The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, January IA, the memorial
of the New York Chamber of Commerce for
law to equitably adjust errors in the as
sessment and collection of duties on ex-
ports, and the petition of bankers, mer-
chants and others of New York, favoring
the repeal of the bankrupt law, were pre-
sented and referred. Mr.. Davis, of Illinois,
presented a petition of four hundred bank
ers and business men OF Chicago in favor
of retaining gold as the single standardof
resumption act. Mr.. Edmunds submitted
long amendment to the preamble and
resolution introduced by Mr.. Matthews
before recess, declaring the right of
the Government to pay its bonds
in silver, etc. The amendment sets
United States had been long obsolete when
the existing loans of the United States
were authorized; that gold coin had been
the only lawful coin, and that Congress
should not legslate to make money at the
expense of its creditors; that it was the
highest obligation of the United States to
pay its debts in such coin as the creditors
expected would be paid, and that it would
be unjust to compel them or laboring men
either to receive silver dollars or any de-
based money. Laid on the table and or
dered printed. The resolution to which it
is proposed as an amendment is now before
the Senate. Mr.. kirkwood presented petit
lloH from CltlZeHS VI DdNeHpoIt, loWdj
| against the passage of the Bland silver bill.
Laid on the table. The bill having been re
ported to the Senate, Mr.. Hill presented a
resolution of the Savannah Cotton Exchange,
denying that the South is unanimously in
| favor of the restoration of the silver
dollar, and favoring the gold stand
ard of value alone, and a speedy
| return to specie payments. Referred.
| Mr.. Thurman submitted a resolution in
structing the Committee on Military Affairs
| to inquire whether any, and if any, what
| legislation is necessary or expedient to in
crease the annual appropriation for arming
and equipping the militia of the States and
Territories to correspond with the increase
| in population since the passage of the act
| of 1908, such increase to take immediate
effect. Mr.. Matthews's Silver Bill was then
considered, after which the Senate went
| into executive sessiOn........In the House,
several bills were introduced and referred.
Mr.. Kelly offered a resolution that session
of the House shall be held on Saturday the
women chosen by those petitioners, and
now in the city, may be heard at the bar OF
the House in support of the cause. Re
jected-yeas, 10Y; nays, 140. On motion oi
Mr.. Banks, unanimous consent was given
that the petitions on the women's rights
question might be presented in the open
House. The Speaker thereupon proceeded
to call the States in order for that purpose
| but had got no further than the second
State on the list when a motion to adjourn
was interposed.
In the Senate, January Is, Mr.. Morril
submitted an amendment to the preamble o.
Mr.. Matthews in regard to the right of the
government to pay its bonds in silver, re
citing at length the provisions of the va
rious acts of Congress pledging the faith O.
the government ETC., and said that in thu
long recital of acts in the preamble as sub
mitted by the Senator from Ohio, there
seemed to be strange omissions of som'
statutes. He hoped the Senator woult
accept this amendment. Ordered printed
He also submitted the following:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury b
directed to inform the Senate of the amount of gov
ernment bonds sold since March 4, 1861, giving tn
amounts of each issue, with IT'S date; the new
amounts received from the sale of each ISSUE ant
the currency in which the same was paid ANY syn
dictate, person, or persons for placing the same i
the market, or for purchasing the same, and il
what currency they were paid.
Mr.. Mitchell submitted resolution direct
ing the Secretary of the Interior to trans
init to the Senate copy of the report o
Indian Inspector Watkins, recommending
the establishing of a large Indian reservg
ton or territory for the use and occupatio
of a portion or all of the reservation In
dians now in the various reservations in tn
: State of Oregon, and in the Territories G
t Washington and Idaho. Mr.. Thurma
! called up his resolution submitted the da
before in regard to the annual appropr
alton for armins the militia. 1t was agree
I to, with an amendment providing that sal
$ committee shall make some inquiry respec
s ing the war claims, and the credits of olde
States of the Union that furnished troop
in aid of the government during tn
< late rebellion. At the expiration
e the morning hour the resolutio
r of Mr.. Matthews in regard to the paymei
|. of bonds in silver was taken up as III
8 finished business and then laid aside il
i formally, that Mr.. Voorhees, might addre,
g the Senate on the resolution submitted b
e him before the holidays, declaring it
n the highest Importance that the fnanci
credit of the government be maintaine
In order to be so, the government itself,
all its departments, should, in good fait
y keep all its contracts and obligations entere