Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12
FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS-
PROCEEDINGS of THE SPECIAL
SESSION OF CONGRESS.

Condensed Record of the Business
Being Traasactca by our National
law-makers--Routi Report Day
by Day.
Washington. Sept. 5O.-The Democratic
repeal senator's have practically given UP
the idea that the Sherman Law Tan be re-
pealed Internationally. and have. after
numerous conferences. decided upon a
the long fight and secure the passage of a
bill to relieve the present situation by the
end of next week Senator German and
other Democratic repeal senators have
been actively engaged in arranging the
terms Of the compromise. and they be
liere they have succeeded. 1t involves
concessions of both sides, first the repeal
of the purchase clause. second the coin
age of a specified amount. two or two and
half millions per month. until the total
silver coinage is SIU0.0000O0. then the
coinage of all the bullion in the treas
nry. and fourth the sale of gold bonds to
increase the gold reserve to an amount
which will be deemed sufficient to insure
the maintenance of gold and silver money
At 4 parity. When the proposition was
submitted to Secretary Carlisle he insist
ed upon the latter provision to the agree
nent-1t is the general understanding to-
day that the silver Republican senators
will agree to this compromise: indeed.
Senator German vouches for that. The
only thing in the way of this programme
now seems to be the president He has
not. 50 far as known. absolutely given his
consent. although the acQ.iiescence of
Secretary Carlisle would indicate that he
would do so.
Washington. Sept. 30.-In the senate
the repeal bill w:s taken up and Mr..
Harris Dem. Tena.l addressed the SEN
ate in opposition to the bill. Mr.. Harris
quoted flom a speech of Mr.. Voorhees,
delivered on Feb. is. 1893. in which he
said he would have voted to take up the
Sherman bill some days prior TO that.
but that Its passage would undoubtedly
aemonetize silver and leave it supported
by not one word of legislation"
The house devoted the day to the dis
cuSsion of the federal election repeal
bill.
Washington. Oct. "A most interest
ing incident occurred early in the day in
statement Mr. Dubois of Idaho got up
the subject OF the vacancies in the sena-
torial representation Of the States of
Washir gton. Wyoming and Montana. and
his argument made whom the
resolution which he offered was under
discussion 4 few days since as TO the i'm
l'0rtaLte of these states being fully repre-
Sentea when Il vote should be taken upon
The repeal bill. Mr.. WaShburn of Min
neSota asserted positively that the sena-
tors from TWO Of the states in question,
Mr.. Squire Of Washington and MI Carey
If Wyoming would vote for uucondi1ion-
al repeal. leaving the inference that if
the question We're postponed until >ena-
tors could be elected from those states |
their votes would not aid the opponents
Of repeal. When the authority for his |
statement was demanded. Mr.. Wash
burn said: The senators themselves
adding thar Mr.. Squire had informed |
him that he would vote for unconditional |
repeal The statement created some |
thing of sensation. and Mr.. Dubois de- |
rlarec emphalically that the senators al |
uded Il were rot ir favor of uncondi-
tioEal repeal. There We're Two formal |
speeches on the repeal bill-one by Mr.. |
Kyle of South Dakota against the bill |
and the other by Mr. Mcmillan of Mich
gan against free coinage.
Iehate Oh the election bill in the house
was very one-sidcd Speeches We're
made by Messrs. Dinsmore of Arkansas,
benson of Alabama. Cooper Of Florida
and Clark of Missouri. all from the Dem
ocratic standpoint.
Washington. Oct IA novel amend
nent to the bill repeating the purchasing
clauses of the silver act of 1890 was
in the senate by Senator Nor
gan of Alabama. Ii proposes the re-en-
actnlent of the free coinage act of 1887
and the remission of 20 per cent of tariff
duties to the countries which receive
American standard dollars lof the pres
ent weight and tineness) at par as legal
tender money. The debate on the re-
peal bill was continued by Senator's
Dolph Of Oregon and Palmer of Illinois
in advocacy of the bill and by Mr.. Power
of Montana against the bill.
The debate on the election bill in the
house only showed one flash of interest
when Mr.. Murray. the South Carolina
negro representative, Intercepted Kyle
of Mississippi. Boutelle of Maine sup
ported the colored man. and between
them they forced the Mississippian to
appeal to the speaker 10 prevent further
Washington, Oct 5.-In the senate the
first open suggt stioI. of a compromise On
the repeal bill was made and attracted
the closest attention en- both sides of the
chamber. Senator Butler of South Caro-
lima, in an impassioEed speech against
the passage of the bill, made compromise
the salient feature In reply to the ques-
ton which he said had been asked over
and over again as to when a vote would
be had on the bill. Mr. Butler said:
Compromise. compromise is the solution
of the struggle here" At the conclusion
of Mr.. Buffers remarks Mr. Blackburn
Dem. KY addressed the senate in op-
position to repeal, and said that if he
were obliged to choose between a gold
and silver basis for the financial standard
of the country. he would prefer silver
one. He hoped some acceptable compro-
mise would be reached. Mr. Blackburn
closed his speech by stating that while
he allowed 10 one to exceed him in
friendship for. and loyalty to, silver. he
1yorlI NOT nDp, rc in ,uy ,,bStr,,nfiyn tnr