The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-17
THE LAW MAKERS.
The PToeee lings at the Capital
Tuesday.
TIE BILL 10 ADMIT DAKOTA.
Sherman aud Others on Che silver
Dollar { age-Tn Relation to
Naii Matter.
The senate.

The senate.
WAsHINeToN, December Ingall.
presided over the Senate to-day.
The bill naking temporary provision
FOR the naval service" was reported by
Hale, from the naval committee. Be
gave notice that he would endeavor "a
can it up tomorrow.
Lapham presented a remonstranee
against theratifcation of theNie,.raguan
treaty.
Sherman raised the point that the
treaty was executive business. had not
been ordered published and remon-
STRANGE should therefore be presented in
executive session.
Lapham thereupOn withdrew.
A resolution was agreed to.caIiing on
the Secretary of State to communicate
tO-the Senate all accessible information
regarding the extent and character of
the foreign trade of Mexico.
the Central and South American States,
Cuba, Porto Rico and San Domingo.
The unfinished business being the
Dakota bill, 1T was temporarily laid
aside. to permit Beck to continue his
remarks OF yesterday on the silyerques-
ton.
sherman denied that any officer OF
the United States had made anv at
tempt to strike down silver or to dis
criminate against it. There was
no law to require a discrimination
against gold or to compel the payment
of silver, and the United States govern
meut paid to its creditors The kind of
money they preferred, not rs a matter
of convenience and according to the Gus
tom OF banks and mOneyed institutions
generally.
Sherman defended the comptroller OF
currency, who. he said, had expressed
his views like man. Much demagogu-
ism had been thrown around the silver
question, but the real question was
whether the United States could arrest
the march of time ana turn the dial
backward in the attempt TO make
gold and silver of equal value II
could not be done. The question
for the United States 10 consider was,
whether we should go on piiing up these
silver dollars in our treasury as idle
money, or suspend it for Il time, while
considering In connection with other
nations the mutual relationships of gold
and silver. WithiI few months he
would admit that a new administration
would come into power, and he COM
mended this question 10 Il. Ii
newspaper accounts were true, his
honorable friend from Delaware
{ Bayard) was TO be Secretary OF the
treasury to that administration. IF 50.
he would have this question to solve.
and il nc could solve i. lie iShermal)
would follow him with pleasure. He
did not anticipate jha5 his Democratic
friend would find less difficulty in sow
ing the question than others had found,
and he believed tie new administration
would have To solve l. in just
the same way that the Republicans
would have had to solve it, If BepUb-
lican administration were again coming
into power. He said the Treasury had
never paid a dollar in silver or silver
certificates, in making payments at the
New York clearing house. ii it did. II
would be able to pay out every silver
dollar in the Treasury.
After further debate the matter was
dropped.
The Dakota bill was then taken up,
and the question was on the adoption
of Garland's substitute for the bill re-
ported from the committee on Terri-
tories. On coming to a vote, Garland's
was lost, by party vote,
yeas p, nays 81, the Democrats voting
in the affirmative, the Republicans in
the negative. The bill then was voted
on substantially as it came from the
committee on Territories and passed,
also by party vote, yeas 34.nays IS. the
Republicans voting in the affirmative,
hn r.. in ltn
The bill now goes to the House.
CullOm called up the interstate COM
merce bill. and it was laid before the
Senate so as 10 become unfinished bust
ness tomorrow.
Platt gave notice that on the disposal
of that measure, he would move the
Senate TO take up tire bill to provide for
the formation and admission INTO the
Union of the State of Tacoma,
The bill for the admission of Dakota
provides for division of the territory
on the fOrty-Sixth parallel of north lati-
tude, the part north OF the line 10 re-
main a Territory under the name OF
Lincoln. The people OF the southern
portion are 10 hold a convention and
adopt constitution not repugnant TO
the Constitution of the Unite1 States,
which proceedings and constitution
shall be reported and submitted to the
President OF the United States. by the
Governor OF the Territory. whereupon
the President shall, by proclamation,
declare the new state admitted into the
Union. The bill provides elaborate de-
tails aS to the methods Of its execution:
Twenty thousand dollars are provided
or the expenses Of the constitutional
convention.
CATER ex ecutiye session, adjourned.
The House.
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