The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-17
TIE FIFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
some Prospect Tint Vote May Be
Reached To.dny-Nr. Tdmuuds HrSentH
In-inuationa OF Corporation Control of
the Senate-Littic D0in. In tho House.

In-inuauons OF Corporation Control ot
the ~enaie-Littlc Doing In tho House.
W,sur%aro". Juno lG.--In tho Senate TO-DAY
n message from tho llnus". asking further
conforcncr on tho Antitrust bill was present.
cd and the rc.I.cst was nssen'cI 20 after re.
marks by Senators Edmuuds aud Vest
Mr. Ilmunds sail that 1t Lad been stated
and seemed Ia hayo been believed in some
quarters. that tho Senate amendment T. tho
House amcnIuent TO that bill lad the eTcc,
70 ropoal or to mcl'y . provision OF the Inter.
state law prohibiting pooling. That amend
mcnt no said, had no such effect He thought
81 due to the House Of Representatives ana IA
tile Senate 10 say that. referring 10 somo re-
marks mado in the House. Mr. Fdmunds said
that he had seen it stated in newspaper that
was tho only way lie could properly allude to
tho matter that tho senate amendment mad
been got through tho Senate by tho niluenCe
OF railroads and corporations: that the Senate
was subject to that sort OF Influence.
AMI that not much else could be OK
pected from the Senate in that behalf.
He wished to rocal! the attention OF the Senate
60 tho act that every Tdece OF important leGis.
latiun In the last ten years or more that had
affected great corporations. Ind been In the
outset tho work OF the Senate. The bill. which
brought tho Pacific railroads into some sort Of
obedience TO tho laws and to some sort OF sense
OF their obligations 10 the United States. Ind
been the work OF tho Senate The Interstate
Commerce bill was a Senate bill. IL was there
fore entirely unjust for anybody to say any
where land perhaps he diEniiied II a little roo
much by abiding to 1t mt nll that any act of
the Senate. or any act OF any Senator could be
referred TO Mt any time TO Justify what had
been seen in tho newspapers
The only force which he had known to he eH-
crted land he had knowledge Of it, mad been
somewhat organized and persistent and power
full effort on the part OF railroad and other cor
poratious through wel-known agents and in
fucnces well known to HIM to induce simple
minded people somewhere tof course he was
unable to say whereof TO defeat the Senate
amendment and 10 mslead those people into
opposition to it by botraying them into tho
Inise notion that they were defending tho peo-
rle in defeating tho amendment which tho rail-
roads did not want.
Tho Deficiency Appropriation bill for pen
sons and tho census was reported and passed.
Mr. Dawes il roducod bill 20 retire Gen.
Banks rs Mal6r-General OF the United States
army. and presented n petition Of the men,
bcrs OF the Massachusetts Legislature in aid
Of it. Referred 10 the Committee on Military
Affairs.
Mr.. Blair introduced Joint resolution re-
qucstnE the President OF the United States to
INSTITUTE uH lUltTuullbBul COuleIeHCe " LlecJ
in Washington February. 1891. with Il view to
the formation of an international alliance for
the suppression OF Slavery and the slave trade.
and OF the traffic in o%icatinS liquors. fire.
arms anu destructive substances with unciv- |
iiZod people, and To provide for the establish |
ment OF schools Of common, kn9wledGe art.
of nations and the establishment of interna- |
tonal courts. and appropriatnG E$lOoO,9 for |
laii on tho table, sir. Blair announcing his in |
tention to address the Senate hereafter on the
The House Silver bill was taken up. and Mr..
Daniel resumed the speech begun by him last
IriIay. Abiding 10 the expected passage OF
great victory and triumph for the representa-
tive; OF Democracy and for those who. through
maintained tn" money Of the people. i was II
gay IN which compliment wa ,S raid 70 the
rrGa'er Than anything that could bo embodied
in Language" lho,e who had ,orposcd the pol;
" who " ha act in nue. 0GT 6 dppost 6a
Iner"to, through many year. now came
iorw.rd 10 pour their liD4tions r. OF praise
THAT wa the author Of that bill and that had
been is nny,"l,l'nG friend. That the world
had never been better demonstrated than by
~" fact that the great leader Of Republican
I" senator sherman. who had carried the
t.nglo gold standard over two cont nents. hal
oFWr1 in Ms EGecs %nh lain aGw nr at
GAINED mat lie was, at last an advocate OF
silver money.
lie concluded by an expression OF his belief
that the coinage Of silver was the only safe and
Irvpcr exit out Of he problem. If it was not
safe the TACT could only DO shown by. what
an experiment that could be made without
any evil tendency that might be developed be-
fnro any harm won 1t happen; And 1t was an
experiment necessitatei 10y the demands OF the
times. and by tho disOrdered system OF finance
into which the country had been thrown.
Mr.. Allison next addressed tho senate. The
1Nl
lug hl all other bills and amendments having
passed away was substantially tho bill! pro-
tho House had added TO it a provision for re-
flee coinage when silver should come 10 par.
These wrto The Two vital amendments made to
the bill as It was originally, reported from tho
the original report ho expected TO vote for that
report aubstantialIy, as ho believed it was the
tho question. Tho bin having been referred
TO tho Finance Committoo Tor the second
time, tho committee had reported bnck two
amendments. one striking out section . Of tho
bill rotating to free coinage after certain
point and ono inserting u provision that tho
ycars. He would support tho amendment 10
etrIk" ont tn" sixth section. but lie would not
OF tho bill to len years. lio regarded that l!uli-
talon as unnecessary and as imperi!linG tho
the BIZ would last ten years. or anything ap-
Troaching ten years, He had agreed to that
report on TWO EIOliluS Ollb 81 lncSB was llut |
IL was necessary to increase the currency
under tho present eXlGGncy and situation.
That necessity came from the act. first, that the
United states had by its legislation and by It's
public policy taken entire hold and control Of
the paper money of tho country: and there was
no disposition anywhere to aow o be Ielegated
70 thc States tho power to issue paper money.
Therefore. tho United States having taken I'M
dor its control and disposition the entire ques-
ion OF the paper money Of tho country. 1t was
tho duty Of Congress TO provide q reasonable
supply of currency, BY the payment OF the
pu Bile debt tho national bank circulation, was
passing away: and public opinion
eeelUcd 50 strong against allowing, any other
basis for That circulation than Government
bonds that bills introduced in each House al
lowing n different security seemed to havo
was what currency could be safely sub-
ftttuted for, TIE national bank circulation.
II wa evident that public opinion favor
cd the issue OF that currency by the
Gove'nment. Various projects had been
sugGestei as TO how that currency should
be Issued ono That it should 10 issued on
!arm produce, and anotEer that it should lie IS
sued on liens Of real estate. But tho Judgment
=. tho Liraare Connitteo was and he thought
i would b6 tho judgment o. tito senate that
4 m" Hovrrnment issued raper money. it
SnoH!l Issue Il Oh something that WAS. IN and
q! Itself, o. a tnirul t,n,Ipr innDay