The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-10
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS-.

dcef, Ingalls,, announced his signature to
the bill for the admission of Wyoming.
The bill now goes to the president for his
signature. On motion Of Blair, the senate
proceeded to executive business. The doors
were re-opened at / O'Clock, and the sundry
civil appropriation bill was reported. Ali
son stated that he would ask consideration
of it tomorrow. The consideration of the
sumed, and Cockrell continued his argu-
ment against the report. Taking up tho
third section of the conference bill, Cook
rell entered most earnest and solemn pro-
test against it as meaning the practical ces-
satlon of silver coinage after July 1891.
Jones, Of Nevada-Thst is all We want.
Cockrell-In other words the senator
from Nevada is willing to abandon dou-
BILE standard in order to make silver a mere
commodity, to stop its coinage and to tell
the people Of the country he has done some
thing for them in the restoration of q dou-
BILE standard. The conference bill is q to-
tai abandonment of all pretensions to q
double standard.
Mitchell, in the course Of some questions
involving the consistency of Cockrell, re-
marked that while he was in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, he
would support the conference bill, because
it was all that the friends of silver could
get.
Cockrell-I believe if the senate will re-
ject this report the house will in the end
agree to the senate bill. We have made no
We show no backbone. We show no dispo-
sition to stand by what we have solemnly
done and we give truthfulness to the asser-
tion OF the monometalists of the east that
the bill was only project to furnish q
market for silver bullion.
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tion to the bill. The silver question, he
said. was great deal bigger than the presi-
dent of the United States, whether the
presidents name was BENJAMIN Harriso nor
Grover Cleveland. Daniel argued that
under the conference bill $7O,0O0,OOO worth
Of silver bullion would be piled up in the
treasury every year for all the years that
dollar of it could be coined to pay the
bonded obligations Of the United States
which were payable in coin. Such enor-
nous discrimination against silver as that
never existed in legislation except when
silver was completely demonetized.
In the house, Hit, of Illinois. from the
committee on foreign affairs, reported back
the resolution requesting the presi-
dent to furnish the house with the
correspondence between the governments of
the United States and Great Britain touch
ing the subject in dispute in Behring Sea
since Mafch 4, 1859. Adopted. Hltt pre-
sented the conference report on the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill. In
the course of the discussion, reference hav-
ing been made to the appropriation made
by the last bill for the protection of United
States rights in Samoa, Mcmillan, of Ten
nessee declared that it now appeared that
the entire result of the Samoan negotia-
tions had been to enthrone king who had
been dethroned by his people. Our repre-
sentatives sent abroad for the purpose Of
settling Samoan matters, actually had gone
to the extent of overriding the will of the
scapegrace who had been dethroned, and
moreover this American administration had
undertaken to pay part of the expenses Of
his kingdom. II was disgrace to the
American people and to the administration
responsible for the negotiations. The ques
tion on agreeing to the conference report was
put and the vote resulted yeas Ill, nays 50.
II Ihe enp speaker ake was unable to count quorum
for the present.