Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-28
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
The Senate.
FITZ JOHN PORTER.

FITZ JOHN PORTER.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Senator Randolph,
from the committee on military affairs, re-
ported the bill already published for the relief
| Of Fitz John Porter.
Senator Logan made minority report. He
dissented in toto from the resolution.
First-That the President had no authority
to organize commission to examine the case
by taking ex parte testimony.
SecOnd-That the action of the court martial
is not renewable by Congress.
Third-Congress has no right to pay person
for services not rendered because OF exclusion
from the army.
The bill was placed on the calendar.
FAvoRITIsM.
Senator Edmunds offered resolution, which
was agreed to, instructing the committee on
judiciary to inquire whether in the settlement
or adjustment between the United States and
the railroads mentioned or provided for in the
act of Feb. %, 1875 to provide for settlement
with certain railway companies where any dis
elimination or difference of treatment has been
made by United States officers in favor of one
or more such companies as against others, and
if so, what further legislation, if any, on the
subject is expedient.
NAVAL MEDICAL INSPECTOR.
Senator Pendleton introduced a bill to author
ize the appointment of the medical inspector in
the navy to the office of the chief bureau of
medicine and surgery and to remove the disa-
bility of the present incumbent.
THE WEAVER BILL.
Senators Pendleton, ingalls, and Cameron,
Pa, presented petitions of ex-soldlers and sail
ors for passage of the Weaver bill to pay such
persons the difference in value between green
backs and gold. Mr.. Cameron desired to say
in presenting the petition he believed every
one of the signatures were forgery.
REMISSION OF DUTY.
Voorhees,, from the committee on finance, re-
ported favorably House bill authorizing the
remission of the duty on the altar for St.
Johns church, Indianapolis. Placed on the
calendar.
Bills were introduced and referred as fol-
lows:
By Senator Butler, by request-To incorpo-
rate the Cosmos American Colonization and
General Improvement bureau.
By Senator Coke, by request-Providing for
the payment of awards made to the Creek
Indians, who enlisted in the federal army,
loyal refugees and freedmen.
sions of all wounded soldiers of the war of
1872 who now receive less than SIS per
month.
By Senator Logan-To amend the statutes
in relation to immediate transportation of
dutiahle goods. Also. joint resolution to
increase officers of the army, allowed to be
detailed as professors of military science at
military colleges and universities.
By Senator Teller, by request-Tc regulate
Indian affairs. MIR. Teller stated the bill was
drawn by gentleman conversant with Indian
affairs, but he, Teller, dissented from con-
siderable portion of it.
Senator Vest offered a resolution, which was
adopted requesting the President to transmit
to the Senate all information in possession of
the state department relative to the claim of
Max Bomberged against the Mexican govern
ment for goods seized by Mexican customs Of
fcers.
BAYARD's RESOLUTION.
Consideration was resumed Of the joint
resolution, introduced by Senator Bayard, to
withdraw the legal tender power of United
States notes. Mr.. Bayard spoke in favor of
the resolution. He said his object in urging
the adoption of the present resolution was to
bring about actual resumption of specie pay
ments Whatever else might be effected by
the resolution was secondary and merely in
cidental to this one cardinal object. Sound
prosperity must rest on sound basis, and real
money is the only sound currency. 10 re-
sumo by the existing system is as idle as to
bail water with sieve. Paper notes are an es-
sential auxiliary to coin, but they are
not coin, not money, but substitutes for it.
Their acceptance must be based on their credit
on their convenience, and must be always vol
untary in order to be safe. When an evidence
of debt is made a compulsory tend in pay
ment of debt, the great law of honesty and of
money that value to be given for value taken
is broken.
referring to the fear expressed by many of
the money power, he said capital is
the result of labor and trugality.
Was there to be discrimination
against those individuals who had been more
successful than Others in accommodating prop
erty. It was the money power that enabled
the poor laborer to become the owner of tools
whereby he accumulated his own little and
growing capital. 1t gave his children educa-
ton and made his old age more comfortable.
he did not ignore the fact that the equal and
wholesome distribution of property sought to
be obtained by our fathers through the abo-
lition of rrimogenitIve entailments, ETC., had
been to a great extent defeated. and he was
inclined to think the system of incorporation
which VIC have introduced in all branches of
Industrial pursuits, had been nearly equal to
the effects of primogenitary and mortmain
combined in its influence on the aggregation Of
wealth into single and never dying grasp.
But he couldn't understand at what point de-
nunciation of accommodation was properly to
commence. He attributed this unequal divis-
ion of property, however, more to the use of
convertible legal tender paper money than to
any thing else. Jefferson said that by breaking
up the measure of value it makes lottery of
! all private property.
Senator Bayard continued: l attribute the
dangerous projects, fallacious schemes and at
tempts to array the force of members against
property which we witness over the country,
and which afford such an opportunity for
demogogues to ply their arts and excite all IN
thinking and suffering people to the adoption
of false remedies and distinctive measures of
supposed relief. l consider the construction
of the constitution by the supreme court in
| the legal tender cases to be alarming and most
dangerous, for l understand it to vest
| the power to issue legal tender
notes on the existence of some
great emergency of which Congress is the
Judge. As the constitution was intended for
restraint Of majorities and to keep all power
there not delegated within assigned limits, it
| is obvious thatlthe necessity for maintaining
its provisions is greater in proportion to the
excitement and dangers of the hour. Yet by
| the Interpretation of the supreme court, the
hour of trial of the constitution is the hour of
| its failure. 1t is never so weak as when it
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