The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-13

WASHINGTON, March l2.-The Vice
President being still absent, the Senate
was presided over 10 day by Harris, its
official president pro tenn.
After some routine morning business,
Blanchard's credentials were presented
by his colleague, Gallery, and read. and
then Blanchard, escorted by his col
league, went to the Vice Presidents
chair and took the oath of office, as ad
ministered to him by the presiding Off
Ger. Attention was called by Mander-
son and Dolph TO Certain verbal inaccu-
racies in the credentials which were
properly amended.
Attention was also called by Dolph
and G, ckereil (Dom., Mo J 10 the circu-
lars vi firm VI Washington claim
agents, Harvey, SpAulding & Co, to
purchasers OF Northern Pacific railroad
land and to postmasters all over the
the country, as to their salaries, which
circulars were denounced by those
Senators as gross fraud and swindle
and one for which the parties should be
prosecuted and punished
A substitute for the tariff bill was
introduced by PETER and he gave no
tice that he would seek an early oppur-
tunity OF addressing the Senate on the
subject. An amendment to the tariff
bill was also given notice of by Gallinger
(Rep., N. Ii J to the effect that the bill
should be operative so far as importa-
tions from Canada were concerned only
upon proclamation of the President,
and that Il commission should be ap-
pointed looking to freedom OF COM
mercial intercourse with Canada.
The resolution offered last Friday by
PETER for the investigation OF news
paper statements as to some Senators
having been engaged in stock iobbing
having made large profits therefrom,
was laid before the Senate, and, az
German moved to lay the resolution
upon the table, botn Senators were
notified by tho presiding officer that. as
the resolution created charge against
the contingent fund, it could not be con.
sidered for any purpose until it had
been referred to the committee on con-
tingent expenses.
That objection WAS immediately re-
n owed by PETERS modifying the resolu
ton by eliminating such portion of It
as req uired expense to be incurred; and
then PETER addressed the Senate stat.
ing his reasons for offering the resolu.
zion.
German denounced the practice Of
bringing to the attention Of the Senate
all the newspaper gossip re flecting on
Senator's or the Senate. 1t seemed to
him as if there was a ell-organized at
tempt. encouraged inqualeter, where it
should receive no encouragement, to be-
little and degrade the Senate.
he moved to lay the resolution upon
the table. The motion was agreed to,
and the resolution was laid on tho table,
yeas, 33; nays, 27.
The seiginorage bill was then up and
Villas continued the speech against it
which no begun last Friday. The OBJ
j cts and motives of the bill would be
best gathered, no said, by consider
alton of what it's author was and what
wero his purposes. From that point OF
view, it was that, while to it's friends
the me asure was a promise to him it
was menace. He believed that every
man who inclined TO favor tho bill for
the reason that it seemed harmle
measure, or measure of little harm.
WAS mistaken.
Allison (Rep., Iowa) addressed tho
Senate. He said that he had made the
motion to reconsider for tho purpose Of
having cured, what he considered, man.
ifest defects in tho bill. lie agreed
largely with those who said that tho
silver bullion in tho Treasury, in its
present form, was not available for any
purpose save one, and that was for sale.
t could not be used for the redemption
of any OF the paper obligations of the
Government.
Mr. Wolcott (Rep., Colo } said that
while it would be agreeable TO him to
have AMENDMENTS offered to the bill
still it's friends had right to see it
pass without such amendments.
At the close of Wclcott's remarks tho
Senate adjourned until tomorrow.
HOUSE DISCUSSES THE TROLLEY.