the ensuing year, namely: OTHO R. 

SINGLEI'ON of Mississippi, WILLIAM L. WILSON of West Virginia~ and 

WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS of New Jersey. 

SALARY OF PER DIEM CLEJJ.KS. 

Mr. DOCKERY. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask una-nimous· consent to 

, present a joint resolution from the Committee oit Accounts, and ask .its 

present consideration. 

The SPEAKER. The joint resolution will be read, after which the 

Chair will ask for objections to its consideration. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Joint resolution (H. Res. 76) fixing the time when the pay of certain clerks to committees of the House of Representatives shall begin. 

By nna.nimous consent, leave of absence was granted to Mr. KING for 

three days, on account of important business. 

SAMUEL E. BRYANT. 

Mr. SCRANTON: On the 7th instant I introduced a bill (H. R. 2124) 

for the relief of Samuel E. Bryant. That bill has been improperly referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. I ask that it be withdrawn and referred to·the Committee on War Clai-ms. It is for his'pay 

as second lieutenant. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair will examine the bill and c.1.nse the 

correction to be Illi'l.de, if it ought to be ma-de. 

TIMOTHY M'CORl\IICK: 

Mr. STONE, of Missouri. On yesterday I introduced a bill (H. R. ~535) for the relief of Timothy McCormick. It was referred to the 

Committee on Claims. It is a bill to compensate for depredations committed by Indians, and in the last Congress a bill identical with this 

was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. . 

The SPEAKER. The reference of such a bill depends on whether 

the compensation comes out of the public Treasury or out of the Indian fund. 

Mr. STO~E, of Missouri. In this case it comes out of the Indian 

fund. · 

The SPEAKER. Then the bill should go to the Committee on Indian 

Affairs. .The Chair will cause the correction to be made: 

Resol-.:ed by the Senate and House of Representati1;es of the United States of Am.e-l'ica in Congl'ess assembled, That the pay of the clerks to committe~s of the llouse of 

Represeutati ves, which have been or may be hereafter auth?nzed by the House, 

who are paid during the session o~ly, sh!lll beg~n from the tune th~t such clerk_s entered upon the discharge of thetr duhes, whtch shall be asc~rtamed and ~Vldenced bv the certificate of the chairmen of the several comm1ttees employmg RAILROAD MAIL TRANSPORTATION. 

clerks for· the session only. Mr. BURROWS. I rise to make a privileged report. I am instructed 

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideiation of by the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads to report back 

the joint resolution? . with a favorable recommendation a ·resolution requesting information 

There being no objection, the joint resolution w:u:~ r~'ld a. first and I of the Postmaster-General as to changes in the law r-egulating compense~ond. time, and. ordered to ~e engrossed and ;ead. a thud hm~; and sation of railway companies for carrying the mails." 

berng engrossed, 1t was according}~ read the t4rrQ. tim~, and J?a:;sed. The resolution was read, :u:~ follows: . 

Mr. DOCKERY moved to reconsider the vote by .which the JO~nt res- Resolved, That the Postmaster-General be, and be is hereby, requested to inolution was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be form this House, ifnotincompatiblewitb the public interest, what, if any, changes 

laid on the table should be made in the law regulating the compensation to railway companies ' · · for catrying the mails, and if any additional authority or facilities are necessary The latter motion was agreed to. to enable him to make a. thorough and satisfactory examination of this subject; 

.ASSIGNMENT OF · COMMITTEE CLERKS. and he is also requested to inform this llouse wha~ means will be required for • . .

1 ed that purpose. Mr. SPRIGG~; Mr. Speaker, I nse to present a pnVl eg report The resolution was adopted. 

from the Committee on Accounts.. . . Mr. BURROWS moved to reconsider the vote by which the resoluThe SPEAKER. The rep~rt will be read. tion was adopted· and also moved that the motion to reconsider be 

The Clerk read as follows: laid on the table.' · 

The Committee on Accounts, to whom was referred the resolution of 1\Ir. Th 1~ t t• ed to DocKERY of January 5, 1886, "that t~e Committee o~ Accou~ts b_e, and_ it is e LAot er mo lOll was ag~e · . hereby, authorized and directed to designate the comm1ttees which, m the JUdg- ORDER OF DUSINESS. ment of the said committee, should be allowed clerks for the present Congress under the legislative judicial, and executiye appropriation bill for the year The SPEAKER: Under the rule the Chair will now proceed to call 

ending June 30,188G, a'nd report to .the House without. delay fo! its action there- the committees for repo:tts. 

on,"respectfullysubmitthef!>llowmg:report,.a.ndaskJts adoptiOn by the House. DISTRIBUTIO'-T ·oF PRESrn...,."'~T S 1\IES .. GE. The thirty-one clerks proV1ded for m tbe btU referred to m .the above resolu- • ..,.__._, .n.. 

tion are distributed according to the appended schedule, to w1t: M 11""0RRISON I d" t d b th C · tte W d To· the Committee on Elections, a clerk; to the Committee on Banking and r. J.u. r · am uec e Y e omnu . e on ays an CmTency aclerk·totbeCommitteeonCoinage,Weigbts,andl\Ieasures,aclerk: :Means to report the resolution which I send to the desk for the dis- to the eox'nmittee' on the Territories, a. clerk; t-o the Committee on Railways and tribution of the PreSident's message, and I ask that it be referred to the 

Canals a clerk. to the Committee on 1\lanufactures, a clerk, who shall also aetas Committee of the Whole Honse on the state of the Union. Unless there clerk t;, the Sel~ct Committee on theAlcobolicLiquorTraffic; to the Committee on Mines and Mining a clerk, who shall also aetas clerk to the Committee on the is a demand for it the reading may be dispensed with. 

Levees and Improve~ent of the Mississippi River; to the Committee on Public The SPEAKER. If there be no objection the reading of the resoluBuildings and Grounds, a clerk, who shall also act as clerk to the Committee on t• will b dis d · th 

Expenditures on Public Buildings; to the Committee on Pacific Railroads, a. lOU e pense Wl • 

clerk· t-o the Committee on Education, a clerk; to the CommiLtee on Labor, a There was no objection. 

clerk! to the Committee on the Militia., a. clerk; to the Committee on Patents, a. The resolution was referred to the Committee of the Whole House 

clerk:! to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, two assistant clerks; to the Com- h f th U · d d d to b · te"' mitte~ on Pensions, a clerk; to the Committee on Private Land Claims, a clerk; on t e state O .e ruon, an or ere e prrn ·~· to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, a. clerk, who shall also act as The resolution is as follows: 

clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice; to ~e Resolved, That so much of the annual roes age of the President of the United 

Committee on Expenditures it\ the State Department, a clerk; to the <::omiDlt- States to the two Houses of Congress at the present session a.s rela~es to our for- tee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, a clerk; to t_he Committee O? eign affairs including appropriations therefor, together with the accompanying Expendit-ures in the Navy Department, a. clerk; to the ComiDltteeon Expend1- correspond~nce and documents; the claims of our citizens against the Colom- tures in the War Department, a clerk; to the Committee on Expenditures in the bian Government for losses arising out of the destruction of Aspinwall by the 

Interior Department, a clerk; to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post- insurrectionary forces; the question of the adverse claims of the Argentine Office Department, a. clerk; to the Committee on Accoun.ts, a clerk; t-o the. Joint Government for indemnity for the loss of the Falkland Islands; the questions Committee on the Library, a clerk; to the Select ComiDlttee on Reform m the of isthmian transit by canal or railway; the laws regarding Chinese immigra- Civil Service a clerk· to the Select Committee on Ship·building and Ship-own- tion. relating to the independent State of Congo and the Congo Basin; the new ing InteresU:, a. clerk; to the Select Committee on the Election of Presi~ent treaty power, Corea.; the Hritish·American fisheries; the relocation of our boundand Vice-President a clerk, who shall also act as clerk to the Select Commtttee ary lines with_ Mexi~o and British Colt?-mbia; the reot:ganization of o~r co~~ular on Ventilation and 'Acoustics; t-o the Committee on Enrolled Bills, a. clerk; to and diplomatlC serv1ce, and the questwn of the acqmrement of premtses m forthe Committee on Printing, a. clerk. eign countries for the housing of our legations be referred to the Committee on 

· •tt l b- d Foreign Affairs. · Mr. SPRIGGS. The act allows thrrty-one comm1 ee C er-1'-s, an we Resol,;ed That 50 much of said message and accompanying documents as re- had thirty-three committees to which to designate them, besides pro- lates to th~ public debt and the public revenues, to the national finances, to the 

"di ~ t · tant c1 ks to th Committee on Invalid Pensions revenue provisions of th.e treaties with Mexico and Turkey and othercountri~, Vl ng .~or WO as51S er e · the commercial relations with foreign countries having connection with revenue In doing this the committee gave the matter full consideration, and we questions to a. provision for a. revenue by duties on imports or excise, to the 

have done what we think best calculated to promote the business of the present ~ants and condition of the Treasury be referred to the Committee on 

House, and I trust it will be satisfactory to gentlemen on the floor. I WR~of~~ 1\,{.~~s~o much of said message and accompanyi~g documents as re- call the previous question on the adoption of the report. lates to th~ appropriation and expendi.ture of the public moneys for the support 

The previous question was ordered; and under the operation thereot ofthe Government i.e.,for_legis.lative,executiye,~ndjudiciale~enses for.sunthe report was adopted. dry civil expenses, for fortificatwns, for the D1str1ct of Columbia, for pens10ns, and for all deficiencies be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. SPRIGGS moved to reconsider the vote by which the report was Resolved That so much a.s relates to the judiciary ofthe united S~tes, to legisadopted; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be la-id on the lation tou~hing citizenship and naturalization, the suppression of polygamy, 

the enactment of a statute oflimitations barring claims against the Government, table. the question of international copyright, an_d the reorganiz~~ion of the Depart- • The latter motion was agreed to. ment of Justice be referred to the Committee on the Judicuuy. · LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Resolved, That so much as relates~ t he curren_cy and to national banking associations be referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Mr. MILLS. I ask that the gentleman from lllinois, Mr. PAYSON, Resolved That so much as relates to the coinage and the mints of the Unit-ed · fr d th H t ru t f · k States be ~eferred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. . be excused omatten ance upon · e ouse o- ::ty, on accoun ° SIC - Resolved, That so much as relates t-o the regulation ofintersta~e c?mmerce and 

ness. the regulation of international commerce be referred to the Comm1ttee on ComThere was no objection, and leave was granted. merce. 
1886. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 613 

Resolved, That s~ m_uch as relates to the improvement of !ivers and_ harbors, 

Including appropnat1ons therefor, be referred to the Committee on R1vers and ~~~ . . 

