Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-09
IN THE SENATE.

IN The SENATE.
WASHINGTON, July sth.--In the Senate to-day
the conference report on the Silver Blk was
taken up.
Ness stated the reasons why he should vote
against the report. large majority OF the
Senate had voted, he said, for the free coinage
of silver, but the conference report absolutely
die away with all idea of free coinage and 1t
was intended to continue the system under
which silver had been perSistently and con-
Sistently degraded SINCE 1873. He was anxious
to see absolute parity between the two metals.
He would like to see the time when sixteen
ounces of silver would purchase an ounce OF
gold, and when ounce of gold would con-
itinue las at present. to purchase sixteen ounces
of silver. 1t has been put in, he said for the
purpose of saying to the Treasury Department
that until silver came to a parity with gold it
should pay out gold and public business should
be conducted on gold basis. He for one
would never vote to ma ntain and continue that
practice. He never had been a silver man
for the purpose OF booming silver.
Coke followed Vest in a conc,lrring speech.
Sherman defended and explained the confer
eDce report.
The question had arisen in the Conference
Committee, he said, whether the two houses
could be brought to en- agreement on the two
bllls passed by them respectively. In the first
section of the conference bill the language of
the first section OF the House bill had been re-
tanned somewhat but the amount of silver to
be purchased had been increased. 1t has been
made mandatory, not permissive, on the Score.
tary of the Treasury to buy 4, 500, 600 ounces of
silver each month, which at the rate of 81 %
d
issue of about S7a, goo 900 in treasury notes.
Stewalt-"Does the Senator from Ohio think
there is any danger of the Secretary of the
Treasury falling to buy 1850, goo ounces of silver
per month, if he can get IL at less tnan par, as
provided in the ActY'
sherman--"Not the slightest. The Senate
cannot legislate on the idea that the officer of
the Government will not execute the law"
VOORHEES, said the trouble about the confer
ence bill was not whether the Secretary of the
Treasury would obey the law, but that every
AF
Secretary of the Treasury, who was packed
against silver Every single section of the bill
conferred and was intended to confer discretion
on the Secretary of the Treasury by which he
could destroy, .dishonor and degrade silver as
money. He did not reflect upon the present
Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasury De-
partment had been packed against silver ever
since he (Voorhies} had been a member of the
Senate, not merely under the Republican party,
of it.
At o'clock the conference report ON the
silver bill went over until tomorrow, and eulo-
gles on the late Representative Cox of New
York were begun.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, July Sth.-In the House to-day
the Senate amendments were concurred in to
the House bill for the admission of the State of
Wyoming
On motion of Carey of Wyoming the Senate
amendments were concurred in to The House
bill for the disposal of abandoned military res
ervations in Wyoming.
The Speaker laid before the House the Senate
Dill to adopt regulations for preventing COLI
sions at sea.
The bill having been read, D1ngley of Maine
explained thst the purpose of the bill was the
adoption OF the regulations to prevent collisions
at sea, which had been unanimously adopted
by the International Marine Conference. The
members of the conference were of opinion
that the code of signals provided in the bill
would prove more effective than any other that
could be devised.
The previous question was then ordered and
the bill passed by yeas 125 nays As.
Cannon, from the Committee on Rules, re-
ported resolution for calling up the original
package and bankruptcy bills, but Payson in
terposed the land grant forfeiture bill, and the
House refused to consider the resolution.
Adjourned