The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-02-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

l. WAsHINaToN, Feb. 26.-Randall
movtd t. suspend the rules so that
the su6dry civil appropriation Till
NAV be considered for four hours
which time shall be occupied In a
debate'U On clauses relating to the sus-
pension Of 81 yer G. image and Inc
Worlds Industrial and Cotton TX
position-three hours to be- devoted
to q debate on the first named item
and t.ne hour on the latter. The bill
shall be subject to amendments to
strike out or amend. clauses after
which the previous question shall be
considered IS ordered. Bland de-
c,anded q second for the motion
which was seconded l03 to SO. A
half hours debate under the rules
was not asked for and the house pro-
ceeded immediately to vote on the
motion.
The motion to suspend the rules
was lost, yeas 1l8 nays l49. The an
nouncement was received with APP
plause hy the silver men.
Randall then said: ''Rec0gnizing
the significance of the vote just taken
and knowing the issue was distinctly
made as against the silver clause and
oeing aware that q majority has de-
clared against that proposition l
therefore assume to myself the n
sponsibility believing thst members
of the appropriation committee ii the
appointing were offered would unan
imously sustain me in the positiOn)
of moving to suspend the rule in the
manner stated in the resolution with
everything connected with coinage
eliminated both from the bill and
RET olution. Randall then moved to
suspend the rules SO as to take up the
sundry civil bill and consider for
one hour the clause relating to the
New Orleans Exposition. This was
objected to as not specifically elimi-
mating the silver question /; thereupon
Randall asked unanimous consent. to
strike from the bill silver coinage
clauses, but Hisborn objected. Ran
dali modified his motion so as to ulove
to suspend the rules and pass the
sundry civil bill with the silver
clause stricken Out.) After two
hours debate on the New Orleans
prop sition with the opportunity he
ing offered to amend the same, Mil
liken, Reed and Potter opposed pass-
ing the bill under suspension of the
rules. Anderson did not want an
extra session, but he did not want the
appropriation committee year after
year to pass bills in this manner.
Randall said that in season and
out of season he had informed the
House unless the appropria ION COM
mittee had the right of way there was
danger of an extra session. and re-
peatedly had the committee been
voted down. 1t was manifest If this
bill was to be passed it must be in
the wsy he proposed. Raudail's
| motion was then agreed to, and the
two hours debate allowed under 1t
was begun.
Horr opposed. the New Orleans Elk
rositlon appropriation. Congsess had
| already in good faith loaned the ex-
position 500, 600 on the statement
| that $50, QUO had been raised and that
more would be. raised. What had
be On done with that 500. 600? Thai
was the conundrum. He dt fed any
man to take the reports .
the board of management and
| show what had been done with
it except in a general way such
a. did not admit of auV accuracy
whatever. The exposition hal had
great success in getting into debt
and bad created an indebtedness of
t60,0OO. He would give notice tnat
he would at the proper time otter al
amendment:that the speaker appoint
a special committee Of three Tut M
lbers to investigate the management
Of the exposition and report to the
house before the 10th of December,
Then if congress :Nanted 10 pay out
more money to tue exposition !; II il
wanted to. be detrauded out of any
more money 1t could make the ap.
preparation,
Toilet supported the appropriation
and coutended that the honor of the
nation was at stake to make the ex-
position a success. He also main.
tanned the management OF the expo
sitiOn had been conducted not only
honestly but &c )nomically.1
O'Neil (Pa.) said his constituents
would not endorse his action if he did
not vote to give away the $500, 900 to
the New Orleans exposition. K-ifer
Cannon and Russell favored the u. :
preparation. The debate having
closed the bill went over until to.
morrow and the house adjourned.
The silver bill was then taken I'D.
Sherman said he was willing to vote
for the bill rs it came from the sen
ate committee. Two questions were
involved in it. First, should trade
dollars be redeemed at par of gold
and second, whether the coinage OF
silver dollars should be discontinued
In August, 1886. He maintained that
there was no obligation whether of
honor, law or public policy to give
the trade dollar any preference over
silver bullion purchased in open
market. These dollars, like silver
bars, had been issued for bullion pur.
poses and for trade only, not for cir.
culation. After recitlng the history
Of the trade dollar, Sherman showed
that the bill, taking away its legal
tender quality, had been passed with.
out objection being raised.
Mcpherson asked why the govern
ment should have taken away the
legal tender quality of trade dollars
without providing for its retirement.
Sherman replied that to have talked
OF providing for the retirement" OF
the trade dollar when the law was
passed taking away its legal tender
quality would have been folly because
the dollar was at the time woth l3
cents on the dollar O than u. s,
money. Perhaps 1t would have been
better if an arrangement had a. tn It
time 0een made permitting holders
OF trade dollars 20 convert them in 0
greentacks, but it would have been
simply considered ludicrou5 and
ridiculous.