Resolved, That so much as relates to agriculture, including appropriatio.ns 

therefor, be referred to the Committee on Agriculture. 

Resolved, That so much as relates to the Army of the United States and to the 

Department of ·war, including appropriations therefor and to J?roviding !1!1 n.rmament for the defense on the seacoast, be referred to the Committee on 1\Iihtary Aff~irs. 

Hesolc:ed, That so much as relates to the Navy of the United States and thereconstruction of our naval establishment, including appropriations therefor, be 

J>efe1·re<l to the Committee on Naval Affairs. 

Resolved '.fhat so much as relates to postal affil.irs, including appropriations 

t11erefor a~d to the reduction of rates, be referred to the Committee on Post- Ofliccs and Post-Roa<.IS. · Rtsnlre•l. That so much as relates to the public domain and legislation to pre- Yent frauds and revive the homestead policy in t-he disposal of our public lands 

be referred to the Committee on Public Lands. 

Resolved, That so much as relates t-o . the care, education, and manage?lent of 

the Indians, including appropriations therefor, be referred to the Committee on Inrlian Atl"nirs. 

Resolved. That so much as relates to the organization and government of the 

T<:'rritorie he refe1·red to the Committee on the Territories. &solt ~l That so much as relates to the carea.ndimprovementofpnblicbuilding;;and g~·ounds be referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

Hesol cetl, '.fhat so much as relates to patents be referred to the Committee on P a tents. 

!'niN'i'l:\G I'OR .APPROPRIATIONS COMl\IITI'EE. 

Ir. RANDALL. I an ii.1.3tructed by the Committee on Appropriations to report the resolution which I send to the desk. 

The Clerk read as follor.·s: 

r.esolvul. That the Committee on Appropriations be atitborized to have printed or UOlllld all docurncnt.'l for the u -e of the said committee that they Ina.y deem nee- l'SSf\I"Y in connection with thes:..~bje tin relation to appropriations being considered or to be considered by Ute said committee during the present Congress. 

·The SPEAKER. The resolution will be referred to the Committee 

of the Whole House on the state of the Union. 

l\Ir. TOWNSHEND. It ought to be adopted at once, ought it not? 

The SPEAKER. It can not be adopted under this call. 

The resolution was referred to the Committee of the.Whole House on th3 state of the Union. 

JUDGMENTS 9F COURT OF CLAD!S. 

Mr. HAMMOND, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported 

back favoTIJ.bly a bill (H. R. 3253) to amend section 1090 of the Revised 

Statutes relat~ng to interest on judgments rendered by the Court of 

Claims; which was rcfen·ed to the House Calendar, and, with the ac- companying report, ordered to be printed. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

The Committee on Territories was called. 

1\Ir. SPRINGER. I will ask permission for the chairman of the Committee on Territories to make a report a.t the end of the call. The bill 

has been temporarily mislaid. 

There was no objec:tion. 

llHOD.A DANE. 

Mr. MATSON, from the ·Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported 

baGk with a favorable recommendation the bill (H R. 551) p-ranting a pension to Rhoda Dane; which was referred to the Committee of the 

Whole Honse on.the Private Calendar, and, with the accompanying 

report,. ordered to be printed. 

WILLIAM n. KEITH. 

Mr. MORRILL, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported 

back with a favorable recommendation the bill (H. R 693) granting a pension to William B. Keith; which was referred to the Committee of 

the Whole House on the Private Calendar, and, with the accompanying 1·eport, ordered to be printed. 

1\IRS. M . .A. BICKERDYKE. 

1111·. UORRILL, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, also reported back with a favorable recommendation the bill (H. R. 700) granting a pension to Mrs. M. A. Bickerdy ke; which was referred to the 

Committee of the Whole Honse on the Private Calendar, and, with 

the accompanying report, ordered to be printed. 

PHILIP D. CAMPBELL. 

Mr. MORRILL, from the Committee on Invalitl Pensions, also reported back favorably the bill (H. R. 698) granting a pension to Philip 

D. Campbell; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, and ordered to be printed. 

.ADVEUSE REPORTS. 

l\Ir. 1\IORRILL, fron;1. the Committee on Invalid Pensions, also re- ported back adversely the following bills; which were severally laid on the table, and the accompanying reports ordered to be printed: 

A bill (H. R. 680) granting a pension to Rebecca S: Lowery, guardian; 

A bill (H. R. 744) granting a pension to Holden Cook; 

A bill (H. R. G84) granting a pension to James Dye; 

A bill (H. R. 683) for the relief of Robert H. Hughes; :mel 

A biJl (H. R. G75) (or the relief of Samuel Hen!Y· 

JOHN P. DAVIS. 

Mr. HAYNES, from the Committee on Im-alid Pensions, reporterl 

bad<: favorably a bill (II. R. 14G8) increasing the pension of John P. 

Davis; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

Private Calendar, and ordered to be printed. 

MARGARET FLAHERTY. 

l\Ir. HAYNES, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, also reported 

back favorably the bill (H. R. 1475) granting a pension to Margaret 

Flaherty; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on 

the Private Calendar, and ordered to be printed. 

CHANGE OF REFERE.XCE. 

Mr. LOVERING, from the Committee on Invalid Pension , reported 

back favorably the bill(H. R. 203) for the relief of Thomas Butler, and 

moved that the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from its 

further consideration, and that the bill be referred to the Committee on 

Pensions. 

There being no objecUon, it was so ordered. 

THOMAS M. 00::\IMUCK. 

Mr. CONGER, from the Committee on Innuid Pensions, reported 

back favorably the bill (H. R.. 646) granting a pensi<>n to Thomas M. 

Commuck; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Cal(mdar, and ordered to be printed. 

DANIEL B. CLARK. 

Mr. NEECE, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported back 

favorably a bill (H. R.. 414) granting a pension to Daniel B. Clark; 

which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, and ordered to be printed. 

ASCERTAINME:NT OF FACTS IN }"RIVATE CLAIMS. 

Ur. SPRINGER, from the Committee on Claims, reported back, with 

the recommendation thatit be adopted, the following resolution; which 

was read, and referred to the Honse Calendar: 

Resolt:ed, That the Committee on Claims be instructed to inquire int-o the ex- pediency of passing general laws for the ascertainment of the facts in all pri- Yate measures by some judicial tribunal before action by Congress; and also the 

propriety of prohibiting the adjudication of private claims or relief·measures by Congress, with power to report by bill or otherwise. 

W AB. CL.ADIS. 

Ur. GEDDES, from the Committee on War Claims, reported back, 

with amendments, the bill (H. R. 9 9) for the all~waJ?.ce of ctrtain claims 

reported by the accounting officers of the United States Treasury Department; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. 

C. M. BRIGGS. 

Mr. STONE, of Kentucky, from the Committee on War Claims, re- ported a bill (H. R. 3828) for the relief of the estate of C. M. Briggs, 

deceased; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, and ordered to be 

printed. 

FRANCES E. STEWART, ADMINISTRATRIX. 

Ur. RICHARDSON, from the Committee on War Claims, reported a 

bill (H. R. 3829) for the relief of Frances E. Stewart, administratrix of 

MichaelS. Stewart, deceased; which was read a first and second time, 

referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the Private Calendar, 

and ordered to be printed. 

JOSEPH W. PARISH. 

Mr. LYMAN, from the Committee on War Claims, reported a bill 

(H. R. 3830) for the relief of Joseph W. Parish; which was read a first 

and second time, referred to the Committee of the Whole Honse on the 

Pri vatc Calendar, and ordered to be printed. • 

WYO)IING TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE. 

Mr. HILL, fTOm the Committee on Territories, reported back fa\Tor· 

ably a bill (S. 602) to legalize the election of the Territorial Legislative 

Assembly of Wyomin~; which was Teferred to the Committee of the 

Whole House on the Private Calendar, and ordered to be printed. 

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. 

Mr. CALDWELL, from the Select Committee on the Election of President an.d Vice-President, reported back without amendment the bill 

(S. 471) to prov:I'Ue for the performance of the duties of the office of Pres· 

ident in case of the removal, death, resignation, oi inability both of the 

President ami Vice-President; which was referred t<> the Honse Calenendar, and, with the accompanying report, onlered to be printed. 

Mr. COOPER Differing from the majority in reference to this re- port, I desire consent to submit a minority report. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. COOPER] asks con- sent to present the views of a minority of the committee, to be printed 

with those of the majority. . Mr. CALDWELL. There is no objection to that. 

:Mr. COOPER. I understood there would nC)t be. 

The SPEAKER. If there be no objection, lea\e will be granted. 

There being no objection, it was ordered accordingly. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

Mr. REAGAN. Is it now in order to move to go into the Committee 
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of the Whole on the state of the Union for the consideration of the 

Pre ident's annual message? 

The SPEAKER. The Chair inclines to think that under the rules, 

even as amended, it is in order at the expiration of the first morning 

hour to move to go into the Committee of the Whole on the state of 

the Union to consider revenue or general appropriation bills, but that a motion to go into the Committee ofthe Whole on the state of the Union 

gunerally can not be made until after the committees have been called, 

in the second hour provided for by the new ruJes, for the consideration 

of measures previously reported. 

Mr. REAGAN. I give noticethatidesiretomakethemotion when- ever it may be in order. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair, in accordance with the rules, will now call the committees for the consideration of bills, after which the mo- tion indicated by the gentleman from Texas will be in order. The 

Chair will ~tate that during the hour now about to begin each committee 

as reached will have the right to call up for consideration any bill reported by it on a previous day. The call begins at seventeen minutes 

l)efore 1 o'clock. . 

REMOVAL OF PROSECUTIONS FROM STATE COURTS. 

Mr. Hil:I:MOND (the Committee on the Judiciary having been 

called). Mr. Speaker, as the chairman of our committee [Mr. TucKER] 

is not now in his seat I desire to call up from the House Calendar a bill 

reported yesterday-from that committee, the bill (H. R. 2) to amend 

section 643 of the Revised Statutes ofthe United States. 

The SPEAKER. The bill will be read, after which the question of 

consideration may be raised if any gentleman so desires. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

Be 1t enacted, etc., That section 643 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by inserting therein, after th{l word "void," in the fourth sentence thereof. the following: · . '

1 Provided, however, That when any criminal prosecution shall be removed from a. State court to a. United States court before a. presentment by-a. grand jury or indictment shall have been made and filed against the defendants in the State court, it shall be lawful for the State court to proceed in such ca.se so far as to have such presentment or indictment made a.nd filed in said State court; and after the same is so made and filed the clerk of the United States court shall issue a writ of certiorari to the State court for like purposes and with like effect as if the case had been so removed a.fler such presentment or indictment was made and filed in such State court." 

