The Delta independent., 1890-06-24
CONGRESSIONAL
SATURDAY. JUNE IA.

SISATE.-After some unimportant bust
ness, the Senate proceeded to consider bills
| on the calendar of which the following
| were passed: Senate bill to provide for the
| ervation in California, which provides for
allotments Of agricultural land in ten acre
| lots to the Indians in severalty, and the
| allotment Of timber and grazing land for
| joint benefit; Senate bill for the relief of
the Mission Indians of California; Senate
bill to provide for the examination of GER
tain officers Of the army and the regulation
| Of promotions therein, which provides that
promotion to every grade below that OF
brigadier general throughout each army
corps or department shall be made accord
! ing to seniority in next lower grade and
| prescribes q system of examination of all
officers below the rank of major.
Thirty-fve pension bills were also passed
HousE.-The House went into commit
tee Of the whole on the civil appropriation
bill. After q number of amendments were
disposed Of the committee rose and pro
ceeded to pay tribute to the memory of the
| late Samuel j. Randall. A large number
of members spoke eulogistically of the de-
ceased. Mr.. vaux, the successor of Mr..
| Randall, said in part: MIR. Randalls
high rank and great fame were due TO his
| honesty, his will power, his courage and
his determination. His personal and po-
litical integrity were beyond the reach Of
| suspicion. Schemes, Jobs and covert ef-
forts to secure public money were neither
| countenanced nor encouraged by him. His
honesty was the glory of his life. Those Of
his party who could not agree with him on
some questions bowed before his admit.
tedly stainless honor
| MONDAY, JUNE 16.
| SESATH.-A message from the House
| asking for further conference on the anti
trust bill was presented and the request
| assented TO after remarks by Messrs. Ed
munds and Vest
The deficiency appropriation bill for
passed.
| MIR. Dawes introduced . bill to retire
General Banks, major of the United States
army, which was referred to the commit
tee on military Affairs.
! The House silver bill was taken up and
Mr.. Daniels resumed the speech begun on
| Friday. In concluding his speech Mr..
Daniels said that the world moved, and
that this was land Of progress, had never
been better demonstrated than bv the fact
that the great leader of the Republican Il
nancial policy in the United States (al
luding to Senator Sherman), who had car
ried the single gold standard over two
| continents, had come forward in his speech
| and laid down at the feet OF Q double
standard and proclaimed that he was at
last an advocate of silver money.
| MIR. Allison next addressed the Senate.
He said he had voted for the House bill as
amended by the Senate finance committee
| as hC SSusi0Cfcd II tuc Wlocbl anu UtSt
solution Of the question. The question to
be considered was what currency could be
| safely substituted for the national bank
circulation The Judgment Of the finance
committee was tand he thought 1t would
| be the judgment of the Senate) that II the
| government issued paper money, it should
/ issue 1t on something that was in, and Of
itself, convertible into legal tender money
therefore the bill proceeded on the idea
,,Ses .Sa ss should be
bullion purchased by the government, at
the market price. Why, he asked, had
silver bullion been selected as the basis
for that new paper money! 1t was be-
that sooner or later silver bullion would
be coined and become part of the me-
tallic currency ltwas on that basis that
he would vote for the bill.
| HousE.-Mr. Williams, of Ohio, pre-
sented a petition TO ex soldiers at Dayton,
Ohio, for the enactment of a law prohibit
| ing the sale, use, manufacture on importa.
| ton OF banners and flags representing the
| Confederate flag or the red flag of the an
archist Referred. The House then went
into committee Of the whole on the sun
| dry civil appropriation bill.
| Mr.. Sayers, of Texas, offered an amend
ment making specific appropriation in
stead of an indefinite appropriation for the
payment OF back pay and bounty. The
| amendment, so far as il affected back pay.
I
ing action on the bill the committee rose
| and The House adjourned
| TUESDAY. JUNE II.
SENArK.-The House silver bill was taken
| up and Mr. Wolcott addressed the Senate.
| This being Mr.. wolcotts maiden speech
it attracted considerable attention. He
spoke nearly half an hour earnestly sup
porting the claims of silver and vigorously
attacking the President for his attitude
/ toward the white metal
He said that when Senators who lived in
the silver producing States were accused
of holding sordid and unworthy and unpa
| triotic opinions, md when II was said that
those who were. demanding that silver be
restored to its old pace with Its sister
| metal were spectators and Adventures
and Indifferent to the true welfare of the
country, he would have to be pardoued for
feeling that he had the right to claim the
attention of the Senate long enough to
| protest against such intimations and
against such a method of conducting de-
bate.
| people Of the silver producing States were
| governed in the matter by desire to pro-
tect the industry upon which their pros
perity depended, large warrant was given
TO them for such course of proceeding, by
| some of the eastern States.
MIR. Wolcott went on to attack the ad
| ministration's unfriendly attitude toward
| silver. He ventured the opinion that IL
the Presidents personal opinion had been
announced before the last elections not y
single State west of the Missouri River
| would have given Republican majority
not because majority Of the people Of
| those States were not true and staunch
and earnest Republicans, but because they
would have wished TO rebuke overwheln-
ingly party that selected rs their stand
ard bearer one who was unmindful of the
| interests of the country and disrcgarded
the great majority Of that party. An open
| faced foe was to be preferred to . secret
enemy, but who could foretell the future,
or gather grapes from thorns." The rec
ommendation OF the Secretary Of the
| Treasury struck viciously at the interest
OF silver. Tho act of 1873 was infinitely
preferable to the bill recommended by the
Secretary. Under that act at least 2,O00,-
OOO month Of silver dollars had to be
coined. Tho whole purpose Of the house
bill seemed to degrade and debase silver,
to make II y commodity, to reduce It to
one Of the baser metals and to prevent its
again taking its place rs = standard Of
value. In the amendments reported from
the finance committee one obnoxious clause
had been eliminated from the House bill
the bullion redemption cause. But other
objectionable clauses had been retained
and acurious amendment had been added
| providing for the termination Of the act In
ten years. Instead Of encouraging other