The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-06

II :
amendments to House bill making an ap
preparation for the payment OF claims re
ported allowed by the Secretary Of the
Treasury were concurred in.
MIR. Riddle, from the Committee on
Territories, reported back adversely the
bill to establish the Territory OF Pembi.
na. Laid on the table.
At the conclusion Of the morning hour
hail hour discussion arose "a 10 the
business to be next commenced. After a
great deal Of Amusement and while Mr..
Townsend was on the floor, the Speaker
announced that the discussion was en-.
tirely out ot order, and 1t seemed to him
that the public business should be pro.
ceeded with, which called forth remark
from Mr.. Townsend. He did not want
the Chair 10 lecture him in public.
The Speaker-The Chair will lecture
the gentleman in private.
Mr. Townsend-You had better. do
not want any public lecture, and further,
! won't submit to II.
The House then went into Committee
Of the Whole, Mr.. Potter in the Chair,
on the fortifcation appropriation bill.
KELLY ON RESUMPTION.
Mr.. Kelly took the floor by unanimous
consent and proceeded to speak on the
resumption question. The speech was a
reply 10 Mr.. Garfeld's, delivered some
months ago. He denied Garields state
nlent that the year 1860 was prosperous
one, and quoted from various authorities
to sustain his position. In reply to Gar.
fields assertion that no President or
statesman had favored any money but
standard gold and silver, he said that JET
ierson and Madison were exceptions to
that sweeping assertion, and that Alex.
Hamilton had ever favored resort to
greenbacks under the name Of Treasury
notes. He also contraticted the assertion
OF Garfield a. TO the hesitation and un.
willingness OF the Senators and members
10 pass the legal tender &C, and he quoted
Thaddeus Stevens, Hooper and Sena-
tor Sherman In commendation OF that
measure. He denied Garfelds assertion
that greenback currency was forced
loan, and said forced loan is debt
and greenbacks are the money with
which we pay the debt. II the gentle
mans assertion had been made In 1852
il would have been denounced as the
Kissing OF yenomous copperhead. Com.
ing to the question oil specie resumption,
be said that with Sixty.five millions OF
gold in the Treasury, with none In the
hands Of the people, and with seven hum
dred' millions 10 be redeemed, the propo-
sition was a measure OF insanity. II was
proposition the enforcement Of which
was driving the people to pauperism, to
lunacy, to suicide, and was creating
moneyed oligarchy whose wealth, com.
pared with the body Of the people, would
be greater than that OF the moneyed
oligarchy Of England.
In conclusion, he said: The elements
Preferred to as with us) are against US.
No returning wave Of prosperity carries
the nation forward. We are being welled
in the slough Of despond. Instead OF bus
iness revivipg everywhere, prices con.
tinue 10 shrink, wages TO fall, employment
for labor, skilled or unskilled, becomes
more difficult to obtain, the nation is
APPALLED, by profounder gloom than has
ever shadowed it since the gentleman's
other prosperous year OF 1850. This sad
condition will continue, and will from
month 10 month intensity, until
that menace to confidence, the re.
sumption act, shall be repealed.
1t cannot be otherwise. The Silver Bill
was an act OF Justice, not Of relief; its
good influence cannot be felt appreciably
until restored confidence will justify an
enlargement Of the circulation OF money
and credit. Bonds have not fallen nor
gold risen since its passage over the
Presidents impotent veto. Its enemies
have been confounded by experience, and
so, too, will It's friends be il the rcsump.
tion act be permitted to disgrace our stat.
ute books.
Mr.. Garfield rose to reply to him, and
ia to have an hour for that purpose, when
the House again goes into Committee
on the bill.
The Committee rose, and Mr.. Fort in.
troduced bill to authorize the prepara-
tiou OF fine or standard silver bars Of the
value OF Sl0l, 900. and the deposit OF the
same IN the U. s. Treasury, and issue
OF certificates therefor. Referred. Ad.
iourned.