Mr. HAMMOND. Unless someone desirestodiscussthis bill, which 

has received the favorable consideration of the Committee on the Judiciary not only in this House but in the last, I will not occupy time 

upon it, but will simply ask forthereadingofthereport, which covers 

only one pageJ and states the reasons upon which the bill is based. 

The report. (by Mr. HAMMOND) was read, as follows: 

"The CommiUee on the Judiciary, having had the subject under considera- tion, submit the following report: · . "Section 643ofthe Revised Statutes of the United States ha.s for its basis the act of March 2, 1~, 'An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports' (U. S. Shit., voL 4, p. 632). It provided for the removal of actions in State courts against revenue officers on petition, &c., of defendent to circuit court. It declared tha.t when the required proceedings had been had by filing affidavit, 

&c., 1 thereupon it shall be the duty of the said State court to stay all further proceedings in such cause and the said suit of prosecution, upon delivery of such proce [from the United States court] or lea.vmg the same a.s aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be removed to the said circUit court, and any further pro- ceedings, trial, or judgment therein in the State court shall be wholly mill and '\"Oid.' 

"By acts of Jqly 13, 186G (U.S. Stat., vol. H, p.l71), February 28,1871 (U.S. Stat. vol. lG, p. 438), and March 3,1875 (U.S. Stat., vol.l8, p. 401), the nctwass-o amended that the Jaw now covers 'remo\:al of suits and prosecutions again t revenue of- ficers and officers acting under registration laws.' "The language oft.be actofl833 above quot-ed is still the language of section 643. The bill under consideration propo es after said sentence to add these words: " 'Prov.ided, however, That when any criminal prosecution shall be removed from a. State court to a. United States court before a presentment by a grand jury or indictment shall have been made and filed against the defendants in the State court, it shall be lawful for the State courts to proceed in such case so far as to have such presentment.orindictmentmadeandfiledin said State; and after the . same issomadea.nd filed, the clerk of the United States court shall issue a. writ of certiorari totheStatecourt, for like purposes and with like effect as if the case ha.d been so removed after such presentment or indictment was made and filed iD 

such State court.' "The judges of the United States courts have diifered as to the construction of the clause of the act of 1833 a.nd section 643, above quoted. Some have held that no removal could be had under the same until there was n. case made by pre- sentment or indictment and its filing in the office of clerk of a. court of record, upon whom service could be made, and who could certify ~nd send up such record. "Pn the other hand, it has been held that a. removal may be had when naught had been done by the State authorities except the issuance of a warrant for ar- rest by some committing magistrate. In many States these magistrates have no clerk and keep no record. 

"If that trouble be out of the way when a. removal occurs at that stage of affairs, the State courts are enjoined from further proceedings, and the case is between the two jurisdictions suspended. 

""Whoshalldrawthe indictment in the Unit-ed States court? The United States attorney then is, by the statute, made the defendants' counseL Can the grand 

jury of the United States court find a. presentment or true bill for n. State of- fense? That would seem to require express grant of authority at least. 

"If the United States grand jury can so act it is more expensive to take wit- nesses to them than to the courts of the State and county in which the crime is alleged to have been committed, and let them determine whether the defend- ants should be put upon trial. Without deciding which of the two construc- tions of the act is correct, it seeming sufficient that the offered protection of the United States should attach only after formal and more serious charge of a. crime, we 1·ecommend the passage of the bill." 

'.l'he above is a. copy of a. report made from the Judiciary Committee of the 

House in the last Congress. (See Report No.-, first session Forty-eighth Con- gress.) 

The committee again recommends the passage of the bill after it shall be 

f::\~~~ ~da~~~~ea~~~d~eO:tlfs%~!~nt~:C~~~ ~:t:~1~f~~:ti~ which in some of the States the practice is to prosecute by informations. 

Mr. HAIDIOND, As I have already remarked, unless some one desires to oppose this bill I do not care to occupy time in discussing it. . . Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana. If I undenrtand this measure correctly 

I do not desire to oppose it; but I would like to ask a question for information. If we have understood the report correctly the bill simply 

proposes to permit the State court to perfect the prosecution, allowing 

that tribunal to retain jurisdiction of .the cause until the charge is 

crystallized into either indictment or presentment, and then send the 

whole case to the United States couit. 

1\Ir. HAUMOND. That is alL 

:Mr. BROWNE, of Indiana.. I confess it has always seemed to me an anomaly to allow the grand jury of a United States court to find an indictment for a violation of a State statute. With my understanding of 

this bill I see no reason why it should not be passed. 

Mr. HAIDIOND. I suppose no .fnrther discussion on this bill need 

be had, and therefore I call the previous question. 

The previous question was ordered. 

The first question was upon the amendment recommended by the 

committee, to insert after the word "indictment," in lines 9 and 12, 

the words "or information." 

The amendment was agreed to. 

The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed for a. third reading; 

and being engrossed, was accordingly read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. HAMMOND moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the 

table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

TERMS OF CffiCUIT COURT, WILMINGTON, N. C. 

Mr. BENNETT. On behalf of the Committee on the Judiciary I call 

up for present consideration the bill (H. R. 1684) to authorize terms of 

the circuit court of the United S"tates for the eastern judicial district of 

North Carolina at the city of Wilmington, in said district. 

The bill was read, as follows: 

Be it enacted, &c., That terms of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern judicial district of the State of North Carolina shall be held at the city of Wilmington, in said district, at the times now fixed by law for holding the terms of the di trict court of the United States at said place. SEc. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas- sage. 

Mr. BENNETT. I do not desire to discuss this bill. It has been 

favorably reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, and is one of 

purely local concern. 

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time; and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed. 

Mr. BENNETT moved to reconsider the vote by which the· bill was 

passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the 

table. 

The latter motion was agreed to. 

THE PRESIDENT1S MESSAGE. 

Mr. REAGAN. I move, Mr. Speaker, that the House resolve itself 

into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for 

the purpose of coru.1dering the President's message. 

Mr. MORRISON. Onlythis morning a resolution was reported from 

the Committee on Ways and Means for the distribution of the President's message to the appropriate committer.s of the House. It haS 

not been usual, at least not in recent years, to discuss the various rec- ommendations of the President made to us in obedience to his constitutional obligation to recommend for the consideration of Congress 

"such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient" until 

those recommendations were presented for legislative action by bill or otherwise. 

Mr. REAGAN. Let me interrupt the gentleman from lllinois by 

inquiring of the Speaker whether discussion is in order on the motion 

that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole Honse on the state of the Union. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks not. 

Mr. REAGAN. Then I must object. 

Mr. MORRISO~. I ask the gentlemn.J?. from Texas to defer the discussion of the President's message until its recommendations come before the House in some legislative proposition. This is the usual course 

of proceeding, aml I ain not aware of any reason for departing from it, 

nor any justification for snch departure. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas moves that the House 

now resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 

the Union generally. That is the only motiou which can be made 

under the rules. 

The question was put to the House. 

Tbe SPEAKER. The Chair is unable to decide. 
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Mr. REAGAN. I demand a division. 

The House divided; and there were-ayes 90, noes 44. 

So the motion was agreed to. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the Committee of the 

Whole House on the s"k'l.te of the Union, Mr. BLOUNT in the chair. 

The CHA1RUAN. The House is in Committee of the Whole on the 

state of the Union generally, and the Chair recognizes the gentleman 

from Texas [Mr. REAGAN]. 

Mr. REAGAN. Mr. Chairman, availing myself of the latitude of debate allowed in Committee of the Whole, I propose now to offer some 

remarks on a question of great intereSt to our people. 

THE ISSUE. 

The controversy about silver coinage is a contest between the bondholders, bankers, money-lenders, and those having fixed incom€:8 op. 

the one side, and the laborers, middle classes, and debtors of the world 

on the other side. 

Those who desire the demonetization of silver are fraudulently en- deavoring to have this done in violation of existing law and contracts 

in order to forther enrich themselves at the expense of other people, 

while the working people who have to earn the means to pay all public 

indebtedne , the middle classes who live upon their current earnings, 

and the debtor class generally, ask only that they be allowed to pay all 

debts, public and private, according to the law and the contracts under 

which they were created. It is, therefore, a contest between dishonesty 

and honesty, between fraud and fairness, between wrong and right. 

And tbe great question involved is, which of these shall be the rnle by 

which the people of this great free Republic are to be governed. 

The rich moneyed men first conspired to degrade silver as compared 

with gold, and having accomplished this part of their wicked scheme 

for doing away with silver coin and thereby reducing the values of 

property and labor, doubling the value of all evidences of debt, and 

doubling the amount of labor of the working men and women of the 

country which wonld be required to pay these debts-the same men then turn to the people and tell them they are injured by the use of 

silver coin, that the value oftheir labor is reduced by the factthat the 

standard silver dollar is not the equivalent of 100 cents in gold, and 

that to restore to them profitable wages and good prices theymustjoin 

in the crusade against silver and help to strike it out of existence as a 

part of the world's metal money. 

I know of no writer on political economy who does not maintain that a liberal amount of circulating money is essential to the prosperity of 

acountry. Iknowofnonewhodo not insist that an inadequate amount 

of circulating money checks enterprise and impoverishes the people. 

These two propositions may be accepted as axiomatic truths, questioned 

by no one but the selfish and greedy gold-monometallists and their hired or deluded advocates, who have the unblushing effrontery to tell the 

people they will be made better off by reducing the present volume of our money, because then thesmaller sum of money will be worth more 

than the larger, and that their smaller wages will buy more in the 

markets. These men, who by their selfishness and greed deceive themselves, are engaged in the unpatriotic, insincere, and unjust effort to deceive the people into the belief that they will be benefited by a policy 

which would double the labor they must -perform, in order to pay off 

the many billi.onsofdollars of national, St..'l.te, municipal, corporateaml 

private indebtedness of the country. It is the old trick of the demagogues-no longer to be successful with the intelligent people· of this 

country-to try to lnll them into a sense of security by professing devotion to their interest, in order the more certainly and securely to be 

enabled to rob and degrade them. 

The action of Germany displays the animus, the motive of those who 

seek to do away with silver money. In 1857, on account of the very 

large amount of gold which had been taken in the few preceding years 

from the mines of California and Australia, gold had become more 

abundant and relatively cheaper than silver, and the bondholders, 

money-lenders, and bankers of Germany and Austria induced those governments to demonetize gold and to adopt the silver standard, because 

that was the scarcer and dearer metal. .Afterward, when those mines 

ceased to yield so much gold, and when the mines of'the United States 

began to yield silver in greater abundance than gold, making gold the 

scarcer and dearer money, Germany then demonetized silver, in 1871, 

and adopted the gold standard, each time seeking by a reduction of the 

volume of money to increase the value of their securities and the value 

of their money as compared with other property. 

