St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-17
SILVER LEGISLATION,
Two House Committees Now
Wrestling With This
Subject.
fGr. Bland Insists That His
Committee Has Complete
Jurisdiction.
No Silver Legislation Looked
fer at This Session Of
Congress.
Steamship Companies Oppos-
ing PpODOSo0 SuSnenSiOn
Steamship Companies Oppos-
ing Proposed Suspension
of Immigration.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-TWO com.
iniltees of the house are now wrestling
with the proposed repeal of the Sber.
man law, and watching with a close in
Jerest the proceedings Of the nterna-
tOnal monetary conference at Brussels
These two committees are designated
the committee on coinage, weights and
measures and the committee on banking
and currency. The functions of these
committees are closely related, and sew
eral times in the past 1t has happened
that each was dealing at the same time
with the same subject in a somewhat
different form. Mr.. BANDS coinage
committee has before it now the Will
Jams bill proposing repeal Of the Sher-
man law, and the banking committee,
Of which Mr.. Bacon, of New York, is
chairman. has had referred to it the bill
introduced few days ago by Mr.. An
drew, Of Massachusetts,, entitled, "A
bill to increase the circulation Of ma
tional banks and for other purposes.
One of these other purposes Is embodied
in section 4, which repeats the Sherman
silver purchase act. 1t thus happened
that
Under the Rules
of the house each committee can deal
with The subject. Mr.. Bland has always
insisted that his committee has eXclu-
Siye jurisdiction of everything affecting
silver, and II the monetary question as
sumPS a live and expressing phase at
this session it is quite likely that he
would raise point Oh the matter in the
house.
The banking committee held its first
meeting OF the season this morning,
There was a bare quorum present, and
10 action was taken save to call up for
consideration the bill of Mr. Andrew
There was an informal discussion of the
silver question, but the uncertainty OF
the outcome Of the international mon
2tary conference hung like pail over
the discussion, and prevented that free
dom of suggestion that might have oc-
cured had it been known absolutely
what conclusion would be reached at
the Brussels conference.
The members Of the coinage commit
tee and Of the banking committee are
pretty generally i'll accord as TO what
may be expected of the conference.
X II llltlIl Didlltl, VI GlIO lOl lICI GULL
mittee, has already on several occasions
expressed his belief that it would
Amount to Nothing,
and, after this mornings meeting of
the banking committee. Chairman Ba-
ron, when asked about the conference,
dryIy said:
ut is a very respectable body of gen
tlemen, who will hold a number of
meetings, do a great deal of talking and
adjourn. l don't think they will do
anything"
The banking committee adjourne ed to-
day to meet Jan. 6, and it will then
probably take up the Andrew bill and
begin its active consideration. The
committee is made up on lines different
from the coinage committee. and Is not
30 favorable to free and unlimited coin
age of silver or to a continuance of the
Sherman silver purchasing act, as the
Bland committee. MI Bacon is not
free silver man. He said today that he
did not know how the committee stood
on proposition to repeal the Sherman
law, as there were so few members
present at today's meeting that the dis
cussion, even had it been full, would
necessarily not have been conclusive of
the views of the committee. Mr.. Bacon
said that he thought the committee
would take up the bill seriO usly after
the holidays and consider it by sections,
but he did not look for legislation at
This session Of cODpIpCc