Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-06
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
GENERAL DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
A Speech on the Silver Question, Etc.
House OF Representatives.

House OF Representatives.
Immediately on assembling the House went
into committee Of the whole (Sfr. Crisp, of
Georgia, in the chair) on the state of the union
for general debate.
Mr.. Willard On. W addressed the committee
on the silver question. What the people
wanted, he said, was some legislation which
maintain that equaIity-some legislation which
would make the silver dollar worth one hum
dred cents. The statement made at the time of
dollar would be the equal in value with gold,
had proven to be wrong, and the Bland dollar
WAS NOW DIV, worth but but eighty cents the pend
should become a law. no one could be
brave enough to predict what the silver
The only way out of the difficulty
was to establish an International ratio between
the two metals, and until that was done he
was opposed to the free coinage of silver and in
favor OF the suspension of the act of 1873. The
PRESIDENT was right in his recommendation in
this regard. It has been charged that the pres
ent administration was engaged in a con-
spiracy with the bondholders in setting aside
the law. He thought that the sins of the pres
without adding this charge to them.
District in Congress.
AN OLD CLAIM.
Mr.. Hampton, from the Senate military com.
mittee, has reported back the bill to refer the
claim Of Isaac r. Trimble against the United
STATES ior the construction and use by the w ar
department OF Howe's patent truss in the
bridge over the Potomac river-chain bridge.
This is an old claim, and has been before Con
gress several times. The claim is now in the
hands of trustees of Trimble.
THE L STREET PROTEST
The protest presented in the Senate some days
since by Mr.. ingalls, against the chartering of
any railroad to run along l. street northwest,
sets forth that the street is entirely one of resi-
dences, having no traffic and has been selected
owning for ifS
quiet; that 1t is abundantly supplied by the
14th, 18th, 9th and 7th street lines, and the
street Is being rapidly built up by class Of
residents to whom its quiet is its chief recon-
mendatiOn, and that many purchases and the
iH OF many houses would be abandoned
II railroad track is to run through the street.
Inc petitioners further submit that the
street is one of the narrowest from X to the
boundary 1t would, with a railroad, be impossi-
BILE to turn a carriage before any of the houses
The document is signed by H. A. Willard. VIM.
Henry PRESCOTT Thos. j. Fisher, H. K. Willard,
l. street northwest
Capitol Topics.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
The Senate judiciary committee at a special
meeting to-day considered the Presidents mes
sage in regard to the right of the Senate to ex-
ecutive papers SO that the report ma y be SUBJ
mitted next Monday and taken up in connec-
ton with that subject.
OUR DEFENCELEss sEACoAsT.:
The House naval committees report upon
the reconstruction Of the navy, says our navy
Is not in as good condition as it was in 1860
Even Brazil might exact tribute from our cities
along the Gulf or the Atlantic while the CHILEAN
vessel, Esmeralda, could stand outside the
Golden Gate and make San Francisco pay
Inc Rlachuclo and Aquidabau, thoses forrnid-
able brazilian armed cruisers, could steam at
thirteen or fourteen knots an hour from Brazil
1 IN ten hs cGd With
harbor: but without doing this their guns could
easily throw shells into New York city from of
THE EXECUTIVE AND THE SENATE
On motion of Mr.. Edmunds the Senate. yes.
terday afternoon, agreed to take up the report
and resolutions respecting the refusal OF the
Executive to submit papers in the cases of
suspensions next Monday. The resolutions
hour, and Mr.. Edmunds intends to keep the
subject before the Senate from day TO day until
disposed Of
THE URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL PASSED.
The urgency deficiency bill was passed with
out amendment yesterday, by a vote Of 229 to
20. The bill is as given in THE STAR when
agreed upon by the committee, and includes
the following for the Washington navy yard
during the remainder OF the current year:
Labor, Washington navy yard, $50. 1000; 80
S-inch hoops, 81, 7OO S-inch trunnions,
$1,000; 10 S-inch hoops, $1,000; Cammeli
jacket, &c, 81 ,O6s; labor at naval ordnance
proving ground, $500; freight, &C., $500; Is
spring firing attachments, 500; primers, 5000;
carriages for Chicago, material, $4,000; gun
$500. Total, SIS, 463.
LIE CLEARS PORTRAIT OF GRANT.
In the Senate yesterday MIR. Logan presented
petition setting forth that in 1883 Gen. Grant
gave several sittings to the artist LIE Clear, and
the portrait painted is now in the White House.
LIE Clear is dead: and his heirs want 10 sell the
portrait to the government for $15, 900.
NOTES.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
The House post Office committee will hear
representatives of the b. & o. Telegraph COM
pany on Friday in favor of Mr.. Anderson's reso-
luton directing an investigation to ascertain if
the Union Pacific has violated the terms of its
charter in giving the Western Union company
exclusive right to the telegraph along its lines.
The House committee on post offices and post
roads will on Tuesday next give hearing to
any gentlemen interested in the relations be-
tween the Pacific railroads and the telegraph
companies.
Senator Gray introduced in the Senate yester
day q bill TO facilitate the discharge of persons
held tor extraditiOn when the President de-
clineS to surrender.
Signal Service Exnemditures Objected