Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-27

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moved to lay the amendment on the
table. Defeated-yeas, "a; nays, "a.
The amendment was then adopted
yeas, %; nays. 2l-as follows:
! YEAs.-Messrs. Bate, Beck, Berry, Blackburn
/ Blair. CAL, Cameron. Cockrell, Coke Daniel,
| DOiph, Faulkner, George, Ingalls,, Jones Of Ne
vads, Kenna, Michel, Palmer, Plumb, Ransom,
/ Reagan, Stewart. Teller. Turpie, Vance, Nest,
/ Voorhees,, and Walthall-22
| NAYS-Messrs. Allison, Chandler, Cullom, Da-
| Wis Dawes, Farwell, Gray. Hale, Hampton, HAr-
ris, Hiscock, Hoar, Jones Of Arkansas, Morrill,,
/ Platt salisbury, sherman, SpOOner, stock
bridge, Wilson Of Iowa, and Wilson Of Mary
! land-2l.
The amendment as agreed to reads as
/ follows:
"Section .. That whenever the circu-
lntion of any national bank, or any por-
ton thereof, shall be surrendered, and
the same is not taken up by other
national banks within thirty days there
after, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall thereupon issue an equivalent
amount of Treasury notes of the denomi-
nations now provided by law for national
bank notes. Said Treasury notes shall
be deposited in the Treasury and paid
out as other moneys kept for the dis
| charge of obligations OF the Government.
They shall be receivable for salaries and
for all dues to the Government. including
duties on imports shall be legal tender
between national banks and for all debts
due to any national bank ; shall be re-
deemable in coin as legal-tender
notes OF the United States now are,
and when received into the Urea
sury they shall be reissued, and
when mutilated or worn they shall
be replaced in the same manner as now
provided by law for said legal-tender
notes The coin held in the Treasury at
the date of the passage Of this act for the
redemption of the legal-tender notes OF
! the Government shall also be applicable
to the redemption of Treasury notes
herein provided for; and such coin re-
serve may from time to time be increased
by adding thereto other sums for pay
ments made into the Treasury, in the
discretion of the Secretary of the Urea
sury provided that the total amount of
said coin reserve shall never be less than2
per centum nor more than 30 per centum
of the total amount Of legal-teuder and
Treasury notes outstanding. The true
intent and meaning of this section being
that the volume of paper money out
standing exclusive of gold and silver
certificates shall remain as now exist.
ing"
MIR. Stewart offered an amendment al
lowing deposits of gold and silver bull
lion mot less than FIVE ounces of gold or
eighty ounces of silver and the issue Of
coin certificates therefor,
Pending the discussion of this amend
ment the bill went over as unfinished
business.
On motion OF Mr.. Vance the Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 for public
building at Charlotte, n. c., was passed.
Executive session. Adjourned.
House or Representatives..
Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio, offered the
following resolutions, which were adopt
ed:
ReSolred, That the funeral ceremonies
OF the late Chief-Justice Waite be held
in the hall of the House Of Representa-
tives Wednesday. March 20, 1888, at II
o'clock noon, under the arrangement of
the Supreme Court, and that when the
House adjourns on the 9th instant it
shall be until 1I:31 A. VI. March 28th.
ResoiUed. That the Clerk OF this House
notify the Senate and the Supreme Court
of the passage of these resolutions.
Under the call Cf States the following
bills and resolutions were introduced
and referred:
BY Mr.. Oates, OF Alabama: To refund
the cotton tax.
BY Mr.. Kerr, OF Iowa: For the estab-
hshment of permanent board OF arbi-
tration between the United States, Great
Britain, and France.
BY Mr.. Gear, of Iowa: To provide
for worlds exposition at the national
capital in 1892, and thereafter for a per-
manent exhibition of the three Americas
in honor OF the four-hundredth anniyer-
sary OF the discovery OF America.
On motion OF Mr.. Cox, the Senate
bill was passed appropriating So. 600 to
provide for the payment Of the funeral
expenses of the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court.
MIR. Springer, from the Committee on
Territories, reported bill for the organi
cation of the Territory Of Alaska Re-
ferred 10 the Committee of the Whole.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of business pertaining to the
District OF Columbia.
The pending bill was one to prevent
the desecration OF graves in the District
OF Columbia. No final action was taken
upon it, and at 4;45 the House adjourned.
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