Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-01-08

an hostilities therein; also,a joint resolution
lnStructing the commissioner of the gener-
al land office to pass to patent all uncon-
against which a specific charge of fraud is
not pending or proved, and also calling on
such officers for statement in detail Of
the reasons for issuing the order of April
Sd, suspending the Issuance OF patents;
also, bill to establish a soldiers home in
Neb raska, Iowa, Wisconsin or Minnesota.
Without a conclusion Of the call, the
The number of bills introduced today
was 790.
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SENATE.
THE SILVER COINAGE QUESTION DIS
CUSsED.
WASHINGTON, January 6.-SenatOr Hale
took the floor against Chairman Browns
plan for recommending postmasters for
party service. Senators Vest and Voor-
hees defended the administration. No ac.
tion was taken.
Among the bills introduced and appro.
priately referred were the following
By Senator Hoar- To fix the time for
the meeting of congress. (In 1885
and every second year thereafter, on the
first Monday in October, and in 1887, and
every second year thereafter, on the second
Monday in December.) In introducing the
bill, Mr.. Hoar said that all must concede
that the business Of the country is increas-
ing SO fast that longer sessions of congress
are necessary.
Nj. Gray called up Mr.. Beck's recent res
olution of inquiry, relating to the payment
of customs, duties, ETC., and application Of
silver coin to purposes Of sinking fund, etc.
The resolution having been read, Mr.. Gray
said he would vote for it, but for reasons
very different from those which actuated
Mr.. Beck and those who thought with him
Reviewing the history Of our coin legisla-
tion, the act Of 1878, Mr.. Gray said, was ten
tative. It was based on the hope that silver
would shortly reach an international ratio
with gold. This hope had been disap-
defeated and 81 worth ninety-two
cents, in 1878, was now worth less than
eighty cents. He was neither bond
holder nor a son of bond holder
but he was for paying bond holders
in honest money. The true issue
in the question was whether the true rela-
ton of gold and silver would be reached
by continuance OF the present plan o1
silver coinage. He asserted this could not
be done. Silver coinage had served use
full purpose as subsidiary coin, but the
country desired no basis of silver coin, and
if gold were supplanted by silver, we
would have a silver basis. The gold stand
ard had kept us on easy relations with the
rest of the world. Binetallism could moi
be reached by any one country alone.
Mr.. Mcpherson followed on the same
subject. "rhe United States treasury" he
said, had become vast and complicated
machine. There were several different
factors in our circulation in the form of
various kinds of notes. If coinage were
now suspended, silver might be got to a
proper relation with gold, and in the
opinion of the best authorities in the world.
we had now got to point in silver COIN
age aoyond which it was dangerous for us
to CO." Referring to the effect of
silver in India, MI Mcpherson exclaimed
EsGod forbid that American laborers should
ever come to a condition like that of the la
borer of lndiaw A blow aimed by the sill
yer men at the bloated bond holders
would strike with ten fold force on the
head of the iaborer. The government had
permitted its financial agent, Jay Cook, to
advertise that interest on bonds was paya-
blei gold. MI Mcpherson produced such
an adYertisment). Mr.. Beck inquired how
much the purchasers of the bonds
had paid for them. Mr.. cPhersen replied
that that made no difference; the govern
ment having held out such representations
could not now ignore them; it could not
play fast and loose with its creditors. A
reference by Mr.. Mcpherson to an under
standing that the bonds were to be paid in
gold brought from Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Harris
and Mr. Beck, simultaneously an insistence
that i'll 'coin," and not "gold," was the un-
derstanding and agreement. To show that
business men are already becoming
alarmed at our course with regard to silver,
Mr.. Mcpherson read letter from the man
ager of the Liverpool, London and Globe
insurance company, which, in view of the
great uncertainty with regard to coinage,
had decided to make no further loans ex-
cept on specific agreement of their pay
ment in gold coin. .a.-.
THE UTAH BILL. d.
On motion of Mr.. Edmunds the senate
took up the Utah bill, the pending question
being on Mr.. Hoar's motion to strike out
the section that would disfranchise the wo-
men of Utah. y
Mr.. Brown expressed himself as opposed
to woman suffrage, and said if the ques-
ton was up in his own state he would vote
against it, but as the question before the
senate was one affecting the right already
given the women of Utah by the laws of
that territory, he would vote for Mr.. Hoar's
motion.
"A vote having been reached on the
amendment, it was rejected yeas, IL;
nays, 81. The section disfranchising wo-
men remains therefore a part Of the bill.
An amendment proposed by Mr.. Ed
munds was agreed to. providing that mar
riages within, but not including, the fourth
degree of c6hsanguinity, shall be deemed
incestuous and punishable by imDrison-
ment. IA E.a
Mr.. Van Wyck offered an amendment
dispensing with the I" Utah commission, =
SO called The duties Of that body could
be just as well performed by army officers,
atno extra expense to the government,
and the amendment provided that board
of officers OF the army should perform the
duties now vested in the commission. He
denounced the extravagance of the COM
mission, and insisted that it has been of no
use to Utah or to the United States. The
commission, he said, had a half dozen
clerks.
Mr.. Voorhees, denied this, and challenged
Mr.. Van Wyck to prove his statement.
Mr.. Van Wyck, in reply, read fr0I, a list
in his hands the names of seven clerks and
a ianitOr