The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-08-18
CONGRESS.


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| rho Proceedings in the senate and Hoass
Debating Silver. ~
THE proceedings in the senate on the sth
| were of considerable interest The presidents
| message was read and listened TO with marked
attention on bota sides OF the Chamber, not q
senator moving from his position for the quar-
| ter Of an hour more which the heading occu-
| pied The message was referred 10 the com.
| mittee on finance and its immediate printing
! was ordered Then the foodSates OF iegislar
tion were thrown open and q current OF bills on
financial and other subjects was admitted
| Mr. Hin IN W offered a bill for the repeal Of
| the purcha sing clause OF the Sherman act Mr.
| Stewart (Nev) followed with two other bills
| on the same subject. A long debate followed on
| o resolution fixing day for closing debate on
| the financial question Before adJoprnment
| Senator Vest offered q bill fixing the silver
dollar at 5l6 grains OF standard silver. In the
| house all interest vas on the. message, which
| was read soon after noon The house then took
| up the Richardson Belknap case from Michigan
| and disposed Of it by admitting Richardson on
| prima facie case The death Of Mr. Mutchler,
| of Pennsylvania was announced and the house
| adjourned
THE senate was in session only few minutes
| on the 9th, the only business transacted being
| an agreement to the house resolution for tho
| payment OF employees motion TO adjourn
carried by iS to 81. Not hing was done in the
| house. the member all being in attendance at
| caucus meetings The speaker was busy in his
| room working upon the standing committees
| THE senate was only in session about twenty
| minutes on the 10Th and adjourned until Mon
| day.: When the house met Mr.. Bland, as 1t
| had been expected was not ready to carry out
| previous arrangements by Introducing his sill
| yer bill, and after the speaker announced the
| committee on rules the house ajourned. The
| committee on rules is composed of the speaker
Crisp, dem), Catchings dem }, Outhwalte
| dem Reed (rcp) and Burrows rep).
| { WHEN the house met on the nth the bill for
| the unconditional repeal OF the Sherman silver
! purchase law " as introduced by Mr. Wilson, Of
| West Virginia, in accordance with an agree
ment reached by the conference of silver and
| anti-slver leaders. This agreement provides
that there shall be general debate on the bill
| for the repeal OF the purchase clause OF the
| Sherman law for eleven days to be followed
BY debate for three days under The five minute
rule, when voting will begin on the bill and
| various silver amendments Mr.. Raynor
| opened the debate In favor Of unconditional re-
peal at I:o5 O'Clock, after the house had ratified
| the agreement by q vote OF 2l7 to 100. Mr.
| Bland followed In an earnest speech in favor Of
| free coinage. Mr.. Pence. Cali spoke in favor
OF silver, and the debate for the day was closed
by Mr.. Wheeler GA!a.) with plea for a lurger
| volume of currency
| THE silver debate. was resumed in the house
on the 12th a very small number of members
being present Mr. Wheeler concluded his re-
marks. Mr.. Morse Gep. Mass) followed and
heartily approved the views expressed by the
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| OF the Sherman law. and MIR. Hendrix (dem. e.
N. W advised congress to repeal the law and
adjourn.
| WHEN the senate met on the 1ith Mr. Voor-
hees introduced bill authorizing national
| banks 10 issue notes to the full vLluc OF bonds
| deposited measure recommended by Secre-
tary Carlisle, who says 1t will ad Slo,0o) 0U to
the circulation. The house joint resolution for
the payment OF session employees was passed,
and numerous bills on silver were introduced
md Arofor ale for fk,rn ion,
Of the Hawaiian island Mr.. Vest called up thS
resolution offered by himself in favor OF bimet-
allism and the free and unlimited coinage Of
both gold and silver. and addressed the senate
on the subj ct. -. The silver debate was re-
sumed in the house Mr.. Boatner La spoke
in favor Zee coinage followed by Mr.. Layton
! (O) in favor OF the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Shermln act and relying upon the
judgment Of congress to subsequently, pass a
| law which would bring permanent relief Mr.
| Patterson (Ten) spoke in favor Of repeal and,
Mr.. Bailey (Tex) favored free coinage.
A SURVIVAL OF BARBARISM.
Loose Ends in the American System OF
Criminal Punishment.
Not long ago newspaper readers were
shocked by accounts of the treatment
of n white woman prisoner in one of
the American cities, where the chain
gang system of punishment is still in
use. This woman was ordered to work
in the streets, and upon her obstinate
refusal to submit to what was even Ia
convict unendurab BILE degradation was
, literally starved into yielding.
The incident is only a revolving illus
tration of the wrong attaching to the
whole system of punishment by public
exposure to shame. The street chain
gang, and the heartless leasing of con
victs as practically slaves to mine-own
ers, ought to be, as they are in mos,
parts of the country, as antiquatcd and
impossible as the whipping-post and
the stocks.
The governor of Alabama has lately
pardoned thirty convicts who had be:
. come helpless from rheumatism in
CURED while working in certain iron
mines where two thousand prisoner:
worked under contract.
. In some of these mines the gas i.
poisonous; peculiar and dreadful dis
ease of the lungs is fearfully prevalent
, among the miners, and three-fourths o.
, those attacked die.
Il Measures have been taken to improve
, the condition of these wretched con
victs, but their fate is still a cruel one
, Modern ideas tend more and more t.
make legal restraint means of reform
, not OF torture, or primarily of degrade
/ tien; to make the prisoner better i
, possible, at least to place him under
healthful physical and moral condi
tions; to safeguard the community
but not to destroy what may remain il
him of good or humane impulse by sucl
treatment as, it seems from these re
, ports, is still practised.-Youth's Com
paniOn.
I'll Her Preference.
Z Now, which kind of music do yo,
, desire to become proficient in?" saio
the professor to the new pupil.
80, classical, by all means" replied
the young woman.
II am glad to hear you express thi
1 preference"
1 ''Yes. When you play classical musi
g hardly any body knows whether yol
make a mistake or not. toI
] Star.
A Good Example.
'I will admit that I sometimes hav
|. difficulty in selling my poetry" COZ
! fessed Stanzer.
Il sell all l write" replied Ricketts,
III 81 didn't know you wrote poetry"
~ don't"-Judge.
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