Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-04-16
F,F1y-SECOND CONGRESS,
The senate.

The senate.
W,sgIN9Tos. April 4-When the caien'
dnr was reached in the Sehate touhy ~
Sherman rose and with the evident purpos1
az nntogoni2iug the silver question sa'a
he would nsk unanimous consent 70 tahc
mn. ont OF It's order, senate bill ~ 70 pro
vide for fixing a uniform standard OF cl"s''
ifcntiou aud grading Of wheat, corn, oals,
barley and rye, which, he said, was n OH
Of some urgency greatly demanded ny tne
farmer. ,.,a
Thc vice. president, interrupting, laid
before the senate as the pending business
MIR. Morgan's silver resolutions ana then
asked If the senator from Alabama, tMr'
Morgan,) yielded The floor TO the senator
from Ohio Mr.. Morgan declined to DO so
and the silver discussion then
proceeded. Mr.. Morgan said
that he knew this was "A question whlch
struck some senators in an alarming way
because the people OF the tnited states
were very urgent To have some rellet Irom
the embarrassmcnts which now pressed
upon them He knew also that the behests
of party would stand in the way OF some
expressing their opinions upon this suo-
icct of free coinage which bad nov been
mooted for twenty years, but al senators
did not express their opinions now, the
people of the United States would ex-
press opinions for them at the next e'ec-
ton.
WASHINGTON, April BIN tho senate to-
day Mr.. sherman, from the committee on
finance, reported adversely n number OF
alliance financial schemes. They in
Guided Mr.. PETERS bill for paying
pensions, setting idle laborers TO work and
preventing crime among the poor and wee
among the rich and the undue influences
Of alien labor, by n graduated sys-
tenn of income tax, which Mr.. sherman
said provided a principal OF taxation
which it was not in the power of the SEN
ate to originate also Mr. hyle's bill 70
repeal the power of the secretary OF the
treasury TO anticipate the payment Of in
tcrest'on the public debt.
Mr.. Calls bill to prohibit national banks
f-"'" -a"aiyipv or pavinR interest on de-
posits made by national banas, nnu n1r.
Georges resolution instructiEg the com
mittee TO report n bin requiring the issu'
ing and keeping in circulation of United
States treasury notes 10 the extent of $40
per capita of population
Mr.. Morgan offered an amendment TO
his silver resolution which he asked should
b, laid over to he printed and IL WAS SO
ordered. II provides for the coinage
Of gold and silver bullion on equal terms
and the issuance of treasury notes against
gold or silver bullion ut the option Of Tie
depositor of the bullion.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-At the close OF
the mornings business in the senate 20.
day, Mr. Morgan called up his silver reso.
Iutions. and yielded the floor to Mr.. VOL
colt, Of Colorado, who addressed the sen.
ate at length in support of Mr. Morgan's
resolutions.
At the close Of Mr. Wolcott's speech,
Mr. Morgan's silver resolution was placed
on the calendar, subject 10 be called up
for discussion at any time, and the Indian
appropriation bill vas taken up. Mr..
Voorhees, spoke In favor Of the army CON
troll amendment to the bill
WASHINGTON, April I'm the senate to-
day Mr.. Dawes presented n petition for
the naturalization of such Cinnamon as
came 10 this country before the passage
of the first exclusion act with the inten-
tion of making il their permanent home.
Mr.. Teller, after consultation with Mr..
Wolcott and other silver men, offered a
resolution for present consideration, al
recting the secretary of the treasury 10
furnish the senate with a statement of the
amount Of silver bullion offered TO the gov
eminent each month since the passage of
the act OF 1899, by whom offered and ut
what price, the amount purchased each
month and at what price, and the number
of days given the sellers in which 10 de-
liver the silver. The resolution was
adopted.
MT cameron gave uotice that tomorrow,
Immediately alter the close of morning
business, he should move thnt the senate
20 into executive session
The senate devoted the rest of the day
TO the annual appropriation bill for the
expenses Of the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia .
WAsHTNGToS, April Sin the senate to.
day the discussion of the Grand Arm V np-
preparation in the District Of Columbia APP
preparation bill was resumed. There was
considerable warmth In the discussion.
Mr.. Paddock, of Nebraska, opposed any
appropriation by the genetn nj government
because of the pledges given by citizens
of Washington when n city of his own
state, Lincoln, was IL rival and
Mr. Frye somewhat tarlly commented
upon the Nebraska senator's position In
refusing TO aid Washington because Lin
coin, Neb., did not get the encampment.
Mr.. Mcpherson, of New Jersey, was In
favor OF giving everything that was asked
for the reception of those men but for
whose gallantry there would be now no
national capital in which TO receive them.
The senate, by a vote of Al to 10, passed
nm appropriation of $1,000 for subsistence
aud quarters of the G.. a II. at their en-.
c%ampment in Washington in September
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