Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-25
THE SENATE.

CItement.
THE SENATE.
After the routine morning business the cal
endar was taken up and bills. &c, were disposed
of as follows: For the construction of wooden
dry dock at the Portsmouth On H. navy yard:
laid aside without action. Resolution (offered
by Mr.. Morgan on the 3lst Of March, directing
the committee on finance TO make an examine
ton and report in relation to currency and
coinage, and as to the effect of the act of July,
1880, on the prices of silver bullion. Mr.. Nor
gan called for the yeas and nays on the adoption
Of the resolution.
Mr.. Morrill, said that much of the information
sought was easily obtained. but that life was too
short to wait for much of what was asked. He
| therefore asked Mr.. Morgan IL he would have
auy objection to have the resolution referred to
| the committee on finance.
WHAT Mr.. MORGAN WANTS.
Mr.. Morgan declined 20 adopt that sugges-
ton. The resolution, he said. ives one to In
struct the france committee. The Senate had
| All independent judgment about the matter and
| he desired to have that judgment expressed.
The resolution contemplated rot only that the
| finance committee would respond to the in
| qniry, but would report supplemental biii-in
to the front the question Of the free coinage OF
| silver. He did not, OF course, want the reso-
luton referred TO a committee where II would
| simply meet its grave. II IL got into that COM
mittee no moro would be heard of it until after
| the democratic convention in Chicago; and he
| was afraid that then bis democratic brethren
wOnld not feel 80 much interested in il.
He warted the resolution acted on. IL was
| the demand of those Senators who believed that
the finances Of the country were in very Grip
pied, sad condition. on behalf Of the toiing
masses Of the people. He was perfectly willing
| without any consultation with Senators who
| agreed with him on the subject) To name an
early day for the discussion. to limit the debate
| to four hours and to limit speeches TO half an
hour.
Mr.. MoRRfLLs MOTION VOTED down.
The Senate voted down Mr.. Morrills motion
| to refer to the finance committee Mr.. Morgan Q
| resolution instructing the committee to ex-
| anime and report upon the effect OF the silver
law Of 1850 upon the price of silver bullion.
The vote was-yess, II; nays, %. MIR. Hill was
| in his seat, but did not vote.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION FOR FREE COINAGE.
A protracted debate followed this, which was
participated in by Senators Morgan, Sherman
| and Stewart. Mr.. Sherman insisted that under
the terms Of the resolutions the finance COM
| mittee was deprived Of the power to Judge of
| really bonnd to report Immediately . bill pro-
viding for the free coinage Of silver.
The democratic Senators who voted yea upon
Mr.. Morrill's molten were Messrs. Gray,
Palmer and Villas.
The republican Senators who voted nav were
Mossrs. Allen. Mitchell, Paddock, Pettigrev,
Power, Sanders, Shoup. Squire, Stamford,
| Stewart, Teller and Wolcott.
| THE HOUSE.
| Other members may be absent from the
House when the session opens at IL O'Clock,
| but Mr.. Bailey of Texas is usually present, and
this morning he made his presence felt by de-
| manding quorum upon the motion of Mr..
! Patterson Of Tenness ee to concur in some
| purely verbal Senate amendments to House
| bill authorizing the construction Of q bridge
across the Tennessee river. Tellers were or
dered and in the course of twenty minutes a
quorum was mustered and the motion was
agreed to.
THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
After some routine business the House went
| in the chair on the sundry civil appropriation
| bill.
| The first subject considered was the appro-
priation for the government exhibit at the
worlds Columbian exposition.
Mr.. Cogswen (Slass.) offered an amendment
authorizing the payment Of $50 Of the appro-
priation to st. j. B. Dupray for special services.
Ruled out of order.
Mr. Houk (Obio) offered an amendment 3D.
propriating 100000 to pay the expense Of col
| lectlng, preparing and publishing facts and
statistics pertaining to the industrial advance Of
| United States citizens Of African descent from
January 1. 1853, to January l, 1885, to consti-
tute part of the government exhibit.
| MR.. HoUK on CoLoRED PROGRESS.
Mr. Houk said that to illustrate the advancement
and progress of American civilization and in
dustry, without a recognition Of the negro race,
| would be to leave out an essential factor. The
race numbered about 5000, 600. The destiny
| of the negro race was indissOlubly interminRled
| with that Of the white race in the future Of
the country and the idea Of separation Of the
races by colonization should be dismissed q in
the last degree chimerical. The presence of
| this race in the United States involved q most
| interesting and intricate problem. BY wise
statesmanship. it might be made to be . great
blessing; by political empyricism, it would BE-
| come an unmitigated curse. He trusted that
the members would place the seal Of their ap-
proval on the amendment proposed.
HOW THE coLORED RACE HAD BEEN NEGLECTED.
Mr.. Henderson Qowa) said that he had in
tended to offer an amendment substantially the
same as that offered by the gentleman from
Ohio. He admitted that it was not in order,
but he trusted that the gentleman from Indiana
| (Mr Holman), who had intimated that he
| would do 30, would not raise the point.
If the heart and Judgment here con-
CURED and no point of order was
made this appropriation could lawfully and
properly be added to the bill. He would guar
antee that no gentleman on the republican side
of the chamber would raise the point. The
colored people Of this country numbered about
| one-eighth Of our entire population, and yet
the evidence taken by the special committee at
| Chicago disclosed the wonderful
and amazing fact that neither the
President of the United States Che said it with
modification and shame), nor the governor Of
q single state, nor the government commission,
nor the local corporation, nor the woman's
commission one of these had given repre-
sentation to these 5000 900 Of people. Presi-
dent Harrison bad given them NO repre-
sentation. He could answer for himself.
| In all the state commissions not one
single governor had remembered his God and
his country and these people. Not one head Of
department., not one chief clerk, not one on
Ger Of that vast army Of employees had been se-
| lected from that element Of our people. It was
a shame, and he proclaimed Il with Indignation
in the American Congress that IL bad not been
done. He believed that there we're two
or three petty little places held
by colored men-plsces that did mot