Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
Passage bp the House of the Sub
sidiary Silver Coin Bill.
1t Makes Silver Coins Legal Ten
der in Sums of $40 and Under,
And Requires POstoffices to Receive
Coppers to Amount of So.
The Znlu War in South Africa
Breaks Out Afresh.
XLVI CONGRESS-,
XLVI CONGRESS.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. April p

w hAcHlNd1ON, n pII Il.
The Senate, at the expiration of
the morning hour, took up Mr..
Wallace's resolution to vest the ap-
pointment and removal of the Sem
ate employees in the Secretary and
the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate,
the question being on Mr.. Edmunds'
substitute, which was opposed by
Mr.. Pendleton and advocated by
Mr.. Conkling.
Without action on Mr.. Wallace's
resolution the Senate resumed the
consideration of the Army bill.
Mr.. Garland addressed the Senate.
He quoted the English law and
commentaries thereon showing the
strict subordination to the civil
authority in which the military
forces are held in great Britain. He
deprecated the exhibitions of Sec
tional feeling, and did not believe
that the country could be prospers
Gus SO long as the old conflict be-
tween the North and the South is
used at each recurring Presidential
election as an instrumentality of
party success.
Mr.. Davis, of Illinois, followed in
favor of the pending bill. In the
course of his speech he said: No
man loved Mr.. Lincoln better or
honored his memory more than l
do, nor had any one greater opper-
tunities to learn the constitution of
his mind and character, and his
habits of thought. He was large
hearted, wiser than those associated
with him, full ofsympathy for strug
Cling humanity, without malice,
with charity for erring men, loving
his whole country with a deep de-
votion and intensely anxious to love
it. Believing as l do that he was
raised up by Providence for the
great crisis of the war of the re-
bellion. [ have equal belief, had
he lived, we would have been
spared much of the strife of these
latter days and that we would
have been on the high |
road to prosperity, such a
man, hating all forms of oppression |
and deeply imbued with the prinoi-
pie that induced the men of '76 to
resist the stamp tax, would never
have willingly entrusted power to
any one, unless war was fragrant,
to send troops to oversee an elec-
ton.
HOUSE.
The House, after having dispens-
ed with reading yesterdays journal,
resumed consideration of the subsi-
diary silver coin bill. Mr.. Chit
tenden, of New York, made brief |
statement in favor of the bill, and |
the House proceeded to vote on the |
to it.
An amendment was offered by |
Mr.. Gillette, of Iowa, for the re-
demption of subsidiary silver coins
in paper fractional currency of ten,
twenty-five and fifty cents, which
currency shall be legal tender to the
amount of ten dollars.
Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia, who
had charge of the bill, said that,
personally, he was in favor of the
amendment, and that the subject
was before the Committee on Coins
age, but that he did not want this
bill encountered with it. Upon this
representation Mr.. Gillette with
drew his amendment.
An amendment was offered by
MIR. Newberry,o of Micigan, requiring
small coins (cents, three cents, &c.
to be received at postofices on
stamps, in sums not exceeding three
dollars. After discussion, the
was agreed to.
The House has passed the subsi-
liary silver coins bill. The bill as
passed provides that silver coins of ,
smaller denomination than one ,
lollar may be exchangeable into ]
awful money when presented in
ums of $50 dollars, makes lawful
money exchangeable into silver :
DIN in like amounts, makes subsi-
iary silver coins legal tender for {
II debts, public and private in sums ]
f not exceeding $50, and makes /
linor silver coinage receivable at Y
to the amount of So. {
Discussion was resumed on the T
bill. 4
Senator Carpenter will deliver the
OnrIh of Tnlu nratinn at Tanasrilla ! G