The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-05-22

for one dollar in legal tender treasury notes,
and all holders of silver coins of the United
States may present the same in sums of not
less than twenty dollars, and receive therefor
legal tender treasury notes 1t par for the same,
and all silver coins of the United States shall
he receivable in payment of all government
dues, and for all debts. public and private,
have bullion, trade dollars and foreign silver
coin coined in American silver coin Is fast -
practicable, and apply all silver coin of the
United States, that may come into the treas
ury, to the payment of the principal and in
terest Of the public debt before using any Ut
the gold or treasury notes of the government
for that purpose. Mr.. Warner said the bill
was simply to amend the revised statutes SO
.s to place silver back where it stood from
1892 to 1873. The amendment was rejected:
yeas, 50; nays, l55. The next amendment was
one providing for the issue of certificates to
the depositors of silver bullion, but only to
the amount of the market value thereon. 1t
WAS modified, however, 90 as to authorize and
require the issue of certificates to the full
amount of bullion SO dePcsited. The differ
ence in value, however, il to be placed to the
credit of the treasury, the depositor being
only paid for the market bullion.
In the Senate on the 18th among the
amendments proposed to the Legislative, eI-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill was one
from the joint committee on the library ap-
propriating IS, coo for the purchase of works
of art. This amendment was agreed to. An
amendment recommended by the committee
On finance, sppropriating 10000 for the diplo-
matte and consular service. TO be expended at
the discretion of the President of the United
States, Was agreed to. The reason for this
amendment is, there is now movement in
Europe with view to arrange for . bi-metAllic
and it might be thought advisable to
sent Representative thither to take part in
the proceedings. The bill relating to the
transfer of cases from the State to the United
States district courts was taken up and after
debate went over to another time.
Consideration was then resumed in the
House on the seventeenth of the bill to amend
the statutes relating to gold and sill
yer coinage and bullion certificates. The ques-
ton being on the third section and amend
ments thereto. The first amendment offered
was one confning the privilege of free
coinage to silver mines in the United States.
The amendment was defeated; yeas, 81; nays,
120. The next amendment offered was to the
effect that the secretary of the treasury shall
issue and deliver to a depositor of silver bull
lion certificates an amount equal to the value
of such bullion, and that silver dollars. coined
from such bullion, to the extent of 40 per
cent. of such certificates, shall be held for the
thereof and the remainder applied
to the payment of the interest and principal
of the public debt The certificates so issued
are to be received at par for all dues to the
United States. and to be nsed in the payment
of the current expenses of the government and
are to be redeemable in standard silver dollars.
The vote WAS then taken on this amendment,
and it was adopted-yeas, LOG; nays, los; the
speaker casting the deciding vote amid ap-
plause on the Democratic side.