The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-12
CONGRESS.
A Resume of the Proceedings of
Both Houses.
Appropriation Bills-The Sundry Civil Bill
Occupies the Attention OF
the House.

WASHINGTON, May 11.-After the refer
ence of bills to the appropriate committees,
Sayers of Texas presented conference re-
port on the urgent deficiency bill which ap-
prop-iates about $3.50, 900 more than when
it passed the House. The report was
agreed to.
Upon q demand for the regular order
from Beethoven of Pennsylvania, Watson
demanded the recognition of the third
party for the purpose of calling up the
resolution requesting the Ways and Means
Committee to report on the sub-treasury
bill. Beethoven thought the House should
go on with the regular business, and Wat
son gave notice that hereafter the Alliance
members would object to all requests for
unanimous consent.
Upon call the following bills were re-
ported, among others:
BY Whiting of Michigan from the WAYS
and Means committee, the silver and lead
ore bill-committee of the whole.
BY Long OF Texas from the Agricultural
Committee, to encourage silk culture-com-
mittee of the whole.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the sundry civil bill.
! Holman moved to strike out the appro-
site and the commencement of building
for new mint at Philadelphia.
| OTIS OF Kansas favored striking out the
clause, and suggested the building of a
mint in the west, where the people favored
free silver
Bingham and O'Nein of Pennsylvania
earnestly opposed Holman's motion.
Bland OF Missouri favored the building
OF mint in the west. He moved to amend
the clause in the bill by providing that all
silver bullion now in the treasury, the prop
erty Of the government, or hereafter pur-
chased by or becoming the property Of the
! government, shall be Immediately coined
into standard silver dollars and all gain
arising therefrom covered into the treasury
and paid out to meet the appropriations
herein provided for.
Tracy made point of order against the
mendment, and Cochran moved to further
amend by suspending further purchases of
silver bullion. The chairman ruled BANDS
amendment cut of order, and Cochran
Withdrew his amendment. Bland appealed
from the decision Of the chair, but subse-
quently withdrew his appeal, stating that
| there was another place in the bill where
he could offer bis amendment.
After further debate, during which Hol-
man presented a letter from a respons ible
person in Philadelphia Saying that a suit
able site for mint could be secured at
one-third the amount which it was pro-
posed to pay for the site recommended, q
vote was taken. On division. the vote
stood 81 to So.
/ Tellers were ordered and the motion to
| strike out the mint appropriation was
agreed to, 95 to 90. Bingham gave notice
that he would demand yea and nay vote
in the House.
In speaking to the verbal amendment
Townsend of Colorado read an Associated
Press dispatch stating that Goschen an.
nounced that England would accept the in
vitation of the United States to take par
in The international conference to discuss
the silver ques ton. A cablegram was also
read, which was received with loud ap
plause. Pending further action the com.
mittee rose and the House adjourned.
Reed Of Maine today presented report
of the minority Ways and Means com
mittee, opposing the passage of the bill tt
admit silver raw ore free of duty. The
minority say the majority advise the aboli.
tion of duties, first because the American
miner needs this ore 10 smelt his own with
and second, because it would be so gratefu
to Mexico. The first eason is business
the second is philantrophic, and both, the
minority say, happen to be false. Tht
American miner dees nat need the ore fol
fiux. and if he does, does not get it undeI
the present system, nor under the free raw
material system which prevailed before tn
last tariff act. The American miner. it i
asserted, will not back the bill, but III
American free trader yearned not for fire.
raw material but for the raWest kind o
Mexican 80 cents day labor.