Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-19
THE SUNDAY CIVIL BILL.

THE SUNDHY CIVIL BILL.
 The Clause Providing for the Cleaning
 and Reissue of Minor Coins-The
 Bartine Free Coinage Amendment
 Ruled Out-The Decision of the
 Chair Sustained.
 WASHINGTON, May 18.-The house went
 into committee of the whole on the sundry
 civil bill. MT. Smith of Arizona moved to
 increase from $1O0,00O to $40O, ,OOO the ap- propriation for surveying the public lands. After long debate a compromise was ar rived at and the appropriation fixed at S2O0,0 ,000. The chairman then proceeded to pass upon the point of order raised by MT. Tracey of New York against the clause providing for the cleaning and reissue of minor coins. The chair ruled that there was existing law for the paragraph, and overruled the point of order. The second part of the same paragraph, providing for the recoinage of uncurrent minor coins. he ruled out of order, being unable to find any law authorizing such coinage.
 MT. Bartine of Nevada appealed from the latter part of the decision, but the CuaIE Wdb 6uStdlu6u. Ab to JUG pOluJ UT order raised against the clause for the re- 1875, the chair found prescribed that frac- tional currency should be redeemed in coin, and provided for silver coins for the pur- pose of that exchange. The chair thought that the proper construction of that law would imply that the silver in the treasury that was not pledged for something else and silver there in the shape of abraded coin was really silver bullion. Under the authority to coin money to redeem the | fractional currency the secretary of the | treasury had the right to apply that silver 1 for that purpose. The chair therefore | overruled the point of order.
 MT. Tracey of New York said that the l object he had in making the point of order | committee the point that it was in order | or If it were not in order) to have it ruled | ,ut. He was satisfied with the decision.
 The chair then ruled on the Bartine free coinage amendment. It was plain to him hat it was change of existing law and therefore not in order. He sustained the point of order.
 MT. Bartine appealed from the decision if the chair.
 In appealing from the decision of the hair MT. Bartine said there was no possi- ,le way in which free coinage could be se- ured so bad az the method by which sil- 'er had been demonetized. Silver was tricken down in 8 most extraordinary ion that we ent to the merits of the issue nd without knowledge generally that it topped the coinage of silver. Nothing ut the power of Wall street brought to ear directly or indirectly upon one F the other branch of the gov rnment had prevented the restoration or liver. Mir. Bsrtine said, sarcastically, hat as he could not conceive of the demo- ratio party being inconsistent, and as it ad voted for similar amendment in the ast congress, he could not conceive that 8 the democratic party had thlee-qusr- ers majority that it would do anything ave vote as it did in the last congress.
 MT. Bland insisted that there was diff erence between the position of his amend ,ent in the last congress and MT. Bar ne's, owing to the difference in the rules the last house and the present house.
 Mir. Bartine's appeal was lost-137 to 25.
 MT. Bland voted with MT. Bsrtine.
 MT. Bland then offered an amendment roviding for the coinage of all silver bull on purchased and now in the treasury ito standard silver dollars, the cost to be aid out of the seignorage arising from the oinage of the bullion. the remainder of 1e seignorage to be covered into the treas ry as available money.
 MT. Dingley of Maine, and later Mir. racey If New York raised pointa
 MT. Bland argued, insisting that the point order did not lie against the amend lent. It would tend to relieve the people taxation, he added, by putting s27, ,000,- 70 into the available treasury balance. MT. Dingly, in support of the point of rder, said that the new legislation pro- osed to impose on the silver profit fund the treasury a new and distince charge, | z: The cost of the coinage of the stand I'd silver dollar. So that, instead of re- ucing the amounts to bill now covered. it lcreased them to that amount. The chair served his decision until omorrow. MT. Herbert moved to strike out the for paleontolegic research. greed to. Mir. Simpson of Kansas offered an nendment providing that s660, 900 of the for topographic surveys be tpended in North and South Dakota, | ebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. Agreed
 Pending further action the committee ,se and the house adjourned.