I speak of the effort to demonetize silver, because that is the real object of this movement. The fear that this can not be accomplished has 

caused them to declare now for a suspension of silver coinage. And this 

is no doubt what the President and the Secretary of the Treasury rea.lly 

desire. But the men who are controlling and giving life to this move- ment mean to do away with silver as money. And either the suspension of the coinage or the in.crease ofthe weight of the dollar, though 

not at once meeting their wishes, would still further degrade silver and 

give them a better opportunity to secure its complete demonetization 

hereafter. 

We should continue silver coinage and preser\e our bimetallic standard, too, as one of the means of increasing our trade and of controlling a largerpartofthe commerce of the silver countries of Mexico and Central and Sonth America. We should in this respect have nn American 

policy and not be courting the privilege of making this country a mere 

appendage and help to British auQ. German policy. 

ITS MAG:"!-rTUDE. 

This is more than a national question. ItinvolYes the intere ts of all 

commercial nations, of all civilized peoples. This i o becau e gold 

and silver have through all the ages been recognized as the money of 

the world, the only international money. Many nations ha...-e had bank 

notes and other kinds of paper money current w_ithin the countries 

which authorized its issue, but not current in other countries, and 

therefore properly designated as local money, as contradi tingui hed 

from the world's money-gold and silver. These are recognized as the 

world's money not because all commodities are paid for in coin , uot 

because all exchanges of commodities are made by the aid of gold and 

silver, but because these measure the value of all other money in trans- actions between different countries and nationalities. The value of all 

exchange between different countries is determined mainly h.v the 

amount of metal money available for commercial nse, aml the Ya lne of 

all local paper money is largely controlled by the amount of mcbl 

money. . We can better U.nderstand the magnitude of this question by kt>eping in view some important facts. The national debt of1.be worl d are 

alleged to amount to over 24,000,000,000, and they are ste:-~clily and 

rapidly increasing. The debtsofthe railroad companies are estimated 

to amount to about $fi,OOO,OOO,OOO; the debts of states, muuiclp:tlitie.c:, 

&c., to about $5,000,000,000-aggregating $35,000,000,000. The private indebtedness of the world would probably be the douhle of this 

sum. The amount of metal money in the world is estimated to be 

about $7,000,000,000. The following table, fornishe<l to me by ~rr. 

Burchard, the Director of the Mint, on the 20th of J nne last, shows tlJ e 

estimated amount of gold and silver coin and bnllion in the countries 

named. I have added the aggregates of these sums: 

Countries . Gold coin and bullion. 

United States............................... ... 26, ~ 646 Great Brit-ain and Ireland ... . . .. .... 583, 500, 000 India .................. -........................ ....................... . France ... .......... ......... .......... ......... SiB, 000, 000 Belgium.................................... .. 64, 000, 000 Switzerland................................. 17,000, 000 Italy .................. -......................... 140, 000,000 

Greece............................... ........... 2, 700, 000 Spain............................................ 130, 000, 000 Portugal .. .. ........ ........... ........... .... 30, 000, 000 Germany .... .. .. .......... ......... ...... ... 32.5, 000, 000 Austria......................................... 45, 000, 000 Sweden . .. ...... ............. ..... . ... .. . ..... 15, 000, 000 Denm!\rk .............................. ..... 14, 000,000 Nether lands .. ........ ... ....... . ........ ... 2 • 000, 000 Russia................ ......................... 124,000,000 

Turkey ....................................... 40,000,000 Roumania.... ... ... .. ......... .... ... . . . ...... 163, 000 

Silvet· coin I and bullion. 

$~69 6&) -- -95: ooo: Ooo I , 037,000, 000 595, 000, 000 00, 000, 000 15, 000,000 

72,000,000 2, 700, 000 70,000,000 

10,000, 000 211.,000, 000 75 000, 000 5,000, 000 5, 000,000 

57,000,000 

35,000,000 

11,000,000 

Total................................... 3, 032, 78-5, 6!6 2, 625, 365, 75 

Totn.l. 

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1, 037, OU I, llOO 

1, 4~ 3. wo. oro 124, OGO. 000 32, 000, 000 212, 000,000 

5, -JOO, OGO 

20n.om.uou 

40, UiJJ. 000 516,0110, OIX) 

120, 000,000 

20, 000,000 19, 000,000 85, 000,0CO 

124, 000, 000 

75,000.01:0 

11,163,000 

5, 65&, 151. 4.04 

Notwithstanding the existence of these great facts, if we were obliged 

to belive the statements and arguments of the gold men of this country 

we should be driven to suppose silver to be an evil thing in our country 

and throughout the world, and that it is especially discredited in the 

commercial countries of Europe. 

The Director of the l\Iint, in his annual report now before us, sllows 

on the authority of our foreign ministers that in Great Britain and 

Ireland, with their $580,500,000 in gold, their $95,000,000 silver, and 

their $199,160,115 of outstanding bank notes, all are taken in business 

transactions at par; that in France with her 848,000,000 of golC., 

595,000,000 of silver, and her $574,675,197 of outstanding notes of the 

Bank of France, the gol.d and sil;er and notes of the Bank of France are at parandalegal tender; thatinBelgium, withher$64.,000,000ofgold, 

60,000,000 ofsil er, and $89,000 in national-bank notes, they are at par 

with each other; that in Switzerland, with her $17,000,000 of gold, 

$15,000,000 of silver, and 24,960,304 of bank notes: they are at par with 

each other; that in Spain, with her 130,000,000 of gold, $70,000,000 of 

si.l ver, and $4,737 ,53B in notes of the Hank of Spain, "gold, silver, and the 

notes of the Bank of Spainareatpar; " that in Germany, with her$325,-

000, 000 of gold, $211,000,000 of silver, $33,602,327 in government notes, 

and 252,655,564 in bank notes, the coin and paper are received indiscri.minately at par; that in Austria-Hungary, with her $45,000,000 of gold, 

75,000,000ofsilver, $139,211,632ingovernmentnotes, and 147,659,937 

in bank notes, ''thenotesareteceivedatparwithsilver. Goldisusedfor 

trade purpo es, and only on special agreement.'' In Denmark, with her 

$14,000,000 of gold, her 5,000,000 of si.lv:er, $3,752,000 notes of her 

silver bank, and$19,564, 000 outstanding national-bank notes, ''the gold 

and silver coin, as well as the notes of the national bank, are taken at 

par." In the Netherlands, with her $28,000,000 of gold, $57,000,000 
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of silver, $3,885,860 in government notes, and $77,790,254 in bank 

notes, "coin and paper money have the same value in circulation." 

The foregoing table and the fc'tCts just presented enable us to understand the injury to mankind which must result from the degradation or abandonment of silver az money . . 

The Secretary of the Treasury in his recent annual report states that 

about 54 per cent. of the world's metal moneyis silver, and that about 

46 per cent. is gold. If these estimates are to be relied on (and they nre certainly accurate enough for the illustration I have in view), then 

thereisin theworld$3,780,000,000of silver money and $3,220,000,000 

of g~ld money . . Now, the values of commodities and of all bonds and 

other ec:urities are regulated and controlled by the amount of this 

money of the world. If we subtract the silver from the amount of 

metal money in the world, we shall therefo~e have but $3,220,000,000 

bywhich to measure all v!Uuesand all debts. Theresultmust be that 

nil bonds and securities, national, ~tate, municipal, and corporate, will 

be about doubled in value us compared with the labor and property out 

of which they are to be paid, and all labor ann property would be re- duced about one-half in value. And it ehould be constantly kept in 

mind that an these debts are to bepaiq.. and can only be paid by labor: 

by the toil of men a'Qd women. We can not realize what the amount of the world's debts are by looking at the aggregates. The human mind can not embrace their full 

meaning. We must adopt some. mode of looking at the details in order 

to underst.·md what such :figures mean. Take the $35,000,000,000 of 

indebtedness abov<" mentioned and imagine ohe man set to count it 

dollar by dollar and that he could count $60 per minute, 53,600 per 

hour, $28, 00 per day of eight hours, and three hundred and ten working 

days iu the year, it would 'require three thousancl five hundred and 

twent.y·:fi'le years :md a fraction for hiin to count that sum. The creditors of these enormous sums seek to double the value of their 

inYestmerits by the demonetization of silver. It is a quality of greed 

and a mrice to overreach themselves. If they could succeed in doubling 

the amount of l;:tbor and property necessary to pay these debts, they 

would render their full payment impossible in the present condition of 

the world. 

Grea.t Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and 

Sweden are the great creditor nations. The United States, AustriaHungary, Russia., Italy, Spain, Turkey, India, Egypt, Mexico, Brazil, 

and the other South American states, and the Britisl,. colonies are the 

great debtor nations of the world. 1\Iany of these nations, especia1Jy 

those of Europe and Asia, have vast standing armies and great navies, 

which it taxes all their resources to their utmost to keep up. Indeed, 

Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Turkey, and Egypt are only able 

to keep np their armies ~nd navies by borrowing more money and incurring additional debts. And their people are oppressed and kept in 

that ignorance which springs from toil and poverty to feed and clothe 

these armies and in payJUg the interest on present debts, without the 

hope of being able to reduce the burden by . paying off the principal. 

If these cormorants were a.s wise as they are avaricious they would see that the success of their policy in demonetizing silver would defeat the 

payment of these debts, and would in nil human probability produce a 

degree of oppression and distress in many of these countries which 

would cause civil commotions likely to shake many thrones and hurl 

ruling dynasties from power. And if they could succeed in this coun- try, the distress which would necessarily follow would cause an indig· 

mmt and outraged people to drive the men who brought it about from 

place and from power. While the people of the monarchies of the Old 

World may be compelled by vast standing armies to submit to robbery 

by the capitalists, the gold monometallists of this country would do 

well to remember that ours are still a free and intelligent people, who 

will not consent to become the slaves of avaricious, mercenary, and cor- ru:~.t men. 

WIJO BE~FlTED AND WIJO INJURED TIY SUCH A POLICY. 

The effect of the demonetization of silver would be to benefit a few 

rich men and to impoverish and degrade the vast mass of the laboring 

and middle classes of the people-to .make a few more millionaires and a vast increase of the army of tramps and paupers. It would especially benefit the rich capitalists of Great Britain, Germany, Norway, 

Sweden.l.. Denmark, and Portugal, which are creditor nations and goldstandar<l countries, and still further ·oppress the laboring poor of those 

countries. It would greatly injure the interests of the people generally of the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Chili, Uruguay, Para .. 

guay, Greece, Holland, Belgium3 France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, 

and J apan r most of them debtor nations and all of them bimetallic gold 

and silver standard countries, and of Russia, Austria, Egypt, British 

India, Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, and Peru, most of them 

debtor nations and all silver-standard countries. 

