The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-22

ND prepare Tor cNie.
The army appropriation bill having pass
d the House, Gen. Ewing demanded the
regular order which brought up the bill
REPEALING THE RESUMPTION ACT
Yesterday and to-day Its friends and enc
mics crossed swords. Chittenden, of New
York, took the clerks desk yesterday, and
went his whole length Tor its defense. He /
Is said 10 be national bank stockholder-
though not bloated-he Is terribly inflated /
On this resumption law. He said, Il hold /
in my hand the promise OF my government |
10 pay me ten dollars. The date of pay
men; is fixed by Law upon the statute book. |
The government must keep faith sih me ;; |
failing in that, it becomes leader of all de- |
foui,ers and ,epudiufOrs. The point of honor Is
cenfral and ritai in this discussion" Honor |
is the pivotal point with Mr. -Chittenden. |
Perish all other con -ideratiOns efiecting
45 OOO, 600 of people rather than smirch na-
tional honor and the gold bullion dividends
Of Mr.. {. The latter is sacred, and must
run OF though the heavens fall. He took
some pains to sail into
COL PHILLIPS
and appealed to "all men of sense to drop
and renounce forever all such nonsense
Nobody ever can compute the cost
Of the fatal issue Of greenbacks in 1873"
To-day the anti-resumptionists had the floor
and Chittenden was routed horse and foot.
A member suggested that resolutions be
given the distinguished member of New
York. The old resumption pot begins to
boil over and do not believe there are
enough bankers and bulliOnists to put ont
the fire.
pam or rur ,oxn uo,rr,s
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oSu' oanNs anu yui,'Vns
iron Ne. iorA' noston, anu Ihlaue'
rco,hs al che is.oh anu wurmeY rn
Ni'no.' iesiI.el.ne .neir naln ines III M
nie atP"en.u essenses W .ne
r,;,,a. 81 the Senate and Housa 10 know
where they could meet the members OF the
committees at once, and 80 persistent were
they to buzz the committees that meeting
was called to hear them against remOnetiz-
ing silver and repeating the resumption
law. A friend of mine from New York,
who came on the same train, says, there
was two car loads OF them and
no other passengers admitted with
them. That at wilmington, Della
OF champaign and ale, and came into W ASH
inSton about tnree sheets In the VINO. 1hls
Is the Class of fellows who want specie pay
ments so much and who have managed our
finances these many years. lhe question
now Is shall they do II any longer! What
say the farmers, the merchants and me.
chancs ol the great and bound.es regions of
the west! VIII you call a halt!
1he question arose In the House last
week as to The actual amount Of money In
Use In France furious to learn the facts
l searched the latest reliable authority
Rera< des De"r No"dss. NJ Victor bonnet
estimated the sum ol iuii iegai-tender
'no = D.. 40, ",," '
WHAT WE orGHr HAVE
The population of the United States Is
estimated oy some al 4',ooO,"o, ana II
| this country had the same ratio oI money
as France mad IN June 80 1871, we would
have S2,soo,ooo,OOo, which wonld be equiv
aient TO circulation 200 per head OF our
entire population. ms country has nom
inaily IN greenbacks, bank-notes and subsl-
dlrary silver tokens circulation OF about
SI0oooo,Ooo at this date-goid cutting no
flgure IN business transactions. In March,
| 1876, Mr. Bright, OF tennessee, estimated
the actual amount OF money in circulation
in the United States at about 2O,OOOOOO
the remainder being held as reserves on
different accounts under the law. lie
now estimates II less than S2OO,OOO,OOO.
Say 500, 100000, this would give us an
actual circulation OF about ~ =
per head OF our entire population
France with circulation oi s6t
per head and the United States circula-
ton OF Si23 per head. \ blind man igno.
rant OF mathematical calculation can easily
trace the cause OF the present depression
and bankruptcy.
| THE KANSAS DELEGATION,
=.
oeiie'e, s'and square on ,he Iemohetiza
tioh 1i sii'er anu 'ne Icpeai oi 'he resuniP
| ,ioh law, hr. i,asheii VIEWS are as ioi
LOWS IN MS own ia.suage'
rirst. heniGnellAal,on M,. !, OF silver.
=, "seoi". Nah's TIC u o. ho'es recei'a'
oie ,oi ,iiiPU,'s uues'
| Fourth Gradual retiring of national
banks. ON expiration of charters and sub
stitu;ing OF a Government currency.
Fifth. Repeal of the third section OF tn,
Resumption act, which, after the above leg
islation, is useless. 1t will be seen that Mr.
Haskell has clear, well defined views on tn,
question of finance He expects to speal
on the subject tomorrow or next day. Mr.
Rvan's views reduced, | do not know bu
that be is right on the subject there is lit
tie doubt. The Senators are understood t.
be for demonstration of silver and the re
peal of the resumption act. How Colone
Phillips stands on finance the whole coun
try knows from one end to the other. ant
has known for several wears. Goyerno
Anthony is in the city. Ex-Gov. Crawford
is also here. The Ex-Governor is aeen
for the state in collecting money due tn,
state in organizing, arming, equiping an,
| yarioiIs calls into the United States service