Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-13

the storm centers of the nefarious bust
ness" stating that cotton spectators had
wired to Washington to postpone the bill
till after the holidays, under the idea that
exaggerated reports of a short crop would
enable them to unload at higher prices.
The bill was, with the consent of Mr..
Washburne, ordered to be printed in the
manner suggested by Mr.. Harris, and then
1t went over till to morrow.
The senate bill reported last session for
the allotment of lands among the Indian
tribes in the Quepaw agency, Indian Ter
ritory, and for the sale of the surplus
lands of such tribes, and for the creation
of the county of Csyuga in Oklahoma was
taken from the calender, amended and
passed.
Adjourned.
| House.
When Speaker Crisp entered the house
at noon to-day and at once assembled to
his chair there was q spontaneous out
burst of applause from all parties on the
| floor and from the occupants of the gal
lery.
The speaker laid before the house q
communication from the secretary of the
treasury, transmitting the draft of joint
resolution relative to the discharge of the
| official duties of the register of the treas
| ury. The communication sets forth the
| illness of the register, General Rosecrans,
and the performance Of his duties by the
assistant register; and the resolution pro-
vides that the secretary may delegate
authority to any chief of division or clerk
to act temporarily as assistant register.
The joint resolution was passed.
Mr.. Cultivate of Ohio, chairman of
the committee on military affairs, re-
ported the army appropriation bill, and
it was referred to the committee of the
whole.
Mr.. Davis of Kansas, from the commit
tee on labor, reported q bill to prohibit
works. House calendar.
Mr.. Cummings (dem.) of New York Of
fered for reference resolution reciting an
editorial in the New York Sun of the 30th
ult., headed "Oatrage by the Postoffice."
This editorial charges that clerks in the
department at Washington are in the habit
of excluding newspapers from the privi-
lege of being carried in the mails ss second
class matter without previous notice to the
publisher, and that such action Is intend
ed, and further that 'ft has been dis
covered that there are persons residing at
the national capital who will attempt the
adjustment of difficulties of this sort for
money consideration and seek employment
on the score of influence possessed with
persons occupying responsible positions"
"And Whereas" continues the recitation,
sit is further stated in said editorial arti-
cles that the ostensible reason for inter-
ference with the distribution of trade jour
mails is desire to keep the mails from be-
ing loaded down with advertising matter
for which the people have not subscribed,
yet during the months that preceded the
election many million campaign documents
were carried in the mails at rates not al.
lowed to publications issued for business
purposes or in the interest of such causes
as temperance or religion"
1t is again recited that linen holding
important offices under the administration
have received the same privileges permit
ted to campaign committees, but pronounc
ed Illegal when ordinary citizens would
and the superintendent of the census have
each taken personal advantage of the OPP
portunity to use the mails In manner
that the department pronounees illegal for
other citizens"
1t ia resolved that the committee on
postofices and post roads be directed to
investigate the charges above set forth
and to that end call before them the Hon.
John Wanamaker, postmaster general of
the United States. and demand an explain
alton therefore.
The floor was then accorded to the COM
mittee on the District of Columbia. Bills
were passed to amend the charter of the
lexington and Soldiers Home Railway
company and making Saturday a half
holiday for banks and trust companies in
the City of Washington.
The house then adjourned.
ANOTHER NEW BANKING BILL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA comprehen-
sive bill to enable national banks to in
crease their circulation and to suspend
further purchases of silver was introduced
in the house to-day by Representative An
drew of Massachusetts,.
The bill contains 80 sections relating
to the national banks and one relating to
the silver law. The banking sections are
intended to carry out the recommendations
made by the comptroller of the currency
that the banks be allowed to increase their
volume of circulating notes to the par value
of the bonds, deposited as security, that
the minimum bond deposit be reduced to
So, 600 in case of banks whose capital ex-
cseds $50, 900 and to $1,000 where the
capital is smaller, and that the duty of
one-half of per cent each half year levied
upon national bank circulation be repealed.
The section relating to the silver law sim
ply provides "that 30 much of chapter 7OS
of the acts of the first session of the Fifty
first congress, approved July IA, 1890, as
authorizes the purchase of silver bullion,
by the secretary of the treasury and the
issue of additional treasury notes therefor,
is hereby repealed" The bill, when intro
duced to-day, was referred to the commit
tee on banking and currency, which al
ready has several measures before 1t
changing the banking laws.
SPEAKER CRISIS SETBACK.
The turning down of Speaker Crisp at
the Reform club dinner Saturday night is
still the theme of much comment here in
both houses to-day. 1t would seem that
the majority of the straight-out leaders
had been studiously ignored by the mug
wump managers. The speech of Carl
Schurz was calculated to send a cold chill
down the back of a democrat who believes
in rewarding partisan service. Represent
alive Tom johnson, who made the attack
on Crisp, was the man who was instru-
mental in getting Henry Georges book on
progress and Poverty" printed in the
congressional record and circulated at the
public expense as a democratic campaign
document. This democrats in the house
sustained Johnson in that course by yea
and nay vote. johnson was also the real
| leader in the movement at the Chicsgo con-
| vention which resulted in the rejection of
the compromise tariff plank reported by
the committee on platform and the adop-
| ton of an out and out free trade plank de
| nouncing protection as s'unconstit utienap
| and Ga fraud" 1t is significant that he
should be invited to speak at such a dinner
IN preference to Speaker Crisp, and that
Henry George should preside at one of the
tables at that dinner. But the most sig
ni6cant action was the snub administered
to Speaker Crisp.
| DIED OF EXPOSURES.
| A Destitute Woman Found Frozen