The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-14
HEAVY COINAGE OF GOLD
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Chair TO Count $ Sssor@ss by Means
of the Pairs.
Washington, April l&-Ia the senate
to-day after soure little roo;sno morning
business. the consideration az the further
urgent deficiency bill was resumed; and
an amendment was offered by Mr.. COck-
rel, chairman Of the committee on ap-
preparations. appropriating $4,000 for q
deficiency in the wages of workmen aud
adIusJers At the Philadelphia mint In
connection with it MIR. Cockreu read a
letter from Mr.. Preston, director Of the
mint, stating that the deficiency is due
solely TO the large coinage of gold re-
quired 10 meet the demands Of
the treasury. He gives the
amount of gold coined at the
Philadelphia mint since July !. at SOL
5l7, AS; in subsidiary silver 81, 2S9, 600,
and in minor coins s704, 3s6. Mr.. Preston
also saws that there is now on hand at the
Philadelphia mint and at the New York
assay Office about 500, 200, 900 of gold bul-
lion, of which not less than 500. COG, 900
should be coined before July ! next. which
would make the aggregate gold coinage
of the Philadelphia mint for the year
about $50, goo, OOO-the largest coinage ever
executed at any mint in any one year.
The amendment was agreed to.
PETERS TARIFF PLATFORM.
At o'clock, the tariff bill was taken up,
and Mr.. PETER continued his speech on
the subject, the fourth installment He
concluded his speech in about three quar-
tiers of an hour, and in closing defined
the platform on which he stood as re-
CARDS the tariff bill He was utterly
opposed, he declared, to the mod
ern system of protection, of which
the Mckinley bill was an example.
He would have favored the Wilson bill
as it came from the House, either with
the immediate or gradual wiping out of
the sugar bounty Il am ready for free
trade" he said, IF the rest of US are;
but as long as my neighbors claim pro-
lection for manufacturers, | shall claim
protection for the products of the farm. |
am opposed to the new bill before US, be-
cause it discriminates against the people
l represents; because it removes
the duty from the farmers, while
retaining IL on manufacturers cloths,
ana because. while | favor the income
tax as good step in that direction, this
bill does not go far enough. The bill
taken as a whole, do not regard as any
improvement on the law now in force,
and as to wool and sugar, it is much
worse. IF this is the best sample of a
tariff bill that the democrats can give US,
| will wait until populists come in to
power. How many votes will be cast
upon the final passage of the bill will
depend on what changes are made in the
meantime
A LEGISLATIVE MONsTROsITY.
Mr. Mitchell, rep, of Oregon. next ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
bill. MIR. Mitchell's attitude toward
the bill was very clearly defined. In his
opinion it was destitute of single good
point. 1t brought the spirit of free trade
with all its bighting consequences, and it
mercilessly assailed capital and labor
alike. IL was based on no definite princi-
pie or policy of customs taxation. 1t was
neither free trade nor protection and yet
1t was both. 1t was a legislative mon
strosity, and patriotism demanded that it
be stricken in the legislative womb and
never be permitted to be born. MIR.
Mitchell spoke three and half hours on
these lines.
At the close of Mr. Mitchell's speech
Mr.. Cockrell moved to proceed to the
consideration of the further urgent de-
ficiency bill, but Mr.. Chandler interposed
with motion to adjourn, and called for
the yeas and nays.
The vote resulted: Yeas. g.; (all repub-
licans) nays, %; no quorum. Then there
was roll call, which showed the presence
of forty-three members, exactly a
quorum.
HILL WANTS TO COUNT A QUORUM.
Mr.. Hill inquired as to how many pairs
had been announced on the voting. and
was informed that the number of pairs
was nine. so that, said he. ''if these
| pairs had been entered on the journal,
quorum would have been actually
present"
Il object to discussion" Mr. Chandler
| interposed. There is no cebateable
| question before the Senate"
! Everything is debatable in this Sen.
| ate said Mr.. Hill,
Il make the parliamentary point that
as there were thirty-siX senators voting
and nine pairs announced by senators
present, that made a quorum actually
| present; and the Senate is entitled to dc
business under well regulated rules that
have prevailed in other bodies and ought
to prevail here
1.-The senator from New York said