The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-14
Gill Wrestling With the Diff
'' fcult Question,
r. aoTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS-
Inv Coke's Address in the Senate
ssDS'' ,hs Argentiferous Conun-
drum-Other Items.
voRTY-XINTH CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

u,..y7geroY. January 13.-Hawley
nresided over the Senate to-day, in the
absence Of Sherman.
INGALLS, offered the following, which
- his request was laid over for the
present;
senate the compulsory coinage of sill.
vsr dollars directed by the law of Feb
mary 18th, 1878, should not be sus-
nsnded until the aggregate reaches the
fnm of $500 900 900. 10
next, at o'clock, he would call up
Beck's silver resolution, Win the view
of making some remarks on 1t.
Henderson offered a resolution, which
was agreed to, calling on the Post
master-General to inform the Senate
over what railroads the so-called fast
mail was transported from Chicago to
noints In Colorado, Utah, and Idaho,
and what advantage was gained by the
government by transporting such mail
aver roads other than the Union Pacific;
aIso'as to the cost of such service and
wby it is paid for out of the Treasury,
if the fact be that it is so paid to other
companies, instead of having the ser
vice performed by the Union Pacific
Company and the compensation credited
on that oempany's Indebtedness to the
government.
Brown offered a resolution, which at
his request was laid over for the pres
emit, directing the committee on Indian
Affairs to inquire into the expediency
of removing all Indians in the United
States to Indian Territory, west of the
stated arkansas.
The Senate then proceeded to the
consideration of bills on the calendar.
Several bills for private relief having
been disposed of, the bill to admit Da-
kOta was reached.
Harrison said it would be impossible
to consider that bill under the FIVE
minute rule, and at his suggestion it
vent over. He stated that he would
call itup as early next week as practic-
able.
On motion of Harrison the Senate
Concurred in the House amendment to
the bill legalizing the Territorial Legis-
lature Of Wyoming.
At o'clock Coke called up Beck's
silver -esolution and addressed the
Senate on it.
Mr.. Coke made no war on bondholders
or on hank men; they were no verse
and 40 better than the average man. !
They should never be permitted to die |
tate our financial policy against the
interests Of the people. The President !
and Secretary of the Treasury protested
to favor the use of both gold and silver,
but declare that the amount of silver
already coined was enough and
that II We continued to coin it. |
gold would leave the country. This |
statement was made in face of the tact |
mat In 1878, when the coinage of silver
dollars was ordered, there was in the |
United States only $244, 600, 900 in gold, |
Ehle today, according to the report of |
ne Director of the Mint. gold (bulllon) |
n me United States, had increased to |
@sVgO0Q SO that instead of silver
coinage having driven gold out of the
country, our supply of it had become |
Tsoled since silver coinage commenced. |
las was fact that no theorizing could |
Confoyelt. The silver standard had |
40 error5for Mr.. Coke; Germany had |
Ueen a silver country before it had got |
80 much gold from France. France was |
one o. the most thrifty nations in the |
"o[la, ana France had $500, 000, 600, |
ana some said $500 ,000, 900, of silver coin |
circulating in harmony with gold and !
S!Ge by side with it, yet gold of only |
I055 TO /, while our silver dollar was of |
a 1neness Of 16 to l. Give US, said Mr.. |
Ssoke, the same executive vigor and
4pueilty exercised by the officers of the !
1Ishcn government in behalf of silver |
alu We viii show that we can carry very |
W !5 more silver than we now have.
a. me rate OF 100000 per month, it
an IVI o0o take Us fifteen years to get $685.
1870, which Is less than the amount
o .;. by anybody 10 be the silver
.ICulation Of France. The coin
age OF silver, Coke said sbouId
De as Tree as the coinage of gold.
american silver should he nIaced on
al Al. exact equality with gold everywhere,
oII "hether night or wrong as to free
t,SSs .i Mr. Coke said, we Should insist
.1st our government officials should
.Ascu1e the laws. Coke reviewed the his.
NJ, KY our bond legislation to show that /,
S Se zones we're payable in "coinn and
10 s' SAe JOINT resolution introduced in
T Ne senate in 1878, by Senator Stanley
az 1st.lne|s, and passed by a two-thirds
g,. e9i both houses Of Congress. de-
i LEU II 70 be entirely consistent with
pubic faith under contract to pay
S n .O stds IN silver, but nobody asked
An 3ey be paid exclusively in silver.
os, nat was asked was for our {
AZ ;e' 81 70 treat silver as they treated
In We wanted no more reports from
ao aging that silver cannot be got
Il Iculation, when, in violation of
lS5 the Treasury Department re-
5o5j. g pay it out and allowed the
lg,,. s mat ought to be paid to remain
gsesaLl1aling, while keeping locked in
eiii ostS OF the Treasury millions on
S5ons that ought to be in circulation.
ps, ce question of the suspension of sill.
tfs, volnage, Coke said, was one of such !
sumsCeandent importance that the ar
81 tS Sa! s OF the President and Secretary
On '15 treasury should be considered Il
SHOULD neI intrinsic merits. and
fact mot not be influenced by the
comm mat they were arenments
soyerSs -, rom the high officers of the
gsrde55 Ient Suspension, Coke re-
'loppS,, tantamOunt to a eomnlete
-tt o. orr sil.-ar ~, ~