Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-09
ON A VOLCANO.
The Position of the Country
Today.
The Republicans Refuse to Stay
the Eruption.
They Prefer to be Employed in
Passing Force Bills.
Senator German Throws Calcium Light
on the Situation Congressional
Proceedings.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, Dec. SIN the senate
today Jones of Arkansas offered reso-
luton, which went over, calling on the
attorney-general for information as to
the supervisors of election appointed for
the First and Second congressional dis
tricts in Arkansas, for the congressional
election November 4th; the sums paid
out or called for in connection with the
election, or with the proceedings since
the election, etc.
Call offered resolution, which was
referred to the committee on agricul-
ture, calling on the secretary of agricul
ture for a statement of the progress
made in the Investigation for irrigation
purposes.
Dawes read portion of letter writ
ten by Lee, the census Indian agent,
from Pine Ridge agency, to the interior
department, going to show that there
was no lack of food among the Sioux.
He said he read this to relieve public
anxiety, and to show that the Indians
were not on the war path on account of
want of supplies.
The discussion was continued on the
joint resolution approprlating $4,000 for
the investigation OF the Indian outbreak.
It was finally referred to the committee
on Indian affairs.
A resolution calling on the secretary
of the treasury for statement of the
moneys paid the Davenport, Iowa, su-
pervisors of elections each year since
1871, etc., was agreed to.
Hoar moved to proceed to considera-
tion of the election bill, but on the sugges-
tion that Gray was temporarily absent,
withdrew his motion, and asked unani-
nous consent to have the time fixed for
Friday next, for taking the final vote on
the bill.
Gray meanwhile came in and the bill
was taken up. Gray yielded to German,
who argued against the proposition to fix
the time for taking the vote. He re-
called the statement of Hoar at the last
session that if the election bill was not
taken up and disposed of, there would
not be time to do so in the short session.
1t has been the firm conviction on the
Democratic side, that after what had oc-
Cured at the last elections, the senator
from Massachusetts would not press the
bill, go the senators on his side were not
prepared themselves to discuss it intelli-
gently.
German continued: "We stand today
on volcano. We have heard discus
sion as to the starving Indians, but take
note of the fact that the farmers OF the
land are meeting and resolving that
there is danger and trouble, if not star
walton, among them. The faces of the
bankers and merchants are blanched
with foor No fol1 uyha bor fn-
morrow or the next day every bank in
the great centers of commerce will not
be closed in the supension of payment;
and now in the midst of such state of
affairs, we who come here flushed with
victory had hope that the majority of
the party would give us an opportunity
to join with it in preventing the wreck
which ie now impending. Lay aside this
bill, which the country has pronounced
against, and let us take up matters
which all classes of our fellow-citizens
are looking to us to consider. If you
do not, ii you persist in the
course marked out by the senator of
Massachusetts, the responsibility must
rest with the party in power. If the
senator from Massachusetts forces the
consideration of this partisan measure,
while bankruptcy and ruin are going on,
when he goes back to Boston he will
find that the merchants and bankers
and men OF affairs, as well as the farm
ers and laborers, will tell him that while
he is attempting hostile legislation
against section of the country, that if
it had not been for the
products of that section; if it
had not been for the moving Of the
cotton crop, there would not be bank
in Massachusetts able to pay it's depos-
itors. The only thing that has saved
them has been the fact that they have
been able to draw on the cotton crop and
on cotton oil.
Hoar replied that for four days
the senate had been listening to
Democratic speeches, made for
mere delay ard obstruction.
II the senator from MARYLAND had an
other measure which he thought would
allay the panic, a menace to commercial
prosperity of the country, which had be-
gun when the elections were declared in
favor of the Democratic party (the
country having been before that in a
position of unexampled prosperity, why
should he not, after fair and proper
statement of his reasons for voting
against the elections bill. let the senate
vote upon it? The elections bill was a
measure whose sole purpose was to sub
NIT to the judges of courts of the United
States against whose integrity and Off
cial honor no man could bring charge
the question of who had prima facie title
to a seat in the house of representatives,
instead OF having it declared by ruffian-
ism, fraud or violence, as had been SO
often the case in the past.
Gray spoke briefly in line with Cor
mans remarks, and then concluded his
argument against the bill.
Berry obtained the floor, and after a
short executive session the senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Enloe Denied Revenge-The Mckinley