The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

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the resumption act. There were fourteen
Amendments, and the Speaker ruled that
lhev were ali before The House, and must
| all be voted on.
! Tine first vote was on Mr.. Forts substi-
tute TO repeal that part OF the resumption
act which authorized the resumption and
cancellation OF the greenback currency.
Agreed 10 without division.
MIR. HUBBELLS substitute for the bill
was rejected-yeas, 80; nays, l5S. Ii pro-
posed 10 modify the third section of the re-
sumption act.
Several hard money men voted for Mr..
| Hubbelfs substitute, as they had done for
Mr.. Forts, not because they favored either
OF them, but because, as Mr. Garfield init
mat d, they hoped, thereby, more easily and
surely 10 defeat the bill.
The next vote was on the amendment Of
fered by Mr.. Pound, repeating the limira-
tion OF national bank circulation. Reject
ed without the yeas and navs.
The next vote was on the amendment of
fered by Mr.. Cox, of Ohio, providing for
the gradual redemptiono of legal tenders from
The irst OF January, 1873, at % cents on
the dollar, up TO the first of January, 1881.
at par, in coin. Rejected, only seventeen
voting in the affirmative.
The next vote was on the amendment Of
| fered by Mr.. Cummmings, postponing re-
demption until the coin reserve in the treas
ury is sufficient TO authorize it. Rejected
without division.
The next vote was on the amendment Of
Tered by Mr.. Hewitt, OF New York, requlr,
ing the accumulation in the treasury OF
five millions a year until the amount shall
be equal TO haii oi the outstanding legal
lenders, aiter which RESUMPTION Is to com
mence. heJected without division.
Like disposition was made oil the amend
lnenis onefeu oy Me-,rs. Eden, oi Illinois
Chittenden, Meier, Deering and Aldrlch,
all IL which were rejected without divIs-
ion:
lhe next was an amendment offered by
Mr. SterSer, repeating The resumption day
clause In the resumption act 1t was taken
by nays and yeas, ana resulted, Yeas, lO.
nays, 22o.
lhe amendments offered by Messrs
Clark, OF Iowa; Patterson and Mills and
Morrison, were severaiiy objected to.
he next amendment Was one offered by
Mr. WarL. 10 add new section 10 the bill,
and providing that debts 1or wages shall be
payable only III coin or In iegal-tender
note.
MIR. FAIRFIELD Ddemanded the yeas and
nays, and caliea, sarcastically, on the labor
ing mems friends To vote Tor IT.
The count on ordering The yeas and
nays, was 10 10 l6i, a tie vote, as one-liiih
orders the yeas aud nays.
Inc SPEAKER voted no, thus defeating
he call, but the question was taken oy tel
lers and the yeas and nays We're ordered.
vote was Then taken by yeas and nays,
and there was good deal OF merrlment in
dul5ed In during the vote, which Mr. Con-
ger characterized, sat'ricaily, as the
most important vote oil the day,
and before the result was announced
many members changed their votes, so as to
be on the right side OF the laboringman
question. At last when the important re-
lation OF the amendment TO the bill itself
began to be realized, the merrlment toned
down into SERIOUSNESS. and the friends ol the
bill, who had voted In the affirmative, be
gan to change TO the negative
Mr.. JONES,o oil New Hampshire. changed
his vote so often and had such difhcultv In
fixing how he Was to vote, that the House
laughed, heartily, at hiseiioris IN that direc-
tion, and the Speaker, in order to give the
members an opportunity OF correcting their
votcs, ordered the list 10 be read a second
time.
After second reading OF the names, MIR.
.Ione OF New Hampshire, again changed
hIs vote from yea tO nay.
NJ. BUTLER voted mo, and Mr. Er-
rett clansea ms 'o'e from aye 10 no.
M H. y. WI" ii.u l''ieu win hI.
a 4 'Sc' 'o,eu no. ""u ms 'o'e was oh e'
ne last chanSe was pV Mr. hayes from
ave" to no"
FINALLY tho resuJt was after mucb DELAY
',ie @"i' was i'i "!'
Sca-luned Dv the numerous changes, all
nonnced as: yeas, IL; nays, ~.
The SfEA Eh then announced that the
next vote would be on the Dill as amended
thai Is, on Mr.. Fort substitute ior II, anu
the Speaker eNer'e, hihiseii' successiuiiy' 10
nave orher restored anu observed. WINE
tnls ias' '0'e was oeins taken' ihere was
ap.oiu'e silence IN 'ne naiI' except ,he
voice oil 'he reading .ierk IN caii'nS .he
nes' anu eHceP' 'he ayes anu nays vi
the mehloers III aesiohSe:
some zen OF ,WeNe pairs were ati"1uhceI,
among .neli NI. SoHi vi We" iorh' "t'i
, hr. heiier' anu hr netInaI'' VINO MouiI
nave |o'e' h" Win Lfhue, WIZ "ouiu
ihrre were a!So some h'ii uoNe,i aoseI-
ices unpIlred' hiciidIiis :he9I,s' Sa'wen'
iiaZ,g'pn' Doriei, anu H'i"''' 'ii vi "'oi''
"criu nI, nave 'oleu.
Inc result was an, n,i,ounceo
YEAS loo NAis i-o'
50 the bill was passed.
Tine following Is text OF the bill Is II
passed:
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p,"ved January IA, 30, ,,S ana known ,n as al,e
reIarv Of the Treasury 10 d ispose of United |
staI'.S bonds and redeem and cancel green
back cufrency-l
Re eaaetef, dc, That all that portion
OF the act approved January llth, 1879, en-
titled An act to provide for the resump-
tion OF specie payments" and which reads
as follows, to-wit: And whenever and so
often as circulating notes shall be issued TO
any such banking association so increasing
its capital or circulation notes or so newly |
organized as aforesaid, it shall be the duty !
OF the Secretary OF the Treasury to redeem !
legal-tender United States notes in excess
only of three hundred millions of dollars,
TO the amount of so per cent. of the sum OF |
national bank notes issued to any such |
banking association as aforesaid, and TO
continue such redemption as such circulat-
outstanding sum OF SJoo,ooo,ooo of such ie-