Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-06-21

After June 13, at 8 D. m, in the senate, de-,
bate on the silver bill is limited to FIVE min
1tes TO any senator.
cARRIERs FAVORED.
Senator Mcmillan introduced q bill to
amend the interstate commerce law so as to
permit carriers to give free carriage, or spe-
sial rates, to other carriers for materials and
supplies.
TELLER ANSWERS SHERMAN.
Senator Teller said that Senator Sherman,a
assertion that the gold dollar had always
been the unit of value is not true.
He also challenged the statement of Sena-
/ or Sherman that increase of circulation had.
Eept pace with increase of population. It
would require an annual increase of 81, 000,-
700 to meet the natural increase of popula-
ion. The bi-metallic principle had had its
worst enemy in the treasury department, IN
iuenced by Wall street.
PosroFFIcE APPROPRIATION.
The house passed the postoffice appropria-
ion bill quickly, as no opposition to it de-
| 'eloped.
vEsT's BILL PASSED.
The senate passed Senator Vests bill TO
prevent monopoly in the transportation of
.attle to foreign countries, which was under
discussion last Monday.
INSPECTION OF EXPORT CATTLE.
The senate passed its bill to provide for
he inspection of live cattle and beef pro-
4 iucts intended for export to foreign coun-
Ties. It provides system of inspection for
.attle and meats intended for export, under
The control of the department Of agriculture.
COMMITTEES FILLKD.
The speaker announced the appointment
If Mr.. Mills, of Texas, as a member of the
committee on rules, and Mr.. Turner, Of
| Georgia, as q member of the committee on
i nd IN
oy the resignation of Mr.. Carlisle, Of Ken
lucky.
CONFERENCE REPORT AGREED TO.
The house agreed to the report of the con-
ference committee on pension bills. The
report strikes out the dependent feature or
| he senate bill and the service feature of the.
house bill. The measure as determined upon
will distribute $35, 100000 among the poor
soldiers of the nation.
ABOUT WYOMING.
| Senator Plat gave notice that Immediately
after the consideration of the silver bill he
would ask the senate to consider the bill for
| he admission of Wyoming as state.
PENSION APPROPRIATION BILL.
| In the house, Mr.. Morrow, of California,
| presented the conference report on the pen
ZION appropriation bill. The report, which
was disagreeing one, was adopted, and
| O-NNSANN~'
SHORT SPEECHES.
| The last days of debate in the senate on
| the silver bill were occupied with many short
speeches: amounting to but little, but max
| ing personal records. The house bill, as
| amended by the seuate finance committee,
was substituted for the senate bill, and is the
bill that viii be voted upon finally.
CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL.
In giving a summing up statement to the
house Mr.. Cannon said that the amount of
appropriations carried by the measure was,
! in round numbers, SIS, 1000 This was
| $4,000, 900 less than the regular estimate,
| and S13, 900, 600 less than the regular and spe-
eial estimates. The sundry civil law for the
current year provided for an expenditure of
s., SOC, 900. The apparent excess In this bill
was largely more than accounted for by GER
tain extraordinary items. The fourteen reg
ular appropriation bills, as reported to the
house. aggregated an expenditure of $685.
0O0, 900, showing an excess of $35, OOO,OOO over
the appropriations for the current year..
This excess was nearly all accounted for IN
three bills: Pensions 1900, 600; postottice,
So, GOO, 600, and naval, 81, 16O, 600. The other
s., 0O0, 600 resulted from the expansion incl
dent to the growth of the country.
RAILROAD IN THE TERRITORY.
The senate passed the house bill to grant
the right of way through the Indian terri
tory to the Pittsburg, Columbus & Fort
Worth Railway company.
ARMY PROMOTIONS.
The senate passed its bill to provide for
the examination of certain officers of the
army and to regulate promotion therein. 1t
provides that promotion to every grade be-
low that of brigadier general throughout each
army corps shall be made according to SEMI
ority in the next lower grade of that army
corps or department. 1t also prescribes a
system of examination of all officers Of the
army below the rank of major.
FURTHER CONFERENCE.
A message from the house asking further
conference on the trust bill was assented to
by the senate.
DEFICIENCY MADE GOOD.
The deficiency appropriation bill for pen
sions and the census was reported and passed
by the senate.
THE HOUSE SILVER BILL IN THE SENATE.
Senator Allison said he should vote for the
house bill as amended by the senate finance
committee. By the payment of the public
debt, the national bank circulation was grad
ualIy passing away. Inc question to be con-
sidered was what currency could be safely
substituted for the national bank circulation.
He thought it would be the judgment of the
senate that if the government issued paper
money it should issue it on something that
was IN ana OF 1tSelI cOnNerJtDle INTO legal
tender money. Therefore the bills proceeded
on the idea that whatever paper money should
be issued, should be issued on silver bullion
purchased by the government at market
price. "Why," he asked, 'had silver bullion
been selected as the basis for that new paper
money? It was because the public mind
rested in the belief that sooner or later that
silver bullion would be coined and would be-
come a part of the metallic currency" Il
was on that basis that he would vote for the
bill. He believed that the only safe way to
rehabilitate silver was to secure concurrent
agreement among the nations whereby they
would open their minis ceneurrently to the
free coinage of silver at an agreed rate.
Senator Vest claimed that free coinage of
silver had always been the democratic policy.
The reason the democratic party said moth
ing on the silver question in its platform of
1888, was not because it had receded from
the position which it had always held. 1t was
because President Cleveland was an eastern
man, a New York man, who did not sympa-
thize with the majority of the party on that
question. Mr.. Cleveland had come to the
presidency imbued with the prejudices of the
New York bankers, and was in one sense las
far as his opinion on silver was concerned) a
sectional man.