The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-08
The House,.


States the following bills were introduced and
REFEREED:
By Mr.. Gibson-Relative to the appointment
and pay Of Mississippi river commissioners
Also, to enttle State banks to circulate notes on
the same conditions as national banks, pro-
vided they comply with the provisions of the
national bank law relative thereto.
By MIR. Davis, Mo.-Requiringt the postmaster
general to mail the first of each month to ev-
cry member of Congress an itemized statement
OF all mail contracts made the preceding
month.
By Mr.. Chalmers-Fur relief of the heirs of
colored soldiers.
By Mr.. Armheld-To reduce the tax on dis
titled spirits. 1t abolishes the tax on spirits
distilled from apples, peaches, grapes, etc.,
and reduces the tax on spirits distilled from
lon. 1t provides that no storekeeper shall be
appointed for any distillery except such "a
III ~ distill thirty-twO gallons per day, and
vests the appointment of deputy collectors in
the judges of the district courts of the respec-
tive districts.
that producers If leaf tobacco may sell the
same in quantitie, Of not more than ten pounds
at any ono time without license.
lNoTE.-The report ut this point gives the
statements Of Messrs. Manning and Springer
with reference to the latter's reception of an
anonymous letter, offering $4,000 for his irflu-
ence in retaining Washburn in his sea-. which
statements appear in another column.-Ep
wEAvERs RESOLUTIONS.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Springer's state
ment, MIR. Weaver obtained recognition of the
Speaker, and moved to suspend the rules and
adopt the following resolutions:
RcsOtved, That it ls the sense of this House
that all currency, whether metallic or paper,
necessary for the use and convenience of the
people, shall be issued and its value controlled
by the govcrement, and not by or through bank
corporations of the country, and when it is is
sued it should be full legal tender in payment
of all debts, public and private.
Resolved, That in the judgment Of this
House that portion of the interest bearing
debt of the United States which shall be re-
being in amount about $7s2 coo. 900, should
not be refunded beyond the power of the gov
ernmcnt to call in such obligations and nav
them at any time, but should be paid As rapid
ly a. possible and according to contract. To
| tions the mints of the United States should be
| operated to their full capacity on the coinage
of standard silver dollars and such other coin
age ~ the business interests of the country
! may require.
Mr.. Garfield described the proposition as hav-
ing some good things in it, but called attention
| to its three salient points. The first was that
| all money, whether coin OF paper,
was to be manufactured and
issued by the government directly
and was to be = legal tender. Never had =
proposition OF such vast and far reaching Gen.
tralism been offered in Congress-. 1t surpassed
| all centrsllsm and all CRsarism that had ever
been charged on the Republican rarty in the
widest days OF war or of the acts growing out
of the war prior to 1862. The widest dreamer in
American politics had never been wild enough
| to propose such measure of centralization
The second point involved in the resolution
was that the government should pay its public
debts as we'll as its private debts in such man.
! nfactured money, Notwithstanding the solemn
| and acknowledged pledge of the government
| to pay in coin the interest and principal of its
debts.
| MIR. Ewing-The gentleman certainly mis-
| understands the resolution. It declares that
the public debt shall be paid in the money of
| the contract. ~ >~H 49,
Mr.. Gar6eld-And any money that the gov
ernment shall now or hereafter issue is lawful
money, and therefore tho money of the con-
tract. . go -r-} -. e., =: e~.-&
Mr.. Ewing-That 10 . mere quibble, and
Misunderstanding of the resolution. ..
| Mr.. Garfield proceeded with his remarks in
opposition to the resolutions. There was q
third proposition in tho resolution. There was
TO be no refunding Of the seven hundred and
eighty millions of bonds which would fall due
this year, or next year, but they should all be
paid not out OF the resources of the nation, but
out OF tho manufactured paper. Print the
: debt to death. That was tho way to dispose of