The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-16

veil undefSt0oQ tl6n as now. ne silver dollar
was not. in circulation then, and no one saw the
Effect of the act. 1t would be quite as well Ii
hey all acknowledged their Ignorance. He de-
II one now in his grave, who, when in the
House. was the peer in financial matters of any
gentleman in the Hon.s.
Mr.. Baine-'I did not did you2'
Mr.. Voorhees, said he would frankly say he
Mr. Thurman said this was singular cate
ehisn. One Senator asks asks, another II he knew
silver bill ia tine silver and d2ar fb
says No Neither knew that the bill demon |
atized the, silver dollar because 1T did not.
Mr.. Beck's amendment was the next in order.
providing for the purchase of bullion. not less
than three million per month, and as much
to be made at market rates in legal tender |
notes. and when the. bullion cannot be Rur-
chased less Than par In legal tender notes then
liens Of the United States.
Section provides that the halves: quarters
tity Of pure silver as the dollar authorized to be
coined by this art.
Mr.. Beck said he was opposed to paying any
holder Of bullion. and desired. to see no, limit
placed upon the coinage. but II his amendmens
was not adopted, he should vote for the bill.
silver dollar to Just where 1t was before The act
of 1870 aud then ii there was any legislation to
aa the silver aear anes hs equal e pn Of bg bgo
dollar against the gold dollar, not silver bullion
against gold money:
Mr.. Beck then withdrew the second section OF
his amendment. relating to subsidiary coins.
Mr.. Ferry moved to amend lines. 20 and 21, in
section /, so as to read Not less than 81. 900
cause the same to coined monthly as as fast as 50
purchased into such dollars The amend
ment was adopted 5#5
that at q o'clock the Senate take recess until
Mr.. Mcdonald moved to strike ont the maxi.
mum of 81, 900 600 worth per month. Disagreed
Mr.. Beck moved to amend the first section of
the com mmittee bill by striking out all after line
16 and inserting instead the first section OF his
amendment Rejected.
Mr.. Mcdonald moved recess until Il o'clock
The question recurring upon the amendment
to the amendment that in the first year after
the passage of the act not more than 25 and in
import duties shall be payable in the coin here
by authorized it was rejeeted-yeas 20. nays 46
Mr.. Wallace moved an amendment IN effect
next three years, and that if the average pur..
chase price of silver bullion during the last Of
thee three se Less tha Fl 5e
coming silver dollars until otherwise directed
by Congress.
because they thought it expressed a lack of
confidence in the pending measure.
Mr.. Window. however. thought it was an ex-
preston of confidence. ana he favored even
making the limit two years.
The amendment was lost-yeas 2e. nsys 40.
The vote was then taken upon the amend
the free coinage clause inserted by the House,
and giving the saigniorage to the government
This was adopted by vote OF 40 to 22
Mr.. Edmuuds moved to amend the amend
ment Just adopted by adding ns follows: But
nothing contained in this section shall bs con.
strued tJ interfere with the coinage OF gold and
l~,.;I Gil lvnr nnin a.
Mr.. Coke said that by the adoption Of the com.
miltee,s amendment , tn, wishes end demands u
he nrespe peePe Sa p9a ,E dhis5fgarde
lives. N'hi"I, duly represented the people, would
reject that amendsnent. as well as that OF Mr..
Edmunds just Offered.
alluded to the appeal made by Mr.. jones' of
Nevada. yesterday. in favor of miners who
delyed thousands OF feet below the surface Of
he wanted to call attention tothe fact that the
men who dig out the silver from the mines were
not
amendment was rejected. Yeas %. nays 46. as
: Yeas.. .,Messgs. Anthony. Barnum Bayard,
Ran,, Lamar, McPberson. Mitchell, MaTrill.
Ra1dnlph kolllns, Sargent, Wadle1gh. Whyte
i Nays1me essrs Allison. Armstrong. Bailey
Beck, Booth, Bruce Capsron Pc of Penns ylyania.
ginia. Dennis, Dorsey, Enstls, Ferry, Garland.
Kellogg. Kirkwood. McCreery, Mcdonald,
Maxey. Matthews, .Merrirdon, Morgan, Oglesby.
Paddock 2 umb. Salisbury, Sanders. Spencer.
Teller. Thurman. Voorhees,, Wallace and
Withers-46.
The question then was stated to be upon Mr..
Allison's amendment, which was O second sec
~ fnrn int onki tn1a y,te
sion for establishing internationally the use Of
bi-metallic money and securing fixiy of rel
aye vas between g66d ahd syar } silver would
show no opposition to this amendment. If it
was to be stricken down, let it be done by the
monometaists. for such convention as his
would secure the permanence OF silver in this
country,
Mr. Merrimon was opposed to all foreign al
matters he wanted thelUnited States to establish
her own monetary standard.
Iatthe time Of going to press the Senate was
still in session with prospects good for an all
The House.
Nj. Wright Of Pennsylyansa, presented res
qaon onHn Ct he he g o in
Mr. Stephens OF Georgia, from the Commit
tee on Coinage, reported back the bill authoriz-
ing the President to take steps for an interna-
committee OF the whole.
The regular order having been demanded. the
speaker Cttilbu upou luo COuImltltbS IoI FGpOEbS
of private nature.
Mr. Townsend of New York. from the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs reported adversely
on theJbill to transfer he claims for the East
ern Cherokee, lands to the Court of Claims.
Laid on the table.
Pending the further consideration of reports
of private nature. the morning hour expired
and Mr.. Harris, Of Virginia. moved to proceed
to the consideration of the Acken- Darrall con-
tested election case from the Third Louisiana
District.
Mr.. Bright, of Tennessee. raised the question
of consideration as: between that case and the
committee of the whole on the private calendar,
and the House refused to take up the contested
election case.
Mr.. Springer. of Illinois, moved that when
the House adjourned to- day it be until Monday.
Agreed 10 by a vote of 148 to 90.
The House then went into committee OF the
whole on the private calendar.
tMr. Hooker, of Mississippi, In the chair)
The first bill ON the calendar was one to pay
Geo. Fl. Giddings s296.743 for mail service. and
it was ordered to be- reported favorably to the
House.
The next bill was one reported from the Com
mittee on Postofices and Post Roads. to apply
the annual appropriation by act of Congress of
March 3. 1877, to pay certain Southern mail con-
tractors for services rendered bafore March 1,
1861.