Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-15

senate.

fcefe bad come to niB, Ee did not know
Why. several petitions to be presented
to the senate urziER CoBRress 10 sos-
pend silver coinage. he bad declined
to present sosh petitions and lad re-
iarned them TO the persons sending
them to him. he hsd pursued that
course oecsase he believed the sending
Of such petitions had been in3uced BY
q circular letter marked Confidential
sent oas by 8 committee of the New
, York Board Of Trade and Transports
ton Beck rssd copy Of the letter.
II asks its recipient TO write = personal
letter 10 Speaker Carlisle, urging him 10
refrain frosn placing extreme silver men
on the Coinage Committee o! the House
OF Representatives, and also 20 write
personal letters to Senators and Repre-
sentaiives urging the suspension Of sli-
yer coinage.
Manderson desired to correct an error
of statement in the Kelley CORE pond
ence 70 the effect that when kasson had
been nominated 10 the Spanish mission,
be vas objected 20 by the Government:
Of Spain.
Allison sent 20 the desk and bad the
clerk read q LITTER from Evarts, then
Secretary Of State, to kssson, saying
that no gu. stion was ever raised as TO
hsssons acceptance by the spanish
Government. The appointment for
Madrid" the letter continues. "origi-
naiiy proposed by me Was changed upon
yoar preference TO Vienna, aud for rea-
sons havisR no connection whatever
With either of the Governments"
Evarts corroborated AilIsen's state
Dent
Brown called up Beck's silver resolu-
tior.
The officers of the treasury, Brown
said, should treat all public creditors
alike. IL they paid the oendholders in
gold alone, they should pay the laborer
IN gold alone. Although the bondhold
ers had expressly agreed to take pay
ment in either gold or silver. they were
being paid IN gold alone, while every
bodyAelse Was paid in silver. This was
neither fair dealing nor common hon
esty. If the national banks attempt
20 practically demonetize silver" said
Brown In conclusion, " and II the OFF,
cials who now represent the people IN
the different departments of the Gov
eminent will not take the matter ia
hand, then the people at their recurring
elections should take il in hand and fill
all the departments of the Government
with men who will apply the corrective
and forfeit the charters of such banks
as abuse their privileges
Maxey followed on the same subject.
The silver advocates, he commended, re
PEELED the imputation that they wanted
TO take any advantage of their creditors
by paying a dollar debt in al 80 cent
dollar. A fouier lie had never been ut
tered against brave and industrious
people. The people knew that the fall
Of silver vas the result Of q conspiracy
on the part of capital to destroy silver az
q money metal and the gamblers were
bot rsaping the fruits of their owa folly
The suspension of silver coinage was
bot another name for the total stoppage
of the coinage and such suspension or
stoppaee would be fraught with the
most serious consequences to the peo-
pie.
The Judicial Salary Bill was then laid
before the Senate. One section provides
that no person related within the degree
Of first cousin to judge shall be ap
pointed by such judge to any position
in his court, and that persons related
| who now bold such office shall not con
tinue in office after six months from the
passage of the act.
| Ednunds moved 10 strike out the
clause that would affect persons at
present in office, and in the course of
his remarks In support Of the motion,
said: Even this reform Administra-
tion-the picture OF purity and grace,
and OF everything that 10 lovely
| laughter has sent to the Senate q 9
nominations of father aud son TO 20
to the same place 20 exercise the func-
tions of two offices, one under ii Z
other"
After debate, Edmunds' amendment
was agreed to.
Adjourned until Monday.
| House.
On behalf Of the Committee on LAWS
Governing the Election of President
and Vice President, Caldwell called uI
the Hoar Presidential Succession bill
and as there were but few minutes OF
the morning hour remaining, il vs.:
agreed that the debate should continu,
daring the afternoon, Caldwell reserv
ing the right TO call the previous que
tioA at any time. Caid we'll stated tbs
the committee, 10 reporting this meas
ure. had not dealt with indifference OIL
disrespeet with the other propositions
| O0lUEC 1IcE6 WCAC LuCasuIC,
proposed that would more properly
meet all possible or imaginable exlgen
cies than the one now reported, bat they
all required constitutional amendment
before they could become laws, AID 1
constitutional amendment involves {
delay which would i'll accord with tn,
reasonable anxiety which the great bod,
OF the people felt. There were man,
l OIL ,ah thu nanAtnn ans
did not cover, but the present exigenc,
il completely covered. 1t was tempo
rary bridge thrown across a chasm il
order TO meet the public demand, anS
would be followed in due time by al
enduring structure, over which a Ions
line of Republican and Democratic
Presidents might march in unbrokel
succession.
Cooper, Of Ohio, who prepared To,
minority report, protested against tb,
general principle Of the bill, against til
idea Of vestinR In the person who occu
pied the Presidential chair the power T.
perpetuate the succession by naming hi.
successor. He was profoundly doubtful
OF the eonstitutionality Of q provision
which would vest the Presidency in
man appointed by an outgoing admin
istration. He believed it to be in viola
ton, not only Of the spirit and letter O
the constitution, but of the spirit out o
which the constitution rose, and that |
vas unvise legislation, because j, tend
ed to widen the space between the Pres
ident and the people. IL there we're de
fests in the present Law, then the
should be remedied by carefully con
sidered legislation What it was WORT
while 70. the American Congress to dc
was worth doing we'll. He could see n
exieency which required red hot hast
IN passing the measure.
After the debate the House ad
iourRed.
Few TO sECuRE HEALTH.
Ii Ia strange any one will suffer frou
: arrangement brought on by impur
blood, when ScovILL's SARsAPARfIL
AND SrrILrSoIA, OR BLOOD AND LIVE
SYRUP. Will restore health to the phys
cal organization. Ii ia a ssrenotheniu