It should be mentioned that the population of the countries which 

have the gold standard alone amounts to but about 93,000,000. The 

population of the countries which have the bimetallic gold and silver 

standard amounts to over 187,000,000, while the population of the 

countries which have the sil\cr standard alone amounts to about 

769,000,000. 

The gold ·monometallists insult decency and defy common sense by insisting that laboring men and women are to be benefited by imposing on them the necessity of doing twice as much work as the L'lw now requires them to do in order to pay off all public, mtmicipa1, corporate, 

and private indebtedness. , 

FALSE PRETESSES. 

The gold men pretend that our silver dollar is not full weight, that 

it is a cut dollar, that it is a dishonest dollar, and therefore wrongly imposed on the people. One answer to this is, that it has the same amount 

of fine silver in it that has been in the American silver dollar from-1792 

to this time, ninety-three years, Another answer is, that the purchasing power of the silver dollar is now about 25 per cent. greater than it was in 1870, when it was above par with gold, as is shown by the fol 

lowing table, which I copy from the recent speech of Senator BECK, 

of Kentucky, on the silver question: 

Articles. 

Indian corn ........... .. .... .... ....... ... ... ......... ..... .. per bushe l .. . 'Vheat ......... .......... .. .............. · ... ....... ......... ....... .. ...... do .. ... . 'Vheat fiour .. ..... .... .. ........ ...... ...... : ......... ... ... , per barrel. .. Cotton ..... ...... ..... .. . " ..................... . : .... ..... . ..... per ponnd .. . Leather ......... ...... .. ... ................ ............... ................ do ..... . 1\lineral oils, refined ......... ............................. per gallon .. . 

