The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-12-15
HANY IMPORTANT BILLS
Which Have Been IntrOduCGd Since
Congress Opened.
A JEWISH RABBI MAKES A PRAYER
Rabbi SiIyerman's Prayer the First
Ever Made by One of His Race in
the Senate-A Sentiment in Favor
of Repeating the Present Federal
Election Laws-Mr. Harter's Plans

Ever Made by One of His Race in
the Senate-A Sentiment in Favor
of Repeating the Present Federal
Election Laws-Mr. Harter's Plans
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-A Jewish
Rabbi, Rev. DR.. Joseph Silverman,
opened yesterdays Senate with pray
er. This is the first time this has
ever occurred.
Senator Hill has introduced a bill
to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase
Act, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Finance.
Senator Vest is pushing his RESIDUE
tiOn to appoint commission of three
to negotiate with the five civilized
tribes of Indians for the cessiOn
of their remaining lands to the United
States.
In his speech he said that the time
had come when the United States
could no longer tolerate the condition
of things existing in the Indian Ter
ritory. The Indian Territory was a
menance to civilization. Crime was
rampant there and corruption rife.
The courts of the Indian Territory
ed States. The Territory was rem
devious for crime. There were Ill 900
white men in that Territory who
could not be dislodged or $4,000 more
than the entire Indian population of
the five tribes. Monstrous as it
sounded, the nOtorius Dalton broth
ers, the desperadoes who had recently
been partly exterminated, had worn
the badge of United States marshal
in the Indian Territory.
At the recent session of the United
C%nf 11rf of npiu EHnvnC
were LOO witnesses in attendance
from the Indian Territory.
Mr.. Bate, in the Senate, introduced
a bill Identical with those introduced
in the House to repeal the laws relat-
ing to the appointment of deputy
marshals and supervisors of elections.
Senator Hale re-introduced his bill
of the last session authorizing the
president to have two battle ships of
about 5000 tons displacements, two
armored coast defense vessels, five
gunboats and eight first-class torpedo
boats constructed by contract.
HARTER's PLAN.
Mr. Harter, of Ohio, has introduced
a bill In the House that treats the
financial question in a new way. 1t
provides for the cessation of silver
bullion purchases on January l, 1893,
and for the sale of one hundred mil
lion of ounces of silver bullion for
gold. Mr.. Harter thinks the contin-
uance of silver purchases would only
increase the ultimate enormous losses
of the country growing out of the act
of March, 1878; that these purchases
were destroying confidence at home
and abroad and stand in the pathway
of national prosperity today. The
cessation of these purchases of silver
would, he thinks, cause a renewal of
foreign purchases of American securi-
ties upon a large scale. The repeal of
the present law would start gold from
Europe towards America.
Mr.. Harter also has introduced
a bill providing that on and after
February 1st, 1893, a uniform tariff
tax or customs duties of one-half of
one per cent per pound, be levied and
collected on all grades of sugar i'm
ported into the United States from
any part of the world; also that the
payment of all bounties to producers
of sugar in the United States shall
cease finally and absolutely on Feb.
1st. 1893.
Mr. Tillman, of Wisconsin, intro
duced Joint resolution directing the
President of the Senate and the
speaker of the House to appoint a
committee to consist of three Senat-
ors and five Representatives, whose
duty it shall be to investigate as to
the propriety of making changes in
the revenue laws and report the re-
suit of their inquiry to the next Con-
greSs.