The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
The Week in Congress.

| of the union in forty-four states, three ter
ritores and the District Of Columbia. Mr.
Frye stated that these excellent women do
not believe that the United States ought to
enter into copartnership in either the manu-
facture or sale of Intoxicating liquors. The
| house bill requiring railroad companies in
| the territories to maintain stations at towns
established by the department of the inte-
| rior was then taken up as unfinished bust
ness. - The house, in committee of the
whole, resumed consideration of the seignior-
age bill. Mr. Stone of Kentucky spoke at
great length. He held the secretary of the
treasury blameless in the matter of bond
| issue, as congress had refused to afford him
any relief. He ridiculed the assertion that
there is plethora of money in the country
| and that bushel of wheat possessed the
same purchasing power to-day that it had
twenty years ago. While taxes and living
| expenses, he said, remained the same, agri-
cultural products had steadily decreased in
value. The prevailing deplorable financial
| condition was due to the unfortunate sys-
TEN which permitted a few mllionaires to
band themselves together and force the OBJ
legations of the government to be protested
or compel the issuance of bonds The ex-
listing depression had resulted from long
years of republican misrule. During the
debate, spicy controversy arose between
Mr. Reed of Maine and Mr.. Bland of Mis-
souri,. The latter refused to obey the or
ders of the speaker, and the sergeant-at-
arms was twice called upon to compel him
to take his seat and keep quiet.
THURsDAY.-The debate on the house bill
under discussion when the senate adjourned
on Wednesday was resumed in that body
In addressing the senate in opposition to it,
Mr.. Platt of Connecticut gave the knuCkles
of Hoke Smith a sharp rap. He said that
the bill, while apparently of a private char
acter, had been drawn for a special
purpose; and that purpose might have
been expressed in the title by the words
TN aat 70 ont thn dot ar,,,tt, tim of
the secretary of the interior to have the
Rock Island railroad company establish
depots at Enid and Round Pond" 1t was
special, and therefore mscbievous, legis-
lation. - Without being able to fix a
limitation to debate, the house again went
into committee Of the whole on the seign-
forage bill Mr.. Rawlns of Utah Mr. Lat
inner of South Carolina, and Mr.. Hendrix of
New York, supported the bill. Mr.. Raw
Inns said that gentleman from the East
smiled with derision at the financial theories
of the South and West. But the latter sec
tions of the country could live without the
East, whereas the East, with its great man.
ufacturing enterprises and teeming millions,
was dependent upon the West and South.
The miners of the West could produce
money for the people of that section, while
those of the East would be dependent upon
them, The house adjourned before the de-
bate was closed.
FRIDAY.-The Peckham nomination was
defeated in the senate by vote of thirty.
two for and forty-one against. Mr.. Villas
OF Wisconsin made long speech favoring
the continuation OF Peckham, and was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Mitchell, the republican mem
Der from Oregon, who also advocated con-
firmation. Ia an interview on the subject,
Senator Lodge said: eyes. voted for
Hornblower and against Peckham. The
question of senatorial courtesy about which
30 much has been said in newspapers had
no weight with me and has very little
weight, | think, with any senator. The
same may be said of the factional fight be-
tween Mr.. Cleveland and Mr. HILL In
both cases reached my decision without
any reference to either of these points. /
voted for Mr.. Hornblower because I con-
sidered him in all ways fit for the position
for which he was nominated and there
were very few protests and very little evil
dence against his fitness" - In the
house, on Mr.. BANDS motion to close gen.
eral debate on the seigniorage bill that day
at three O'Clock, there was division of the
house-ninety-nine votes in the affirmative
and none in the negative. Two subsequent
votes showed no quorum present, and the
debate went on.
SATURDAy.-The senate was not in ses
sion, but the committee on finance con-
vened at an early hour to attempt to settle
disputed points in the tariff bill. The atti-
tude OF some OF the committee still seems to
be antagonistic to sugar, and the rumor has
|
that that article would be left as it came
from the house, with loophole through
which the Louisiana senators might be able
to get what they wanted or at least an ap-
proach to it, in the contest on the floor of
the senate. Senator Proctor went before
the committee in the interests of the marble
industry OF Vermont, and urged that a
higher duty be placed upon that article.
- In the house, spirited debate arose
on the concurrence Of the senate amend
| tn fhA hi .,Hsv, -ntlr
panies operating in the territories to estab-
lish stations at all town sites established by
the interior department Mr.. Thompson
inquired IL the government intended to
protect the people who live at town sites
located by the interior department, or was
it going to turn 10000 people over to the
tender mercies Of the Rock Island railroad
and the land companies of Oklahoma? The
discussion of the silver seigniorage bill was
resumed, and later the time was devoted to
eulogies of the late Representative Lilley OF
Pennsylvania.
MoNDAY.-The name of Senator White OF
Louisiana to be associate justice of the
supreme court of the United States was sent
to the senate Monday afternoon. Within
an hour after the nomination was sent in
Mr.. White had been confirmed and the
president so notified. The resolution, here
tofore reported by the committee on resolu-
tions, that 1t was unwise and inexpedent tC
consider the annexation of Hawaii, was
taken up and was discussed at length by
Mr. Daniels of Virginia He characterized
the proposition as abhorrent to the common
instincts of honesty, and lauded the course
taken by President Cleveland and James III
,, Blount. A conference was agreed to on the
Oklahoma BILL and conferees were APP
! pointed. - In the house, the resolution
introduced last week by Mr.. Tawney Of
Minnesota, calling upon the secretary Of
the interior for an official statement of the
construction placed by the pension bureau
, vested right, was adopted. A futile at
; tempt was again made by Mr.. Bland to pas,
his motion that the house go into committee
! Of the whole on the seigniorage bill and
! that general debate he closed in thirty
minutes No quorum was present. After {
,, sharp tilt between Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Bland
! the house adjourned.