Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-04-17
MINING JOURNAL.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL IL, 1885
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.


admission eff Washington Territory to the
Union as State came up and Mr.. VOORHEES,
spoke in advoc ICY of his amendment, which
cons:--..s Of an enabling act for the admission
Of Montana Territory. The amendment was
voted down by party vose-yeas 10, nays
%,
Mr. Eustis moved to amend by combining tie
right of suffrage in the propos sd new State to
qualified male electors only. He supported his
amen iment in some remarks, in which he
maintained that if Congress agreed to the bill
as it stood, admitting female suffrage, the
State of Washington could elect female Uni
ted States Senator. Ole result of the would be
that the problem of secret sessions would be
instantly solved. daughter o. the ques-
tion of the constitutional qualification Of
female Senator->for example, as respec's age
Isreat laughter, in which the remainder of
Mr.. Eustis sentence was los,l
Mr. Beck remarked soto roice thot the
women would never be old enough to come
within the constitutional limitation as to age.
Renewed laughter.l
Mr.. Eustis characterized women suffrage
as a demoral;z'rg proposition, and as ''offen>
sive and des +ru tive to the institution of the
family"
A long discussion ensued, but witho, I
reaching a vote the Senate adjourned
MJNDAY.-Iu the Senate Mr.. Rddleberger
moved to take up the resolution relating to
tie consideration of Executive nominations
in open session. He refused a request to
psrmt the Indian Appropriation bill to be
taken up aud he insisted on the yeas and
nay s. which resulted in the defeat Of the mo-
tion-yeas Z, nays ST. The vote is not in any
sense a test Of the strength of the opea ses-
sion m ovenent, inasmuch as many of its
strongest advocates, including Senators PIatt,
Teller, Gibson and Mitchell voted in the neg>
alive. Mr.. Logan submitted an addition to
his resolution relating to opel executive ses<
sions. The addition recites the Sen ties
rules which the res olution proposes to amend
HOUSE
THURsDAY.-The principal speech was
that Of Mr.. Hscock, Of New York. who made
strong argument against the Free-Coinaee
bill or any increase of the present rate of
coinage of silver dollars. 1t was decided by
the managers Of the anti free>coinage portion
of the House that an amendment should be
offered for the suspension Ct the coinage, and
Mr.. Dibble. of South Carolina, proposed an
amendment that the coinage of silver should
be suspended until July l, 1889, unless within
that time some specific legislation on the SUBJ
ject should be enacted by Congress.
1t had been agreed that the previous
question should be called at $50, and at
that hour the vote was taken on the D4bbie
am'ndment This resulted, yeas "a. nays
POI. This vote gave those members who
represent silver constituencies an opportunity
to place themselves on record as against the
suspension Of silver coinage even il they
voted against Mr.. BANDS proposition Of free
. coinage. The large negative vote proves
that full advantage was taken of this means
Of satifying silver constituencies of the fidel-
ity to the double standard of their represen-
tatives.
The next vote upon the Bland bill, as re-
ported from the committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, providing for free
and unlimitei coinage of silver, presented
decidedly different complexion. The bill
was defeated by 126 ayes to l63 nays.
MoNpAY.-In the House of Representative,
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the committee
ON Ways and Means reported bill to reduce
tariff taxes and to modify the laws in rela-
ton to the collection of the revenue and it
was referred to the Committee on the Whole
Mr.. Mckinley, of Ohio presented the views
Of the minority of the committee.
Mr.. O'Neil, of Pennsylvania, asked unan.
imous consent to present in open House in
stead Of through the petition box ss required
by the rules, pro est of manu- 'acturers in
every State in the Union employing 4~,'02
workmen, against any reduction of the tariff
MIR. Morrison, Of linois, insisted that the
protest should be presented through the petit
ton box