The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-12
IN CONGRESS.
What the Lawmakers Did on
Monday.
~ aORGAN RESOLUTION,
.,.rIpg Congress has not the Con-
Dec,.-.Sonal Power to Appoint
the contemplated Trustees
SENATE

1y.sury5roE, January ia numoer
,atitions were presented praying fer
o. tsa suspension of silver coinage.
quo 9o--ison reported fayorably from the
Z .n,it.ee on Territories an original
F Sin to admit Dakota and provide for
tSs organization Of the Territory of
Lincoln. ..
u,inoritv report, if after the peruSal and
m aaLanSGide2stion Of the majority report he
oSnnId conclude to do so.
sh U.;son from the same committee,
nH adversely on the resolution
[eP ott 20 offered by Butler and Vest,
he I':U" ioT inquiries as to the organiza-
eanLnf ~ state government in Dakota.
. SIIa r 70 vas placed on the calen-
'oad E.,o Introduced bill for the relief of
- ~ ,ics7 merchant marine.
Vn9 Ta-gsn offered q resolution relating
- M tSo ssrnstees provided for in the Utah
~ " N manage the property and affairs
Of 81 The Mormon Church organization.
fTbe preamble to the resolution recites
+bet the union of church and State, in
tbe Joint administration of temporal
and spiritual affairs OF any church or
rsIioiotIs sect, is dangerous to the free
dom OF religious worship, and violates
fhe principles of the Constitution of the
limited States. The resolution sets forth,
among other things, that in the opinion
Of the Senate, it is not within the
mower of Congress to appoint officers of
70 nof V1y1fh
the officers of any church or religious
sect in the management OF the affairs
Of church or sect, and that 1t is in
violation Of the Constitution for the
President to appoint any such officer
under any law.
Al Mofgan's request the resolution
was allowed to lie over.
henderson called up his bill to in
s-gase the efficiency of the infantry
branch Of the army. The bill provides
That each infantry regiment shall con-
s;st of twelve companies, one colonel,
one lieutenant colonel, three majors,
one adjutant, one quartermaster, one
duartermaster' sergeant, and one chief
musician, All the appointments to the
original vacancies above the grade of
second Lieutenant created bT the act,
shall be filled by seniority in the in
fantry branch Of the service. Mander-
son addressed the Senate on the bill.
Blair addressed the Senate on the bill
heretofore introduced By him, to pro-
vide for the erection of a monument
at Washington to Lincoln, and another
to Grant.
Pugh called up Beck's silver resoIu-
ton, and adde's ed the Senate on it. /
With the aid of all the learn
ing IN the world, Pugh said
the greatest statesmen were still
graphing with the monetary question
at precisely the same point at which
they began to grapple with it. So far
as the United States is concerned, there
never has been a time when our paper
or metallic currency was so sound and
healthy as to-day. The condition of
affairs and the premium on our lands
instituted grim satire on the pros
phesies of the opponent OF legislation
hitherto enacted by Congress on the
money question. Nothing was more
to be desired, Pugh thought, than that
the banks, bankers and Federal trea-
Sury should stand aside and allow
Gresham's law to have full audfree op-
Grafton on our silver currency. He had
much confidence in the political ideas.
sound judgmnt and integrity of Presi
dent Cleveland and his devotion to con-
Sltutional principles, but many Demo
Gratis would differ with the President
on the money question and on details
Affecting the tariff. These questions
we're so far-reaching and compli-
Gated in their operations as not to be
capable OF final solution, satisfactory
to all honest inquiries. He (Pugh) had
gwen the Presidents message much
consideration, but was constrained to
Gifer with him in regard to money.
Tugh quoted figures from the New
Iork clearing houses to show that only
ABOUT 81 per cent. of the clear
lug mouse transactions were repre-
SeAted 6y cash, the remainder
STe ag MADE up principally of checks.
congress was confronted, he said, by
Sne ohclal announcement that our
business relations had reached a crisis
"a u which Re must suspend the coinage
t =, suYef' Il we would secure an interna-
9ohaI ratio between gold and silver.
tug Ieai point involved, Pugh believed,
" De not the suspension, but the total
S9ppage OF silver coin, and if silver
Coinage were suspended now, it would
V blow that would directly and
speedily tend to the contamination of
an organized conspiracy of capitalists to
secure the absolute control of all our
currency at the regulation of the volume
T p consequent purchasing power.
1ugn believed he spoke for the
,,9lthern people when he said
;Tfee-fourths Of them would to-day
OPPORTUNITY were given, vote against
- proposition to suspend silver coin
g The petitions that came to Con-
s S.''s tayoring the suspension, were all
SSaprinted blanks and signed mainly by
oUsiakers. Pugh criticised the argumen
i, y me Secretary of the Treasury and of
,ue President He inquired whether
p y were to take the mere dictum of the
~ resident on this matter and insisted
o ogst the Executive officers were under
Soongatlon to enforce the laws of Con,
ass: Why had those laws been hourly
orUlated? Had Congress. abdicated its
S tSo to the Executive Department of
Nh goVernment2 The National banks
eT TU were the fiscal agents of the gov,
6sUuai snt, should not, Pugh thought,
msus, been allowed to become
d;s.uoers of a clearing house that