Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-21
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. August 81, 1898.

A substitute for the national Dank
currency bill was offered by Mr.. PETER
proposing the issue of $25o,O0o,0oO of
treasury notes, tobe deposited in the
treasury and to be available as cash.
A resolution was offered byMr. Chand-
Ter, declaring that there was no lawful
election of United States Senators in
Kansas when Mr.. Martin was declared
elected also one looking to the open
ing of a coast line of water ways.
Mr.. Morrill, asked and obtained in
definite leave of absence after to-day
on account of i'll health He then adj
dressed the Senate in favor of the bill
reported from the finance committee
last Friday to discontinue the pur-
chase of silver bullion. His speech
which was read bore the motto Sound
money cheats nobody" He frankly
avowed that he did not yet abandon
all hope of bi-metallism. After the re-
peal of the purchasing clauses OF the
Sherman act the country would not be
dependent on gold alone, as there
would be in the treasury much more
silver than gold, and much more pa
per currency than ever before; and the
silver dollar would not be monetized.
After the announcement Of the COM
mittee appointments, on motion of Mr..
Bland Saturday next was set apart for
general debate instead of five minutes
debate on the repeal bill.
HOUSE.
The silver debate was opened this
morning by Mr.. Powers in favor of re-
peal The purchasing clause should
be repealed Internationally, he said, be-
cause it was vicious in principal and
dangerous in application.
Mr.. Hooker spoke against the re-
peal, believing that no relief would
come to the country from that repeal.
The President said the depression came
from a lack of confidence. The lack of
confidence was not in the great masses
of the people, but in the great money
institutions that were locking up the
currency of the country.
The Speaker has announced the APP
pointment of the following chairmen of
committees Elections, Mr.. O'Ferrall of
Virginia ways and means, Mr.. Wilson
of West Virginia appropriations, Mr..
Sayers of Texas thejudiciary, Mr.. Gull
berson of Texas coinage, weights and
measures, Mr.. Bland of Missouri; bank
ing and currency, Mr.. Springer of Hi
nois; foreign affairs, Mr.. McCreary of
Kentucky interstate and foreign COM
merce, Mr.. Wise of Virginia rivers and
harbors, Mr.. Blanchard of Louisiana
merchant marine and fisheries. Mr..
Fithian of Illinois; agriculture, Mr..
Hatch of Missouri military affairs, Mr..
Cultivate Of Ohio; naval affairs, Mr..
Cummings of New York postoffices
and postroads, Mr.. Henderson of North
Carolina public lands, Mr.. McRae of
Arkansas; Indian affairs, Mr.. Holman
of Indiana Territories, Mr.. Wheeler of
Alabama railways and canals, Mr.
Catchings of Mississippi; private land
claims, Mr.. Pendleton of West Virginia;
manufactures, Mr.. Page of Rhode Isl
and mines and mining, Mr.. Weadock
of Michigan; public buildings and
grounds, Mr.. Bankhead of Alabama
Pacific railroads, Mr.. Reilly of Pennsyl-
vania; levees and improvements of the
Mississippi river, Mr.. Allen of NIississip-
pi; education, Mr. Enloe of Tennessee
labor, Mr.. McGann of Illinois; militia,
Mr.. Forman of Illinois; patents, Mr..
Covert of New York invalid pensions,
Mr.. Martin OF Indiana; pensions, Mr..
Moses of Georgia claims, Mr.. Bum of
North Carolina war claims, Mr.. Beltz-
hoover of Pennsylvania; District Of
Columbia. Mr.. Heard of Missouri; re-
vision of the laws, Mr.. Ellis of Ken
lucky. On expenditures in the State
Department, Mr.. Lester of Georgia;
expenditures in Treasury Department,
Mr.. Barwig, of Winconsin; expenditures
in War Department, Mr. Montgomery
of Kentucky; expenditures in Navy
Department, Mr.. Mcmillan of Tennes-
see; expenditures in Interior Depart
ment, Mr.. Turner OF Georgia; expend-
itures in Department of Agriculture,
Mr.. Edmunds of Virginia; ex-
penditures public buildings and
grounds, Mr.. Grain of Texas; library,
Mr.. Fellows, of New York printing,
Mr.. Richardson of Tennessee civil
service, Mr.. DeForest of Connecticut
election of President and vice-Presi-
dent, Mr.. Fitch of New York; ventila-
ton and acoustics, Mr.. Shell of South
Carolina; alcoholic liquor traffic, Mr..
English of New Jersey; irrigation of
arid lands, Mr.. Cooper of Indiana;
immigration and naturalization, Mr.
Giessehainer of New Jersey.