Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-12
FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS,
WASHINGTON. Sept. u, 1898.
SENATE.

A letter from the Treasury Depart.
ment in response to resolution inouir.
ing as to the redemption OF treasury
notes in silver, &c., was presented and
read. 1t states that 81 ,473.S74 of treas.
ury notes issued under the Sherman
act have been redeemed in silver coin
in August and September that $50.
0S7, 1S5 silver coinage has been minted
with gain, or seinorage, of S6,69l.-
l09 and that the remainder OF the bull.
lion purchased under the Sherman act
had not been coined, because no fur.
Their coinage had been necessary TO
provide for the redemption of the notes
III silver.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada, as to Senator,
being stockholders in national banks
having been laid before the Senate.
Mr.. Stewart offered to yield to Mr..
Mitchell, of Oregon, who desired to ad.
dress the Senate on the repeal and hi,
resolution, by unanimous consent,
went over until tomorrow.
Mr.. White gave notice of the post
ponement of the Stanford eulogies until
Saturday next, and also that he would
address the Senate on the repeal bill
next Tuesday.
The repeal bill was then, at l2.::20,
taken up, and Mr.. Mitchell addressed
the Senate in opposition to it.
HOUSE.
If the attendance in the House YES.
terday was a small one it was a smaller
one to-day. Yesterday there were
about one hundred members present
To-day not more than fifty stood up
when the Speakers gayel fell and the
chaplain offered prayer. A letter from
the Postmaster General relative to
vaulueless papers which have accumu-
lated, was referred to special commit
tee.
Mr.. Morse, rising to question off per.
sonal explanation, sent to the clerks
desk and had read a newspaper extract
charging him with having opposed the
proposition to permit newspaper men
to have the privilege Of the lobby back
Of the Speakers chair, and further stat
ing that he had made derogatory re-
marks relative to the press fraternity.
The truth of the statement in this ex-
tract Mr.. Morse denied. He had tele-
graphed a denial of the paragraph
but q lie always travelled faster than
denial. So far from desiring to keep
the newspaper men from the lobby, he
was in favor of admitting them there
1t would be n great convenience
both to the newspaper men and TO the
Representatives. The newspaper men
whom he had met in Washington, with
few exceptions, had been gentlemen
and men of ability.
Mr.. Richardson, from the committee
on printing, reported bill TO provide
for the public printing and binding and
for the distribution of public docu-
ments, which was ordered to be printed
and recommitted.
Mr.. Hepburn asked for the immedi'
ate consideration of a resolution calling
on the Secretary of the Treasury for in
formation as to the amount of mer-
chandise in bond or duty paid and pro-
ducts or manufactures of the United
States which was transported from one
port of the United States to another
port therein over the territory Of the
Dominion of Canada by railroad routes
or partly by railroad and partly by
water routes, during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1898.
Mr.. Geary objected and the resoIu'
ton was referred.
The Speaker laid before the Housea
communication from the chairman OF
the committee having in charge the
conduct of the centennial celebration
of the laying of the corner stone of the
Capitol, inviting the House to be pre-
sent as body at the ceremonies.
Mr.. Coggswell thereupon offered
resolution accepting the invitation and
that at o'clock on Sept. IS,
,he House would be present as body.
Adopted.
Mr.. Talbot from the committee on
naval affairs reported a bill to remit the
penalties against the designers of the
Vesuvius. Calendar.
And then the House adjourned until
tomorrow.
A SIX to see the "oTHELLO & DESDE-