The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-19
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
PGller Questions CarliSle'S Right 10
Issue Bonds.


Goes Over Till Monday-A Proposed
Appropriation for a Monument Meets
With Considerable opposition-Mor
gan Gets in Rap at the Bond Issue.
Washington, Jan. 1S.--Immediately
after the opening of the days session the
presiding officer, Mr.. Harris, laid before
the Senate note from Senator Walthall,
advising him of his resignation of his seat
in the Senate because of i'll health. The
resignation takes effect on Jan. "a.
MIR. PETER offered long preamble and
resolution reciting the notice for the issue
and sale of 5 per cent. bonds given by the
Secretary of the Treasury, and declaring
that in the opinion of the Senate, the
Secretary of the Treasury has no lawful
authority for issuing and selling bonds as
proposed.
The resolution went over until to-mor-
row.
ALLEN ALSO HEARD FROM.
MIR. Allen offered a resolution on the
same subject, declaring that, in the judg-
ment of the Senate, the Secretary of the
Treasury is not clothed, under the exist
ing law, with any legal authority to issue
and sell bonds or other interest bearing
obligations of the government, and that
such bonds or obligations would be null
and void.
This resolution went over until Thurs.
day next, Mr.. Allen giving notice that he
would address the Senate upon it on that
day
The civil service resolution of Mr..
Call, which was under discussion yes
terday, was laid befoae the Senate and
postponed until Monday.
On motion of Mr.. German, it was or
dered that when the Senate adjourn
to-day the adjournment shall be until
Monday next.
ERECTION OF MONUMENTS.
The Senate bill appropriating $40, 900
for an equestrian statue of Mai Gen.
John Stark, in the city of Manchester.
n. H., was on motion of Mr. Gallinger
taken from the calendar for oonsidera-
tion, and a discussion was started in
which Mr.. Sherman, while eulogizing the
memory of Mr. Stark, expressed his
doubts as to the propriety of the general
government erecting a monument any
where except in the District of Colum bia.
Such commemorative monuments, he
said, should be left to the states them
selves.
He was reminded by Mr.. Hoar of the
fact that he (Shermau) had once intro
duced bill for monument at Marietta,
o., to the founders of that state.
The vote on the passage of the bill re-
suited; Yeas 49, nays l3-one less than a
quorum.
The reli was then called, and SO senas
tors responded. But before the second
vote was begun another discussion was
started, involving the proposed issue of
bonds.
TOO HARD Up TO PUT UP MONUMENTS.
1t was started by Mr. Morgan, who said
at hp ha
have voted against the bill, although with
great reluctance The government, he
said, was actually too poor at this time to
honor the memory of heroic ancestors. 1t
could not afford to borrow money at per
cent. in order to build monuments And
that borrowing was what the government
was now going to do, ION a questionable
use of the statutes, for the purpose of
fortifying the gold reserve iu the treasury
for the benefit Of banks and bankers and
of dealers in gold coin apd bullion"
That class of patriotic citizens,
Mr.. Morgan added, with bitter irony,
must, first of ALL be taken care of. Those
men seemed to have a claim on the legis-
latiye and executive departments of the
government which it was impossible to
resist; and they had to be yielded to in
every demand which they made He
found himself now in a iuncture where
any money out of the treasury for any
other than work of absolute necessity
until the financial situation of the coun-
try is changed.
A WAR MEASURE.
Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada, said that he
felt very sensibly the force of Mr.. Nor
gan's remarks; but he egarded this as
very meritorious case. He had voted for
a similar bill on several occasions before,
and he would be glad to see the appropri-
alton made. He was aware of the fact
that the treasury was adopting war
measure, alluding to the issue of bonds,
although there was no visible enemy in
the field The trouble was that the
enemy was invisible to the people, but it
was really war which the money power
was waging against industry and protec-
tion; and the national debt was to be in
creased to carry on that war.
DANIEL AGAINST IT.
MIR Daniel said that he had voted for
the bill, but that he would now vote
against it, as he did not believe that the
financial situation of the country would
Justify him, at this particular iuncture, in
following the suggestions of his own
heart and the inclination of his patriotic
desires. Congress had seen fit to curtail
the supply of money at time when there
was money famine. Inc secretary OF
the Treasury now advised congress that
there is deficit in the treasury; and
that deficit, according to the secretary's
plan, was TO be supplied by a re-
currence to the credit Of the
country, and by the issue of bonds
"And. y MIR. Daniel added Interference to
the Wilson tariff bill, according TO the
scheme of taxation which has been pro-
posed, it would seem as if that deficit was
to become, for some years at least, one of
the institutions Of the country, to be con-
tinuously fed by an extension of that
credit. / would not be warranted in my
conscience, at such time, in adding a
feathers weight TO the burden of an af-
ficted people"
The discussion was continued by Messrs.
Mills, Hoar, Proctor, and Call, in favor Of
the bill, and by Messrs. Cockrell and
Berry against it; and finally the bill was
passed--yeas 81, nays Is.
THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.
The unfinished business"-the House
bill to repeal the federal election laws
was then taken up and MIR Vest addressed
the Senate in support Of the bill. He re
ferred TO Mr.. Palmer's statement last
Tuesday approving the granting Of the
suffrage to negroes, and declaring it as
his solemn conviction that that gift of
suffrage had been the source Of more
calamity to the people of the United
States than any other enactment in the
statute book or in the constitu-
tion. Mr.. Vest went on to strengthen
his position, quoting extensively