The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-21
SENATE.

luton was reconsldereu. lne Vote WaS;
Yeas, 81; nays, 20.
Mr.. Edmunds moved 10 amend 30 a. TO
adjourn from December sd TO January
Sd, instead OF December 22d 10 January
9th. Further discussion ensued and the
resolution prevailed. >.
Mr.. Cockrell by request introduced q
Joint resolution relating TO the late Indian
territory and presented in the House.
Laid on the table, similar bill having
heretofore been reported from the Commit.
tee ON Territories.
The Senate bill refunding the 8 per
cent Improvement certificates OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia into fifty year 3.65 per
cen, bonds guaranteed by the United
States was amended on motion OF Mr..
Allison, 90 as to make the rate Of interest
per cent. Passed.
The amount Is about $S91 900, and the
bonds are TO date from August lst, 1874,
and will be in all respects similar TO the
365 bonds heretofore issued.
On motion Of
Mr.. DAVIS, OF WEST VIRGINIA,
The bill TO relieve the Treasurer Of the
United States from the amount now
charged to him and deposited with the
several States under the act Of 1928, was
taken up.
Mr.. Davis explained that the money
concerned was practically O donation 10
the States. It had not been called for by
the Government In times Of great need
and doubtless never would be. The bill
twould obyiate the need OF carrying the
amount (2S millions OF dollars) on the
books OF the Treasury.
Mr.. Ingalls, thought II unjust 10 the
States admitted since 1885 TO give this
money TO older States. The inconven.
fence Of carrying the hgures on the Treas.
ury book was not serious enough to me-
cessitate the gilt OF % millions OF dollars.
The original contract was that the money
should always be subject call by the
United States.
Mr.. Garland considered the debt Of the
States % equitably outlawed by Limitation
and by the conduct Of the Government in
leading the States TO believe the money
would never be called for.
Mr.. Kirkwood said that the "Fiye per
cent bill" was up ut the last session, and
a charge was made that the States inter
terested were pooling their interests to
carry tne piii. II no uau hot tneA tuousus
such Q charge improper 70 % maue' ne
would be- tempted now 70 ssy tnnt tne
twsnty.eight states interested IN this piil
were massing tnelr suengtn 10 secure tnls
twenty. eight miill9ns OF doiiats; ne now
offered rs q second sectioh 70 tnis Dill tne
substance oi the hve per cent plii, aiioH-
ing to the various states per cent on tne
value OF the lanas granted wthln tnett
limits by the mlitary county Watiantsi
said States bong entitled py tneir ennaoiing
acts TO per cent 9n the ssies Oh puohc
lands within 'heis iiai"'
hR. THURMAN
,bougb. tho Eve per cent bill, IL q good
one. uhould stand on It's own merits with
out discussing the amendment or the re.
peatsd objections made on former oe.
sions to the bill crediting $2s,0OO,00O to
the States. The General Government had
no right to give money from the Treasury
10 the States. The money was really 9
part ot tbs funds ot the government, and
appeared as such Oh its book. we owe
s., ,000, 900 600 Our obyious duty 70 70 pay
1t of as last as possible. Every dollas OF the
S700, ,000. 600 or $SO0. 0.OOO0OO due next year
could be paid oil in ten years without un-
duly burdening the people; yet 1t 10 pro.
posed 10 extend It Tor iorty or nity years,
and at the same time give away S2S,OOe,-
900, give away public land and increase
the expenditures as We were doing. The
inevitable result OF this kind OF apolicy 10
10 To create an irreduciple public debt. II
was TO make our debt Ike British consuls
perpetual obligation. He regarded per-
petual debt as one Of the greatest Eronss
that could be inflicted upon the Nation:
He opposed thls Dill as PaIt o. system Of
legislation tending to bring on this mis-
fortune.
Mr.. coSKLisd
thought that Thurman's argument was
-;.,..sI ill., ,,.ry o,hor .ood .,s,ma,ts
siaaseu, "Ae .4.A' ''A.t eee -
by the incorrectness oi nus premises. In
1888 there was surplus in the Treasury,
,.,asd bv tares on the populstion then
.A. - M -.--,.'. -. I..o.;,ad ,,;,h
exisang. Ing sutpius; was aebIea ~. - " al
me etetes tnen eaistins, sSosds iiad " ,oan Sr'
OF tns uoVslnmen. ia, ~ We 49,. saii iaan
subsequently tne quAty " Ca.i .aa .oto ~
was Mkeh ,tom " w onIJ ~ SAso sara, hs
the enect that sne money snTnu na.o.. nese. ~ u
called ior except py ~ oi oonsfs Ni SnJ
on Que nouce. lne uocsihe e. " SooFgos IL
warranted tne asssiuoI san a.. "nea naad 'rs ~
0oyerhmsnt N ir saeI -; VI go ,nanav % snd n
money did not apply ior Ihis 9n n9ney sh .ha
when i py VARIOUS aenons p.iaased p,JiIaasedd ~ .ae
impression Lnat u vi n9s s"asansn. SonS1t 80 r. ;
part Oh me assets ol sne uoseans .,,nnen ,.as ~
was estoppeI lo. a.asaI ssn Ia % ,ha ststss
iorty years mad elspsel an ana sne ssasss S.Nss
had with knewieuge ~ .ne uoseiunens nans Nv
applied the money 70 VARIOUS puspSSesI I ~ i
the assumption thas II was eohS'uefea =
gilt
Mr.: ConkIng thouent tnat me pa1 naa
sufficiently demonstrsted tnat tne people,
purses and integtity OF lne county woula Suhs
make itimpossibLe 70 pay the pn9ne e aeoL u
Mr.. Blaine regarded the ACT oi 1850 ~
@ great Jolly resulting from the extreme
theory that the surplus o. revenue must
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