Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-23
FR0H ALL QUARTERS. MATTERS IN CONGRESS. The Silver Question Still !. Under Discussion. RAILROAD WRECK IN THE WEST. Church Struck by Lightning
 With Fatal Results. SERIOUS FIRE AT ALBAkY. Three Italian Rioters Killed
 at Ravenna
SERIOUS FIRE AT ALBANY.

A at Ravenna
 THE FIFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS. DIscussion of the silver Blll Resumed in the Senate-An Address by mr. Daniel-Passage of Bill In she House AmendatorY of the Census
 Act-The House In Committee of the Whole on the River and Harbor Bill.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., May 22.-A message was presented by the president, with an ac- companying communication from the secre- tary of the interior, on the subject of the purchase from the Creek nation of Indians of 25, ,O00 acres of land for the use of the Semi- holes, Referred to committee on Indian affairs.
 The credentials of Calvin s. Brice as sem ator from Ohio, commencing March 4, 1891, were presented by Mir. Payne, read and placed on file.
 Among the bills reported was one appro- priating $2QO, ,000 for dry dock at Algiers, La.
 Conference committees were ordered on tue DlbtElcb OA SOAuA1OAo upPAOPAAntAoA DAAA and on the pension appropriation bill. The silver bill was then taken up and MT. Daniel addressed the senate in favor of silver currency. The financial system of the coun- try, he said, was in disarray. It compre- hended taxation, currency and debt. Sepa- rately and collectively they were out of jolnt The currency was insufficient in volume to maintain prices and was Inexpensive to the laws of trade. It was congested in the treasury. A hundred millions of it was held to redeem another portion of 1t that was like itself) legal tender, while thirty milltons ot it was lent ont to bankers without interest. Taxa tion was excessive, Q worse than useless bur- den, bringing surplus into the treasury and stimulating extravaganza to get 1t out. The public debt had been put in such anomalous relations to the~laws that the government appeared on both sides of the sales counter in obviously incompatible and contradictory relations. On one eide of tue counter the government boosted up the price of bonds l far beyond their par value. On the other side it paid them before maturity at exorbi- tant rates Gold and silver money were welded by nature. They were beautiful; they were durable; they were divisible; they pos sessed permanent and ubiquitous value. They were readily measurable, they were readily stamped and coined. They were both limit | ed in quantity and were each the product of labor. Before the jury of all civil and en- l frightened nations throughout the centuries | the case of gold and silver had been heard | and with one voice the nations had answered | that to gold and silver belonged the royal at tribute of money. By universal suffrage | they had been crowned and placed on the throne, and everywhere gold and silver were by divine right and natural selection the king and queen of money. Free coinage of silver would bring gold into the country. Money attracted money, riches attracted riches, everything assimilated with its kind the world over, and money was the most social assimilative and pro ro-creative of all material things. American silver had drawn gold to the United States, and how better could the future be judged than by the past. In 1878, when the United States had no silver, there was $200, ,000. 900 of gold in the country, but even partially restored silver had proved such magnet to capital that the country now had between three and four hundred millions of silver and between six and seven hundred millions of gold. If | free coinage of silver were established in America, it would gladden. the hearts of hu- manity by giving to the laborer larger price for his product.
 MT. Daniel spoke for three hours, partly from full notes and partly extempore. He was listened to with close attention and in. | terest by pretty full attendance of sen. aters. As he took his seat he was applauded from the galleries.
 | The silver bill was laid aside without any
 action and the naval appropriation bill wal
 taken up.
 Mir. Dunnell of Minnesota, from the com
 mittes on census, reported bill amendatory of the census act. Passed. ct prescribes [
 penalty upon any supervisor or enumerato 1 who shall receive, or any person who shal | pay, any fee or other consideration in Addi
 tion to the compensation of such supervise | or enumerator.)
 Conferences were ordered on the army ap
 propriation bill and the military academ.
 appropriation bill.
 A bill was passed appropriating $90, ,00
 to supply deficiency in the appropriation
 for public printing and binding.
 Tho house then went into committee of tn
 whole on the river and harbor bill.
 Nr. Henderson of Illinois, chairman of tn
 committee on rivers and harbers, explaine'
 the provisions of the bill. He believed tha
 there was no ..monsy that went out of tn
 treasury that was so much in the interest c
 the people of the country as the money ez
 pended in the improvement of the rivers an'
 harbors. Every dollar expended in removin
 obstruetions ih rivers and impediments il
 hsrbors was expended in behalf of the pee
 pie and if this government was constitute | Aok uhy WAoc PuAHo5o Wu0sOvoA As Won SVA
 stituted for the purpose of looking to the 1T
 terest of the people.
 MT. Blanchard of Louisiana spoke in favo
 of the principle of river and harbor billl
 contending that they did more to solve th
 psoblem of cheap transportation than all th interatate commerce bills that could
 passed. The fact that a great and disastror
 flood had recently occurred in the lower va
 ley of the Mississippi river was . suffioier | eYcuse if excnaa wara use<3ei for calling tf
 attention of the house to the requirements {
 that stream. That great river had way {
 periodically overdowing It's banks to tt
 great destruction of property, and often k the destruction of human life, and 1t W, 8 time that congress should be waking up the idea that something should be done
 harness its waters.
 ] After further debate the committee ros Mir. Quinn of New York introduced . bl 9 reducing to one cent an ounce, or fractie
 thereof, the postage on drop-letters in oiti . l of 100 GOO inhabitants or over.