The record-union., 1892-02-20
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
THE SENATE PASSES AN ANTI
CHINESE BILL.
Another Day of Confusion and Excite
ment in the House Over the
Silver Question.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1oN.

Special 10 Jn6 hECORD-UNIOE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. I9.-The Senate. on
motion of Morrill,, resolved when it adj
iourned to-day it be to next Tuesday.
RESOLUTIONS We're presented requesting
the President, if not Incompatible with
public interests. to inform the Senate of
the proceedings recently had between the
representatives of Canada, the British
Government and the United States as to
the arrangements for reciprocal trade
with Canada. Referred to Committee on
Foreign Relations.
The bill to continue in force for ten
years all existing laws prohibiting and
regulating the coming into this country
of Chinese persons was taken from the
calendar and passed.
The bill appropriating 100000 for a
public building at Tacoma, Wash, was
passed.
The bill to provide permanent system
Of highways in the District of Columbia
outside of Washington was taken up,
and pending discussion the Senate adj
journed until Tuesday.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. = The silver
question will not down. It's discussion
was resumed by the House again to-day
upon the presentation by Bland of a let
ter i'll response to one of Harter's circu-
lars to the @. A. r. The scene was one
of confusion and excitement at times, but
occasionally q good hOme-thruSt from one
side or the other brought forth hearty and
continued laughter. Harter characterized
the free silver bill as infamous" and
predicted that If it passed the Democratic
party would march to certain defeat in
November Warming to the subject he
declared: IF this free silver bill shall
pass, the time will come when a man as a
Democrat will not be given a decent
burial in Democratic cemetery" Re-
peated attempts were made by points of
order and demands for the regular bust
ness to take Harter from the floor. but he
persisted in presenting his views to the
House, and it was compelled to hear.
The House was called to order to-day
by Kerr, the Clerk, who read q commu-
nication from the Speaker, who desig-
mated Mcmillan of Tennessee as Speaker
pro tenn. for the day.
a resolution was adopted providing for
the reprint of the silver bill and the print
ing Of 10000 additional copies of the ma
jority and minority reports.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the private calendar.
The first bill on the calendar (which
was laid aside gave rise to some discus
sion, during which Reed made some of
his characteristic remarks as to the advis-
ability OF counting quorum from the
members present and not voting. The
Chairman and Reed thererpon had q
short colloquy, which the Chairman sub
stantiallg alluded to as an alteration
Reed-"I trust the Chair will not desip-
nate it in that way. That would be un-
just to the Chair and me''
The Chair-"Ihe Chair will try and
take care Of himself and the gentleman
from Maine, and will not do him an in
Justice"
The next bill, for the relief of A. J.
Duncan of Tennessee, was the axle upon
which revolved another silver wheel. 1t
was set in motion by Bland, who sent to
the Clerks desk and had read a letter
from Grand Army Post in Missouri
asking him to inform the gentleman from
Ohio (Harter), in response to his anti
silver circular, that Grand Army Posts
were able to attend to their own business.
Bland again criticised Harter's attitude
on the silver question.
Harter said that the House had been told
that one class of legislation fell heavily
upon ninety-five citizens out of every
hundred, and took away their property
and handed it over to the other five under
the operation of the Mckinley law; but
there were some other burdens, and some
gentlemen seemed to think it was per
fectly right and very democratic indeed
10 take the earnings and property, not of
ninety-five persons out of every hundred.
but OF 500 citizens out of every thousand
and hand them over to monopolies. If
this free silver bill passed, the time would
come when man as Democrat would
not be given decent burial in a Demo-
cratic cemetery.
Lind of Minnesota asked if he under
stood the gentleman correctly in defin-
ing the principles of the Democracy to be
free trade and single gold standard.
Harter-"The position of the Demo-
cratic party is in favor of double STAN
dard and in favor of keeping every dollar
worth one hundred cents.o
Lind pressed the question as to the atti-
tude OF the Democratic party in regard to
free trade.
After a scene of confusion Harter said
the position of the Democratic party on
the question of free trade was this: That
every American citizen was entitled to
the most absolute free trade with every
lnhabitant of the globe, limited only by
the amount of tariff necessary to conduct
the Government
The silver debate then terminated and
the committee, without action on the
Duncan bill, rose and the House adj
Journed till Tuesday.