Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-08
THE DEBATE LIMITED.
The Senate Will Vote on the Finance
Bill Next Wednesday.
A UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT,
Motion in the House to the Limit
Shipping Bill Debate.
NO DECISION REACHED so FAR
NO DECISION REACHED so FAR
SENATE.

gestion was well taken-thirty-nine Senators
replying to their names. 1t was but a few
minutes, however, before q quorum appeared
and the Senate proceeded to the transaction Of
business.
The presiding officer laid before the Senate
communication from the Secretary of the In
terror Tin response to a Senate resolution) Civ
ing the names and rank of officers of the army,
Referred.
Mr.. Mcconnell introduced bills for the erec-
uon OF public buildings at Lewiston and Boise
City, Idaho. Referred.
CONFEDERATE STATES DocuMENTs.
On motion Of Mr.. Edmunds a resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
for information to what books and documents
are in possession of his department relating to
the late so-calied confederate states and as to
whether there is any legal objection to their
6elng placed among the archives of the War
Department
THE COPYRIGHT BILL.
Mr.. Piatt gave notice that he would at the
earliest possible moment call up the copyright
bill for consideration.
THE CoNGER LARD BILL
Mr. Allison gave notice that il the chairman
OF the committee on agriculture (wh. as nee
essarily absent) did not at an early da.. ask for
the consideration Of the Conger lard bill he
(Mr. Allison) would himself do SO.
PAIRED WITH SENATOR CHANDLER
Mr.. Blodgett said that according to the
record of the proceedings of Monday last he
had been absent without pair. In justice to
himself as well as to the Senator from New
hampshlre Mr.. Chandler) he wished to say
tnat general pair existed between them.
both having been absent, the pair had not
been announced.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS PASSED.
The following House bills were taken from
the calendar and passed:
Increasing by s5O.OOO the limit Of cost of the
public building at Charleston.
Appropriating 600 for a public building
at Akron, Ohio. with an amendment)
Appropriating $4,000 for enlarging the
proposed public building at Savannah. Ga.
.Appropriating 800. 900 for public building
ut Davenport, Iowa.
Also Senate bill to provide for Q patrol
steamer for the replacing of quays in the St.
Mary's river, Mich.
THE FINANCE BILL
was then (at 1919 taken up, and Mr.. Stewart
asked unanimous consent that a vote should
be taken on the bill and amendments at 4
O'Clock Saturday.
MR.. GoRHAN SURPRISED.
Mr.. German expressed his surprise at the
proposition. The amendment offered to the
bill by the Senator from Nevada (Mr stewart)
had been described by the Senator from Ohio
(Mr. Sherman) as one of the most revolution
ary measures introduced in Congress and that
Senator had said that if the ::amendment was
agreed to the whole financial structure of the
country would probably be overturned. If the
Senators ought to have time to deliberate-time
to ascertain what was necessary to be done.
MR. STEWART QUOTED AGAINST Mr. SHERMAN.
On the other hand, the Senator from Nevada
(Mr. Stewart) had stated in the most emphatic
way that the recommendations of the Senator
from Ohio to the committee on finance were
more destructive to the interests of the people
than any proposition ever presented.
If either Of those Senators were right Cbe
trusted they were both wrong) the Senate ought
to have time to weigh and consider the matter.
LII, There ought to be some time to deliberate.
There ought to be disposition on both sides
OF the chamber to come together
and consider the matter calmly and
carefully, without regard to party.
The haste displayed in the matter by the Sem
ator from Nevada seemed to him most extraor-
dlnary. There had been not more tuan eight
or ten hours discussion of the bill, nearly
all Of 1t on the republican side, although
the Senate had been for weeks meeting at 10
O'Clock. thus precluding all possibility Of at
tending to the work of committees. There was
no desire on the democratic side to protract
the consideration OF the bill unduly.
MR.. SHERMAN REPLIES.
Mr.. Sherman, referring to an allusion made
by Mr.. German. said that the practical control
Of the bill had been taken out Of the hands of
the finance committee. The proposition for
the free coinage Of silver was SO much more
important than any proposition that
had fes disposed ad' to sne ,1rrendsr so%%
the control Of the bill to the superior authority
on the other side (suppOsed to be in favor Of
that proposition) together with the few Sena-
tors on his side, and to let them exercise their
authority and the House exercise its authority.
WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS.
There was where the responsibility rested at
least as the matter now stood. He expected to
stand in opposition to the free coinage PROPOSE
ton, because he thought it practical financial
revolution Of the whole system and he did not
think himself responsible for the bill as il was
practically taken out Of the hands Of the COM
nittee.
Mr.. German thought that the Senator from
Ohio Gid himself great injustice; that dis
tinguished Senator stood before the country as
no other Senator did, on account Of his great
with, the financial affairs of the
government. There was not Senator on the
democratic side Of the chamber who did not
~ sAO pSSnihAIiB VI tuc ecSslUil, look 10 tnat
Senator to lead in that matter for the present
relief to the country. That Senator and his coll
Leagues knew that Senators ON the democratic
side we-" ready to Join in the consideration Of q
6nanciai measure that would be moderate and
conservative, and that would give immediate
relief to business affairs. But the consideration
Of the matter and the framing of the bill (for
some reason or other) had been confined exclu-
lively to the Senator and his political friends
lhe bill had come before the Senate (as was
understood from the public prints) practically
- . party measure, but as ii had failed
70 unite the Senator's party, the amendment Of
the Senator from Nevada had come up a. q
matter Of course. The bill, however, e IL
stood was the bill Of the finance committee.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR'S DESIRE.
All that Senators on the democratic side de-
sired was Gas they had been excluded from pri-
rate councils in framing the measure) that
proper discussion be permitted. He believed
that il the Senator from Nevada would permit
the matter 10 60 on ~ usual and be dis
cussed for . reasonable length of time there
would be no trouble about having vote taken.
Mr.. Stewart realized the importance of Mr..
0orman's suggestion, but thought that as the
subject had been much discussed the Senate
ought TO fix . time for taking . vote.
NR. xDNuNDe' noNIcAL 1xHARK.
Mr.. Edmunds expressed (ironically) his sense
Of the s'entirs candoe end innocent simplicity
Of the Senator from Maryland; but suggested
hat that ssnator might havs Soma ultsrior pur-
pose In visw.
Mr.. Gormsn responded tha4 Il did mot " In
Ne mouth q ihs ssnatos ffoa vermont Cgrsss