Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-20
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
Stanford Talks in Favor Of His Measure for
q Sound Circulating Medium
DIVIDING THE SIOUX INDIANS IN DAKOTA.
The House Agrees to tho Conference
Report and Adds an Appropria-
tion to Purchase Becfand
Other Rations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Mr. Stanford ad-
dressed the senate on his bill to provide the
government with means sufficient TO supply
the want OF sound circulating medium. In
the course of his remarks he said that the
scheme of the bill is to supply an ample
amount of money for all business purposes.
He mentioned lands as security because they
appear to be the most certain Of all security
and are sufficient to furnish all the money
needed. The people, he thought will have
more confidence in a financial measure that
is new and radical If it has at present only
land for basis. The rate of interest in the
bill is fixed at 2 per cent but in time may be
reduced as experience shall teach. The
rate Of interest charged by the govern
ment under the bill will not neces-
sarily fix the general rate of interest
for business purposes. That will always be
determined by its value in use. The farmer
having the best security will borrow for his
own use or the use of others who may be
willing to pay him satisfactory interest. The
banker borrows money from the government
free of interest and loans it at such o rate as
its use commands in the market. MIR. Stan
ford said the measure had been compared TO
the plan adopted in the Argentine republic,
ard asserted that there was no analogy be-
tween them. To compare the working OF the
| measure of that republic with say 5,O0O,OOO
population to that of our country with its
enlightened &C, ,00O, 600 is like comparing the
methods of some irresponsible banker to those
of the Rothschilds. In conclusion, he said that
the foundation of the whole matter and the real
question to be considered is that inasmuch
as tho government reserves the right to
issue money it is its duty-the means being
provided-to furnish what Is necessary to
the prosperity of the people
The bill was referred to the finance com
mittee, as was also one by Mr.. Ingalls, to
allow the exchange Of Understanding debt
for legal tender notes.
The printing deficiency bill was amended
and passed.
A resolution by MIR. Manderson was re-
ferred to the committee on Indian affairs, in
structing that committee to inquire into the
condition of the Indian tribes in North and
South Dakota, Montana and elsewhere the
steps necessary to disarm them, etc.
The elections bill was taken up ana Messrs.
Bate and Gibson argued againstit.
Mr., Stewart made an argument against
| cute it in the south would be dis
| astrous to both races. He was a
| friend of the colored man and deeply
| sympathiaod with him, but could not
| SIX him to put his life in jeopardy in order to
| fight political battle for his (Stewart's) ad
| vantage. He was equally friend of the
| white man and desired to refrain from any
| act which might justify the white man in
congress enfranchised. Whatever was done
| in the matter of protecting suffrage in the
| south, unless done through the voluntary ac-
! ton of the people of that section, would have
| to result in one Of two things. If the negro
| was protected by force the same force would
| inevitably be driven to the necessity of de-
| stroying his enemy. That involved the en-
| slavement and final determination of the
whites. The employment OF force would re-
| suit ultimately in the eXtermination either of
! the blacks or of the whites If military power
was to be used in the execution of the
| pending bill then the bill would
be defeated. If it was to be a
opinion at the south was entirely against it.
Instead of protecting the colored man it would
bring upon him persecution and misery, if
not death. No assumption of party necessity
| could justify such act. 1t was the plain
| duty of the senate to trust to natural causes
| in the hope that they would remedy the evil.
| The bill ought not to pass because it never
| would be enforced, because 1t would consoi-
| date the southern whites, because it would
| bring further misery on the southern blacks,
and because it would increase sectional ami
| mostly and kindle anew the discords of the
| past Mr.. Stewart recalled the speeches in
opposition to the force bill of 1876, made by
Messrs. Hoar and Hawley, then representa-
| tives Among those voting against the bill
Mr.. Stewart recalled Foster, Garfield, Will
lam Walter Phelps, Kasson and Kellogg. He
suggested that supervisors and other officers
| WOulu btCUHlt llidEhcu lliCn. anu iIOul VIC
| port of investigating committees and all
! knowledge obtained during the past twenty
| years it was plain what their fate would be.
| Unless congress was disposed to proceed to
remedy under the constitution that of
| denying represent tation on account of ex-
| clusion from, or obstacles to the exercise of
the franchise), the only remedy that existed
| was In the enforcement of the laws already
on the statute books and in the assurance
that no pressure from the on tside would be
exercised. In his judgment the solid south
was maintained by the use of the cry thai it
was intended on the part of those
who controlled the general govern
ment to interfere with their local af-
fairs The moment such cry was
effectually proven to be without foundation
the south could not any longer be kept solid.
The sectional party there had already begun
to disintegrate. That disintegration must
necessarily bring about protection to the
negro vote. The organization now irresisti-
BILE in some states in suppressng that vote
would be among the earliest to bid for it
when they found it necessary for their exist
| ence.
MIR, Hoar had the provisions of the force
| bill OF 1875 read for the purpose of justifying G
opposition to it by himself and other republic
cans, and to show that there was no incon-
sistency in his support OF the pending
| MEASURE.
Mr:Dawes introduced q measure to pro-
hibit the opening on Sunday of any exhibi-
ton where appropriations by the United
States are expended Adjourned.
| House.
WASHINGTON, Dec 19.-The house today,
after passing District of Columbia bill.
took up the conference report on the bill
amending the. act for a division of portion
Of the Sioux Indians in Dakota into smaller
reservations. The only change made is the
authorization for the expenditure of an APP
preparation of 100000 for the purchase of