, 1886-07-25

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Mr. Coke
offered a resolution discharging the com
mittee on finaDce from further considera-
ton of the house joint resolution for pay
ment of the surplus in the treasury or the
public debt. He gave notice that he
would call it up on Monday and ask a vote
upon it.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Senator Edmunds, in~structing the com
mittee on foreign relations to inquire into
violations of the rights of American fish
ing and merchant vessels in Canadian
waters, was taken up and adopted.
Mr.. Hawley, from the committee on
printing, reported a resolution for the col
lection and printing of presidential vetoes
from the organization of congress to the
present time, arranged in chronological
order. Adopted.
The senate then resumed consi ~ieration
of the sundry civil Appropriation bill, going
back to the paragraph requiring the secre-
tary of the treasury to issue silver certiti
Gates OF 81, 81 and So ION all surplus sill
yer dollars now in the treasury in pay
ment OF the appropriation made in this
bill and other expenditures or obligations
of the government" which certificates
shall be redeemable in standard silver
dollars on demand, and when paid into
the treasury shall be reissued, subject to
provisions herein for redemption of the
same.
The committee on appropriations recon-
mends the striking out of clauses within
quotation marks and to add the following:
Provided that said denominations of one,
two and five dollars may be issued in lieu
of silver certificates of larger denomina-
tions in the treasury, and to that extent
said certificates of larger denominations
shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Mr.. Beck offered his substitute which
was ruled out on ! point of order, and
the amendment recommended by the com
mittee striking out the words and on all
the surplus silver dollars, - etc, was agreed
striking out the words and shall be re-
deemable in standard silver dollars etc,
was agreed to-yeas, 25; nays, ~. The
amendment adding the words provided
that said denominations, - etc was agreed
to without discussion.
The clause as it now stands reads as fol
lows: And the secretary Of the treasury
is hereby authorized and required to issue
silver certificates in denominations OF 81,
81 and S.; and the silver certificates here
in authorized shall be receivable, redeem
able and payable in like manner and for
like purposes as is provided for silver
certificates by the act of Feb. d, 1878,
entitled an act to authorize the coinage OF
the standard silver dollar and to restore
its legal tender character; provided, that
said denominations of 81, 81 and 50 may
be issued in lieu Of silver certificates Of
larger denominations in the treasury, and
to that extent said certificates Of larger
denominations shall be cancelled and de-
stroyed."
On motion of Mr.. Dawes an item ap
propriating s25, 900 for the education oil
children Of school age in Alaska without
regard to race, was inserted.
Mr.. Blair moved to add to the clause
appropriating $50, 500 for the expenses OF
the Inauguration of the Bartholdi riatu,
the following %proviso: Provided, how
ever, that no part of the sum herein ap'
propriated shall be used to procure o. pa,
Tor spirituous liquors or tobacco or stimu
lants or narcotics in any form, nor shall
any charge or expenditure for the SAINT
be paid by the United States.
Mr., German moved to lay the amend
ment on the table. Rejected, yeas 27
nays 28. The amendment WIS the
! agreed to without division.