Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-11
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
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 l The resolution was agreed to. On motion of Mir. Call the Senate ther | took up MT. Eustis' recent resolution calling 1 on the Secretary of the Treasury for informa tion as to the refusal of the assistant treasur- l or at New Orleans to receive shipment of sill yer and to issue silver certificates therefor. l MT. Call, while not objecting to the resolu- 1 tion, defended the action of the treasury of fcers in the matter referred to. He also de- tended the order issued by the treasurer to the assistant treasurer at New Orleans to the effect that that officer should not receive nor
 receipt more silver money in one day than the clerical force could count on that day. Any other order MT. Call said would lead to loss by the government. He had been informed by the treasurer that in one case the government
 had been responsible for discrepancy of
 $25, 900 growing out of the fact that receipts
 had been given for money "to be counted"
 MT. Plumb said he had been told that
 Treasurer Jordan being asked why he did
 not pay for silver bullion in silver dollars re-
 piled that if he did so the holders would re
 turn the dollars and demand certificates
 and he (Jordan) was not willing to
 encourage that sort of thing. He thought
 this threw much light upon the perform
 ances of last summer when there was an ap-
 parent effort to circulate the silver dollars,
 but there was at the same time an intrigue
 with New York people to bring the law into
 contempt.
 Mr. Coke proposed to bring any officer
 who is guilty of violating the law to the bar
 of public justice and public opinion.
 Banks in Galveston were attempting
 to establish discount on silver because they could not get certificates from the sub-treas- ury at New Orleans. He contended that the treasury officials were ostentatiously taking credit for supporting the public credit, while doing everything in their power to accom- plish directly opposite results.
 At 3 o'clock the chair laid before the Sen ate the educational bill and after some dis cussion that bill was made the unfinished business for tomorrow at the same hour and MT. Coke resumed his remarks on the Eustis resolution. He read correspondence to show, as he contended, a practical refusal of the assistant treasurer at New Orleans to execnte the law and an approval by the treasurer at Washington of such refusal. Something had been said, MT. Coke continued, about an attack upon the administration He had helped to put this administration in power. His State (Texas) had given 134, 900 popular majority for the Democratic ticket, the largest majority of any State in the Union. There were 240 papers in Texas; he knew but four that supported the executive department of the government in it's war on silver. He made no war on the administration, but he believed that "publie office is public trust' and that he executed
 
 whom he in part represented.
 MT. Teller said that the President had re- ferred to the silver coinage law as "com- pulsory" provision and had spoken complainingly of it as compulsory coinage measure Mr. Teller thought it no ground of complaint against act of Con gress that it was compulsory. All laws were compulsory" and acts of Congress were just as compulsory" on the occupant of the ex- ecutive mansion as on the hodcarrier. The President had right to complain of the compulsoriness of the law. MT. Tel Ter severely commented on the statement of the Presidents message and the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury and comp troller of the currency that 50 00O 900 of silver dollars were all that it was possible to get in circulation when in the same message and reports they admitted that there were really 40, 900, ,0O0 of the silver dollars in circulation, because in addition to there were SC, ,00O, 900 of certificates out. So much stress had been laid by the President and his officers on the 50, ,000, 900 figures that the people got the idea that they represented the whole of the silver circulation.
 Mr George believed the election of ths as sistant treasurer at New Orleans in accord with the law. The facts were that country bank shipped $25,Oo0 to the sub-treasury at New OIleans flor account" of another bank in New Orleans. The express agent had no authority to receive silver certificates for that silver, and what he demanded was not silver certificates, but receipt.
 MT. Eustis said he had telegraphed to Mr. Roach at New Orleans to ascertain the purpose of the banks ship ment of silver. His reply was: Shippers sought to get rid of excessive sil- yer by shipping to the sub-treasury and ask ing that silver certificates therefor should be turned over to their New Orleans correspond tS Suh h-t tn from the express company because, first, it doubted the propriety of the treasury becom ing intermediary between city and countr, banks, second, for lack of clerical force. I feel assured that provision for sufficient clerks would remedy everything"
 MT. Edmunds inquired why the admins tration did mot turn out the Republican rascal and put in Democrat.
 MT. Coke-ls he Republican,?
 MT. Edmunds-I do not know. suppose if he is as bad as that he must be.
 MT. Coke said he did not care what the mans politics were.
 MT. Edmunds repeated his inquiry as to the politics of the assistant treasurer at New whether he was an old officer or some new man.
 MT. Gibson replied that the officer had been appointed by the present administra- tion
 ''Well, {" remarked MT. Edmunds in re- x
 The debate then closed and the resolution went over.
 MT. Dolph submitted an amendment to Mr. Sherman's silver bill proposing to keep the amount of coin certificates outstanding equal to the value of the bullion held as security for the certificates.
 At 4:10 the Senate went into executive ses- sion and at 5:20 adjourned.
 HoUsE-The response of the Secretary of the Treasury to the House resolution calling for information upon questions arising under the tariff act of 1883 was laid before the House to-day and referred.
 The following resolutions, offered by MT. of Louisiana, were then adopted:
 Resolved, That this House has learned with profound sorrow of the great and irreparable loss which the country has sustained in the death of the great and good man, Major-Gen. Winfield s. Hancock.
 Resolved, That this House, in common with all his countrymen, mourn the death of him who was stainless soldier of the Union in war, and the undaunted defender of the constitution and of civil liberty in peace, and at all times the stainless man and the incor- ruptible patriot.
 Resolved, That as mark of respect and affection for the exalted virtues of this hero and patriot, this House do now adjourn.
 Resolved, That the Speaker of the House be directed to transmit to the widow of the honored dead copy of these resolutions and an assurance of the heartfelt sympathy of the House in the sorrowful bereavement which is alike hers and the countrys.
 The House then accordingly at 1910 ad- journed.