The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

fAAAOiS - speaker pTO-Cem. A oil
passed amending section $40 of I'll
revised statutes, relating to forwar(
ing mail matter, which authorize
postmasters to forward mail matte
OF the End 3rd and 4th classes O
which postage has once been paid 1
lull, and this rate is now in force II
regard to mail matter of the lst clasa
| WASHINGTON, Dec. l6.-Ingall
presided over the senate to-day. 4
Oil making q temporary provision
Tor the naval service was reported b,
Hale from the naval committee.
he gave notice that be Voul,
again call it up tomorrow. Laphsu
presented 2 remOnstrance sgains
the ratlf1cation of the Nicaragu,
treaty. Sherman raised the poin
tnat the treaty was executive busi
ness and had not been. ordered pub
ilshed, and circumstances shOult
therefore be presented iD the execu
tive session. Lapham thefeupor
wltndrew his remOnstrance. A res
elution was agreed upon calling tn,
secretary of state to communicate *
the senate all accessible informstiol
regarding the foreign trade of Mexi
CO, the Central and south American
states, Cuba, Porto Rico, and San,
Domingo.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l6 The IN.
finished business, being the .Dakota
pill, 1t was temporarily laid aside T.,
permit Beck TO continue his remarks
OF yesterday on the silver quest.n.,
He repeated that silver mad
never had fair trea, ment from any vi
cur administration, uur any member
OF it. When we Issued our bonds,
he said, they were p y able in the coin
Of the standard value cf the United
States, gold and silver coin; q ad the
Senator from Ohio sherman, ] when
Secretary IF the Treasury. was re-
qoired by law to devote the coin re-
oeived from customs to the payment
Of Interest on the public debt, yet
that gentleman had paid only gold
and had said 1hatahe had paid that
becauseit was preferred by the cns>
TONER. when the law, requires the
secr, tary t. pay out something, it
was not for him to cay the customer
wanted something else. The officers
of the United States were seeking to
strike down silver, while we were
producing forty per cent of the
worlds supply of that metal. Beck
wanted some administration that
would say to the silver countries we
would stand by them. We could
wait sixty days. thank God, until
the enemies of silver bills had disap-
peared from the other end of the
Capital. before letting the world
know that we proposed in good faith
to maintain silver currency in our
country and pay our bonds accord
ing to our obligations. Beck char
acterized as "simply impudent" the
recent statement of the comptroller
of currency, that the silver coinage
law Twas unworthy of this great ma
tion." NJ officer of the government
has the right to make such statement
to the legislature of the nation.
Sherman denied that any offic-r of
the ULited States had made any
attempt to strike down silver or
to discriminate against it.
From 1862, when the law referred
to, was passed, there was no silver
dollar in circulation that could be ap-
piled to the payment of customs or
dues. Consequently no discrimina-
ton has been made against it. The
statute spoke of coin, but there being
in existence no coin except gold. and
that was received and paid out.
The was no law to require discrim-
ination against gold nor to compel
the payment Uf silver. and the Uni,ed
States Government had paid to its
creditors the kind of money they pre-
terred, not as q matter Of cOnven
ience, but according to the custom of
banks and monled institutions gen.
orally. Sherman defended the
of the Currency. He
has, he said, expressed his views like
a man. Much demagoguelsm is be-
ing thrown around the silver Ques-
ton, but the real question was
whether the United States could
arrest the march of time
and turn the deal backward
in the attempt to make gold and sill
ver of equal value. It could not be
done. The question for the United
States to c ,nsider, was, whether we
should 60 on plling up these silver
dollars in our treasury rs idle money,
or sus pend it for time, while con-
in connection with other
nations, the mutual relationships OF
gold and silver. Within y few months,
he would admit, a new administra-
ton would come into power, and he
this question to it. IT
the newspaper accounts were true,
his honorable friend from Delaware
Bayard,1 Was to be Secretary of the
treasury to that administration. If
30, he would have this question to
solve, and If he could solve it, he
sherman would follow him with
pleasure. ae did not anticipate that
bis De- emocratic friend would find less
difficulty in. solving the question
than others had found, and he be-
lieved that the new administrator
would have to solve it in JUST the
same way that the Republicans
would have had to solve it, if the Re-
publican administration wele. again
coming into power.
He said the treasury had never
paid dollar in silver or silver GER
Iitica es, in making payments at the
New York clearing house.. If it did,
1 would be able to pay out every
silver dollar in the treasury. Alter
Further debate the matter dropped.
The Dakota bill was then taken up.
The question was on the adoption OF
substitute for . bill re-
ported from the committee on terri
,ories. Or coming to a vote, 3ar-
and's substitute, was lost by party
vote. yeas 27 nays 81. The Demo
Gratis voting in the affirmative and
,he Republicans in the negative.
The bill was then voted on sub
as it came from the COM
mittee on territories, and passed also
~ party vote, yeas "a nays %. The
voting in the affirmative.
,he D smocrats in the negative.
A Woman With Blood In Her Eye.
HUNTERS POINT, L. 1. Dee. 16.-A
report from Rockville Centre, says
Mrs. Sallie Sprague, shot dead.
tramp or burglar, who entered her