Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-15

Wull6 MT. MOrf1ll GlOu2nU the BROTHERHOOD manifestly proper.
 Mir. Cockere1 offered an amendment mak- ing MT. Morrill's resolution apply to back years, which was accepted and the resolution as amended was agreed.
 MT. Brown called up Mr. Becks silver res olution and addressed the Senate at great length in opposition to the suspension of the coinage of silver. MT. Brown took the ground that to meet the demand of our own immense and growing business we could safely carry $4O0, ,000,000 more silver and then have less legal tender silver coin than France and Germany together and only ~ little more than France alone. ''f the national banks attempt to practically demonetize silver," sail Mir. Brown in conclusion, land if the officers who now represent the people ill the different departments of the government will not take the matter in hand, then the people should take it in hand and fill all the de- partments of the government with men who will ..apply the corrective and forfeit the charters of such banks as abuse their privi- leges.''
 MT. Maxey followed on the same subject. After an elaborate review of our financial history and our efforts to secure an interna- tional bi-metallic basis, MT. Maxey expressed the belief that legislative tinkering with monetary affairs had been the bane of the present century. As to our bonds Mr. Maxey maintained it to be absurd to sup pose that there yas ever any contract to pay the bonds in gold, since, if the United States had all the gold ever coined, they would not have one-half enough to pay the debt Much had been said about the "honest dollar y There was but one honest dollar and that was the dollar of the contract Any smaller dollar was an injustice to the bondholders, any larger dollar was an injustice to the taxpayer. It was useless to compare this ,+,-x1x monetary relations. An energetic. enter prising, progressive people like those of tn . United States could not develop the i'm mense resources of their country by copying the stationary nations of Europe. The raid on silver was a European raid and if success full would inf1ict incalculable injury upon the United States. The bugbear of silver, so terrifying to European money changers, had no tsrrors for the American people. The people of the South, MT. Maxey contin- ued, were not grievously burdened with silver or any other money, but if they should by chance find themselves hampered by any great weight of silver they could exchange it for paper certificates, which when based on coin, dollar for dollar, were better than coin for actual use. The suspension of silver coinage was but another name for the total stoppage of the coinage and such suspension or stoppage would be fraught with the most serious consequences to the people. What we needed in our dealing with the bond holders, MT. Maxey insisted, was strong, unyielding, vigorous enforcement of the contract made with them.
 At the conclusion of MT. Maxey' s remarks the judicial salary bill was laid before the Senate. One of the sections of the bill pro vides that no person related within the de- gree Of first cousin to judge of the United States shall be appointed by such judge to position in his court, and that any person so related who holds such office shall not con- tinue in office after six months from the passage of this act. Some discussion arose on the last clause, which would legislate out of office the relatives now in office MT Ed munds was willing that such appointments should not be made in future, but thought it would work hardship and injustice to legis late them out of office and moved to strike out that clause.
 MT. Coke opposed the motion. If nepotisn were objectionable as to future appointments he thought it objectionable to continue the nepotism that now existed.
 MT. Edmunds disclaimed any personal in- terest in his own amendment, having no rel atives, he said, within any degree of consan- guinity to judge. But if so much was said of judges who had appointed relatives to of flee, did Senators forget that sons and kins- men of Senators themselves and of officers of State had been employed by those officials! "Eyen this reform admins tration," continued MT. Edmunds, 'sthis reform administration, the picture of purity and grace and of everything that is lovely, has sent, and 1 can state it as public fact, to the Senate the nomination of father and son to go to the same place to exercise the functions of two offices, one under the oth- er"
 After further debate the amendment of MT. Edmunds was agreed to.
 At 5:15, with the bill still pending, the Senate adjourned to Monday next.
 HoUsE.-After the introduction of several bills MT. Caldwell, on behalf of the Commit tee on Presidential Laws, called up the Hoar presidential succession bill. MT. Caldwell stated that the committee in reporting this measure had not dealt with indifference or disrespect with other propositions before it. There were many measures proposed that would more properly meet all possible or i'm aginary exigencies than the now re- ported, but they all required constitutional amendment before they could become laws, and constitutional amendment involved de lay which would ill accord with the reason able anxiety which the great body of the people felt. There were many exigencies which the pending measure did not cover, but the present exigency it completely cov- cred.
 Mr. Cooper, of Ohio, who prepared the minority report, stated the reasons which im pelled him to take a stand against the meas ure, and pointed out the objections which he considered as fatal to it's utility. He pro- tested against the general principle of the bill, against the idea of vesting in the person who occupied the presidential chair the power to perpetuate the succession by nam ing his successor. He was profoundly doubt ful of the constitutionality of g provision which woRld vest the presidency upon man appointed by an outgoing administra- tion He believed it to be in violation not only of the spirit and letter of the constitution, but of the spirit out of which the constitution came, and was unwise legislation because it tended to widen the space between the President and the people. MT. Cooper said if there were defects in the present law they should be remedied by carefully considered legisla- tisn. What it was worth while for an Ameri- can Congress to do worth doing we'll He could see no exigency which required red hot haste in passing this measure.
 Mr. Mckinley gave notice of a substitute which he would offer fore the bill. This substitute preserves the law of 1792 with the addition of provision that for the pur- pose of having Speaker of the House of Representatives continually in office Con- gress shall convene on the 4th of March next succeeding the election of representatives to Congress, and whenever 8 vacancy exists, either in the office of President pro tempore of the Senate or Speaker of the House, the President shall convene the house in which the vacancy exists for the purpose of electing presiding officer.
 The debate was continued till nearly the time for adjournment, and will be resumed to morrow after the transaction of private bssness.
 On motion of MT. Matson, of Indiana, Fri day night sessions were ordered for the con- sideration of pension bills. The House then at 5:20 adjourned.
 FRIENDLY BILL
 For Partftioning the Property Left
 by the Late Joseph K. Sheffield of
 New Haven.
 CHICAGO, Jan. A.-A friendly bill for par tition was filed in the Superior court yester- day by Charles Joseph Shefheld. of Cleve-