The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-08-29

cratic Senators, one by Senator Vor-
hees, on Tuesday, and the other by
Senator Hill, Friday. Both of these
Senators are friends of silver and
both of them favor the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman
silver law as the best method of pre-
Iparing the way for other Legislation
= dealing with silver as money.
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There was sharp debate in the
Senate this week, for few minutes,
over the question Of whether a reso-
luton offered by Senator PETER, en-
quiring of the Secretary of the Treas
ufy as to the action of national banks
in large cities in refusing to cash,
upon presentation, checks of deposi-
tors, should be disposed of at once or
be referred to the Finance cnmmittee.
Trouble was avoided by demand for
theH'regular order," which sent the
resolution to the foot of the calendar,
where it will have to await its turn,
unless sooner taken up by vote OF
the Senate. 1t is perfectly well
known in Congress that the national
banks of New York and other cities
have been refusing to cash checks for
their depositors, for one member of
the House--Johnson, of Ohio--was
refused the cash for check for 5000
at New York bank in which his
balance was more than $4,000, al
though il was given him after an in
terview with the President Hints
have also been received here that GER
tain New York national banks have
been profiting largely by the sale of
currency at premium, which has
been going on in that city, 1t will not
be surprising if there is some very
plain talk in Congress about the ma
tional banking system as at present
conducted before long. Senator Vor-
hees devoted part of his speech to it,
and there will be others heard from
as soon as finances get little steadier.
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Without Disagreement the Dem
CNrAs who held important committee
chairmanships in the last House, it
can be said that Speaker Crisp has in
the new chairman selected men who
ARE generally credited with being Pc
culiafly well fitted to perform the
duties with which they have been in.
trusted. Hon. w. L. Wilson, of West
Virginia, the new chairman of the
Ways and Means committee, has been
student and advocate oftariff reform
not only since he has been a member
of the House but also long before he
entered public life. He is thoroughly
master of the subject, and the tariff
bsll, upon which his committee will at
once get to work, promises to be
model of its kind. Hon. Joseph 8.
Sayets, of Texas, the chairman of the
comgmittee on Appropriations, has
been prominent member of that
committee for years, and no higher
praise can be given his abilities than
to say that he has long been spoken of
as the Sam Randall of that commit
tee, in his methods of work and in
stantanoous grasping of the salient
points OF all subjects that come before
the committee. Mr.. Springer, of Ill.
inois, who was chairman of the Ways
and Means committee in the last
Hpuse, is now at the head of the COM
mittee on Banking and Currency.
which will play no small part in the
Legislation of the present House, and
Mr.. Holman, who was chairman of
the Appropriations committee, is now
at the head Of the committee on In
diam fairs, whore his work will be
much lighter, consideration that his
age made important. The number of