The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-27

THE SUGAR BOUNTY ACT STRONGLY
INDORSED.
The Citizens of Mound City. ILL.,, Fore
IDLY Show Their Contempt for
Tramps-Two Convicts Shot While
Attempting to Escape From an AL
ALBANIA Jail-Fatal Railway Collision
In Ohio.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1os.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26.-In the Trans
Mississippi Commercial Congress to-day
resolutions were adopted as follows: Re
questing Congress to refer the question
of improving the Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi River to River Commissions;
favoring the construction of the Near
aqua Canal as distinctly an American
work, and requesting capitalists to aid in
its construction; approving and indorsing
the Acts OF Congress giving bounty on
sugar, and admitting machinery for the
manufacture of sugar free, and requesting
Congress to make liberal appropriations
for teaching beet-sugar chemistry; that
all unearned railroad lands be restored to
the public domain; that Arizona and
New Mexico be admitted as States.
The silver question, the special order
of the day. came up, and free bimetallic
coinage resolution was read by the Sec
rotary. Patterson of Colorado then spoke
on the subject. He said that up to 1870
gold and Silver were always legal tender
and until 1873 silver was on par with gold,
but after that it was almost classed as
one of the baSer metals. In 1878,
when he was in Congress the
silver bill was under discussion. Some
of the most intelligent members who
voted against the bill did not know they
voted to demonetize silver and class it
among the baser metals. When this
Government demonetized silver Ger
many did alike, and one-half of the bust
ness world was injured. He attributed
the financial disasters of one year and a
half ago to the anti-Silyer bill, and said it
caused England to call in gold from this
country. He asserted more than 200 of
the $50 members of Congress were
pledged to vote for the bill when it came
up. 1t was not only members from the
silver States that advocated the measure.
He alluded to the bounty on sugar. and
said he did not begrudge two cents per
pound, as every industry should be en-
couraged. Of all the industries in the
country the silver miner and producer
are the only laborers who do not ask the
Government for a bounty. They only
ask for the free coinage of American sill
yer. They want no bounty and free sill
Yer could not be construed as bounty.
If silver is made illegal tender, it will in
crease the demand for it and eventually
place it on par with gold.
Harvey OF Utah spoke for remonetiza-
ton OF silver, and Ex-Governor Morton
of Nebraska against it. Colorado. Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona,
New Mexico and Utah voted Tor the reso-
luton to urge the passage of the free
silver bill. and Missouri and Texas cast
the majority of their votes the same way.
Arkansas and Iowa voted solidly against,
and Kansas. Louisiana and Nebraska
cast majority in opposition. The vote
stood l42 for and SO against.
Resolutions were adopted that the i'm
migration law be amended so that only
immigrants who both desired citizenship
and are fit for it be permitted to land ;
that only United States courts should ex-
ercise the power of naturalization; that
the General Government should speedily
extinguish the Indian tribal system
The next convention will be held at
Ogden, Utah, the first Tuesday in May,
1893.