The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
DEBATE ON THE REPEAL OF THE RE-
SUMPTION ACT IN THE SENATE
spEECnEs OF MEssRs. FERRY AND
VOORHEES,.
mr.. ReaEnn, IF Texas, Makes Personal
Explanation In the HOuse-'rhe Legis.
Iative Appropriation Hill Under Con-
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SENATE.

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SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Senate Com
mittee on Commerce this morning agreed
unanimously to report the nomination oI
George r. Smith. to be Collector of the Port
of New Orleans, favorably. The COMMITTEES
also disposed of the nominations Of appraiser
ships In the New York custom-house by de-
Gliding to report adversely upon the nomina,,
tion Of rockingham to be appraiser. ana
agreed to report favorably the nominations
OF Kent and Herward to appraiserships. The
committee held Secretary Sherman's action,
removing the former appraisers to be Illegal,
but as the removals had taken place, tho com
mittee decided not to keep the offices vacant,
and therefore, determined To act upon them.
Mr.. Conkling, from the COMMITTEES on Com
merce. reported the bill to establish tne saiaries
Plymouth and Nantucket. Mass Placed on the
calendar. go
that the vessels Of the United States shall hall
from places where owned or built. indefinitely
Also, adversely on the House bill to authorize
the Northern Louisiana Railroad Company to
build bridge over the Ouachita and bridge
over the Red river 10 Louisiana; The commit
tee report the bill adversely believing the State
of Louisiana has full jurisdiction IN the matter,
the streams being wholly within that State. In
Alao, adversely on Senate bill for the relief of
the Baptist Relief Association Of Puge's Sound.
Mr.. Rollins Introduced u bill for new form
of government for tho District of Columbia.
Referred to the Committee on the District OF
Columbia.
Buildings and Grounds. reported the House
resolution In relation to the completion of the
Washington monument Placed on the Gallon
dar.
On motion of Mr. Anthony it was ordered
that when the. Senate adjourn to-day. 1t be to
meet on Monday.
The Senate Insisted on its amendment to the
bill regulating the letting Of mail contracts,
and Messrs Ferry, Paddock and Salisbury
were appointed conferees on the part of the
Mr.. Beck introduced bill to amend certain
sections Of the Revised Statutes. In relation to
rank in the navy. Referred to the Committee
On motion Of Mr. Forty the Senate took UP
the bill to repeal the resumption act.
nm mr. Gerry she s BE be II OF
mttee His speech WAS ma My q review of the
action OF tho government since the beginning
surrounding circumstances which induced the
action that had been taken. He argued that
with the passage Of this bill the country would
have resumed before the time fixed for by the
government, and new life and new vigor would
be given TO the industries of the nation 1t was
better now. to attempt to unite the approaching
the silver bill had proved beneficial. and was
now looked upon with favor by those who had
feared evil would result from Its passage. and
the government should not now take Il step
backward.
Mr.. Voorhees, followed. charging that misery
and suffering indiscribable had followed the
attempt to contract the currency to got resump-
tion, and TINT n effect o. 100000 600 had been
@ nnS mhe bs nf "ee S he
months the responsibility had rested on the
Senate. Had that body acted promptly tho
amount Of suffering that might be saved can
never be estimated but 1t was said that the
worst had been ssed.
This he denied, and referred TO the mercan-
tile register of the large number of failures in
the first three months OF the present year in
proof of his assertion. He contended that the
govern nnn was not In situation to redeem
had appreciated was because the popu ar will
had compelled the government to treat Its own
from the speeches of Thaddeus Stevens on the
bill as amended by the Senate, to show that he
condemned the irredeemabe feature of the bill.
and said Mr. Stevens was the father of our pres
ent system Of finance. with this exception. more
The bill had proved. as Mr.. Stevens said IT
would be. a cunningly devised scheme wrought
with great mischief He urged that the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury should be required to re-
of the bill and not wait till the first of October.
1t was estimated that the loanng companies
had loaned upon farms in the West $500, 900 600.
q tribute never paid by one class to another on
the face OF the globe. Such state OF affairs
could not exist except in u country like ours.
cursed by class legislation. Those doing most
to develop its commission in this country were
those who adhered to the extreme measures
and clamored for contraction.
III
1882 had warned his countrymen. against
monster then in its cradle. which had now
grown to DO Q colossal monster. absolute In
every branch of the government. The national
banks had money influence of perhaps II
hundred million-that influence had now
grown to % 900 600 900.
Speaker. when the bill was laid over until Mon
day when he will address the Senate.
entered to the vote by Whc the biz
comm ioners to the Paris Exposition was re-
pealed: The motion was disagreed to-yeas IA,
On motion of Mr.. Plumb the Senate took up
and considered the bill defining the manner In
that province was coded by France to the
can only be located on land subject to private
entry and the bill proposes to make the scrip
receivable In settlement Of pre- emption and
.Messrs: Sargent and Edmunds opposed the
bill and Messrs. Plumb. Oglesby and Eustis ad-
ys.ocated It's passage. Pending motion to refer
Senate. on motion of Mr.. Cameron of Pennsyl-
vania. went into. executive session at p. M.
and when ne doors were again opened ad-
Mr. Reagan, of Texas, rose to a personal
explanation, and sent up and had read ex-
tracts from the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
attacking him for not urging action upon the
Dill to regulate Interstate commerce and to
prohibit unjust discrimination by common
carriers. The articles intimate that Mr..
Reagan, as chairman of the Committee on
Commerce, had been guilty in this matter of
duplcity and treachery and that he had
been seen by certain railroad companies, and
advised Glover that he might catch some
thing, II he wished, in the Committee on Com
merce. Mr.. Reagan said that this was the
first time he had felt it his duty to rise to a
personal explanation, and he would not now
do so if the reference had not been made to
his action as member of the Committee on
Commerce. The bill referred to by the paper
was introduced in the Forty-fourth Congress
by Mr.. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, and, after
an investigation, there was felt to be great
necessity Tor the passage of the law. 1t was
lntroduced again at the commencement of
the Forty-tifth Congress, and the Committee
on Commerce would bear him out that
he had always urged prompt action
on 1t. He did not report the bill at
the last call OF the committee for two rea-
SnnS-tirst hppanGa