Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-11
The House Adopts Appropriate Reso.
Iutions and Adjourns Out Of
Respect to Hancock.
Action of New Orleans sub Treasurer Dis-
cussed by senate--Amenduent to
shcrmnn's silver BIN.
xLr Congress.

throughout the country.
Among the bills indefinitely postponed
was one reported adversely by Mr.. Sewel
from the committee on military affairs
allowing discharged officers OF the arm,
one years pay and allowance.
The chair laid before the senate Mr.. Rid
dleberger's resolution offered yesterday.
directing the committee on public build.
| ings TO report to the senate the aggregate
amount OF money recommended by the
committee at this session to be expended
| by the government.
Mr.. Riddleberger said he had no oh.
lection to any specific measure reported
by the committee, but objected to these
omnibus schemes, by which twenty-nine
public buildings appropriation bills
on the calendar were taken up and passed
yesterday without any written report to
show the necessity for the buildings, and
by which nine other similar bills that
had only just been reported were
put through on the same day
on which they were reported, without
giving time for their consideration. The
resolution was agreed to.
MIR. lloar offered the following resolu-
ton, for which he asked immediate cen
sideration:
Resolved, that the committee on libra
ry consider and report at an early day
the expedience Of erecting at the seat OF
the government statue to the men,
DRY Of the late illustrious sol
der, Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.
In Offering the resolution Mr.. Hoar said
that when the announcement was made
yesterday of the great public calamity
that had occurred in the death of the
illustrious citizen named in the resolu-
ton, the senate very properly followed
all precedents Ia like cases, and what
Mr. Hoar was sure would have been in
accordance with the desire of the dis
tinguished deceased, that is to saw the
senate proceeded with public business.
But 1t was proper that proceedings should
at once be initiated for paying fitting
tribute to the memory of the deceased.
The resolution was agreed to.
On motion OF Mr.. Call the senate took
up Mr.. Eustis' recent resolution calling
on the secretary of the treasury for in
formation as to the refusal of the assist
ant treasurer at New Orleans to receive
shipments of silver and to issue silver
certificates therefor. Mr.. Call defined
the action of the treasury officials in the
matter referred TO.
Mr.. Plumb said he had been told that
Treasurer Jordan, being asked why he
did not pay for silver bullion in silver
dollars, replied that if he did so the
holder would return the dollars and de-
mand certificates and he (Jordan) was
not willing to encourage that
sort OF thing. He thought this threw
much light upon the performances of last
summer, when there was an apparent ef-
Tort to circulate silver dollars, but there
was at the same time an intrigue with
the New York people to bring tho law
INTO contempt.
Mr.. Coke said the question was NOT
whether the treasurer had technicallv
complied with the law. but whether in
reality he had violated it. He had no
taHy FOR those who violated the law. He
cared not whether they were Republicans
or Democrats. For one, he proposed to
bring any officer who is guilty of
violating the law to the bar of
public justice and public opinion. The
banks OF Galveston were attempting TO
establish u discount on silver because
they could not get certificates from the
sub-treasury at New Orleans. MIR. Coke
continued that the treasury officials were
ostentatiously taking credit for support-
ing the public credit and executing the
laws, while doing everything in their
power to accomplish directly contrary
result.
At y o'clock, Mr.. Coke being still on the
moor, the chair laid before the
senate the education bill. After
some discussion that bill was
mace the unfinished business for to-
morrow at the same hour, and Mr.. Coke
resumed ms remarks on Mr.. Eustis' reso- !
iutlon' Something had been said, Mr..
COKE continued, about an attack on the
commentator He Coke had helped
70 put tnis administration in power. His
sla.e iexas) mad given 1874, 900 popular
majority for the Democratic ticket. the
n.sest majority OF any state in
the Union. There were 240 newspanors
IN Texas, and he knew of but four of
tnen that supported the executive de- |
partment of the government in its war on
silver. He made no war on the admins
tration, but he believed that a public
once Is public trust, and he execnted
the trust conferred on him by the neonle /
whom he in part represented.
Mr.. Kelley said much had been heard
rom tlme To time Of the sinh
.N"NJ VI pubic men to ex-
ecutive influence, but there had
never been so exalted an example ot
independence Of public men as had heen
exhibited by the Democratic members ~
inc house In the spring of 1885, In re-
slstlng the efforts of the incoming Dem
ocratlc president to discredit the silver
men, not only then, but since. those
servants OF the people had scorned TO he
N accord with the executive, preferrinp
to be right.
Mr. Teller severely commented on the
statements of the Presidents MESSAGE
ana the reports of the secretary of the
treasury and the comptroller of currency,
70 the effect that the 10000, 900 of t6e
SILVER dollars were all that it had been
possible to get into circulation, when in
-le same message and reports they
lau been compelled to admit that there
were really 10000, 600 OF the
'lysr dollars in circulation, because IN
.uultlon to the 10000. 600 Of
metallic silver dollars there were
'o,ooo,oO0 OF certificates. SO much
'tress had been laid by the president and
lis oiilcers on these $50, 900, 900 figures
nat the people largely got the idea that
.ney represented the whole silver circnla-