Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-04
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 1886

EUhl | NINTH CUNGhE SS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 1886. SENATE.-The chair laid before the Senate MT. Riddleberger's resolution and MT. Pughs substitute about the demand for papers in the case of suspended officials. MT. Edmunds succeeded, after some opposition by Mir. Rid dleberger, in having both resolutions tabled on the ground that they involved nothing practical, and whenever any such controversy as the resolutions assumed should arise there will be time enough to consider it. At 2 o'clock the Dakota bill was placed before the Senate and MT. Logan took the floor. He differed materially, he said: with the Senator from South Carolina (Butler) and the Senator from Missouri (Vest in regard to the question under consideration. Going directly to the argument of the objections made, MT. Logan said that fourteen States had been admitted under the force of en- abling acts and eleven States without en- abling acts. Congress therefore was free to adopt either course according to circum- stances which in each case seem best adapted to the public good. MT. Logan said that when Republicans wanted anything the idea of the Senator from South Carolina (Butler)
 
 Logans idea was that without regard to the politics of territory it should be admitted when it had the population. Dakota had 261, ,OOO people and had boiled 57,OOO votes South Carolina had 100000 people and only voted 91, ,000.
 Mr. Butler corrected MT. Logan. South Carolina had 100000 population
 MT. Logan admitted his error, but insist ed that there was something wrong there when Dakota boiled so many votes relatively to the vote of South Carolina. True, only 31, 900 votes were cast by Dakota on the was because the Democrats had not partici- pated in the election. The objections to Da- kota were part of great scheme to keep out Republicans till the Democratic States could be brought in also. That was repetition of the old principle of slave and free States. Mr. Logan read from the Charleston News and Courier an article advocating the enact ment of a party qualification for voting. There was proposition, he said, to deprive the mass of people of the right of suffrage. "The Senator from South Carolina laughs, :" said MT. Logan. ''I do not see why you should laugh, because that is the only way you are going to control that country after while" The start of the Democracy had been in South Carolina.
 ''Yes," said MT. Butler, ''while the distin- guished Senator from Illinois was a leader of that party"
 ''Not a leader" replied MT. Logan. ''I was follower and I followed so far behind that got left.'' Great laughter and ap- plause in the galleries.)
 The attempt to keep out Dakota MT. Lo- gan characterized part of great scheme to keep out States that sent Republicans to Congress. He appealed to justice and mag nanimity to give ear to the voice of the ener- getic and enterprising people who were ap- 111y aIu mic to tha TTrio
 MT. Morgan opposed the admission of Dakota under the present conditions. He thought the Senate asked to admit the new State merely for the purpose of admitting the of iee-holders that had been sent here. The pa triotism that had been much referred to had ill it strong flavor of self interest.
 MT. Harrison obtained the floor, but yield ed to motion to adjourn.
 At 4:50 the Senate adjourned. MT. Har- rison gave notice that he would ask the Sen ate to bring the bill to vote to morrow.
 HoUsE-The Bland silver resolution, after that part asserting that the Treasury depart ment assumes to suspend silver coinage was stricken out, was passed after debate. It in quires what the silver policy of the admins tratien is to be. It asks facts about the amount of interest paid in silver, or whether the department has made any agreement with the New York clearing house.
 MT. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Con- mittee on Ways and Means, reported reso- lution calling on the Secretary of the Treas ury to report to the House the total amount applied to the sinking fund between June 30, 1884, and July 1, 1885, and under what dates and in what several amounts the same was applied Adopted.
 The following among other committee re- ports were submitted:
 By MT. Wilkins, of Ohio, from the Com mittee on Banking and Currency, providing for the issue of circulating notes to national banking associations. Placed on the House calendar.
 By MT. Miller, of Texas. from the same committee, (adveIsely) to make shareholders in national banks individually responsible for the debts of the banks. Laid on the ta- ble
 By MT. James, of New York, from the Committee on Labor, to prohibit any officer of the government from hiring or contract ing out the labor of prisoners. Placed on the calendar.
 In the morning hour the House resumed in Committee of the Whole the considera- ton of the bill to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels. NIT. Dingley of Maine, who has charge of the bill, concluded his brief explanation of its provisions, taking up the sections seriatim and pointing out wherein they were an improvement on existing laws. In reply to question by MT. Anderson, MT. Dingley stated that the fees which it was proposed to abolish amounted to about $350, ,O0O year.
 Pending action on the bill the committee rose and at 3:30 the House again resolved into committee on the bill relating to the taxation of fractional parts of a gallon of dis titled spirits MT. Mills offered an amend ment providing that all taxes shall be paid in standard silver coin. and using this amend ment as a text he addressed the committee upon the entire silver question and made a long speech in favor of the continued coinage Of silver.
 MT. Butterworth, of Ohio, briefly discussed the provisions of the bill and opposed it as being disadvantageous to the distilling inter- est of Ohio.
 Without action the committee rose and at 5:15 p. m. the House adjourned.