The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-07
TALKEE-TALKEE.
Senator's Still Delivering Their Sc
rial Speeches.
ANOTHER BATCH OF PRESIDEN-
TIAL APPOINTMENTS.

to Washington, and the Result is Doz-
en- Foreign Appointments-A Congress
man Criticizes the Senate for Its Lo
quacity, after which the House Spends
| the Session In observation-disclosures r
| Butler Differs with the Supreme Court
| More Pensions.
Washington, October 6.-The President
sent to the Senate today the following
| nom nations:
Stephen Bonsal, Maryland, now secrs-
| tary of the legation at Pekin, to be secre-
tary of legation of the United States at
Madrid, Spain.
Charles DENLY, Jr., Indiana, new
second secretary of legation of the
United States at Pekin, to be secre tary
of legation at Pekin, China.
To be consuls of the United States
F.A. Dean of Michigan, at Naples,
Italy.
Marshall Ranger, Virginia, at Ber-
muda.
W.B. Hall, Maryland, at Nice, France.
Edgar Schramm, Texas, at Montevideo,
Uruguay.
J.H. Stewart of New York, at st.
Thomas, West Indies
P.B. Spece, KY, at Quebec, Canada.
Reavel Savage, Maryland, at Nantes,
France.
E.S Wallace, Sodakota, at Jerusalem,
Syria.
comptroller of the treasury.
Quincy's Farewell Visit.
Josiah Quincy, whose visit to Washing
ton at this time resulted in the batch of
consular nominations made today, left
for Boston this afternoon. Quincy's de-
parture marks the end of his official and
unofficial connection with the admins
tration and also the practical clearing up
of the work of selecting persons for ap-
pointment to consular offices.
In the Senate.
The routine morning business was dis
posed of very speedily and then. the
| Senate proceeded to the consideration of
the resolution offered on Wednesday last
by Mr.. PETER, Pop, of Kansas, for a
special committee on improvement of the
banking system of the country. The
resolution was referred to the finance
committee and Mr.. Morgan's resolution
instructing the judiciary committee to in
quire what provisions of the free coinage
act of 1887 are still in force was agreed to.
Without discussion and without divls-
| ion Mr.. Stewart, Rep, of Nevada, made a
| long serious complaint against the treas
| ury department for not buying four and
| a half million ounces OF silver bullion
| per month as required by the Sherman
| act The silver purchase repeal bill was
| then taken up and Mr.. Mcpherson, DEM,
| of New Jersey, gave notice that he would
| on Monday next, health and voice permit
| ting, address the Senate on one or two
points that had been presented in the
| discussion.
Mr.. Blackburn, Dem, of Kentucky,
| sent to the clerks desk and had read the
| amendment to the repeal bill which he
had given notice of in his speech on
Wednesday.
Mr.. Call, Dem, of Florida, continued
| his argument against the repeal bill,
which, ne began on Wednesday. At the
close of Mr.. Calls speech, Mr.. Butler,
Dem, of South Carolina, took the floor
| and continued the speech begun by him
| last Wednesday. His argument was in
| favor of the amendment heretofore sug-
gested by him to repeal the 10 per cent
| tax on notes of state banks. He asserted
that he had no prejudice against the
national banks, but he thought them
dangerous, very dangerous as depository
| of property.
| Mr.. FRYE inquired whether Mr.. Butler
| did not mean to have such currency as
| would circulate all over the United
| States without the necessity of paying
| the exchange which had to be paid in the
| old days.
Mr.. Butler replied that that was purely
| matter of opinion. But he was not
| concerned about uniformity of currency
| The State of Maine would throw safe
guards around it's state banks and the
| State of South Carolina would do like
! wise. He argued that Notwithstanding
| the decision of the Supreme court to the
| contrary, there was no constitutional
| power in Congress to impose tax unless
| revenue was the object; and not dollar
| state banks Mr.. Butler read an article
| explanatory of the system of Scotch
| banks.
Mr. Dolph read statement showing
| the condition of state banks in January,
| 1859.
Mr.. Teller then spoke against the repeal
bill.
/ IA
adjourned.
In the House.
The day was devoted to speeches on
the bill for repeal of the Federal elec-
ton laws many members participating.
In the course of the discussion, Ray OF
New York, criticized the Senate for its
delay in acting upon the silver bill and
said the people were nauseated by the
amount of talk there.
After session entirely passed in
| fruitless debate, the House adjourned.
| Frank Thayer Confirmed
The Senate has confirmed Frank L.
| Thayer to be postmaster at Wateryille,
Me.
| Plan of Battle in the Senate.
The plan of action for next
| week in the Senate has been
| definitely determined upon, and the
| screws will be applied Wednesday at the
| approach of 6 o'clock. Several days ago
| Senator Voorhees, telegraphed all friends
| of repeal of the intended programme,
| and warned them that they must pos