Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-09

at the facts.
Mr.. Mcpherson said the shipments OF
silver dollars referred to by Mr.. Eustis
bad been sent TO the Sub Treasury at
New Orleans through an express COM
pany and receipt demanded for It.
II was sent to the Sub-Treasnry 20 be
placed to the credit Of 3 State national
bank. Silver certificates had not been
asked for. lie lMcPherson) wanted to
know II ii was part Of the duty OF as
sistant treSsurers Of the United States
TO furnish a place Of deposit for funds
belonging to State banks or national
banks? !. would be asking too much
Of the Government that it should order
sub.treasurics to become Intermediates
for the deposit Of silver sent by one
bank to another.
MIR. Eustis said nothing Of that kind
was asked.
At 2 o'clock Dir. Blair cndeaVored to
call Up his education bill, but failed
the bill, however, retaining its place as
unfinished business.
The discussion OF the Eustis resolu-
ton proceeded. Mr.. German defended
the Administration. The Sub-Treasury
at New Orleans, be said, had been found
deficient in clerical force to count all the
silver dollars that were or would be
presented. The Treasurer Of the United
States had already stated to the Senate
that he had not isEued orders to sub-trea-
surers to decline receiving silver dol
lars and the issuing OF silver certificates.
When the Assistant Treasurer at New
Orleans had notified the Treasury De-
psrtmeBt that certain banks in Tennes-
see and Texas were trying to use the
Sub-Treasury as a convenience merely
to transfer silver from one bank to
another and that there was not clerical
force enough to do it, the Assistant
Treasurer had declined TO have anything
to do with 1t, and the Treasury Depart
ment had said You are quite right
the Sub-Treasury is not to be made a
convenience IN such case. Decline to
receive silver that you cannot count and
issue certificates for on the day it is
presented"
Mr. German deprecated the use OF
the Treasury Department as con-
yenience between three or four banks,
involving the payment Of express and
other charges by the Government. This
would BE- silver idea run mad. lie
was not opposed to silver. He believed
in silver. but be believed in an honest
silver dollar.
Mr.. Sherman said that if the trans
action under consideration involved a
request from a bank that the Assistant
Treasurer should open an account with
that bank for silver dollars deposited
with the Sub-Treasury, then the Gov
eminent official was right in refusing
to open such sccount. Mr.. Sherman
said the inquiry was entirely proper.
and that the Senate had perfect right
to any thingon the Executive files, either
relating to this subject or TO Executive
appointments. suspension, or removals.
This precipitated the debate upon
the question so long pending in eau
cuses, and committee meetings. and Sc
cret sessions as to the right Of the SEN
ate to information regarding removals.
Mr.. Eustis's resolution and its sub
iect were entirely lost sight Of in the
debate which followed,
Mr.. Sherman had made a statement
that any citizen had the night 70 90 to
the Sub-Treasury with his silver dol
lars and receive certificates for them.
and that il was not right for the Gov
eminent 70 refuse 10 give that accom-
! mediation.
Mr.. Morrill, asked jocularly. " Can
be ask for their reasons II they re-
J fuse:"
This was greeted with laughter, but
Sherman Immediately preeiprated the
debate notwithstanding the absence Of
Mr. Edmunds, who has large interest
in the question. Mr.. Edmunds, how
ever, has frequently maintained that
the question at issue was merely
"moot " question and not practical
one. Mr.. Sherman spoke at great
length and with much yehemence. His
main point was the broad assertion that
the Senate had the right to call for
and receive from the President all
documents upon the Government files
that it may not ask him in terms TO
give his reason for any Of his acts, but
that it has a right to ask aud receive
all documents. whether they bear upon
removals or appointments. The Sen
ate, be maintained. was not obliged to
give reasons to anybody for what pur-
pose it wished the papers, but it had a
right to possess the same sources OF
information as the President 70 do with
as it pleased.
Messrs. Pugh, Salisbury, and Nor
gan combatted Mr.. Sherman's PROPOSE
ton. and upheld the view expressed in
Mr.. Pugh's resolution some days ago.
Mr.. Pugh began by stating that Mr..
Sherman's speech was wholly irrele-
want TO the resolution before the Senate.
He then restated his proposition, that
the matter Of removal from office was
wholly apart from that of appointment,
and in the former case the President
was wholly independent Of the Senate,
but not so in the latter.
The debate finally closed, and the
Eustis resolution went over till to-mor'
row.
Executive session. Adjourned.
House OF Representatives
Under the call of States the following
was introduced and referred
By Mr.. Blanchard, Of Louisiana
Resolution calling on the Secretary o
. the Treasury for a statement OF al
MONEYS or funds seized aud collected
: bv Generals Butler and Banks while
in command of the Department Of thu
Gulf during the war, and particularly
i OF all amounts seized by Genera
Banks under Order No. 202 by UniteC
States officers in New Orleans from
. MAY. 1862, to May. 1865, togethe
= with the disposition Of the moneys AM
funds so seized and appropriated b.
( the United States.
, BY Mr.. 0'Neill, Of Missouri: A bill
! 10 create q commission whose duty
shall be TO report upon the materis
= and intellectual progress made by tn
colored people since 1865.