The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-07
CAPITAL NOTES.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The senate.


WASHINGTON. Nov. e.-The Senate met at y m.
Prayer was offered by the Chaplain.
The Chair laid before the Senate commun1-
cation from the Posma%sr % sss aeo m eGhg
Of postmasters. Referred TO the oommltIee Oh
Appropriations. s... -.
duced and appropriately referred to commit
BY By Senator Hamln: A petition fixing the
BY Senator Herman: A petition in relation to
arrears Of PENSIONS Also. petition from z, a the
Board Of Trade aud TransRortation& & 81 Bni1alo d r
port on the system of savings institutions. =,
| BY Mr.. Paddock: A memorial from the
American Forest Association OF Chicago set
ting forth the wisdom of approInriating money
for commission to proceed to Europe and OK
anime the forests of the countries Of that conii-
| nent.. and asking that such commission Dc
BY Mr.. Rice: A petition asking for the i'm
Of the MssisIsiPpi hI - syses vs bndroa
copies Of the Biennial Register.
| By Mr.. Plumb:. A bill to declare taxation on
certain lands also to provide Vi ETC tor he me payment s
By Mr.. Maxey: bill to provide for 2 recl,
procity.treaty between Canada and the United
BY Mr. Ransom: A bill to grant pensions to
survivors of the war Of 1872 and their widows. ,
| By Mr. Morrill, A bill to apply the proceeds of
the sale of public lands to the interests OF agrl-
By Mr. Withe9rs; VA, blu for the relief of Fair
l
ing y for the disposal Of the surplus documents
and bills about the Capitol, which was ad pted
| Senate went into executive session and at II 80
| the doors were reopened and the Senate ad-
| journed till Thursday.
| The House.
The reading Of the journal occupied half an
Mr.. Frye called attention to the fact that Mr..
Bland had obtained the floor on the preceding
col mage of silver dollars of 412k grains and for
other purposes. and that yesterday he had
when permitted to present his motion, substi-
tuted that of Mr.. Buckner to authorize the free
coinage Of silver dollars and restore to these
their legal lender character.
Mr. Bland said that the bill might be the same
with different title, The gentlemen could find
out elsewhere.
The Speaker pro tenn, Mr.. saylor. asked ii
the gentleman desired to correct the Journal.
right and the gentleman from Missouri was
Mr.. Bland said he believed he was right and
the House also evidently thought he was right
Several personal explanations were made
relative to the vote on the silver bill. Mr.. Cox.
of New Y rk. rose to a personal explanation iu
, regard to the newspaper comments upon his
course in relation to the silver bills and to the
, Banking and Currency Committee. and main.
tanned that his motion to refer Mr.. Buckner's
bill on Saturday to the Committee on Coin
age was consistent wi h his former record.
On motion Of Mr.. Dunnel the Monday morn.
where it was left off Yesterday,
Under this call number of bills were intro
duced and referred.
The morning hour having expired, the bill t.
: repeal the third section of the resumption ac
came up as the regular order OF business j.
Mr.. Ewing was recognized. but yielded t.
posed amendments to the bill. Substitute
! we're offered by Messrs. Hubbel, Morris. Cox
Z of Ohio Cummings and Hewitt, of New York
which, with the original bill and amendments
i were ordered printed.
! Mr.. Phillips then proceeded to address TIL
House in support of the bill. He charged tha
the resumption act had been forced through tn
House in violation of an understaudin,
through which 1t was brought up for considera
tion. He maintained that a portion of tina
clause of the act which required greenbacks t
be cancelled had operated reversely from wha
, was stated by the friends of the bill. and in
! : stead of an increase of circulating currenc
= : through its provisions, there had been grea
: : contraction. He contended that it was not tn
large exports caused by the European war, tina
had caused gold to fall.
Legislation, he said. could not force resumr
ton. Prosperity was necessary, and with pros
:. perity legislation was unnecessary France
q with population less than ours, had circula
}, ton three times as large as ours. and Franc
Y was to-day the most ,prosperous country on th
: face of the earth. Mr. Phillips supported hi
= arguments with numerous references to stats
! tics and records.
: At the conclusion of his remarks the Hous
at 4:3O .. m., on motion of Mr.. Mayhew &C