Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATOR MORGAN ATTEMPTS TO
SAVE THE GREENBACKS.
Senator Davis, OfW. Va, Introduces Bill
to Repeal Certain Permanent APprO'
priatiOns-The House Passes
the West Point ApprO-
pration Bill.
. WASHINGTON, December Il.
SENATE.

Mr.. Davis, of West Virginia, intro
duced bill to repeal certain permanent
annual appropriations. Referred.
Mr.. Thurman presented memorial
of citizens OF Ohio largely interested
in stock raising, asking for the appoint
ment of committee to investigate the
subject OF contagious diseases of domes-
tic animals. and to adopt and enforce,
under sanction of the Secretary OF the
Treasury, rules for the prevention and
treatment of such diseases. Referred.
Mr.. Pendleton, from the Committee
on Census, reported the bill to amend
the act TO provide for taking the tenth
and subsequent censuses. 1t privides
for free transmission through the mails
ofcOrrespOndence between census officers
and the Department of the Interior. 1t
also amends said act by striking out OF
the seventeenth section so Omuch as pro-
vides for schedule four containing the
inquiry relating to the ownership OF the
public dept of the United States. 1t
also amends section seventeen so as to
allow the report obtained from railroad
corporations, express, telegraph and In
surance companies to be made for the
fiscal wear OF the incorporated company
having its termination nearest to the
first of June, 1880. IL amends section
nineteen so as to require enumerators
to commence June /, 1880, and to re-
quire the enumeration in cities having
over 10000 inhabitants TO be taken
within two weeks from that date. Or
dered printed and laid on the table.
Mr.. Morgan offered the following res
Olution:
Rssol,ed, That the continuance of the
existing volume OF United States treas
ury notes, with their legal tender pre-
served, and the maintenance of their
equivalency in value with coin, is de-
manded by the present necessities Of
trade, commerce and industry, and that
the full restoration of silver coinage to
equality with gold is necessary to secure
to the people of the United Statesa
sufficient and permanent supply OF
money to supply our national prosperi-
".
Mr.. Morgan in speaking OF his res
olutiOn said it might be unwiSe to pro-
ceed too rapidly toward aconsummatiOn
Of the policy which was theoretically ac-
ceptable that our present prosperity
was likely to prove temporary; should We
be obliged to buy largely. abroad we
would need all the good sOtnd money
we possessed and probably more; that
1t was unwise To withdraw any OF the
currency.
Mr.. Morgan declared among other
things that the Greenbacks were kept
at par by the known power and will OF
the people to pay them in gold. Ii there
ever was time when they should have
been deprived of their legal tender
quality itwas when they were below
par. The present movement for their
demonstration was in the interest of
capitalists and il was likely that attempts
would be made to Coerce great political
party into aiding the movement under
threat that otherwise the capitalists
would throw 4 great many cities and
States Of the Union into the camp
of the party that had always
supported mOnopolies against the people.
The Senate then held short eXecu-
tive session, and when the doors were
reOpened passed among others bill to
authorize a free entry of the prizes won
by American citizens IN foreign cOun-
tries.
Adjourned.