Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-23
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS.

The Closing Days Session ana the SoH
illusions Arrived at After Bitter anu
extended Argument ON the Report OF
the Committee Resolutions--Some OK
the state Delegations Withdraw before
Adjournment. -
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 19.-Ihe
Commercial congress was called TO or
der at 10 o'clock S. A. Thompson,
secretary of the Duluth chamber OF
commerce, under a suspension OF the
rules, spoke on transportation ana
waterways.
Gen. T. C. Catchings, of Mississippi,
was the next on the programme to DIS
cuss transportation and waterways
Hon. J. H. Murphy, of Iowa, spoke on
the Hennepin canal
The committee on resolutions re-
ported in the afternoon. The majority
report favors the adoption by congress
of a bill authorizing free, unlimited
coinage of silver. and the issuance OF a
su efficient amount of legal tender notes,
to be redeemable in notes both gold
and silver. to restore the equilibrium
between money and all other products;
declares the congress TO be unalterably
opposed 70 the protective tariff primer
pie; favors tariff for revenue only,
and urgeSS congress to enact laws
to place the tariff upon a
purely revenue basis at as early date
as practicab BILE; declares that the inter-
state commerce of the country should
be controlled by the general government,
and that interstate commerce commls-
sions should be strengthened by appro-
pirate legal legislation; favors special
effort for the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi river and it's aff1uentS; favors the
construction of ship canal connecting
the northern lakes with the Atlantic
ocean; favors the protection OF
harbors and navigable rivers that
discharge their waters into
the ocean, and the establishment
of navy yard at some eligible point on
the Mississippi river near the mouth;
declares it to be the judgment OF this
congress that the Mississippi can be and
should be navigable for ocean steamers
of such class as now enter the port OF
New Orleans, and for a considerable
distance above that port, and recon-
mends the early passage of measure
similar to the one known as the Bour-
roughs BILL which provided an apprc-
priation of $4,000, 900 to be used in the
construction of levees from st. Paul to
the gulf.
ne report oppoSSS d IdillI
for revenue. believing that such tariff
would be levied on tea, coffee, sugar
and other articles which we most largely
import for general use, and recommends
that the government hold fast to the
time-honored, patriotic American prin-
ciple, that in all tariff laws there should
be moderate protection to American
industry: and declares in favor of fair
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ity and in favor of non partisan
tariff commission to inquire into the
working of labor and all industrial call
ings. including agriculture. with view
to the equitable adjustment of tariff
schedules from time to time.
The report further favors the free, un-
limited coinage of American silver and
gold. which should make the silver dol
lar and the gold dollar of equal pur-
chasing power in all markets of the
world: favors the holding of an interna-
tional monetary convention to establish
such ratio and secure it's acceptance by
all commercial nations of the world;
but until such ratio can be established
opposes the unlimited coinage Of silver
into the present legal-tender dollar; be-
lieving that such a course would drive
ard values. contract the present volume
of the circulating medium and seriously
cripple our foreign trade
Following is the minority report Of
fered by California:
We object to the free coinage of silver on
the ground that the tax payers of the United
States are now buying all of the silver output
at about 81 cents per ounce, whereas it is
claimed that the free coinage will raise
the price against the taxpayers 81 20 per
ounce. We see of tax payers ad-
vancing the price of the article against
themselves for the benefit of the few
that the silver. We recommend the
purchase of the silver output of the United
States for money use at the lowest bidders
price, just as the government now buys any
article it needs.
The argument on the adoption of the
report of the committee on resolutions
was very bitter, but the majority re-
port was adopted as whole without
amendment, and the announcement was
received with vociferous cheers from
the majority.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Washington, no 3; Wisconsin, no
vote: South Dakota, no vote;
Louisiana, aye 9; no /; Al
ALBANIA, aye ]; Colorado, aye .. no 4; Cali
fornia, no vote; Arkansas, aye ); Utah,
no vote; Texas, ave 10, no 1; Oklahoma,
aye emo 2; Nebraska, aye 5;Missouri, ave
20, no Z: Mississippi, aye S: Minnesota,
aye l, no 3; Michigan and Kentucky, no
vote; Kansas, aye s, no 20; Iowa, aye 6,
no 1; Indiana, aye 3; Illinois, aye 4, no
2; Ohio, aye 2, no 3; Tennessee no vote:
Indian Territory, no L; New Mexico,
no L.
AS soon as quiet was restored the
Minnesota delegation rose to its feet as
one man, and Mr.. E. " Smslley.
speaking for his brother members, said
that Minnesota wished to emphasize
the objection to making the so-ealled
non-partisan congress a bitter partisan
convention, and in order to do this so that
there would be no mistake as to their
attitude, the delegates filed out of the
hall amid the cheers, howis and calls
of those who remained.
After the Minnesota delegation left
the hall there was regular stampede,
and in five minutes there was barely
enough delegates left to adjourn de-
Gently.
Nickel Steel Plates to be Tested.
WASHINGTON April 1.-Two nickel
steel plates which are to be put to q
practical test as armOr have been ra