Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-25
THE PENDING AMENDMENT.
That Which Will First Be Voted On in
the Senate.
1t Was offered by Mr.. PeRer-NOtices
OF Proposed Amendments That
Have Been Given.

The pending amendment is that offered
by Mr.. PETER, which provides follows:
That any owner Of gold bullion or silver
bullion in condition fit for coinage. and of
the coin value of fifty dollars or more may
deliver the same at any mint to the proper
officers thereof. and 1t shall be formed into
coins for the benefit of the depositor in the
manner provided by the act of Congress
approved January Is. 1877, and in all re-
spects according to the provisions of said
act. all Of which provisions. far the
same are or may be applicable hereto, are
hereby revived and re-enacted. except that
the Inscriptions and devices of coins of like
denominations now current shall be placed
on the coins authorized by this act, and
double eagles may be coined as provided
in the act of February II, 1873.
That all acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
That this act shall take effect and be in
force thirty days after it's passage
This Is the only amendment to the COM
mittee amendment which IS Technically
pending All the others have merely been
given notice of.
Mr. MOrgan's Proposition.
On the Cd of October Mr.. Morgan gave
notice Of the following amendm,n
That the citizens Of the United States are
entitled to. and they shall have and enjoy,
all the rights and privileges defined and en-
acted In sections fourteen and fifteen of the
act of Congress approved January eight
eenth. eighteen hundred and thirty-seven
entitled AN act supplementary to the act
entitled An act establishing a mint and
regulating the coins Of the United States" :"
any law, practice. construction, or usage to
the contrary Notwithstanding. And 10 add
to the value and security of said rights IN
said statute defined. the Secretary Of the
Treasury Is required to deduct rom the Gus
toms duties that are or may be imposed.
by law, upon articles imported from other
countries into the United States twenty per
centum of such duties when such imports
are made in vessels of the United States, or
in vessels of the country where such i'm
ported articles were produced: provided
that the country in which such imported
articles are produced shall by law provide
that standard silver dollars coined in the
mints of the United States, and of the pres-
ent standard weight and fineness, sail be
legal tender for all debts public and pri-
vate In such country, and so long as such
laws shall be maintained in full force and
effect therein.
Other Notices of Amendments.
On the 9Th of october Mr.. Blackburn gave
notice Of an amendment providing for the
free coinage of the product Of the American
mines, the government to retain as seign-
forage the difference between the coinage
and the market value of the silver. On the
10th of October Mr.. Squires gave notice Of
an amendment similar with the addition of
a provision that the coinage shall not ex-
ceed 100000 a month and that 1t shall
cease after the amount coined under the act
shall have reached $780, 1900. Mr. Morgan
on the l1th of October gave notice of an
amendment providing for the purchase Of
silver at the market price and the coinage
there are gold dollars coined during the
month.
On the same date Mr.. Harris gave notice
of an amendment providing for the coinage
OF the seisniorage and for the continued
monthly purchase and coinage at u rate
left blank, and for the retirement of notes
and coin except silver below ten dollars.
MIR. Allen gave notice of a free coinage
amendment on the 18th.
Mr.. Vest the same day gave notice of an
amendment providing for the coinage of the
seigntorage and for the continued purchase
and coinage of silver at the rate of 1900 900
a month until all the silver money in the
country amounts to 00000,000 the pur-
chases to be apportioned among the silver
producing states. 1t provides also for the
retirement of notes below ten dollars to he
replaced with silver and for a joint COM
m1ttee OF the two houses to revise the gen.
eral financial system
MI Perk1nS has an amendment providing
Tor free coinage of product of American
mines at seigniorage charge of 20 per cent
MI. Quays amendment provides for the
present bill to take effect January, 1896
Mr.. Stewart has an amendment providing
adoption of common silver standard for
this continent