Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-01

| threatening than at any time during the
session, and that the committees are in
worse taDgle than ever before.
The Senate conferees insist that no legis-
lation shall be put upon appropriations, as
q rule of the Senate will not admit of it.
TIE conferees on the part of the House
meet this with the statement that it is eustO-
mary and necessary that some legislation
should be placed upon appropriation bills,
and hold that the House cannot recognize
the Senate rules. With matters in this con-
dirion there are six bills in conference
which have not been acted upon and all of
which involve the question in controversy.
Those that present the most difficulty are
the Indian, Postoffice and Naval bills. The
Indian bill is full of new legislation pro-
posed by the House. The most important
propositions being to forbid the sale Of fire
arms and whisky to the Indians, and au.
thorizing the President to unarm such as
shall be deemed dangerous, and provision
authorizing the President to make some
sort of settlement with the Creek and other
Indians with relation to the Oklahama
lands.
The Silver Question.
WASHINGTON, February 28.-Mr. Mitchell
of Penn, offered resolution in the Senate
this afternoon setting forth that whereas
the standard silver dollar was Of the
intrinsic value at the present time Of only
eighty-fve cents, and whereas the continued
coinage of fsuch deprecated dollars seriously
threatened the suspension of gold payments;
therefore
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance
be instructed to prepare and report to the
Senate proper bill to provide for the i'm.
mediate suspension of the coinage of the
standard dollar and for the resumption
of the same whenever the value shall
rise to within FIVE per cent. of par OF
the standard gold dollars Of the United
States.
In this connection he asked unanimous
consent to have read very important letter
from a very distinguished citizen of the
United States (Presidentelect Cleveland)
this morning made public.
Mr.. Maxey (Texas) and several other Sen.
stSrs promptly objected, and Mr.. Harris OF
Tennessee, demanded that the resolution be
laid over. So ordered.
Going for Arthur.
WASHINGTON, February 2S.-The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, by a major
ity vote, this morning adopted the following
resolution, submitted by Mr.. Phelps, on the
Congo question:
Resolved, That no prospect Of CONNER
cial advantage warrants departure from
the traditional policy OF this Government,
which forbids all entangling alliances with
the nations of the world and that the parti-
cipation of the delegates of the United
States in the so called Congo conference
while carefully guarded as your Committee
is informed, in the purpose to con6ne
their powers to the consideration of com
mercial interests exclusively-is unfortun
ate, 80 far as it is departure from the pol
icy which forbids the Government of the
United States to participate in any political
combination or movement outside Of the
American continent"
The resolution submitted by Mr.. Belmont
which has been briefly alluded to heretofore,
will, it is said, be support BY several mem
bers of the committee, and should the mat
ter come up in the House lively debate is
promised.
Another Resolution.
Mr. Belmont's resolution in full text is as
follows:
Resolved, That it is now, as it has ever
been, the traditional established and ap
proved policy Of the people Of these United
States, to obtain due consideration Of
their own rights by friendly behavior, and
BY a Just regard for the rights of other ma
tions, and, by forming entsngling political
alliances with no nation, to preserve and
promote peace, amity and commerce with
all nations that the United States hav-
ing long ago announced their pur-
pose to hold aloot American
States and Territories from European
aggrandizement and ambition; that
possessing as these United States already
DO the chief hsbitsble and temperate parts
of the Northern continent between the AT
lantic and Pacific seas, and desiring no
conquests but those of peace and no terri
torial sggrandisements upon other CONT
nents whether by diplomacy or by war, the
House Of Representatives, heedful Of the
admonitions of General Washington, and
faithful to that policy of separation and
peace which ouI situation and the wisdom
OF free people have hitherto enabled US to
maintain, do hereby explicitly record their
dissent from the act of President Of the
United States in accepting the invitation of
Germany and France to participate in the
International conference at Berlin, instead
of declining the same, as tending to a re-
verSal of out traditional, established and
approved foreign policy.