The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-19
FOR union With Canada
A Resolution Offered by a Member
from New Hampshire.
SENATOR HILL on CLOTURE
Debate on the Carlisle Currency Dream
Begins in the House = Mr.. Springer
and Mr.. Walker Occupy the Floor.
The Gettysburg Park.
By the United Press.

By the United Press.
Washington, Dec. 1S.-In the senate
today the house bill for the forfeiture
of railroad lands in cases where the
road was not built within the time
fixed by the grant, although subse-
quently completed and accepted by
the government, was reported back ad-
Versely from the committee on public
lands and placed on the calendar. 1t
was stated by the chairman of the COM
mittee (Mr. Berry, Dem, Ark) that the
members of the committee stood five for
and five against the bill, but that one
of the former had voted for an adverse
report rather than have the bill die in
committee, and so that there might be
vote of the senate upon it.
A resolution in favor of the political
union of Canada and the United States
was offered by Mr.. Gallinger Rep.,
N. H) and referred to the committee
on foreign relations with the suggest
ion that this committee shall grant
hearings on the subject.
An hours speech was made by Mr.
Hill (Dem., N. " in favor of his pro-
posed cloture rule-the keynote of the
speech being that IAN inability to stop
debate is an inability to legislate at
ALL"
He was followed by Mr.. Hoar Rep.,
Mass.) who expressed his full agree
ment with Mr.. Hills view of the neces-
sity of change of the rules in the
senate. The resolution went over with
out action till tomorrow.
The Nicaragua canal bill was then
taken up and Mr.. Turpie (Dem., Ind)
continued his attack upon it, but had
not concluded his speech when the
senate at 4S0 p. m. adjourned.
House Considers Currency.
The debate upon the currency plan
proposed in the Carlisle bill, reported
from the committee on banking and
currency, was begun in the house to-
day, according to the notice given yes
terday by Chairman Springer. The
first speakers We're Mr. Springer, Dem.,
lll), chairman of the committee on
banking and currency, in favor Of the
bill, and Mr. Walker, Rep., Mass.),
who advocated the adoption of his bill
which he said he would offer as a
substitute for the Carlisle bill These
gentlement, recognized as the leaders of
the forces for and against the bill,
spoke without limit and were listened
to attentively throughout by a large
proportion of the members Of the house.
The bill which was before the house,
Mr.. Springer said, did not represent the
views of any member of the committee
or of the house in its entirety. 1t was a
compromise measure, and submitted as
the best that could be hoped for at the
present time.
Proceeding then to explain the pro-
visions of the bill, Mr.. Springer quoted
from the report of the committee to
show first what the bill required in lieu
of the deposit of United States bonds
or other interest bearing obligations as
security for the circulating notes. as al
ready made public in his report Mr..
Springer contrasted the provisions of
the bill for redemption of notes of
failed banks with those of the so called
Baltimore plan, asserting that they
We're practically identical in their eff
feet and extent. All the national banks |
and bankers in the United States had |
endorsed the Baltimore plan as a safe |
and desirable one. If this bill was en-
acted into law it would improve our
system. 1t would not only do |
this, but in his opinion, it would give
the United States the best financial sys-
TEN Of any civilized country in the
world.