The Rock Island Argus., 1884-12-05
RAISING AN ISSUE.
SENATOR HILL, OF COLORADO, Of
FERS A RESOLUTION.
Taking Ground Against the Views of the
President and Secretary McCuiloch
on the Silver Question: Gossip
at the Capital.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 5.-ln the SEN
ate, the secretary of war transmitted a re-
port of the chief of engineers submitting a
comprehensive system of underground tele
graph and telephone service for government
service in the city of Washington.
Mitchell introduced bill granting pen
sion to Gen. Grant Cameron of Pennsyl-
vania introduced the following resolution:
WHEREAS, The shipping trade in Amer
ican vessels is, and has for years been de
pressed, and the export trade in American
produce is languishing for want of market
that might be reached if the shipping trade
was in the hands of citizens of the United
States; therefore,
Resolved, That the committee on
finance be, and is hereby directed
to inquire whether it would be
expedient to expend the surplus revenue
of the United States, or any portion thereof,
for the pHrpoSe of reviving the shipping ana
export trade by allowing a rebate from
tariff duties on foreign goods imported in
ships built and owned in the United States,
and allowing a premium on American
products and articles of American manu-
facture exported in American vessels, and
report by bill or otherwise
The resolution was laid over
Hill, of Colorado, offered the following:
Resolved, That in the existing depressetys
condition of the Industrial interests of the
country, and in the presence of the great fall
which has taken place and is still in progress
in wages Of labor and the prices of products
of farms, workshops and mills, the recon-
mendations of the president and secretary of
the treasury. that the coinage of silver dol
lars and issuing of silver certificates shall be
Immediately prohibited, are calculated to
create alarm, and aggraVate the difficulties
or the situation; and to the end that the
public mind may be quieted by the assurance
that if the total volume of currency is not
enlarged to correspond with the increasing
population and exchanges of the country, it
shall be at least not reduced by suspending
the coinage of silver dollars, the senate
declares its opinion to be that no valid rea-
son exists at present time for imposing addi-
tfonai restrictions upCn either the coinage of
silver dollars or the issue of silver certificates
The resolution lays over under the rules
Cullom attempted to call up the bill to es-
| tablish commission to regulate Interstate
commerce, but several senators wishing
further time for consideration it was post
poned until Thursday next
At 80 p. m. batch of presidential nomi-
nations was received, and the senate went
into executive session At Las p m the
doors were reopened, and senate adjourned
| to Monday
In the house the states were called for in
| PRODUCTION and reference of bills, there hav-
| ing been no call for Monday last Dunn in
troduced bill to create an Arkansas river
| commission from the engineer corps, and for
the improvement of the Arkansas river from
its mouth to oheadwaterS; Glasscock of Gala,
| fornia, to amend the Chinese i'm
migration act; Morrison of Illinois, to
provide for the application of surplus rev.
snue in excess of 800, 900 900 to the purchase
of United States bonds; Browne, of Indiana,
! to prevent discrimination against any class
of citizens in the army; Dockery, of Michi-
gan, to prevent authorizing the presence of
deputy marshals and supervisors of elections
at the polls; j. D. Taylor of Ohio, to pro-
hibit the discharge of any hon
orably discharged Union soldier, or his
widow or daughter, from any position in the
civil service, except for specific cause.
| A large number of private or unimportant
bills were introduced and referred to appro-
pirate committees.
| At O'Clock the interstate commerce bill
| came up as unfinished business of the honse
| on demand for the regular order and
Anderson, Of Kansas, addressed the house.
urging the Importance Of the subject and the
necessity for legislation which exists at the
present time. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania,
argued the constitutional point as to the
power of legislation maintaining that the con-
| titution gave congress that power. Shively,
Of Indiana, elected to fill the vacancy caused
by thd resignation of Calkins, who has been
in the house but four days, made speech in
upport of the Reagan substitute His speech
was pronounced by the olders members q
| very able and forcible one
At 2;50 p. ~ the house adjourned until
| Monday.