The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-21
CRISP'S COMMI7TEHS.
Change of Programme in
the Silver Debate
In the House
Today.
SENATOR MORRILL'S GREAT SPEECH
Business Transacted in the senats
This acknowledgements
Oates Committee Idea.

NAaniNTlON, w auks @is 1850 III uas
been practically decided by the leaders OF
the anti-silver forces iu the House to ask
the House to amend the terms of the
| order under which the pending debate is
being conducted. Owing to 1.-THE demand
upon the Speaker for riuie to speak under
the rule for general debate,it was suggest
ed that the five minute debate. to which
the last three days of the week had been
| assigned, should be- curtailed one day :,
| and that time ba added to the period set
| aside for the general discussion Should
the House agree to the change agreed
upon by the leaders, Thursday and
Fri1ay will be devoted to talk under the
five minute rule, and on Saturday
the debate will be cloSsd under tho gen
eral rule. This will give the leading
speakers an opportunity to speak at
length at a time when the interest In the
debate Will be at the climax, and add
thereby to the favorIng circumstances SO
eagerly sought aud thoroughly appre-
ciated by the average public speaker.
THE SILVER DEBATE.
After the readlng of the journal this
morning, Mr.. Powers (Rep. Vt) took the
floor iu support of the repeal of the Pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman Act. He
to the Interpretation placed upon it by
various Democrats. The gentleman from
pennsylvania (Mr. Siblsyl nad rafered 70
the Savior of manKiud as the first demo-
crat. and had taken tue utterances of the
Saviour as his platform; the gentleman
from Massachusetts (Mr. Everett) had
taken Grover Cleveland rs his platform
and had gone around his Districts singing
ut the top OF mis- voice. "On, isn't he
dandyp
The purchasing clause should be re-
pealed uncondltionallY. ne saIu. because
II was vicious In principle and dangerous
in apr1 ication.
Mr.. Hooker (Dem.). Miss, spoke
against the repeal. believing that no re-
liet could come to the country from that
repeal. The President said tnat the
depression came from q lack of conn
dence. The lack of confidence was not
in the great masses Of the people, but in
the great money institutiaus that are
locking up the currency of the country.
SPEAKER CRISP S COMMITTEES.
Speaker Crisp, it is SAID. has flushed
even earlier tnan he anticipated last
week, his task of arranging the commit
tees of the House for this Congress- aud
as soon as the work of copying them has
been completed will announce them to
TO the House
NEW DEPARTURE.
Reprtsenlatlve Oates or Alabama is
said to have In view the Introduction of
an amendment TO the rules of the House ),
investigating in the House itself; the
appointment of committees, some
thug after the fashion followed In
the Senate. There each party appoints a
Steering CommiLtee." which does the
clerical WORK or arranging the COM
mittees. aud after their selection have
choice is ratissd by formal action
of the Senate, At the beginning
OF every Congress In recsnt years, The
plan outlined above, or something similar
TO it, has Deen broached and discussed.
but nothing has yet come of 1t: and the
indications are now that the time is not
ripe tor the change.
IN TIE SENATE.
Numerous bills which had been intro
duced and were pending in the last Con-
grsss, were re-inIoduced and referred Co
committees. A substitute for the N National
Bank Currency bill was offered by Mr..
Psfer (Pop.. kas.). proposing the issue
of $3.50, 900. 900 OF Treasury notes, to be
deposited in the Treasury aud to be
available as cash. A resolution was
offered by Mr.. Chandler (Rep., NJ. H }, de-
| claring thatthere was no lawful election of
United States Senator III Kansas when
MIR. Martin was declared elected; also one
| looking TO the opening of u coast line of
waterways. These were referred TO COM
mittees.
Although the Finance Committees
bill for The repeal Of the purchasing
clauses of the Serman act was not form
ally taken up in the Senate today, tine
general subject was discussed by Senator
Morrill, OF Vermont, who brought to its
study mind that has penetrated all the
| mysteries OF finance and that has been
ripened by an experience in the House
and in the Senate outlasting generation
of mankind.
Mr.. Morrill, said he bad not yet aban-
| doned ali hope Of bi-inetalllsm, and that
therefore ne should gladly vots for Go the
| repeal or SO much OF the act OF 1890 as
| required the purchase OF silver. Ig
had not originally received any favor
| from him. and tho wide distrust which it
| had excited should be speedily removed,
| After Its repeal the country would not be
dependent upon gold alone for
more Of silver than Of gold.
aud more of paper currency than
ever before. and as the silver dollar
| would not be dsmonetizei, whenever
| more silver could be coined and utilized
| without crowding gold to premium. 1t
| would be done by universal concent; but
| its embarrassment of furnishing gold
to Day for silver bullion. 10
maintain silver, with the existing staud-
ard on parity with gold. while increas-
| Ing the puDilc debt Dy the daily purchase
OF over five tons of silver bullion.
/ tho Treasury notes for the
| payment of which were practically,
/ redeemable in gold was too heavy a task,
and the administration had acted wisely
in appealing to Congress. AS TO the dec
| Iaratlon Of the silver mine owners that
they would hot consent to the repeal of
| the act of 1890 without a satistac-
tory substitute, he said, that the only
| satisfactory substitute indicated by theni
| free coinage-was the very measure
most feared by the country, as it would
bring with 1t the single silver standard.
| The coin would then be legal tender
but would be, by no means, measure of
| value. No man outside of an insane
| asylum would receive the silver coins of
Mexico. India, or Peru, for more than
i their weight value in bullion.
BARELY ESCAPED WITH THEIR LIVES
| MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, Aug. 21, 1898. -
| The handsome summer residence of j.
9. Wright. New York business man at
Edenwald. suburb OF this city, was
totally destroyed by fire early this moru-
Ing. Nothing was saved aud the family
bar ely escaped with their lives. The loss
is about $S 600. partly insured. The origin
| OF the tire Is unknown.