The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-19
REPEAL OF RESUMPTION ACT.
Remarks oil Hon. Frank Hereford
OH His Resolution.

on His Resolution.
In the Senate, Monday, april Is.
Mr.. Herelord-I move that the Senate
proceed to consider the resolution which
/ introduced on the Dist of March, relat-
ing to the repeal OF the resumption act.
The motion was agreed to, and the
Senate proceeded to consider the resolu-
ton, as follows:
! WHEREAS, House bill No sos, bill to
! repeal all thai parl of the act approved
! January IL, 1915, known as the resumption
! act, which authorized the secretary OF Inc
! Treasury to dispose of United states bonds
and redeem and cancel the greenbaCk
! currency, was referred TO the Fla ance Com
mittee of the senate on November 70 1871:
Therefore.
BE Il Rcyolred, That said committee be
requ red 10 report SAID bill to the Senate
wItntu one week, together with their &C.
ton thereon, II any shall have been had.
Mr.. Heretord-Mr. President, it is
now three weeks since l introduced the
resolution and drew the attention of the
Committee on Finance TO it. AT that
time the chairman of the Committee on
Finance asked that it should not be
forced upon the Senate, for the reason
that they had not had time to consider q
matter OF such great importance.
The bill to which this resolution refers
passed the House of Representatives
November rs, came to this House, and
was referred 10 that committee. That
makes it about five months ago. That
committee have had the bill under con-
sideration for five months and yet we are
told By the commute that they want more
time and that 1t would be improper to
hurry up the consideration Of it or TO call
on the Senate for q vote thereon.
| was little surprised at the reason
assinged for 1t especially when l took
into consideration The history OF the lm.
portant measure; the bill for the resump-
ton of specie payments, which this bill
seeks to repeal, was introduced into the
Senste by Mr. Sherman, the chairman of
the Committee on Finance, December q,
1874, without the bill ever having been
previously introduced in this body by
any one, bill not called for by any in
dlvidual member Of the Senate, bill
which the Finance Committee was not
directed or requested TO report, a bill
which was the result as the Senator from
Ohio MIR. Thurman SAID caucus OF
the Republican Senators at that time
holding their seats here.
Senator Sherman, who WAS then chair
man of that committee, and who intro
duced that bill as its chairman, and whe
is now Secretary Of the Treasury, when
ne introduced it said:
! give notice that, to morrow, II there
shall be no more pressing business, will
ask the Senate to take up this bill with q
view to present action.
lie was appealed to by many Senators
not to hurry the matter in that way, but
he declined to listen to the request OF
each and every one of the Senators who
urged that request. This is what be said
when he was appealed to by the preseL
Secretary of the Interior for delay:
MIR. Snerman-The Senator will have
ample time. 1t is Il short bill, only three
mace, long. He will see what there Is n
II on reading 1t, and l think in the course
of an hour or SO he will be able 10 make
nm his mind entirely as 10 whether he Will
be able to support the OH or not mink
for the interest of business men, for the
interest OF the whole country, IL is impor.
rant that this Congress should inform
them what II purposes 10 10 IN res ara 10
this important sup tcl. lhluh II 'H.s OIII
can be passt Il to-day promptly, quickly,
and sent To the House of Representatives
as an indication that Congress will do thus
much, IL no more, in the direction point
ed ont by the bill, II would he OF gr at
benefit To the country. Inc senator
think will agree 10 that
The then Senator Sherman said that
the Senate had had ample time to cOnsid-
a. il in another portion of the discussion,
that the whole subject mstter hsd been
smn}y discussed by the Senate prior to
that. and on the 22d day of December,
the dsv sitter it WAS introduced, that bill
wss messed to a vote, only allowing about
,wenty-tour hours for the members o!
the Senate to consider 1t.
The Senator having charge of the bill,
as | said q moment ago, then said II the
hearing OF the Senate that the whole sub
isct matter hsd been amply discussed,
this whole subject OF finance. If it hsd
been SIMPLY discussed then to ensble
Senators to know how 10 act and how 10
vote. wkst are we to say now after the
exhaustive discussion the financial ques-
ton has had st this session and betwe'n
tbAt time aud this session. So we see
Mr., President, there were bat twenty
tour hours given the Senate to consider
this important subject; and yet this COM
mlttee has had FIVE months 10 which 10
consider the bill to repeal it. That bill
| passed this House then within twenty
four hours and went to the House OF Rep
resentatives and was there passed under
a suspension of the rules the very dsy
that it arrived there, without any oppor-
tunity for an amendment, without any