Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-23
CONGRESSIONAL.


WASHINGTON, May 22d.-In the Senate a mes
sage was presented from the President, with a
communication from the Secretary of the Inte-
rior. on the subject of the purchase from the
Creek Indians of land for the use of semiuoies.
Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs
The credentials of Calvin S. Bryce as Senator
from Ohio were presented and placed on file.
The Conference Committees report on the
pension appropriation bill was placed on file
and the silver bill was then taken up.
Daniels addressed the Senate in favor of silver
currency. He said that gold and silver money
were welded by nature before jury of all the
civil and enlightened nations throughout GEN.
turies The cause of gold and silver was heard,
and with one voice the nations had answered
that to gold and silver belonged the royal at
tribute of money. Daniels ridiculed the idea of
an avalanche OF silver crushing down upon the
United States in case of free coinage of silver.
1t was obvious he said, that silver money
abroad would not come to United States Mints,
and it was also obvious that there was no such
annual production of silver in the world as to
cause any fear on that score. There was only
one other point of apprehension-that there
was an accumulated stock of silver that would
rush to America as soon as the mint was open
to free coinage, and this was answered by the
Secretary of the Treasury himself, who stated
in his reply: There is no known accumulation
of silver bullion anywhere in the world" All
silver should be readmitted to free coinage, and
all silver being SO admitted to value equal
with gold, it was most reasonable to conclude
that as soon as there was a restoration of silver
to its ancient plane of money dignity, and thus
an enlargement of the world volume of money.
the prices of those things that had gone down
with its decline would again have tendency
to rise with the ascension.
Al the close of Daniels speech the silver bill
was laid aside without action, and amendments
to the naval appropriation bill were read to an
executive session. Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON May 22d.-Iu the House the
Committee on Census reported a bill amending
the Census Act, to prescribe a penalty upon any
Supervisor or Enumeration who shall receive, or
any person who shall pay, any fee or other con-
slderation in addition to compensation OF such
service. Passed.
Conferences were ordered on the army appro-
priation bill and the military academy appro-
priation bill.
The House went into Committee OF the Whole
on the river and harbor bill.
Henderson of Illinois, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors, explained the
provisions of the bill, saying 1t appropriated
S20, $50 000 based upon estimates aggregating
$50 500 ,000 He believed there was 10 money
that went out of tie treasury that was so much
in the interest of the people as the money ex-
pended in the improvement OF the rivers and
harbors.
Blanchard of Louisiana spoke in favor of the
river and harbor bill. contending that they did
more to solve the problem of cheap transporta-
tion than all the interstate commerce bills that
could be passed. The fact that great and dis
astrous flood recently occurred in the lower
Mississippi valley was sutflcient excuse, II one
was needed, for calling The attention OF the
House to the requirements of that stream. It
was time Congress should be waking up to the
idea that something should be done to harness
the waters of the Mississippi. The river was too
great national feature to De handled by State
or aggregation of states The time had come
when Congress should appropriate money, not
only for improving the navigation of the river,
but for the purpose OF preventing hoods. The
late flood had not demonstrated that the levee
system was failure, but that an adequate sys-
tenn of leyees would prevent floods. and that
the piece meal system which the impoverished
States of the South were able to carry on was
not sufficient to prevent inundati0n.
Catchings OF Mississippi spoke in the same
vein.
Kerr of Iowa attacked the bill, which was
defended.by Grosvenor of Ohio.
After the committee rose, Quinn of New York
introduced bill reducing to one cent an ounce
postage on drop letters in cities of 100 600 inhab
itants or over. Adjourned