Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-14
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
First Session,
SENATE.
WAsurseroS Tan

Mr.. Ingalls, offered the following resolution
which at his request was laid over for the
present: Resolved, That in tine opinion of
the Senate. the compulsory coinage of silver
dollars directed by the law of February 2S.
1873, should not be suspended until the ag-
gregate reaches the sum of $4,000, 900.
Mr.. Eustls gave notice tina. on Monday
next at 2 o'clock, he should call up Beek's
silver resolution with a view of making some
remarks on il.
Mr.. VOORHEES, said that it would better suit
the convenience of other Senators if he would
not call up his resolutions, expressive of the
sense of the Senate, on the death of the late
Vice President Hendricks, until Tuesday the
26th, instead of next Wednesday, as origin
ally proposed.
After the offering of resolutions bv Messrs.
Manderson, Bowen and Plat, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of bills on the
calendar, taking up the bill to admit Dakota.
At Mr. Harrison's suggestion it went over.
de stated that he would call it up later.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Morrill,,
calling on the secretary of the treasury to
inform the Senate whether or not any collect
ors of internal revenue, not confirmed by the
Senate, have received any portion of the sal
ary pertaining to the office contrary to the
ia" VI IVA dICu 1910.
Or motion of Mr.. Harrison the Senate con-
Cured in the House amendments to the bill
leglslating the territorial legislature Of Wyo-
ming.
At 2 o'clock Mr. Coke called up Mr..
Beck's silver resolution and addressed the
Senate on it. The suspension, Mr.. Coke re-
garded IS a tantamount to complete the stop
page of our silver coinage. Silver, he said,
Tod bnt hoI in
value. He showed by statistics that taking
ninety OF the leading articles of mer chandise
there had been fall of 26 per cent. since
1870, while there had been fall of only 90
per cent. in the silver bullion. Silver con-
stituted one-half the quantity of all the coin
In the world and the stoppage of its coinage
would deprive the world of half its coin sup
ply, and would double the purchasing pow er
of the other half. The fight against
silver was fight against The people by banks
and bondhOlders. 1t was fight against Ia
Dor. Had Andrew jackson been in the
White House any time since 1878, the silver
question would have been settled. He would
have executed the laws Of the United States
and would have taken by the throat a con-
spiracy OF those laws. Every form of our
money except national bank notes had been
boldly denounced by our treasury officials.
If they had their way We should be at the
mercy of national banks. The President and
secretary Of the treasury professed to favor
the use of both gold and silver, but declared
that the amount already coined was enough,
and that if We continued to coin, gold would
leave the country. This statement was made
in the face of the fact that IN 1878, when the
coinage of silver dollars was ordered, there
was in the United States only S244, ZOO, 900,
while today, according to the report of the
director of the mint, the gold (coin and bull
lion) in the United States has increased to
$6O9, 10000 900, 90 that instead of silver COIN
age having driven gold out of the United
States our supply has been trebled since sill
yer coinage had commenced. The coinage
of Silver, Mr.. Coke said, should be free as
was the coinage of gold. American silver
should be placed in exact equality with gold
everywhere, but whether right or wrong as to
free coinage, Mr.. Coke said, we should in
sist that our government officials should ex-
ecute the laws.
A resolution vas agreed to authorizing the
secretary of the Senate to pay bills incurred
in the attendance of Senators at the funeral
OF the late Vice President Hendricks
Among the bills introduced 10 the Senate
today were the following:
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