The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-15

the gold standard, common sense and pub
lie policy forced the United States to
stand with them or else adopt silver
as its only standard. The presen,
coinage law, unless modified
would certainly force on this country an
fexclusive silver standard. He regarded
the dishonored and justly imprisoned sill
yer dollar Of 412x grains as a most dis
graceful form Of political money, it was
as corrupt and as corrupting in principle
a. If it only contained 12X grains. He
asserted that The free coinage bill which
lpassed the house on the 4th of November
1877, was intended by its authors to drive
all gold out of the country, but that the
free coinage bill failed and resulted to
great advantage to the people. Why
should resumption be broken down by re
morseless men? The monstrous
proposition was claimed by its
authors and proprietors as being to the
interest of the people, but he affirmed and
could demonstrate that it was in the inter
est of the bullionists and capitalists ex
clusively. .r s.
MIR. Warner agreed that in cir
culating paper money if carefully limited
in amount could retain its full face value,
and he quoted financial writers to sustain
that position. The valuation of all prop
erty in the country had been changed
from paper to gold and silver, but under
the existing law that valuation was now
being changed from both metals to gold
alone. The pending measure was intend
ed to prevent that. Without action on the
bill the house adjourned.
A bill reported from the judiciary CON-
mittee to remove the political disabilities
i 80 T ~ -
rise to an amusing cOllOquy between Mr..
Conger and Mr.. Cox, which Mr.. Knott cut
short by moving the previous question,
and the bill passed.
Mr.. Boyd, from the committee on ac-
counts, reported bill directing the pay
ment of committee clerks and prays to be
computed from the first day Of the ses-
| sion-a The bill gave rise to a long discus
sion, objection being made to it on the
ground that $50 extra pay was voted to
those employees at the close of the last
Congress, and many of them would be 're-
ceiving double pay for portion of the
time. 1t was denounced by Mr., Sparks as
an outrage on the treasury, and a public
| wrong
The morning hour having expired the
bill went over. $50 is;- p
Mr.. Cook, chairman of the Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds, report
ed resolutions testifying to the high
qualities of the late Representative Clark
| of Iowa, who had been member OF that
committee. and directing the committee
on appropriations to appropriate for the
family of the deceased his salary to the
close ofthe forty-sixth congress. Adopted.
The house then went into a committee
of the whole, Mr.; Springer in the chair,
on the private calendar. After the passage
of one bill. u motion to adjourn over until
Monday was rejected
The house then went into committee of
The whole, Mr.. Townsend in the chair,
and took up the senate bill authorizing
the employment of three assistants on the
library of congress. After q sharp debate
the committee rose and the bill was pass
ed. The senate amendment to add the
jetties bill was concurred in.
The house then resumed consideration
of the Warner silver bill, and it was adj
dressed by Mr.. Warner in advocacy of the
bill, and in favor of the double standard.
Mr.. Heilman opposed the bill. The
best thing congress could do was to do
nothing and 20 home. The world was
country with bills and resolutions might
as we'll stop for a while.
Mr. Warner, in the course of the days
previous question tested next.
Mr.. Kelley having obtained the floor the
house adjourned.
Washington, May 10.-A bill was re-
ported from the committee on the revision
of laws, and passed, amending the law re-
lating to writs of prohibition and manda-
mus. Also a bill relating to widows of
the pensioners of the war of 1872 so as to
give pensions to women who are second
time widows.
Opposition was made to the latter bill
as an entire change of the pension laws,
and ON motion of Mr.. Garfield it was re-
ferred TO the pension committee.
The bill prohibiting the presence of mil
itary at places of election was presented
as enrolled, was signed by the speaker,
and was sent for the signature of the
speaker pro tenn. of the senate.
At the expiration of the morning hour
consideration was resumed Of the Warner
silver bill. and Mr.. Kelly made speech.
Mr.. Kelly, in the course of his speech,
declared himself free to admit that when,
in. 1872. he absurdly asserted that the
unit of the United States monetary system,
the legal tender silver dollar-which was
at that time worth three cents more than
q gold dollar-was a subsidiary coin. He
knew no more On the subject OF finance |
than was known or it. to-day by the
gentleman from Massachusetts,, Claff1in.
or that his colleague, Fisher He saw in
the present decade symptoms which had
marked the fall of the Roman Empire,
among concurring causes of which were
successive expansion and contraction of
currency and the decline of silver and
gold mines of Italy, Spain and Greece.
He predicted that the reconciliation of
silver in the United States and Europe |
would restore peace, order and prosperity |
throughout the world.
8herman's speech.