~~:e:.~~~::.::: :: :::: :: :: :::: :: :::::::: :::::::: :: ~.~~ -.:~3~~: :: Pork, salted ......... ..... ............. ...... ............... ............ do ..... . Beef, salted ......... ... ; ....... ........ ................... .. .......... . do ... . .. Butter ...... ... ..................................... ................ ......... do .... .. Cheese ................................................ ... ...................... do ... .. .. Eggs ............. ......... ........... .................................. per dozen .. .. Starcb ............................................. ............................ p e r pound .. .. 

~~~~~~~~~:1~:::.:::.: :::.: ::: ::::::::::::: :: :::.: .· ·.:· :::.·:.:::·::::::.·:::.:~~:: ::·:: 

Year endin g June 30-

1870. 18S5. 

so 92.5 1 28.9 

G 11.2 

23. 5 

28.5 

30.5 

15. 7 16.6 

13.2 

07.3 

29.3 

15.5 

39.6 

08.2 

12.G 

11.3 

to 54. o 86. 2 4 89. 7 

10.6 

19. 8 08. 7 09.7 . 07. 9 06.3 

07.5 

16.8 

09.3 

21.5 

04.0 

06. 4 09.9 

The difference between the price of gold and sil 'ler is the result of the 

conspiracy between bondholders a~<l bankers and the legislative and 

administrative departments of this and other governments for several 

years past to increase the value of gold and to degrade silver for selfish 

and mercenary purposes. 

Another false pretense is, that silver can not be put in circulation 

and has to be hoarded in the national Treasury. It is hoarded there to some extent because the Secretaries of the Treasury from 1 78 until now have, in violation of law, refused to treat it as money and to pny it 

out to· the public creditors and in this way put it in circulation. But 

let us look further at this. We are told by the President and by the 

Secretary of the Treasury that there has been $215,000,000 of silver 

coined up to date; that $50.000,000 of this is in circulation in the form 

of coin; that $93,000,000 is in circulation in the form of silver certi 

:fi·cates. This is a convenient form for its circulation, prevents loss from 

abrasion, and gives the people at large the bene.fit of all certificates lost 

or destroyed. That leaves in the vaults of the Treasury and out of c:ir 

culation $72,000,000. . The Secretary of the Treasury shows in his report, page 13, tl1at there was on the 1st of November, 1885, in gold in the Treasury the sum of ~142,338,589.29. Now, we have heard no complaint from the gold men about the hoarding of this large sum of gold in the Treasury. He also 

shows that the available assets in the Treasury at that time, excluding 

fractional coin and other unavailable items, is $259,437,431.25. Fifty 

million dollars, itisbelieved;would be a sufficient reserve, coupled with 

the incoming revenue, to meet the current expenses of the Government 

That sum taken from the available revenue would leave $166,84!>,695. 74 

available for the payment of the public debt. Why should we not ex tinguish that amount of the public debt and relieve the people of the 

burdenofpayingtheinterestonthatsumandatthesametimethrowthat 

1argesum ofmoneyinto.circulation to give increased activitytoproduc 

tion and to business, and thus stimulate and give fuller reward to indus 

try and enterprise. I undertake to say we do not do this because it is to 

the interest of the national banks to prevent the payment of the public 

debt, and they have so fur controlled the policy of the Government. in 

this respect; thus sacrificing the best interests of the country and of the 

people, whose labor creates its wealth, to furnish bonds as a basis for 

banking and to gmtify the inordinate greed of a rich class of consumers who create nothing. 

It may be said as a partial answer to this, that the law of 1875 and 

of 1882 basset apart$100,000,000 in the Treasury for the redemption of 

the outstanding legal-tender (greenback) notes. If that law is to con 

t.inue to encumber our statute-books, we. would then, on the l>asis I 

have suggested, only have $66,849,695.74 available for the payment of 

the public debt.· The payment of this sum, however, would reduce con siderably the public burdens and give greatly increased activity to busi ness and enterprise. 

In 1878 Congress deliberately determined to preserve the$346, 000,000 

of legal-tender notes as a part of the volume of our currency, as a means 
0 . 

1886. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-HOUSE. 617 

of preventing hard times and to revive-the business of the country and 

restore its prosperity. And we all know it had this effect. This was certainly better for all interest~:! tlian to have reduced the volume of the .. currency by that sum and to have converted it into an interest-bearing 

bonded debt, which the stock-gamblers, bankers, and bondholders aimed 

to do. 

The country has not yet forgotten the recklessness with which the 

national banks at that time contracted the volume of the currency near- ly $19,000,000 in a few weeks, in order to try to intimidate Congress 

and the President and prevent the passage of the act of February 28, 

1878, "to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to 

restore its legal-tender character," and to prevent the passage of the 

aet of May 28, 1878, "to forbid the further retirement of United States 

legal-tender notes.'' Their unpatriotic and selfish conduct on that oc~ 

casion ought to have caused the gradual abandonment of the national 

banking system; and their persistent seliishness and hostility to the 

public welfare and the fact that they have made themselves a political power dangerous to the public still cry out for their suppression. 

They would have produced a financial panic at that time if it had not 

been prevented by the Secretary of the Treasury putting a considerable 

amount of money in circulation by the purchase of Government bonds 

in the New York market. 

To this, I am aware, it may be objected· that the national banks fLunish a good currency, current in all parts of the country alike, and that 

the public interests would not be consulted by the disturbance of busi- ness and by the retirement of so much currency from circulation. · These objections may be easily and ad v:tntageonsly met and overcome by providing by law that there shall be no increa e of the national-bank 

circulation; that no others shall be chartered; that as the charters of 

existing banks expire, and as their currency is called in and retired, 

Treasurynotes ofthe UnitedSt.ates to an equal amount shall take the 

place of their notes. The change would thus be made without a single 

jar to business, and the substituted Treasury notes would be of exactly 

the same na.ture and quality and wGnld answer exactly the same purposes as the national-bank notes. They would not be a legal tender, 

and the national-bank notes are not; they would be a first-c~ss com- mercial paper, and current alike in all ·parts of the country as the 

national-bank notes are; they should be made redeemable in coin at the wm of the bill-holder as the national-bank notes are. The national banks showed us by their contraction of the volume of 

the currency in 1878 their readiness to use the power of contraction for an immoral and dishonest purpose; and we are now fully warned that 

they may be expected, as long as they have the power to control the 

volume of the currency, to use tbat·power to control legislation and to 

raise and lower the prices of st.'l.ple articles of commerce, such as cotton, 

wheat, and flour, meats, iron, and steel, cotton and woolen goods, petroleum, &c., or to make corners on them, to enrich themselves and their 

confederates. By abolishing this system we would be relieved from 

the danger of a political power which is trying to control in its own interest the currency question; is hostile to the interest of the people; 

is aiming, in its own interest and against the interests of the country, to 

perpetuate the public debt and make it an end)ess burden on the people. 

These dangers ought to be removed by doing away with the system. 

In 1878, when the bill was passed providing for the coinage of silver 

dollars and making them a legal tender, we were warned in awfully 

solemn terms by bondholders and bankers, and by newspapers and mem- bers of Congress who represented their interests, that the coinage of 

silver would drive the gold out of the country and produce at an early 

day most fearful financial distress and disasters. These dismal predictions liave from time to time been repeated ever since by the same per- sons. These direful prophecies have gone on for eight years. I present a table furnished me by the acting director of the Mint showing 

the amounts of gold coin and bullion and the amounts of silver coin 

and bullion exported and the amounts imported during the fiscal years 

1878 to 1885, inclusive, as furnishing a conclusive answer to this scare- crow declamation. 

Imports and exports of coin and bullion into United States. 

Fiscal years. 

1878 ..................... 

1879 ...................... 1880 ..................... 1881 ..................... 1882 .......... _ ......... 

1883 ..................... 

1884 ...................... 1885 ...................... 

I 

Imports of 

gold coin and 

bullion. 

Sl2, 976, 281 5, 624,948 

80,758,396 

100,031, 259 

34,377,054 

17,734,149 

22,831,317 

26,691,696 

301. ()?...5, 100 I 

Exports of Imports of Exports of 

gold coin and silver coin and silver coin and 

bullion. bullion: buUion. 

$9,204,455 Sl6, 490, 599 f'.A, 535, 670 4,587, 614 14,6n,osz 20,409,827 

3,639,025 12,275,914 13,503,894 

2,565,132 10,544,238 16,841,715 

32,587,880 8, 095,336 16,1!'29,599 

11,600,888 10,692,242 20,219,445 

41,081,907 14,594,945 . 26, 051, 426 

8,477,892 16,550,627 33,753,633 

113, 744, 843 I 103, 914,953 172,145,209 

From this it will be seen that during this period, covering the whole 

time since the coinage of standard silver dollars was resumed in 1R78, we have imported $301,025,100 in gold and exported $113,744,843 in 

gold, showing that during this period we have imported into the coun- try 187,280,257 in gold more th:m we have exported from the country. 

This table also shows that during that period we have exported 103,-

914,843 in silver, and that during the same time we have imported 

172,145,209 in silver, showing that in this time we have exported from 

the country 31,769,745 in silver more than we have imported into it. 

This I submit fully explodes this stock argument of the gold mono- metallists. 

Another of the bugaboos which these money-sharks and their representatives have used to frighten us into gold monometallism was that 

Europe would dump all her depreciated silver into this country and in 

exchange take our gold out of the country. This table is a full answer of fact to that theoretic scare-crow. During the last fiscal year we imported 26,691,696 in gold and exported $8,477,843 in gold, showing 

that during the last year 18,213,853 morein goldwasbroughtintothe 

country than was taken out; and that during the same year$16,550,953 

in silver was imported and $33,753,633 in silver was exported, thus 

showing that $17,202,680.more of silver was sent out of the country 

during that year than was brought into the country. 

Now that the theory that silver coinage would drive the gold out of 

the country has been so conclusively exploded, the representatives of 

the bondholders and bankers tell us that our Treasury reserve is going 

to be changed from gold to silver. It will be observed that their fears, _the dangers they predict, the evils they say are to befall the country, are always going to happen on account of some undeveloped thing which 

is to occur hereafter, not because of fa-cts which do actually exist. They 

argue as if we were obliged to have either a gold standard and a gold 

Treasury reserve or a silver standard and a silver Treasury reserv . In 

fact, we ought to have neither, and instead of either we ought to have 

the double standard of gold a:q.d silver: and a Treasury reserve of gold 

and silver, just as we now have. 

How are the gold monometallists going to reconcile thes~ potent official facts with their theory that silver is driving or will drive gold out 

of the country? So long as the balance oftradeisinourfavorgold will 

flow into the country; when the balance· of trade shall be against us, 

both gold and silver will go out of the country. 

I submit the following table, furnished me by Mr. Burchard, Director 

of the Mint, on the 20th June last, to show the annual increase of gold 

in the United States from the 1st of January, 1878, the year in which we recommenced the coinage of silver dollars, to the 1st of January, 

1885. I have not been able to obtain the amount to the 1st of January, 1886. .It also shows the relative amount of gold and silver eaeh 

year, and the amounts in the UnitedStatesTreasuryandincircnlation. 

And in another and conspicuous form it overthrows the theory thatsil· ver is driving gold out of the country. I prefer to illustrate my arguments by great, authenticated facts like those shown by these tables 

rather than by false though ingenious theories, which sometimes amuse and often deceive _us. 

Statement slwwing tlte estimated amount of gold and silver coin anll bullion in the United States on the 1st of January each year from 1878 to 1885 

inclusi-ve, the am.ount in the Treasury, and the amount in acti-ve circulation. 

1878. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 

In the United States: 

Gold coin ................................................................... $218, 000, 000 $273, 000, 000 ~327, 000, 000 .$395, 000, 000 $487, 000, ()()() $524,000,000 $552,()()1),000 $563, 000, 000 Gold bullioninmintsand New York assay office ..... 10,671,164 5, 275,4.2i 61,634,318 95,200,851 87,977,602 51,981,432 66,406,346 63,422,646 

Total gold coin and bullion ......................... , ..... 228,6n,164 278, 275, 4.2i 388, 634, 318 490, 260, 851 574,977,602 575, 9s1, 432 618, 406, 346 626, 422, 646 

Silver coin .................................................................. 65,000,000 95,000,000 128, 000, 000 157, 000, 000 186, 000, 000 213, 000, 000 242, 000, 000 261,000,000 SilYerbullion in mints and NewYork assay office .... 3,374,982' 11,057,140 4,492,421 6,183,224 3,607,829 4,468,193 5,661,841 5,655, 758 

Totalsilvercoinand bullion .............................. 68,374,982 106, 057, 140 132, 492, 421 163,183, 224 189, 607, 829 211,468,193 1 247", 661,841 269, 665,758 In the Treasury : Gold coin and bullion ................................................ ll6,520,9341 135, 382, 639 1 157,7!10,3211 156,742, 095 172,617,467 1 171,004,568 219,014,739 234, 975, 851 Silver coin and bullion ............................... ............... 6,853, 789 30,557,533 56,542,ll4 79,142,799 99,161,408 125, 006,727 151,200, 884 181,362,978 

Total ......................................... ........................ 123, 374, 723 165, 940, 172 214,332,435 235,884,894 211. 778, 875 1 296,511, 295 370, 222, 623 416, 338,829 Outside of the Treasury: 

Gold coin and bullion ................................................ 112, 150, 230 I 142,892,785 230, 843, 9971 333, 518, 756 402, 360, 135 1 ........ liM I 399,391,607 391,446,795 Silver coin and bullion ............................................. 61,521,193 75,499,607 75,950,307 84,040,425 90,446,421 !YJ,461,466 96,453,957 88,:3?2,780 

Total .......... ~ ...... _. .............................................. . 173,6n,4231 218, 392, 392 aoo, 794, 304 1 417,559,181 1 492, 806, 556 1 496, 938, 330 495, 845, 564 479, 749, 575 

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618 CONGRESSION .AL RECORD-HOUSE. JANUARY 12, 

'.tHE DANGERS OF BRITISH AND GERMAN EXAMPLES, 

