Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-25
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings oil Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May %.
SENATE.
After the routine morning business

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SENATE.
/ After the routine morning business
the calendar was taken up.
! When the resolution Offered by Mr..
! Morgan on the 31st of NIarch) directing
the committee on finance to make an
examination and report in relation 10
currency and coinage, and rs to the
effect Of the act of July, 1890, on the
prices of silver bullion was reached,
Mr.. Morgan called for the yeas and
nays on the adoption OF the resolution
Mr.. Morrill, said that much Of the i'll
formation sought WAS easily obtained !
but that life was too short to wait ft T
much OF what was asked. He Their :
fore asked Mr.. Morgan if he would
have any objection TO have the rcsoir-
ton referred to the committee OIL Il
nance.
Mr.. Morgan declined to adopt that
suggestion. The resolution, he said,
contemplated not only that the finance
committee would respond to the in
quiry, but would report supplemental
bill-in fact, would make q report that
would bring right to the front the ques-
ton of the free coinage of silver. He
did not, of course, want the resolution
referred to q committee, where it would
simply meet its grave. If it got into
that committee no more would be heard
of it until after the democratic conven-
ton in Chicago; and he was afraid that
then his democratic brethren would not
feel so much Interested in it. Hewant-
cd the resolution acted on now.
The Senate voted down Mr.. Morril's
motion to refer the resolution to the
finance committee The vote was
yeas II, nays IS.
Mr.. Hill was in his scat, but did not
vote.
A protractcd debate followed the ac-
ton of the Senate in refusing to refer
the resolutions, which was participated
in by Senators Morgan, Sherman and
Stewart. Mr.. Sherman insisted that un-
der the terms of the resolutions, the fl
nance committee was deprived of the
power to judge of the merits OF the
question and as amended, was really
bound to report Immediately a bill pro-
viding for the free coinage of silver.
Mr.. Morgan in his remarks charged
that Mr. Sherman, as Il presidential
candidate, was trying TO please the the
mammon of unrightcousness, and that
his was the baud that struck silver
dead.
Az . o'clock as the regular order, the
bill to punish the violation of the
treaty rights of aliens WAS taken up
despite Mr. Morgan's protest; and he
gave notice that he would move to take
up his resolution again at the conclu-
sion of the speech of Mr.. Gray, who had
the floor to debate the alien bill.
HOUSE.
Other members may be abseut from
the House when the session opens at Ii
O'Clock, but Mr.. Bailey, of Texas is usu-
ally present, and this morning he made
his presence felt by demanding quo
rum. Tcllers were ordered, and in the
course of 20 minutes quorum was
mustered.
After some routine business the
House went into committee of the
whole on the sundry civil appropriation
bill
The first subject considered was the
appropriation for the government ex-
hbit at the worlds Columbian expo
sition.
Mr.. Houk, of Ohio, offered an
amendment appropriating 100000 to
pay the expense of collecting, prcpar-
ing and publishing facts and statistics
pertaining to the industrial advance Of
U. S. citizens of African descent from
January l, 1868 to January l 1893, to
constitute part of the government ex-
hibit.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, admitted
that the amendment was not in order
but he trusted that the gentleman from
Indiana (NIr. Holman) [who had init
mated that he would do so would not
raise the point. If the heart and judg-
ment concurrcdand no pointofordcrwas
made, this appropriation could lawful
ly and properly be added to lthc bill.
He would guarantee that no gentleman
on the republican side of the chamber
would raise the point. He said the cv-
idcnce taken by the special committee
at Chicago disclosed the wonderful and
amazing fact that neither the President
of the United States (be it said with
modification and shamc) nor the Gov
ernor of single State, nor the govern
ment commission, nor the local corpo-
ration nor thewoman's commission-not
one of these had given representation
to these 5000, 900 of people. President
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