The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-15
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, January 14.-Beck said
there had come to him Che did moi
know Why, several petitions to be pre-
s. n ted to the Senate, urging Congress to
suspend silver coinage. He had de-
clined to present such petitions and had
returned them to the persons sending
them to him. He had pursued that
course because he believed the sending
of such petitions had been Influenced
by a circular letter, dated I.Coniden-
tial," sent cut by a committee OF the
New York board of trade and transport
alton. Beck read copy of the letter:
| 1t asks its recipient to write 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 write per
sonal letters to- Senators and Repre-
sentatives, urging thesuspension of sill
yer coinage.
Henderson desired to. correct an
error of the the statement of the Kelly
correspondence, to the effect that when
Kasson had been nominated to the
Spanish Mission he was objected to by
the government of Spain.
| Allison sent to The desk and had the
clerk to read letter from Evarts, then
the Secretary of State, to -Kasson,
saying that no question was ever raised
as to Kasson's acceptance by the Span
ish government. 1.-The appointment
for Madrid" the letter continues,
originally proposed by me, was
changed, upon your preference to
Vienna, and for reasons having no
connection whatever with, or the
knowledge of either government"
Evarts corroborated Allison's state
ment.
Brown called up Beck's silver reso-
luton. The officers of the Treasury,
Brown said, should treat all public cred
itors alike; if they paid the bondhold-
ers in gold alone, they should pay
the laborer in gold alone. Although the
bondholders had expressly agreed to
take payment in either gold or silver,
they were being paid in gold alone,
while everybody else was paid IN silver.
This was neither fair dealing nor com
mon honesty. If the National banks
attempt to practically demonetize silver,
said Brown, in conclusion, and if the
officials who now represent the people
in the different departments of the
government will not take the matter
in hand, then the people, at their re-
cnrring elections, should take it in
hand and ill all the departments of the
government with men who will apply
the corrective and forfeit the charters
of such banks as abuse their privileges.
Maxey followed on the same subject.
The silver advocates, he contended,
repealed the imputation that they
wanted to take any advantage of their
creditors by paying dollar debt in an
S0-cent dollar. A euler lie had never
been uttered against a brave and in
dustIious people. The people knew
that the fall o. silver was the result of
conspiracy of combined capital to de-
story silver as a money metal, and the
gamblers were but reaping the fruits of
their own folly. The suspension OF sill
yer coinage was but another name for
the total stoppage OF coinage, and such
suspension, or stoppage. would be
fraught with the most serious conse
quences to the people.
The judicial salary bill was Ihen Iald
before the Senate. One section provides
that no person related within the degree
of first cousin to judge of the United
States shall be appointed by such Judge
to any position in his court, and per
sons related, who now hold such office,
shall not continue in office after six
months from the passage of that act.
Edmunds moved to strike out the
clause that would effect persons at
present in Office, and in the course of
his remarks, in support of the motion,
said Even this reform administration
the picture of purity and grace and
of everything that is lovely-Qaughter
has sent 10 the Senate the nomination
of father and son to go to the same
place to exercise the functions of the
two officers, one under the other.
After debate, Edmunds' amendment
was agreed to.
Adjourned until Monday.