The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21
NEWS CONDENSED.
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.


THE debate of the Beck silver resolution was
continued in the Senate ON the 18th inst by Mr..
Pugh Of Alabama, who said that silver had not
been treated fairly and that when silver. under
the same treatment received by gold, and
under the natural laws of supply and de-
mand. failed to hold its own. he would
consider the coin controversy settled. Mr..
Pugh expressed willingness To support any
change i'm the existing law that would withdraw
any paper currency under So or even 30 80 as
to give tho entire field for the use OF small bills
or small change tn silver and silver certificates.
and advocated the passage of the bill heretofore
introduced by Mr.. George Miss.l Mr.. Vance.
of North Carolina. followed Mr.. Pugh. He de-
clared that the attempt to depreciate silver was
one of the grandest conspiracies ever seen. The
banner of the attac king party should bear In plain
hath shall be given. and from him that
hath not shall be taken away
even the little that he hath" Thesuccess OF
the efforts against silver would result in the
greatest Industrial calamities. There re-
ceived from the President draftof bill to
amend the act for the punishment OF Indiansifor
grave crimes Mr.. Logan made n favorable re-
port on a bill appropriating ss50.0O0 to purchase
Tor army purposes the old Produce Exchange
Building In New York. 1n the House of Repre-
ssntatives Mr.. Caldwem reported back the Hoar
acknowledgements bill In debate ON the
Presidents message Mr.. Reagan advocated the
double standard OF value, opposed the suspsn-
sion of compulsory silver coinage, and proposed
to charter no moro national banks.
Mr.. MANDERsoN offered q resolution in the
Senate ON the 18th inst, calling on the Post
master General TO report why the fast mail Ia
transported from Chicago TO the Territories by
roads other than the Union Pacific. Mr..
Plumb was given permission TO withdraw a
petition by British subject presented by
him recently. Bills were introduced to pre-
vent the publication of lottery advertisements,
appropriating $1,000 to mark the grave Of
General Daniel Morgan ut Winchester. Va, and
TO grant to the jamestown and Northern Road
the right of way through the Devils Lake Indian
reservation in Dakota. In II speech ON the coin
age question, Mr.. Coke said the silver standard
had terrors for him, and that the fight
against silver directed against the peo-
pie by the banks and bondholders. The
House of Representatives. passed a bill to legal
izo the election of the Territorial Assembly OF
Wyoming. Mr.. Curtin declined the chairmansrip
of the Committee on Banking and Currency, and
was excused from serving. Among the Presi-
Dental nominations confirmed by the Senate
were the following: Jabez Curry, Of Richmond.
to be United States Minister 20 Spain Charles
H Scott. of Alabama To be Minister Resident
and Consul General to Venezuela; Frederick
H. Winston, of Illinois, to be Minister Resi-
dent and Consul General to Persia: Pierce NJ. ID.
Young. of Georgia. To be United States Consul
General mt st. Petersburg; George V. n. 10th
rop. of Michigan, to be United States Minister to
Russia; M. H Phelan, of Missouri to be Consul
General at Halifax; John B. Stalio, OF Ohio Co
be United States Minister to Italy; Charles
DENLY OF Indiana, to be United States Minister
to China
APETIrIoN from commercial travellers for relief
In the Senate on the 18th inst. by Mr.. Plat. Mr..
Sewell made a favorable report ON the bill ap-
propriating $500 900 per annum for arms and
equipments for the militia. Mr.. Hoar intro
duced measure setting aside $4,000 for
a monument to James Madison at the national
capital. Mr.. Brown, in discussing the sill
yer issue, took the ground that the pay
ment OF 40,00000O standard dollars to pub
lie creditors would make them ANXIOUS touphold
their value Mr.. Maxey said the raid on silver
was planned in Europe, and We needed only to
enforce with vigor our contract with the bond
holders. In the House OF Representatives Mr..
Dingley reported resolution for nh inquiry as
to legislation required by the American marine
employed in the fisheries 1t was resolved to
hold Friday night sessions for the consideration
Of pension bills.
THE Hoar Presidential bill passed the House
of Representatives on the 18th inst, by vote
of 1888 to ~ precisely il came from the Senate.
Following the provisions of the bill: I'm
case of removal, death resignation or inability
of both the President and Vice President of
the United States, the Secretary of State, or il
there be none, or in case of his removal, death.
resignation. or inability then the Secretary Of
the Treasury; If there be none; or in
case OF his removal. DEATH resig-
nation. or inability, then the Sec
rotary of War; or if there be none, or
in case of his removal, death, resignation,
or inability. then the Attorney General or il
there be none, or in case of his removal death.
resignation, or inability, then the Postmaster
General or, If there be none. or in case Of his
removal, death. resignation or inability then
the Secretary of the Navy; or if there be none.
in case Of his removal death, resignation, or
inability, then the Secretary of the Interior
shall act as President until the disability
of the President or Vice President is re-
moved. President shall be elect
ed Provided, that whenever the powers and
duties of the Office of President of the
United States shall devolve upon any of the
persons named herein, IL Congress be not then
in session, or IL il would not meet in accordance
with law within twenty days thereafter. it shall
be the duty Of the person upon whom said
powers and duties shall devolve to issue n proc
1amation converting Congress in extraordinary
session, giving twenty days notice of the
time of meeting. Sec. 2. That the pre-
ceding section shall only be held to ascribe
and apply to such officers shall
have been appointed by the advice and with the
consent of the Senate to the Offices therein
named, and such as are eligible to the Office of
President under the Constitution. and not under
Impeachment by the House Of Representatives
Mt the time the powers and duties of the Office
shall devolve upon them respectively.
Section g. That Sections lac. 147, las,
149, and $50 Of the Revised Statutes are
hereby repealed" There was no session OF
the Senate on the 18th. At a caucus of Repub-
lican Senators it was decided to call upon the
President for papers throwing light upon causes
assumed that the Senate has n right to tlrese pa
pers and from them should judge what course
TO take in the matter OF combinations
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