We are asked to follow the lead of Great Britain and Germany in the 

demonetization of silver. The policy of those countries is simply the 

policy of their riel} men, bondholders, bankers, money-lenders, and per- sons whohave fixed incomes. The poorer and middle classes in those 

countries have little or no voice in snch matters. In those governments 

these classes are useful as soldiers, in killing each other in dynastic wars in which they ha>enointerest, and as laborers, operatives, and taxpayers to support royalty, aristocracy, and other privileged classes. 

They are not expected or allowed to deal in statecraft and great financial questions, and must be content to bear the burdens put upon them 

for the benefit of the privileged classes and the rich. Here we have a different theory. And if these imitators of English and German policy can have their way a few years longer, I fear it will be only a theory 

with us; that our boasted system of free, popular, constitutional selfgovernment will become a matter of history, but will no longer be the 

eruting pride and glory of every true American heart. Their whole 

political theory and system are different from ours. Theirs are governments of force, whose rulers are sovereigns and whose people are subjects. Oursisagovernmentofconsent, whose people are sovereign and 

whose officers are servants. And we should think well before we follow the examples set by them in political and financial matters. 

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is the 

last and highest development of political science. It means that it is 

the government of a people who are all sovereigns and equal before the 

law. It means that we are to have no royalty, no aristocracy either of 

mnk or wealth, no classes enjoying privileges not common to all. It 

means a government which protects all its citizens alike and allows exelusive privileges to none. It means a government in which every citizen 

is guaranteed all the fruits of his labor except what is necessary for the 

support of government, and in which no man's prosperity can be lawfnlly taken from him and given to another without his consent. Such a government is only practicable among a free people of a high order ot 

intelligence and virtue, and could not long exist among a people wanting in these qualities. It grieves me to say that while in many of our State constitutions we declare that perpetuities and monopolies are con- trary to the genius of a free people, we are to-day the worst monopolyridden·people, I think, in the civilized world. And if railroad monopolies, bank monopolies, and protective-tariff monopolies continue to rule 

this country a few years longer, as they have for the last twenty years, 

and to transfer the property of the connt1"Y by the hundreds of millions 

of dollars annually from the oppressed many to the privileged and protected few, I fear that oUT government, hitherto the asylum of the oppressed of all lands and the home of the free and happy, will become 

the prey and the spoil of the rich few and of their corrupt and despotic 

associ, tes. The abolition of one-half of the metal money of this coun- try and the adoption of a policy which will require twice as many days 

oflabor, twice as much oftheprodnctsoflabor, as are now required to 

pay all debts, public and private, which will greatly inc1-ease the wealth 

of the few and as certainly increase the poverty of the many, will be 

the longest stride ever taken toward the overthrow of our political system and the establishment in its stead of a government of fraud and 

force. DIFFEREI\"T CO:ll-niTIONS CALL FOR DIFFER:Eh"T POLICIES. 

Why should we follow the example of Great Britain and Germany 

on the silver question? Both of those are great creditor nations; their 

people are holding large quantities of the interest-bearing securities of 

other countries-Great Britain to the extent of $3,250,000,000, and 

Germany to theextentof$2,000,000,000. The UnitedStatesisadebtor 

nation to the extent of $1,843,713, 715.80, as shown by the public debt 

statement for December, 1885. The public debt of the States, Territories, counties, townships, towns, cities, boroughs, villages, and school 

districts of the United States was in 1880 $1,117,585,546, as shown by 

the United States census. The railroads of the United States in 1880 were indebted to the amountof$5,65 ,914.,158. These threecla es of 

indebtedness amounted in the aggregate, at that time, to $8,620,213,-

419.80, and the two last items have no doubt been considerably increa ed since 1880. This does not include the private indebtedness of 

the country, and I have ;not the means of stating what that is, but it 

is probably as great in the aggregate as the public indebtedness. Now, 

by following the example of Great Britain and Germany on the silver 

question we should aid them in about doubling the value of the $5,250,-

000,000 of securities they together hold on foreign countries, as compared with the labor and property out of which these securities are to 

be paid. And we should about double the amount of labor and property which would be required to pay the 8,620,213,419.80of our public 

indebtedness as well as of all private indebtedness. A comparatively 

few bondholdersJ bankers, ancl money-lenders in this country would be 

benefited by such folly, while the vast rna s of the people would be 

injured and impoverished by it. 

'\Ye ought not to follow their example, because such a course would 

injure the world at large while doing a great wrong to our own people. 

We ought not to follow their example for another imyortant reason: Great Britain is not a silver-producing country, and Germany produces 

very little. The report of the Director of the 1\Iint, recently laid before 

us, shows the world's product of silver for 1884 to have been 115,-

147,8'78. Of this sum it shows that the United States produced 48,-

800,000, which is more than 42 per cent. oftheworld'sprodnctfor that 

year. We are asked, therefore, to sacrifice the silver interest of the 

greatest silver-producing conntl"Y in the world. Besides this, Mr. Williams, a gent.leman connected with the Geological Durean, who prepared 

the volume now being published on the mineral rE>.sources of the United 

States for 1883 and 1884, states, that the lowest estimate which can 

be placed on the capitalized valneofoursilvermines and works, it would 

not be below 106,000,000. And he adds that "the census accounts 

for no less than 27,000,000 invested in the reservoirs, :flnmes,.ditches, 

&c., of the hydraulic mines alone, and it has been claimed that these 

figures are far short of the truth.'' 

After reviewing the question and showing the difficulty of obtaining 

exact information, he says: 

While, therefore, U is impossible to reach even an approximate estimate ns to the actual investment in silver mining, we know it to be a. large amount, perhaps $300,000,000, perhaps $500,000,000, possibly more, but certainly in exc of 

106,000,000. 

He also estimates that there may be about 130,000 persons engaged 

in silver mining in this country, and about 520,000 supported by silver 

mining. Towns and cities ha>e been bnilt up to meet the necessities of our silver-mining interests, and railroads and wagon-roads constmcted 

for the same purpose. And they are large consumers of clothingl food, 

iron, steel, quicksilver, and machinery. Silver mining istheprincipal 

business in some of our Western States and Territories. 

In addition to being asked to double the debt burdens of our people, we are asked to sacrifice all these resources in silver-God's boon and 

blessing to us and to the world..:_to sacrifice all the investments in our silver-mining operations; to pan pe1ize mor"C than half a million of people, 

and bankrupt thousands of our most enterprising citiz~ns, in order to 

help a few rich men in our own and other countries to perpetrate upon 

our own people and those of other countries the mo8t stupendous fraud, 

considered in all its bearings, ever perpetrated on mankind. 

While this scheme of demonetizing silver is to double the value of the 

bonded indebtedness of the world, and to double the purchasing power 

of the gold of the world, and to require double the amount of labor and 

property .now required to pay the debts of the world, I want to ask the 

question, for each person to aiiswer to himself on his conscience, is there 

one man in the world silly enough to believe the bondholders, bank- ers, and money-lenders would be willing to take one-half the face of 

their securities in satisfa.ction of the sums owing to them? If they 

take away half the means of paying, in good COIL''iCience and honor, if 

they are honest men, they ought to reduce their claims for payment one- half. But they will do no such thing. They expect to be able to use 

the political power of this and other countries to violate the law and the 

contracts under which they obtain and own bonds, and to rob the people 

of what should go to feed, clothe, and educate their children and prepare 

them to become good, intelligent, and useful citizens. I can not and do not 

believe that God's justice will permit the consummation of such a crime 

against right, decency, humanity, and civilization. And is there a sane man in the world, of ordinary intelligence, who believes that the states- men of either Great Britain or Germany would make such a sacrifice 

of the material interests of their conn tries and of the rightsoftheirpeople 

as their moneyed men are asking us to make for OUT corm try and people? 

Money-lenders and stock-gamblen; modestly ask us to sacri1ice this great 

source of our wealth, which any other nation would give millions to 

possess. And men are found in the American Congr who adYocate 

a policy which would lead to this result, if successful. 

THE RE.liiEDY. 

We are responsible to our people for the protection of their rights. 

We have the power to protect them. It is our duty to protect against 

this cnnning and wicked scheme of robbery. If I am asked how, I am prepared to answer, thatFirst. I would provide for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. 

Second. I would provide for the issuance of silver certificates of $5 

and upward on all deposits in the Treasury or subtreasuries of silver 

coin or bullion of standard fineness, when $100 or more should be preented. 

Third. I would so amend the second section of the act of Congress of 

January 14, 18i5, "to provide for the resumption of specie payments," 

and the twelfth section of the act of July 12, 1882, '' to enable banking associations to extend their corporate existence, and for other purposes,'' 

as to repeal the specia.l reservation of $100,000,000 of gold for theredemption of legal-tender notes, a.nd instead of thn.t special reservation 

would provide for a general reserve of $50,000,000, in addition to the current revenues, to meet all the contingent needs of the Treasury. 

Fourth. I would require the Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the 

silver in the Treasury as he does the gold in satisfaction of all public 

indebtedness; and to pay out all above the 50,000,000reserve, andreduce the principal and stop the interest of our public debt to that extent. 

Fifth. I would provide that no more national banks should be chartered; that no additional notes for circulation should be furnished to 

those now in existence; and that, as the charters of those in existence 

expire, and as their circulation is called in: a like amount of United 

States Treasury notes should be issued to take their place as currency. 
1886 .. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 619 

In a former part of my remarks I stated the reasons for this, and need 

not repeat them. 

I profoundly regret that there should be differences between Democrats on this question. The Presfdent in his message and the Secretary 

of the Treasury in his annual report have shown wisdom and true statesmanship in many of their recommendations, and wherever I ca.n it will 

affonl me pleasure to sustain their views. But on this question I must 

follow the tradi lions of the Democratic party and its principles, as illustrated in many test-votes in both branches of Congress within the last 

ten years; and I must sustain the interests of my constituents, those of 

the people of the whole cou:iltry and of mankind, as affected by this 

question. • The Democratic party is now on trial before the country. TheRepublican party was turned out of power because it abandoned the interests of the people on all the great questions which affected the material 

interest of the country, such as the regulation of interstate commerce, 

the tariff, banking and currency, and the coinage of silver, and surrenderml the great political powers which it controlled, as the dominant 

political party of the country, to the service and support of the interests 

of the corporations and the money-power. The Democratic party resisted and denounced this course as a betrayal of the great political trust 

confided to the Republican party. 

I do not wish to be understood as -saying that all Republicans and 

• all Democrats occupied the positions I have a signed to the e parties 

respectively on these questions. There were RepublicanS, especially 

in the West, who did not agree with the action of their party on these 

questions. And there wei"e Democrats, mainly in the East, who did 

not agree with their party on the e questions. But I have stated correctly the positions of the two great political parties. 

Now we find leading Democrats asking the Democracy, as a party, 

to take on these questions the very positions and to advocate the views 

for which the people drove the Republicans from power. Will we do 

this? If we do, then we ought all to join the Republican party; for on these questions there would be no difference between these parties. 

And if we do, then the Democratic party must cease to exist. It has 

been the party of the people from the foundation of the Government 

up to this time, I"esisting all tbl"ough our hjstory monopolies and class 

interests and defending and protecting the rights of the people. If it 

should ever become the defender of monopolies, corporations, and the 

money-kings as against the rights of the people (which God forbid) it 

will cease to be the Democratic party, and the people will have to look 

elsewhere for the guardianship, protection, and defenseoftheirrights. 

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. 

The committee informally rose; and Mr. CRISP having taken the 

chair as Speaker pro tempore, a message in writing from the President 

of the United States was communicated to the House by ?!Ir. 0. L. 

PRUDEN, one of his secretaries. 

SIL~ Q~ON. 

The Committee of the Whole resumed its session. 

Mr. BLAND. Mr. Chairman, I desire to state that no doubt the 

Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures will report some meas- ure on this subject probably at an early date, and the House will be 

allowed ample time for its consideration. I therefore move that the 

committee rise, and that this discussion shall wait some proposition to 

come before the House on the subject. 

Mr. SYMES. I have no objection to the motion; but will the gentleman yield for a question? 

Mr. BLAND. Certainly. 

Mr. SYMES. Can the chairman of the Committee on Coinage, 

Weights, and Measures inform the House, with any degree of accuracy, 

when we may expect a report from the committee upon this subject, 

whether it will be in one, two, or tbl"ee days, or a week? 

Mr. BLAND. I am unable to give the gentleman theinformationhe 

