Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-09
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ooNGREss,

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Discussing tho Elections Bill I'm the
Senate-The Bill Providing for n Re-
bate on Tobacco Passed by the
House.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. S.-After de-
bate on the condition of the Sioux and the
cause of the present trouble among them
Mr.. Morgan's joint resolution was referred
to the committee on Indian affairs.
The resolution heretofore offered by Mr.
Morgan calling on the secretary of the
treasury for statement of monies paid to
John I. Davenport as chief supervisor in
each year since 1871, and statement of
claims of Davenport's that have been re-
jected at the treasury, was taken up and
agreed to.
Mr.. Hoar at 1:15 moved to proceed to
the consideration of the elections bill, but
on the suggestion that Mr.. Gray was tenn
porarily absent he withdrew the motion
and then asked unanimous consent to have
time fixed FRIDAY next at p. m.) for
taking the final VOTE
Mr.. Regain said that before such consent
could be given he wanted to know what
bill was before the senate There was no
bill, he said, before the senate according to
the statements made in the last few days.
At least nobody knew what it was.
MIR. German suggested that the senator
from Massachusetts ought himself to see
the absolute injustice of such proposition
at this stage of the proceedings.
Mr.. Morgan continued: 1--WE stand to-
day on volcano. We have heard the dis
cussion as to the Indians, but we take no
motel appears, of the fact that the farmers
there is danger and trouble, if not starva-
ton, among them. The labor of the coun-
try appeals to the administration and to
congress to stay this awful wreck. The
faces of the bankers and merchants are
blanched with fear. No man can tell
whether tomorrow or next day every bank
in the great centers of commerce will not
be closed by the suspension of payments.
And now in the midst of such a state of
affairs we come here flushed with victory
party in the senate would give us
an opportunity to join with it in
preventing the wreck which is now
impending. But the senator from
Massachusetts, since the second day of the
session has continued to keep this bill
before the body day by day and hour by
hour, refusing even the usual time of adj
journment from Friday till Monday.
Read the great papers of the city of New
York to-day. They tell you that the
secretary of the treasury taking the only
action that he is authorized to take within
the law has come again to the relief of
commerce by buying S5,000,000 of bonds
and that that is mere drop in the
bucket. The secretary of the treasury
has paid out of the treasury a hundred
millions for bonds and that hundred
millions has disappeared. The banks have
less money now than they had before the
payment of that 1O0,00O,O 900. I would
say to the senator from Massachusetts lay
aside this bill which the country has pro-
nounced against. Let it go and let us
take up matters which all classes of our
fellow citizens are looking to US to con-
| slider. If you do not, if you persist in
the course which has been marked out
by the senator from Massachusetts, the re-
sponsibility must rest with the party in
power.
Mr.. Hoar replied to Mr.. German. 1t
seemed to him that the speech Just made
had presented in its strongest possible re-
lations the reasons for the proposition
which he (Mr. Hoar) had made. For four
| days the senate has been listening to dem
| ocratic speeches, which those who made
| them knew would not affect single vote
| speeches for mere delay and obstruction.
If the senator from Maryland had any
| measure which he thought would allay the
panic or the menace to the commercial
prosperity of the country, which had be-
| gun when the election were declared in
| favor of his party (the country having been
| before that in position of unexampled
prosperity, why should he not, after fair
and proper statement of the reasons for
voting against the election bill, let the SEN
ate vote upon it. The senator from Mary
land had spoken of it as sectional meas
| ure. It was a measure whose sole purpose
was to submit to the judges of the courts of
the United States against whose integrity
| and official honor no man could bring q
charge, the question of who had the prima
facie title to seat in the house, instead of
having it declared by rufianism, fraud OF
| violence as had been so often the case in
! the past.
Mr.. Berry obtained the floor at $40
o'clock, and after short executive session
the senate adjourned
| HOUSE.
On motion of Mr.. Milliken of Maine to-
morrow was set apart for the consideration
been favorably reported by the committee
of the whole.
| On motion of Mr. Grout of Vermont O
bill was passed prohibiting granting OF
liquor licenses within one mile of the Sol
diers' home, d. G.
The house then considered large mum
Der of bills pertaining to the District OF
Columbia, after which Mr.. Mckinley re.
ported from the ways and means commit
tee and the house passed the bill providing
for rebate on tobacco in stock equal tc
the reduction made in the internal revenue
tax by the last tariff bill.
Mr.. Mckinley merely stated that the bill
was similar to the provision of the tariff
bill, section 5, which had been omitted il
the enrolling of that measure, and on tn,
declaration by Mr.. Mills of Texas that il
was call right" no opposition was made t.
its passage.
Mr. Bartine of Nevada asked unanimou
consent for the passage of bill for the re
coinage of defaced subsidiary silver coin
. making such coin legal tender to tn
amount of $50 and providing that it shall
consist part of the legal tender reserve o
banks
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