Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-17
Democratic Criticisms Of the Territory'S
Vote Net by a Singing CON-
parison With Southern
Voting.
Attempts to Force the River and HarbOr
Bill Through the House Immedi-
ately ThWarted by the
Republicans.
President Cleveland's Love for the Sol.
dier Again Exemplified by a Veto
OF Two Private Pension
Bills.
WAsHINGToN, April Is.
Senate.


Mr.. Stewart introduced bill granting a
pension of 81, 900 year to the widow of
Chief Justice Waite.
Mr.. Breckenridge of Kentucky introduced
a resolution declaratory of the sense of the
House that the Secretary of the Treasury
has power to use the surplus at any time in
the treasury for the purchase of bonds of
the United States and that SO much of the
surplus as may from time to time accumulate
in the treasury ought to be SO used.
A resolution was adopted instructng a
select committee on the operations of civil
service to inquire and report whether there
has been within two years any fraud or NAL
administration in the New York Custom
House in the importation of sugar.
Mr.. Riddleberger offered resolution for
the suspension of the Senate rules as to
executive sessions during the consideration
of the fisheries treaty. Laid over.
The bill providing for the investment of
certain funds in the treasury was taken up
Senator Farwell, of Illinois, delivered an
address on the subject, referring to the i'm
portance of preserving the national banking
system as basis for circulating medium,
he showed how the banks would be destroyed
by the payment of the national debt, thus
bonds as security for their circulation. He
gave notice of two amendments to the bill,
to meet this emergency. One directs the
secretary of the treasury to reissue and sell
to the national banks at par, for the United
States notes, United States 1-2 per cent.
bonds, redeemable after fifty years, to be
used by the banks as security for their
circulating notes notes to be issued to the
full par value of the bonds. 1t also directs
the secretary of the treasury to invest the
surplus funds held in the treasury, includ-
ing the amount received for these bonds,
in the purchase of any United States bonds
in open market and it repeals the sinking
fund laws. The other amendment authorizes
the secretary of the treasury, to enable the
national banks to maintain or increase their
circulation and to prevent the
ultimate destruction of the banks by
the purchase or payment of the national debt,
to receive from banks, to secure their circu-
lating notes, State, county or municipal
bonds, or those of the United States, upon
which the interest has heretofore been
promptly paid, and whose market value is
equal to or greater than their par value, bear
ing interest at not less than four per cent.
such bonds, however, are not to be received
by the treasurer of the United States at more
than seventy-five per cent. of their par value
or until their approval by the Secretary OF
the Treasury or the treasurer of the United
States and the comptroller of the cure ncy
shall have endorsed them.
Mr.. Reagan of Texas, spoke in opposition
to Mr. Farwell. He favored the payment of
the national debt and allowing the charters
of the National banks to expire, substituting
for national banks the circulation of coin
certificates based on the gold and silver in
the treasury; also treasury notes.
Mr.. Stewart spoke in the same line. charg-
ing that in order to perpetuate the
national debt and allow the banks
to issue paper money, scheme was being
devised to destroy sill, er as money. He said
precious metals should be used for circu-
lation when there is not sufficient paper
money. They should be issued, not by
private corporations, but by the government.
The Senate resumed the considers of the
bill for the admission of the State of South
Dakota and the organization of the territory
of North Dakota. Mr. Spooner favored the
bill and said the opposition was unjust par
tisanship. He charged that every senator
from every Southern State stood athwart the
pathway of South Dakota. He argued the
question of the division of the territory
| He said that it had been submitted to the
whole people and they had decided in favor
of division by majority of over 5000. As
to the recent suggestion by Mr.. Butler that
| &c, 900 voters of Dakota had been so indiffer
ent that they had stayed away from the
| polls therefore, the vote was not fair express
| sion of the popular will, he drew distinct ior
between the cases of voters in the northern
States. who remained away from tht
/ tbrnuyb fboir
and the voters in the southern states wht
were kept away by intimidation. In the for
mer case there was no impeachment of the
fairness of the election. In the latter case
a large number of men were kept away
from the polls not because of their indiffer
ence but because of the memory of outrage,
perpetuated and tolerated by the intelligen
men of communities and whole state
wear after year; outrages by the kuklu1
clubs and night riders; because of tissue
ballots, blood, intimidation and fraud; be
cause of the memories of burning shanties
The coiored republicans had been driven in
to the swamps, lashed, exiled, pursued
and hunted down because of thei
memories of Yazo and Copiah. Then TIL
election was not fair expression of popula
will. No complaint was made of the small
ness of votes in the Southern States .althougl
for ten representatives from Georgia, onl
26 900 votes in the aggregate had been cast
less than the average vote for each represen
tative from Wisconsin. The election il
Dakota had been fair, orderly and peaeeable
All who voted had their votes counted
There wasa majority of over 5000 in favo
Of dividing Dako What party necessit
was it he asked. which in the face of vot
ike that, that led Senators to bar the path
way of South Dakota, on the ground ths
there had not been fair expression of tn
people in favor of division? The peopl
wouldn't misunderstood it.
Mr.. Vest obtained the floor in oppositio
ia the bill.
Mr.. Plat suggested that an understandin
should be had to have a vote taken to-mol
row.
Mr. Butler said that he couldn't agree.
The bill went over.
message was received from the Pres
dent as to the seizure of steamship belong
ing to the Venezuela steam transportatio
company. and the vetoing of two private pei
sion bills. They were read and referret
| The Senate went into executive session ar
adjourned.