, 1876-02-29
WASHINGTON.
The Finance Spectre Once More
Renders the House Un-
manageable.
Holman and Host Of others Stand
Ready to Exercise Tho
Spirit:
But Chairman Morrison, Fear.
ing an Unpleasant De-
nouement,
Insists Upon and Finally Secures
an EARLY Adjournment.
Tho Caucus Committee Fail to Agree After
an All.Sight Session.
Passage Of the Amendatory Colorado
Bill in the House.
Bill Reported Reducing the Salary Of
the President to $25, 900.
Senator Cragin's Scheme for the
Restoration of American
Commerce.
Tho Caucus Committee Fail to Agree after
an All.Sight Session.
Passage Of the Amendatory Colorado
Bill in the House.
Bill Reported Reducing the Salary Of
the President to $25,000.
Senator Cragin's Scheme for the
Restoration of American
Commerce.
DODEINC THE ISSUE,
4 ItOUsE EptsODE.

Spsetal U9spateh fe 1ns ch9aao T4tohat.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. 29.-Tho House ad-
1on1ned before o'clock to-day. immediately nf-
tor ths call Of States for tho introduction Of bills
and joint resolutions WAS completed. The mo-
ton 10 adjourn Was made by Morrison, whose
object waa to cut OH tho opportunity eou8ht by
Holman, Atkins, and others, to introduce rrao-
lntlons declaring tho sense Of Tho House on tho
currency quobtiou, aud untor ordinary circum-
atances would have beon opposed by tho Ropub-
lichns In body. To-day however,. tho Ropub-
llcans were no moro ANXIOUS to so On record On
the currancy question than tho Democrats wero.
The motion ,waB carried On q call Of
tho Ycas 81 sna nnys 11 by l1s in tue #
Republicans who voted ngsinst adjournment
woTo very Indignant and outspolcn IN their c1iti-
cisna Of thoBc Of thotr party who united With
the hard-money Democrats tn this movement,
ting for aon,o weeks to get in their imitation reBo-
lutlona loft tho House after adjournment in no
vary pleasant mood.
EElLET's nEsoLur1os.
Among thoso who had rcaolations to Introduce
In tic nouao to-tf0y waA Judge Kelley. who had
prepared the following, but was Of course uua-
bio TO present It.
Resoir4d 111a ~ tho constantly increasing proiuc-
lion Of silver and tho dtscontinuancs Of ito use
money In Rurns Krtatcf than tbs equivalent Of ten
American dollars In my ono pasmat by most OF tho
commercial nations has 70 reduced ia value TINT
rency win purchase several PEI ocut moro thsn wi
a!lser coins Of Ike denomination, It is tbs sensc of
this House that s issuo Of bonds for
Ia uaWiae nud wasefui expenditure Of tho public
raTonue, and shou!d 10 discontinued.
: In explanation Of thts resolution. Judga Kelley
s.ss s.s 70 IS ss ens & ~ s sa i IL 1 as es sn
that, with. ndlver At 110 per ounco ano In gold
coin, tho mlver dollar, contaiaing DAT 22-100
grains Of tuo hflver, Is worth In gold coin 81 $40
cente, consequently the groenhack .s worth
eisting OF two ne-half dollars four quarter dol
lara, live 2o-cent piecea. or ton dimea.
t7b The Assoetattd Prkss..
WAsu1NoToH, D. o., Feb. 28.-:lho motion for
tho call Of Staten for bills. was made by AIR.
Morrison. to prevent yoto On the motion which
MIR. Holman intended to otfos, fAyortng tho re-
peal Of tho Bpeoio Resumption law Of last year.
tlon 10 adjourn Was apparently lost hut the ro-
snlt was changed BY Meaars. Foatcr. Hale,
Townsend IN. ", and Dlaino announcing thctr
votos in the affirmative, which made tho total
st2na-ayes 118; nocs, ia.
nonnIBoH'B TACTICS.
Mr. Morrison made great disp!ay OF himself
"a loader o: tho House. Flo obtained the floor,
aud ina!stod upon Adjournment bofor0 phrti-
Gle Of business beyond calling tho States for
bills had been transacted. This gatno has been
h&iCA HV V4toA hAA% AAAAJ A4EoAkAAt AAbtlAS ~
hlt 1ida OF the House haye been thrown over
fIom week to week, till to-day the accumulation
lsd become very Xroat, and an effort wss To be
made to got action OH theso delayed resolutions.
Many Of the most prominent men among tho
Democrats llad resolutions OF consequences to
their sds to introduce, when all Hcre buddcnly
aAtonBhed to eee Morrison tako tho floor and In
stat upon adjournment. uo WAS much c1clted,
aud had friehtened look which ho could not
possibly conceal. Quite c1omd OF Democrats
Sathorod around hirn and vere evidently plead-
ing for chance to put In their resolutions OF ILL
gniry, and sono that are necessary to their fur
ther vigorous work iu committees, but he would
not ylold 70 any one. by . fcw haaty words
be aoomed to DO able to satisfy
each ono successfully, And finally succeeded
In carrying his motion. The trouble
seemed to b0 that Morrison had ronaon to fear
that tho wrhngllug IN tho Democratic CAUCUS
would break out on the floor IN the shape Of \
resolution, from Quo faction Or tho other, that
would 8urtiy hnyo shown q C,oar split In tho
party. Destdcs. 1t Vas Iumored that Mr. 1Iol-
man was 1oady to offeE tho financial plank OF tho
Indiaua Republican Convention, and Lit. Mo1rl-
sun GAW
nREAKEn6 on ALI. s1pEs.
At no prevIoua Mondays heealon have Tho
signs OF party fear aud Decentralization beun 80
apparent There seems to be total lack OF
courage or OF efficient leadership. The aun.-
total Of Mr. Morrison'a cfoim to tllat title shua
far socms 10 DO 10 adjourn tho House each Mon
day in timo 10 Ayoid all necessity for facing any
live issue.