National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-23
HOUSE or REPRE S ENTITIES.


Owing TO the number of bills introduced yester.
day the journal was not completed, and its reading
was dispensed with.
The first business in order was the consideration
Of the subsidiary silver bill.
The amendment was that offered by Mr.. New
berry, providing that all United States coins of
every dcscriptiOn of face value OF Twenty-Five cents
and under shall be received at all postoiiCes for
payment of postage and iorthe purchase postage
stamps in sums not exceeding 70, was adopted.
Several other Observation-Disclosures been offered
were Withdrawn.
The bill was then passed. II provides that the
holder of silver coins of smaller denomination than
Il may receive therefor, when presented at the
Treasury or any Assistant Treasury in sums of $40
or multiple thereof, lawful money of the United
States. The second section authorizes the Treasury
to exchange coins received under the provisions Of
this acD in sums of $50 or multples thcrcoiior law
ful money. The third section makes subsidiary
$50 for all debts, public and private. The fourth
section makes the minor coins "copper" and nickel
receivable for postage and postage stamps to the
amount of g. The iiith section repeats all acts III
conflict with the bill,
Mr.. ATKINS, chairman Of the Committee on APP
propriations, reported q deficiency bill uor about
MIR. KNOTT, from the Judiciary Committee, made
q report on the question Of the subpoena served on
the lille clerk of the House to produce certain orig
nal papers in the Stanley lIHZCn court martial
The report concludes with resolution declaring
that 10 officer, or employee OF the House has n
right voluntarily or in obedience to II subpoena TO
produce any document, paper, or book belonging
10 the files of the House before any court or officer
or permit any copy to be made of testimony given
before the House or any committee, or any other
paper belonging to the files Of the House Except
such rs may he authorized by statute to be copied
without the consent of the House
The resolution also prohibits the removal from
the files of the original paVcrs mentioned in the
subpoena issued for the file clerk, Ferris Finch but
grants the consent of the House TO either party in
the case Of the United States against Colonel stan
ley, now pending to have made properly proven
copy OF the papers mentioned in the subpoena.
The resolution was agreed TO, and the House then
(at 1:ij) went into Committee of the Whole (AIr
Blackburn in the chair upon the legislative Nppro-
priatiOn bill.
Mr. BAILEY characterized the proposed repeal MS
an infamous usurpNtiOn Of power on the part Of the
Democratic party. IL was not asked for by the peO-
pie or the country, but by the Democratic leaders
and politicians That party, with its hard money
in the East, soft money IN the West and outlawry
in the South; its stigmutizng of the greatest gem
eral of the age MS traducng Of his personal char
Ncter; its loud talk about Imperialism and tho ruin
of the Republic was only erecting monument to
It's own consummaLe folly.
Quoting from some Democratic speeches Nlud-
ing TO General Grant he said This, then, is the po.
| litcAl nightmare that 'nghs the souls of our
Democratic statesmen. charge il here, upon my
| sincere belief and responsibility, that the proposed
repeal of these amendments by the party majority
oithis House at this time and in thismanner is not
in the interests of lir ballot IN honest count,
and u free election but is las indicated In the
| speeches have quOIed) in the interests of Demo.
cratic nscendoncy and success in the Presidential
| campaign OF 1880, Continuing, he said that the
| Republican column would march TO political vie.
| tory in 1880 us triumphantly as sherman had
marched To the sea, TO victory that would give TO
| the whole people Il President honOrGd aud reyored
| alike at home and among all the nations of the
| earth; q President myincible in arms patriotic in
peace competent and honest IN Official life, pre-.
eminenty possessed Of that decision ofpurpOSc and
character displayed ON that sunday made memo
rable in American history ut AppOmnttoN,
| Mr.. COVERT made Il speech ON the Democratic
side OF the question, Conlning himself principally
to II recital OF what he characterized as the high
handed outrHgcs perpetratcd In New York under
color of the Infamous Federal election law"
| MI. GIDDfs made speech on the Democratic
iN W WV luSetloll' ,helV'LHB " wv 'VHoIuVln u,
not call in question the Presidential title, but that
lie would mover forgive nor forget the great wrong
by which Mr. Hayes held his seat, and that he had
sworn ON his conntlys altar never 10 cease his eff
forts, never to lay down the legal, peaceful COnsti-
mOnal weapons of warfare until The fraud and the
crime by which the present incumbent held hls
office Were condemned az a free election and the
choice Of the people inauRWcd
Mr. THOMPSON also spoke on the Democratic Side
OF the question,