Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-12
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
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MT. Harrison, from the Comndistes on Territories, reported favorably an original , bill to admit Dakota and providing for the
 organization of the territory of Lincoln. MT. Butler reserved the right to submit minori- ty report An adverse report was presented by Mir. Harrison from the same committee on
 resolutions heretofore Gfsrod by Messrs.
 Butler and Vest calling for inquiries Gs to
 the organization of State government in Dakota placed on the calendar
 Senator Morgan presented resolutions
 against governmental fnterferenee with reli-
 gious bodies, apparently designed tS afford him an opportunity for a vigorous protest
 against some of the provisions of the anti-po-
 lygamy bill.
 The resolutions went over and Senator
 Manderson then launched out upon long set
 speech on the improvement of the efficiency
 st the army
 At the conclusion of Senator Manderson;s speech Senator Pugh addressed the a1 length in Iha opposition to the
 With the aid of all the learning in the world,
 MT Pugh said, the greatest statesmen were still grappling with the money question at precisely the same point at which they be- gan to grapple with it. So far as the United States were concerned, there has never been time when cur paper or metallic currency had been as sound and healtby as it was to- l day. This condition of affairs and the pts- rnium on our bonds constituted grim satire on the prophecies of the opponents of | the legislation hitherto enacted by Congress on the money question. Nothing more was 1 to be desired than that the banks brokers and federal treasury should stand aside and | allow Gresham's law to full and free op- l eratlon on our silver currency. He had much | confidence in the practical sense, sound judg | ment and integrity of President Cleveland 1 and his devotion to constitutional principles But many Democrats would differ with the l President on the money question and on de- tails affecting the tariff. These questions were so far reaching and complicated in thelr operation ss not to be capable of a final | solution satisfactory to all honest inquiries He had given the Presidents message much consideration, but was constrained to differ | with him with regard to money. Mr. l Pugh quoted figures from the New l York clearing house to show that only about 31a per cent. of the clearing house transactions were represented by cash the remainder being made up principally of checks. Congress was confronted he said with an official announcement that our busi- ness relations had reached crisis in which we must suspend coining silver till we secure an international ratio between gold and silver The real point involved Mir. Pugh believed to be not the suspension, but the total stoppage of silver coinage, and if silver coinage were suspended now it would be blow that would directly and speedily lead to the con
 
 capitalists to secure absolute control of all our currency and the regulation of its vol ume and consequent purchasing power. E!r Pugh believed he spoke for the southern people when he said that three-fourths of them would to- day if opportunity were given vote against the proposition to suspend silver coinage. The petitions that came to Congress favoring suspension were all on printed blanks and signed mainly by bank CTS. CTS. MT. Pugh criticised the arguments of the Secretary of the Treasury and of the President He inquired whether we were to take the mere dictum of the President on this matter and insisted that the executive officers were under obligation to enforce the laws of Congress. The opinion of James G. Blaine he | continued, would have influence with some. | He read from remarks of Mir. Blaine while in | Congress to the effect that the establishment | of monomatnlli~ suld standard would be | injurious to our industries and commerce and | that the united States could not wisely treat | silver as the European countries did
 He gave way to Mir. Edmunds for motion to go into executive sesslou. iI..,.. motion was agreed to and at 3:45 D. m. the | Senate went into executive session. At 5:20 | o'clock the doors were reopened and the Sen ate adjourned.
 HoUsE-The Speaker laid before the House n communication from the clerk, transmit ting papers on the various contested election cases; referred to the Committee on Elec- tions. Also the report of the board of vis- tors to the military academy; referred
 On motion of Mr. Barksdale a resolution was passed authorizing the printing of twen- ty-hve thousand copies of the Presidents an- nual message.
 The Speaker then called the States for the introduction of bills and joint resolutions. Among the bills introduced were the follow ing: By Mr. Oates, of Alabama, to amend the rules of the House so as to limit speech es to thirty minutes; by MT. Townsend, of
 
 ury of silver certificates in denominations of one, two and five dollars each (this is an amendment of the silver act of 1S1S uh- | der which the $tO certificates are now issued It's object is to supply the need for addition al small bills as a part of the circulating me diuth1! by Mf. Pays6h, of Illinois. to restrict the ownership 6f real estate in the territories te American cities. by Mf. Weaver of Iowa. t6 retire national bank notes and te prevent the tiuetHatiUh tt the currency by the sub stitHti6h therefor of treasury hetesi alse te provide fef the issue If fractional currency, | also to restore to the soldiers aud sailors who served ih.the late war eaHai rights with tha holders ef government bonds,
 By Mir, BeHtelle, of Maine, resolution calling on the Secretary of the Navy for ih formation concerning the truth OF falsty pf certain statements which hnve appeared in | the press to the effeet that the eofnmandant | of the navy yard at Norfolk has caused to be removed from the dry dock a tablet placed there at the time 1t was reconstructed and | bearing the inscriptions 'iDestreyed by ths | rebels In 1909; rebuilt by the United States government ih ts0B;" that because ef his | protest against the removal sf the ihsefip t6h I superintendent Uf the work If rebuild ing has been removed ff6ih lis position and pstsBh wh6 engaged ih iHii= taFF service asaitst tAa sBFeFRMgHg | appointed Ii his place, aRd that ia disregard | ef grateful feeegHlt6R 6f ths services eF | BsFs9As heHeFabiF discharged fFem the mii= taFF eF naval service ef the country RHiA= Der af them have been dismissed from ea= piaFment iH the Naffeik navy yard and their places filled hy men Whe fought against the government during tue rebellion. II such IS found to be the case the Secretary or the Navy Is directed to inform the House upon whose order and whose authority, and Tn pursuance of what public policy It any, such Inscriptions were obliterated and such per sons dismissed from the service
 By MT. Grant, of Vermont, to enable the people to name their postmasters: r
 The call to-day brought forward additional propositions to the number of six hundred and fifty. This makes nearly four thousand measures now before the House committees. The Speaker then called the committees for reports, but with the exception of the Judi ciary committee, which reported two or three private bills, there was response to the call.
 The House at 3:35 adjourned.
 Opposition to Commissioner Eaton.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-In executive sss sion to-day the Senate received the reports of committees on large number of nomina- tions and made the following combinations: B. F. Jonas, of Louisiana to be collector of customs for the district of New Orleans, and Alfred P. Edgerton of Fort Wayne, Ind; William L. Trenholm of Charleston, $. C., and Dorman B. Eaton of New York to be civil service commissioners. Whe2 the names of the civil service commissioners came up for confirmation there considerable dis cussion over the confirmation of MT. Eaton and final action showed about twelve or if teen votes about equally divided between Democrats and Republicans in opposition to his confirmation. Civil Service Commission CT Edgerton denies the truth of the publish ed reports about his contemplated resigna- tion. He said to-day that he had no inten- tion of resigning MT. Eaton he said did not wish to remain on the commission after Feb ruary and would then resign unless MT. Ed