Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-21
SD CONGRESS.
The House Discusses the Car
Isle Currency Bill.
The Amendments to Be Bunched and
offered as a Substitute.
Thought This VIII Save Delay Caused by Sepa-
rate Consideration.

Washington, Dec. 0.-Breckinridge
Dem of Kentucky, from the committee
on appropriations, reported the urgency de
ticiency bill, carrying $500, 900 for con-
tinuing the work of the 18th census. He
stated that the urgent deficiency
bill passed by the House last week, in
cluding this with other items, would not
pass the Senate before the holidays, and
unless this sum was appropriated, the
census bureau would have TO be closed.
Cannon suggested tine importance of in
Guiding in the bill an appropriation of
$780, 900 also made IN the bill passed last
week for the payment of witnesses and
jurors in the United States courts. The
bill was amended by the insertion of
800, 600 for this purpose, and as thus
amended was passed.
On motion of Sickles the Senate bin
granting pension of 500 a month to
Mary Palmer Banks, widow of Gen. \.
p Banks, was passed. Outhwaite, from
the committee on rules, offered a concur
rent resolution providing for a holiday
recess from Dec. % to Jan. 3. English
made the point of no quorum on the vote
on its passage: yeas 40; nays o. whereup-
on the resolution was withdrawn.
McCreary Dem. of Kentucky, reported
from the committee on foreign affairs the
resolution offered by Blair calling for all
the correspondence between this govern
ment and those of Japan and China, re
specting the pending war. The resolution
went to the calendar
The House went into committee of the
whole and further discussed the currency
bill Sperry, member of the committee
on banking and currency, spoke generally
in support of the bill. He criticized the
provision of the bill which changed the
form, value and amount of the security
deposited to secure the notes already is
sued and asserted the Congress had not
the constitutional power to make the
change He would move to amend the
bill by making its provision in this re
gard apply only to the notes hereafter to
be issued and leave the security for the
notes already out undisturbcd
The abolition of the redemption
bureau in Washington was also OBJ
jected to by Sperry. He thought
it should be pcrmissivo in char
acter and supplement- the national bank
law He said that at present gold was
really at premium because the banks and
business men pFclcfTtu IL W sltNSI III
their reserves and accounts, this being
due to the fact that there was impending
over the people, $500, 000, 600 in silver, the
parity with gold resting upon tremulous
basis.
Sperry declared that the conditions
confronting the treasury now were the
legitimate consequences and results OF
Republican legislation in the 5lst Con
gress sometimes called the Mckinley
Congress. There was not a single Rcpub-
lican speaker on the stump or on this
floor, he said, but what denied his re
sponsibilty and that of his party for the
legislation and its consequences. In
conclusion Sperry said the government
should redeem the greenbacks by the sale
of bonds, funding its Indebtedness once
for all, instead of funding it day by day.
Brosius (Rep) Of Pennsylvania opposed
the bill. He said the discussion had de
veloped the fact that the friends OF the
measure, while advocating its passage,
were opposed to every section of it. He
maintained that every witness before the
banking and currency committee sub
stantially predicted a financial crash to
follow the enactment of the bill. He as
serted that the bill did not even tend to
relieve the existing conditions.
Resolutions accepting the statues were
agreed to and the House adjourned.