desires. Our committee has not yet had a meeting upon the subject, 

and I do not know .;what it will report or when it will r~port; but no doubt some proposition will come up for discussion in regular order presented by that committee, and the House will have ample time for its 

discussion. 

?!fr. SYMES. I would like to say, in view of the statement of the 

chairman of the collliD.ittee, that I know quite a number of members 

her~ are prepared to make silver speeches, and they are beginning to get 

somewhat cold after the discussion in the Senate which has been going on from day to day. I, therefore, would like to give notice that at as early a date as possible, provide.d the Committee on Coinage, Weights, 

and Measures does not :report a proper measure for debate, I shall ask 

the House to go into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 

Union in order that those gentlemen may have an opportunity to make 

their speeches. 

Several MEl\IBERS. Let us have them now. 

?!Ir. BLAND. I insist upon -the motion that the committee now rise. 

The question was taken; and upon a division there were-ayes 58, 

noes 62. 

Mr. BLAND. I demand tellers. 

Tellers were ordered. 

:ur. BLAND and Mr. SniES were appointed tellers. 

The committee-again divided; and the tellers reported-ayes 79, 

noes 73. 

So the motion was agreed to. 

The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker ha~g resumed the 

chair, Mr. BLO"GNT reported that the Committee of the Whole House on 

the state of the Union, having had under consideration the message of 

the President of the United States, had come to no resoluti?n thereon. 

ORDER OF BUSThTESS. 

Mr. BLOUNT. I move that the House do now adjourn. 

The· question was taken; and upon a division there were-ayes 85, 

noes 27. 

Mr. BEACH. I demand the yeas and nays on the motion. 

The yeas and nays were not Oidered, only 6 members voting in favor 

thereof. 

So the motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 14 

minutes p. m.) the House adjourned. 

PETITIONS, ETC. 

The following petitions and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, 

under the rule, and referred as follows: 

By Mr. BARBOUR: Papers relatingtoclaimofH. W. Vandergriftto the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. T. M. BROWNE: Papers in the case of Nancy L. Ribble, of 

Muncie, Ind.-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By ~ir. BUTTERWORTH: Papers relating to the claim of Sarah M. 

Thomas, of Adams County, Mississippi-to the Committee on War 

Claims. 

Also, papers relating to the claims of Alfred Smith, of Sidney Ballard, 

of Burke Fitzgerald, of Miss Sarah M. Thoma , and of George G. Russell-to the same committee. 

By Mr. CONGER: Petition of citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, for increase of pension of Mrs. Elizabeth McLaren-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 

By Mr. CULBERSON: Petition and papers relating to the establishment of a United States court at Denison, Tex.-to the Committee on 

the Judiciary. 

By ~fr. DUNN: Papers relating to the claim of Charles W. Foulketo the Committee on Claims. · 

By Mr. FINDLAY: Petition to construct a counterpoise battery for 

the protection of cannon in coast defe~se and the field; also on board 

iron-plated vessels for river and harbor defense-to the Committee on 

Military Affairs. 

By Mr. HAMMOND: Petition of Edward M. Taliaferro, of Fulton 

County, Georgia, to have his claim for supplies referred to the Court of 

Claims-to the Committee on War Claims. . Also, paper in the cliim of Stafford, Seymour & Co.-to the same 

committee. 

Also, papers relating to the claim of V. Richards & Bro. -to the same 

committee. 

By ?!Ir. HARMER: Papers relating to the case of Julius A.. Kaiserto the Committee on Naval Affairs. 

Also, papers relating to the claim of Thomas McBride-to the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. HAYDEN: Petition ofT. J. Jones and others, wholesale fish 

dealers of Boston, praying for the appointment of commissioners on the 

part of the United States to confer with those of Great Britain for the 

settlement of the fisheries question-to the Committee on Foreign .Affairs. _ 

By ?!fr. JOSEPH: Petition to have restored certain plats·of public 

surveys to the local land office, Santa Fe, N. Mex.-to the Committee 

on Private Land Claims. 

By Mr. KING: Papers relating· to the claims of Cora A. Slocomb, 

Ida A. Richardson, and Caroline A. Urquhart-to the Committee on 

War Claims. 

By Mr. LA FOLLETTE: Petition of JohnM. Altizer, foramendment 

of chapter 236, laws of 1880-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. LIBBEY: Papers relating to the claim of Mrs. P. L. Wardto the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. McKENNA: Petition requesting reference to the Court of 

Claims of the claim of Ewing ~I. Skaggs, deceased, of Louisiana-to 

the same committee. 

By Mr. McRAE: Memorial of Mrs. Helen M. Kyle, of Cla-rk County, 

Arkansas, for the mileage of her deceased husband, who was elected a Representative from Arkansas in 1865-to the Committee on Claims. 

By Mr. MATSON: Petition of M:rs. M. E. Banta and 15 others, citizens ofFmnklin, Ind., asking that women in the Territories be given 

the right of suffrage-to the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. :MITCHELL: Papers relating to theclaimofLester Nobleto the Committee on War Claims. 

By Mr. MURPHY: Petition of Grand .Army of the Republic, Post 

No. 249, West Branch, Iowa-to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

By Mr. PAYNE: Petition of Mannister Worts and others-to the 

same committee. 

Also, petitioh of Frederick Gale, for a pension-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 
620 CONGRESSIONAL llECOl{D- SENATE. J.ANU.ARY~ 13, 

Also, petition of George W. Cutler and others-to the same committee. 

Also, claimant's affidavit in original pension claim of Frederick .McWhorp-to the same committee. 

By Mr. PEEL: Petition of A. H. Alfrey, of Benton County, Arkans::tS, for relief-to the Committee on \Var Claims. 

Also, petition of William U. Nol, of Marion County, Illinois, for i·elief-to the same committee. 

By 1\fr. T: B. REED: Ten petitions of citizens ofl\faine, remonstrating 

against the landing or importation of mackerel caught between l\Iarch 

15 and June, and requesting the enactment of such laws as will accomplish the purpose aforesaid-to the Committee on 'Vays and Means. 

Also, three petitions of citizens of Maine, protesting against any treaty 

or legislation which would admit Canadian fish free of duty-to the same committee. · • 

By Ur. RICE (by request): Petitionof William Webster for and in 

furtheran~e of his claims against Gre::1.t Britain-to the Committee on 

:F'oreign Affairs. 

]3y .Mr. lUCHARDSON: Petitions of Joseph .Adams, of Marshall 

County; of William J. Thompson, of Lincoln County; and of Jeff. M. 

Stone, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, n.sking compensation for property 

taken and used by the United States Army during the late war-to the 

Conim i ttce on War Claims. 

By l\Ir. STORl\1: n~rs relating to the claim of James Hall and 

others-to the Committee on Claims. 

By .Mr. STRUBLE: Papers relating to the claim of James U. Baconto the Committee on War Claims. 

By 1\Ir. VIELE: Memorials and petitions of Wilson & Adams and 

others; of Sereno D. Bonfils and others; of Church E. Gates & Co. and 

others; of Henry Sheldon and over 200 others; of L. V. Conover and 

others; of Edward Haight a.nd others; ofT. B. Wakeman and others; 

of GeorgeS. Coe and others; of William Dowd and others; of .Charles 

Bathgate and others; of Charles L: Georgi and others; of General Franz 

Sigel and others; of Edgar Wright and other3; of John E. Barston and 

others; ofHon. William Cauldwelland others; ofP. H. &W. Weblin;:!; 

and others; of Smith Ely, jr., and others; of George W. Thompson and 

- others; of H. P. DeGraafandothers; of General Franz Sigel and others; 

of Charles Stoughton, and of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, 

asking for the improvement of the Harlem River, and requesting Congress to authorize the Secretary of War to contract with Charles Stoughton and his associates for the entire work of improving Harlem River, 

New York, for a sum not exceeding $1,295,000, including the furnishing the right of way free of cost to the United States-to the Committee 

on Rivers and Harbors. 

By Ur. WILSON: Petition of George S. Hill and 41 others, citizens 

of Berkeley County, West Virginia, in favor of repe::iling the Bland 

bill for the coinage of standard silver dollars-to the Committee on 

Coinage, 'V eights, and 1\Iensures. 

The following petitions, praying Congress to place the coinage of silver 

upon an equality with gold; that there be issued coin certificates of one, 

two, and five dollars, the same being made legal tender; that one and 

two dollar legal-tender notes be issued, and that the public debt be paid 

as rapidly as possible by applying for this purpose the idle surplus now 

in the Tre~ury, were presented and severally referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures: . 

By Mr. HENLEY: Of citizens of Eureka, Cal. 

By Mr. LANHAM: Of citizens of Gordon, Tex. 

By Mr. MARKHili: Of citizens of Riverside, Cal. 

By 1\Ir. RIGGS: Of Elihu Parks and 6G others, citizens of Brown 

County, Illinois. 

By 1\Ir. J. B. WEAVER: Of A. T. Estis and 49 others, of Missouri; 

of John Hall and 103 others, of Nebraska; of Charles Roth and 66 

others, of Oregon; of E. Hobbs and 33 others, Minnesota; of Thomas 

Brown and 23 others, of Indiana; of John Pheyley and 54 others, of 

Illinois; of C. F'. Kiker and 29 others, of Texas; of J. W. Shahan and 

152 others, of Iowa; of Edward Simons and 111 others, ·of illinois; of 

Frank Crow and 80 others, of Nebraska; of J. F. Thompson and 81 

others, of Nebraska; ofT. K. Massie and 20 others, of West Virginia; 

of William Taylor and 55 others, of Indiana; of C. F. Fenton and 116 

others, of Illinois; of L. W. Graham and 116 others, of Iowa; and of 

A. C. Jackson and 63 others, of Illinois. 

SEl-f" .ATE. 

WEDNESDAY, January 13, 188G. 

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. E. D. HUNTLEY, D. D_. 

Mr. HAWLEY took the chair as presiding officer under the previous 

designation of the President pro tempore, sanctioned by the Senate. 

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and_ approved. 

IIOUSE BILLS REFERRED. 

The following bills received yesterday from the Honse of Representatives were severally 1·ead twice by their titles, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: · 

A bill (H. R. 2) to amend section 643 of the Revised Statutes of the 

United States; and 

A bill (H. R. .1684) to authorize termS of the circuit court of the 

United State for the eastern judicial district of North Carolino. at the 

city of Wilmington, in said district. 

The joinb resolution (H. Res. 76) fixing the time when the JXI>Y of 

certain clerks to committees of the House of Representatives shall begin was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 

EXECUTIVE COMMGNIC.ATIO~. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. }I.A WLEY in· the chair} laid before 

tbe Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, trans· 

mitting, in response to a resolution of December 17, 1885, a s~atement 

in regard to the length of time it will" require to furnish the information called for by that resolution as to settlers on lands granted to railroads in the State of Kansas; which was referred to the Committee on 

the Public Lands, and ordered to be printe~. 

PETITIONS AXD ME:IIORIALS. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER presented a petition of . the colored 

Korth Americans, praying for such legislation as will provide for the· 

education and ele\ation of the colored people; which was referred to 

the Committee on Education and Labor. · 

1\Ir. FRYE presented the petition of Abby L. Durbank, widow of 

Charles li. Burbank, late medical inspector United States Navy, praying for an increase of pension; which was referred to the Committee on • 

Pensions. 

1\Tr. IIA 1PTON presented the petition of Be,·erley Kennon, of Ba.l- · 

timorc, 1\Id., praying the adoption of his plan for the construction of a counterpoise battery for the protection of cannon i_n coast defense and 

on board iron-plated vessels for l'i\er and harbor defense; which was 

re1erred to the Committee on Military Affairs. 

REPORTS OF CO:\IlliTTEES. 

1Ur. IIOAR, from the Committee on Claims, to whom were referred 

the following bills, reported them ·severally without amendment, and 

submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (S. 241) for the relief of Joseph W. Parish; and 

A bill (S. 311) for the relief of James Trabue, Thornton Thatcher, 

1'11il:hael Callahan, and the widow of John Waters. 

1\Ir. HOAl{, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 113) for the relief of Samuel Browning, of Missouri, submitted an adverse report thereon, and moved its indefinite postponement; which wn.s agreed to. 

He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill (S. 

G2!j) authorizing the Secretary of the Tre.1.sury to compensate clerks · 

and employes for extra work performed in the exchange of bonds in 

the Department, asked to be discha.rged from its further consideration, 

and that it be referred to the Committee on Appropriations; which was 

agreed to. . Mr. SEWELL, f.rom the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom 

were referred the following bills, reported them severally without 

amendment, a.nd submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (S. 225) to authorize Col. George W. Getty, United States 

Army, retired, to be placed upon the ,retired-list of the Army with the 

rank and pay of a brigadier-general; and 

A bill (S. 493) for the relief of George T. Dudley. 

l\Ir. PIKE, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 209) for the relief of the legal representatives of John M. 

Robeson~ deceased, reported it without amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill (S. 

18) for the relief of Pearson C: Montgomery, of Memphis, Tenn., reported it with amendment, and submitted a report thereon. 

Mr. PAYNE, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom 

was referred the letter of the Secretary of State of December 17, 1885, 

recommending the passage of an act to permit Joseph ~wic~, United 

States consul at Warsaw, Russia, to accept decorations from Russia, 

submitted a report theTeon, accompanied by a bill (S. 1053) to permit 

Joseph Ra.~cz, United States consul at Warsaw, Russia, to accept certain decorations tendered him by the Russian Government; which was 

read twice by its title. 

Mr. ·JACKSON, from the Committee on Claims, to whom n-ere re- fened the following bills, reported th~m severally without amendment, 

and submitted reports thereon: 

A bill (S. 32) 1or the relief of 1\frs. Lizzie D. Clarke, of New Orleans; and . . A bill (S. 289) for the relief. of J. A. Henry aml others. 

Mr. DOLPH, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 71) for the benefit of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, 

Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington, Idaho, andNevadawheno.Territory, reporteditwithont amendment. · · - · He also, from the same 'committee, to whom was referred the bill (S. 

24) for the relief of Samuel B. Seat, administrator of Christian Krupp, 

deceased, reported it without amendment, and submitted a report 

thereon. . · · . Mr. GRAY, from the Committee on Claims, to whom was referred 

the bill (S. 100) for the relief of William H. Crook, reported it with an 

amendment, and submitted a. report thereon.