The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-15
THE THREAD OF SILVER
CONTINUES TO ILLUMINATE THE
WORDS OF SENATORS.
Some Business Done by the House
Where the President Has the Drop"
on the Senate-Beck and the Petitions
for Silver Suspension.

WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. 15-The silver
thread, which has run through the senate
proceedings ever sinae the ession opened,
wss not lost sight of either We ines lay or
Thursday. On wednesday Coke made
long speech in favor of silver, in which he
criticised the action of the president and
treasury in regard TO silver, and combatted
the idea that silver had really deprecated
in value at all "Give u.s." said he, ''the
same executive vigor and fidelity exercised
by the offers Of the French government in
behalf OF silver and we will show that we
can carry very much more silver than we
now have At the rate OF s., 100000 a
month it would take us fifteen years
to get s5.5 ,000,0l0, which is less than
the amount claimed by anybody to
he the silver circulation of France" The
coinage of silver, Coke said, should be
free, as was the coinage of gold American
silver should he placed on an exact equality
with gold everywhere But whether right or
wrong as 10 free coinage, Coke said, we
should insist that our government officials
should execute the laws We wanted 10
more reports frcm them saying that silver
can rot be got into circulation when, in
violation of law, the treasury department.
refused TO pay it out and allowed bonds that
ought to be paid to remain outstanding,
while keeping locked up in the vaults of the
treasury millions on millions Of silver that
ought to be in circulation.
THURSDAY Beck revived the subject at the
earliest opportunity by stating that he had
received a number of petitions in favor OF
assuspension of ethe silver coinage, but had
Of II, L.
cause he believed them to be the result of a
circular issIed by New York commercial
bodies, urging the creation of popular
sentiment against the coinage. The ser
ator read one of these strictly Sonfiden-
tial' circulars 1t asks is recipient to write
a personal letter TO Speaker Carlisle urging
him to refrain from placing extreme silver
men on the coinage committee Of the house
Of representatives and also 10 write per-
sonal letters to senator's and representatives
urging suspension of the coinage
Teller presented a copy of a resolution of
the Colorado legislature urging the gov
ernor of that state, its representatives in
congress, and members of the house and
senate generally, TO resist the conspiracy
against silver, which ain,- ct suspension
of coinage
Brown addressed the senate at great
length in opposition to the suspension of the
coinage of silver. He took the ground that
to meet tie demand of our immense and
growing business we could safely carry
500, 0O000l more silver and then have less
legal tender silver coin than France and
Germany together and only little more
than France alone. II the national banks
attempt 10 practically demoneUzo silver"
said Brown III conclusion, and il the otii-
GERS who now represent the people in the
different departments Of the government
viii not take the matter in hand, then the
people should take it in hand and TIL all the
departments OF the government with men
who VIII apply the corrective and forfeit
the charters Of such banks as abuse their
privileges
The house Of rePrese rtativc~, on motion of
Holman, THURSDAY, passed the senate bill
authorizing the secretary of the treasury 10
Issue duplicate certificate of deposit for
$1,000 to the Peoples National hank, of
Lawrencoburg, Ind
On behalf Of the committee on judiciary.
Hammond of Georgia called up hill
amending section | $50 revised statutes, so
as to provide that final judgments against
the United States rendered by the court of
claims, Shall bear interest at rat Of per
cent. from the date Of their presentation
TO the secretary Of the treasury for pay
ment The bill was passed.
Springer called MP the resolution directing
the committee On claims to inquire into the
expediency of passing general laws for the
ascertainment of facts on all private meas
ures by some Judicial tribunal before
action by congress. Tucker thought
that the Judiciary committee should conduct
the inquiry, and offered an amendment to
that effect, which was agreed to, and the
resolution as amended was adopted
On behalf of the committee on praSi-
dental laws Caldwell of Tennessee called M
the Hoar presidential succession bin BY
unanimous consent it was agreed tnat de-
bata should continue during the afternoon,
Caldwell reserving the right to call the pre-
vioGs question any time
Caldwell stated that the committee. in
reporting this msasusc, had not dealt with
Indifference or disrSspsct with other pro1o-
sitions before it. There were many uIea5
ures proposed that would more proparlt
meet all possible or imaginary cxigencies
than the one now reported, but
they all required a constitutional
amendment before they could he
come laws, and constitutional
amendment involved "A delay which would
i'll accord with the reasonable anxiety
which the great body of the people felt
There wege many eyigences which the pend
| ing measures did not cover, but the present
| exigency il completely covered Ii was Il
temporary bridge thrown across a chasln in
| order to meet public demand, 'and would lie
followed ia due tine by an enduring struct-
ure over which a long line Of Repabli an
Democratic presidents might niaf.h in UT
broken sue reasiou.