The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-27
B0uSE,
Ewrsa,s CURRENCY BILL.

this morning considered the proposition
offered by Mr.. Ewing 10 amend the bill
providing for substitution Of the Treas.
ury notes for National Bank notes by in.
serting section which would make the
Treasury notes interchangeable with
greenbacks, and provide also that green
backs shall be reissued to the full former
amount Of 100000.
After u long discussion this proposi.
tion was rejected, receiving only three
votes.
The reading OF the journal was not
completed till shortly before one.
Mr.. Reagon, Chairman OF the Com.
mittee on Commerce, reported back the
bill 10 regulate interstate commerce and
to prohibit unjust discrimination BY the
common carriers. Printed and recon.
mitted.
A petition 700 yards long and signed
by $4,000 names, for the repeal OF the
law in regard to the transmission Of mat.
ter through the mails, was referred.
The Speaker then called committees
Tor reports.
Mr.. Upton, from the Committee on
Manufactures, reported q resolution 10.
struclipg the Committee on Rules TO in.
quire into the expediency Of changing
the rules 20 as TO give the Committee on
Manufactures Jurisdiction over all ques.
tions affecting the interests OF manufac.
tures and over the internal revenue of
the country.
MIR. Wood raised point OF order that
tho subject matter having never been
referred to the committee Il had no right
to report the resolution.
The Speaker sustained the point and
ruled ont the resolution.
Mr.. Steele, from the Committee on Ag.
riculture, reported back the bill for the
appointment OF commission 10 inyesti.
gate the origin OF and the best means OF
Destroying tue cotton army worm. The
bill approprsates $40, 900 for the expenses
OF the commission. Referred TO com.
mittee OF the whole.
Mr.. Chalmers took the floor 10 re-
ply to a speech made by Mr.. Garfield
last week.
Mr.. Ragan interposed the point Of
order that the gentleman from Mississip-
pi was not making 4 personal expla-
nation. He thought that days enough
had been wasted In this Improbable
discus4ion. He desired to see the bitter
ness Of sectional snimosi.y ailayed, and
thia could not be done by cultiyatipg
political controversies on the floor Of The
House.
After some little discussion Mr.. Chal-
mers was allowed TO proceed.
The House then went into Committee
OF the Whole, and Mr.. Butler proceeded
10 make his speech on finance, 10 the
course Of which he said II he could hear
that our six per cent bonds were coming
back at so cents on the dollar to be ex.
changed for our merchandise, our gold or
our silver, he should look upon Ii as the
brightest and happiest financial fact the
country ever knew. He would have a
currency better than a gold currency,
unalterableIin value, ,becauie founded upon
the wealth, power and property, together
with all the gold and silver OF the coun.
try, held by all the people, whose interest
IL would be TO keep It at steady meas.
ure OF value, to which all property would
soon accommodate itself, and ultimately
the whole national debt would be brought
home from abroad aud funded into this
national bond. This would give to Amer.
lea non exportable currency, better
than any other, capable ut all times Of
being invested 1t home at an equal rate
Of interest with the gold oi the world,
which is now 10 the best government go.
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