Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-01
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HOUSE,.
WASHINGTON. March 81. - In ths
House, under the cab of States. Their,
wee introduced nd referred
BY Finnerty. joint resolution de
clarlng that the thanks of Congress ar
due and hereby accorded to United
States Minister Sargent for the able
faithful ana dignified manner IN which
he discharged tie duties of his OFT &c
while representing the interests of this
Republic at the Court of the German
| Empire.
by kasson, A bill to repeal the inter
nal revenue tax on tobacco and the dis
tlllaflon of apples and peaches.
| BY Nichols. resolution recltino the
fact that for several days Cincinnati
has been men.ced BY a mob, vigilance
committee and kHklnx organization.
which subver,ed Law and disturbed
public tranquility IN repeated efforts to
! lynch persons confined IN the Jail at
Cincinnati, charged with crimes. result
ing IN the loss of many lives and the
| destruction of much property. and re
quesiing the proper committee TO in
qulre into the circumstances connected
With thess outrages. and TO report by
bill or otherwise.
BY Ellis-To equaliZe the taxation on
domestic and foreign insurance COM
panies.
BY king-Appropriatipg $4,000 for
the sufferers from the Mississippi floods.
BY Graves-Au,horizIng the appoint
ment OF Missouri river com mission.
BY McMullen-L Limiting TO one wear
from the dats of the commission of An
otfense, the time within which prosecu-
MAJ ha tF,ta
charged with violation of the internal
revenue laws.
by Con. resolution requesting the
Secret aries of State and War to report
upon the feasibility and expediency of
constructing An interior coast line water
WAY for the defense of the Atlantic and
Gulf seaboard..
The Trade Dol ar Bill was taken up,
and Bland took the floor in opposition
to the bill, especially to that section
which provides that trade dollars re-
ceived at minis should be regarded as
silver bullion, and that their bullion
value shall be deducted from the amount
Of bullion required to be coined in the
Act of February %, 1873. he was Id
favor of limiting the coinage of silver,
placing silver bullion on the same foot
ing as gold bullion. He compared the
silver coinage of the United States with
that of France, stating that under ex-
lsting laws it wOuld be ID years before
the volume of silver in circulation in
this country would equal that of France.
Hewitt, of New York. inquired whsth-
er. if unlimited coinage were permitted
here. the $60,0OO,OO0 of silver in France
would not come to the United States as
fast as steamships could bring them to
take away 20 per cent. of our gold and
transfer it to France.
Handicapped in the negative, and as
a reason for his opinion said that the
people of this country We're not faols
enough to exch ,nge their pr ducts or
anything else without value.
Miller of Texas and Lacy supported
the bill, the latter saying, however, that
he wanted to vote against it, if the 4th
section, which provides that trade dol
lars shall be deducted from the month
ly coinage of silver, were stricken out.
Without action the matter went over.
Robert Smails, of South Carolina, ap-
pe.red at the b n of the House and tsOk
the oath of office AS Representative to
succeed the late +. ". Mackey.
Adjocrned.