Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-12
XLVIITH CONGRESS.
National Banks and Sherman's Three
Per Cent. Funding BiII-SenatOr
Vests Speech.
Petitions in Regard to the Alcoholic
Liquor Trafiic-POlygamy in
the House.

WASHINGTON, January 11-SenGte.-A
number of petitions for commission TO in.
qnire in regard to the alcoholic liquor traffic
were submitted, nearly every senator present
having submitted one or more memorials Oh
the subject. Senator Blair said in every
instance the petition came from the constit.
uents OF the senator presenting it, the fact
was an indication of the universally OF the
demand for legislation upon the subject.
Senator Morgan submitted a resolution
directing the special committee on woman
suffrage to inquire into the NJ after OF suffrage
in Utah, and to report a bill TO annul any
existing law comforting the right of suffrage
upon women IN that Territory. The resolu-
ton went over
At the expiration of the morning hour
the Sherman funding bill was taken up, and
Senator Vest addressed the Senate. He
claimed that the Democratic funding bill OF
the last Congress would have saved the peo-
pie S5,OO0,0O0 a year in interest on the
public debt, and that this was prevented by
the Republican party. He said he was not
attacking national banks, but he did attack
the vast power vested in them. He con-
demned the legislation which had given
national banks the power to contract or ex
pand the debt at will. He declared that
national banks have grown in wealth and
power to such an extent that they do not in
tend to surrender their charters or their ex-
istence. The banks can only continue with
the national debt and the banks do not pro-
pose TO have the public debt paid of, because
it would wipe them out. He insisted that
the issue between the aggregated capital in
the national banks on the one side, and the
people on the other, is now presented, and
he arrayed himself on the side of the people
He criticised Senator Mcpherson for his re-
marks yesterday in support of national
banks, and said that this was not Demo-
cratic doctrine; that the Democratic party
does not sympathize with national banks.
Upon resuming his seat Senator Vest was
warmly applauded by the members of the
Democratic side.
Senator Sherman replied to Senator Vests
criticisms Of his course and utterances in the
funding debate of 1870.
After further remarks by Senators Nc
Pherson and Sherman upon the accuracy of
the statement of the latter that the three
per cents proposed by the vetoed bill last
year could not have been sold at par, Senator
Garland was awarded the floor.
Debate was here suspended and the Chair
submitted message from the President
transmitting a communication from the sec
rotary OF the interior, with draft OF the bill
and accompanying papers referring to the
agreement with the Shoshone and other In
dams to the disposal of portion of their
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Committee on Indian Affairs.
The president pro tenn. announced the spe-
cial committee on the rights of women
as follows: Senators Lapham, Anthony,
Ferry, Blair, George, Jackson and Fair.
Senator Anthony introduced a bill provid-
ing for the retirement of any person who
has served fifty years or upward in either
house of Congress.
On motion Of Senator PendletoD, the
House resolution for recognizing the services
OF the late superintendent of the coast survey
Carlisle p. Patterson, was concurred in.
A minute of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the United States, in
session in Buffalo last May, condemning
polygamy was submitted.
Senator Morgan had read a petition from
the members of the Omaha tribe of Indians,
praying Congress to grant each one of them
a clear and full title to the land on which he
has worked.
Senator Dawes asserted land quoted in
proof of his assertion the terms of the treaty
with the Omahas) that for five years it had
been the duty of those who had administered
the Indian affairs OF the country to accom-
plish for the Indians what they now asked
Tor.
The petition was referred to the Commit
tee on indian Affairs.
Senators Pendleton, Hale and Cameron
Ia. were announced as the SENATE section
If the joint committee on the services Of the
ate superintendent of the coast survey, c. P.
Patterson.
Senator Anthony stated that on the 10Th
instant he would ask leave to submit resolu-
ions of respect to the memory of General
Burnside.
Senator Cameron Wis gave notice that
IN the 25th he would present resolution
commemorative of Senator NJ. II. Carpenter
Senator Brown offered resolution, which
was laid over, supplying each senator not
chairman of committee with clerk.
The Senate then adjourned.