The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-10
WAR ON The NATIONAL BANKS.
The Regulation Of Presi-
Dental Elections.
DETAILS OF Mr.. EDMUNDS BILL.
Secretary Sherman's Bill Readjusting
Duties on Sugar.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Q. 1873.
THE CURRENCY QUESTION IN THE HoUsE--oPEN-
ING THE WAR ON THE NATIONAL BANKS
BILLS IN EARNEST AND BILLS FOR BUNcoMBE.
To Mr.. Fort. trep.) Of Illinois, belongs what
ever credit may attach to the first attack on the
national banks in the interest Of deprecated cur
rency He tried to get bill before the House to-day
compelling the national banks to take silver deposit
and requiring the Treasury to call in the notes of those
banks which refuse to do Absurd as this attempt
to regulate with whom the banks should do business
u.s. the bill yet received very large support fromthe
House. and failed to be taken up only because it did
not get two-thirds vote. One hundred ana fifty
members voted to take it up and eighty nine against
Mr.. Burchard, another Illinois republican, introduced
another bill for the purpose. Somebody will
presently introduce bill instructng merchants with
whom they to have dealings and to what class Of
customers they shall give six months credit.
The republicans who voted for Mr.. Forts bill were
Mcssrs. Bundy, of New York. Gardner, Keifer and
Van Worries, of Ohio; Upton, Burchard, Cannon,
Fort Hayes. Lathrop and Marsh. of Illinois; Cakns,
Evans Hanna, Hunter, Robinson, Sexton and White.
Of Indians Cummings Dcering. Oliver Price, Samp-
son and Sapp, of Iowa. Haskell. Phillips and Ryan,
of Kansas; Hubbell. Of Michigan; steiner. Of Mis-
souri,; Raney, of South Carolina; White, Shallen-
berger and Thompson. of Pennsylvania Strait. Of
Minnesota; Williams, of Wisconsin; Wren of Nevada.
and Morgan, of Observation-Disclosures in ALL The
democrats who voted against Mr. Forts bill were
Morse and Dean. Of Massachusetts, Jones, Of New
Hampshire Eickhof, Hart, Potter. Willis and Wood,
of New York. Landers, of Connecticut; Williams, OF
Michigan; Scheicher. OF Texas Stenger. of Pennsyl
wanna, and Williams, Of Deaware-thirtecn in all.
Comment is unnecessary. The republican party in
the West evidently not favorable to the banks but
the democratic party is plainly almost unanimously
against them.
Mr.. Hewitt brought in bill to make the silver
dollar interchangeable with gold at the Treasury at
the will OF the holdeE. Mr.. Atkins one to make tho
subsidiary silver currency receivable for all govern.
ment dues. including customs revenue Mr.. FELTON,
ldemocrat) Of Georgia. introduced bill to COM
pei the national banks to receive and recognize
the silver dollar as Of equal value with
the gold dollar, and to make not only the trade
dollar but the Mexican dollar legal tender. Mr..
FELTON, has sometimes been thought a man Of sense
and average information and he ought to know-what
however IL is very dcuit make the average men,
bsr Of Congress understand-that the hanks not
In open rebellion; that they receive the
silver dollar in payment just everybody clse
does and Is the Silver law which made 1t legal
tender requires but that they decline to receive Do
posts of silver from people who would want to draw
out gold greenbacks in return-that is to say the
banks propose to deal only with honest people and
refuse to keep the accounts of men who would
swindle them. If Mr.. FELTON, knew what his bill
meant it would DO proper to accuse him Of an at
tempt to aid and sbet common swindlcrs. but he is
evidently moving out Of sheer ignorance.
paoe inf ucodf ha ho honr
to decrease the representation in Congress of South
Carolina account Of the election frauds giving the
State two members as representatives only OF her
white population These bills relating to the banks
and to South Carolina are only what
are called flyers" They not Of the
least importance, because they will not
become laws. The members who introduce them do
out of idea that they will please their constit-
uents and these fycrs take the place of the former
speeches for buncombe. Their chief use here is to
show the ignorance of tho members who introduce
them.
1t is highly probable that Mr. Hewitts bill making
silver dollars interchangeable with gold at tho Treas
ury will pass with perhaps amendment making
the silver small change also rcdecmabe at the Treas
ury in sums Of 800. The silver men themselves
begin to understand that this il necessary to keep
silver anoat and the nonsense Of Mcssrs Fort Bur-
chard, Fulton and the milder movement Of Mr.. Dur
ham, to-day. to mako the trade dollar legal tender
and stop its coinage, will all fail.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION QUESTION AND
THE SOUTHERN TROUBLES BEFORE THE
SENATE.
Senator Edmonds to-day made clear and forcibie
statement Of the necessity for change in the laws
regulating the Presidential election and of the fea
lures of the bill he has introduced. The subject will
be further debated at considerable length.
Senator Cameron. Of Wisconsin introduced very
sensible resolution asking the President to fur
nish the Senate with copies of all reports
of United States marshals other officers
and such other correspondence as he may
have relative TO the elections in the States OF
South Carolina and Louisiana. This agreed TO,
and thus Congress and the country will be put in
possession, soon copies be made OF all the
information which the law officers OF the govern
ment have accumulated concerning tho election
troubles in those two States. Up to the present time
Congress s in almost absolute ignorance this sub
jcct. The President could. Of course give no details
in his Message, and while there has boon . good deal
Of loose talk on the one side Of wholesale violence
and fraud. and on the other Of charges
Of exsgscraton, neither republicans, nor
democrats know certainly what the facts
or even the charges Private letters
from New Orleans received to-day report that Cover
nor Nichols has returned from his investigation OF
the irregularities in the up river parishes that he
has found that there riots with boodshcd in
several parishes and that he has promptly set the
whole machinery of the law at work to secure the
arrest and punishment Of the guilty persons II Mr.
Blaine wise he would withhold his resolution Of
inquiry until the papers Mr. Cameron has asked for
are sent in. He would then know what basis Of
facts or charges he has to ground an inquiry ON.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT