The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-27
CRAZY CONGRESS.
Republicans Reject the I'm.
piled Retirement of the
Legal Tender Notes.
PARTY RULED BY SILVER
The Now Useless Bond Bill to be
Debated Until Three To-
morrow.
PARTY RULED BY SILVER

ported to the House by Mr.. Dingley
(Rep., Me) as soon as the Journal had
been read and various corrections made
of the record of the vote yesterday on
the revenue bill.
Mr.. Daniels (Rep.. N. Y0 made a
unanimous report from the Committee
on Elections number one. declaring Mr..
Baking (Rep) entitled to the seat for
which Mr., McGann (Dem.) holds the
certificate from the Third District of
Illinois
Mr.. Daniels stated that Mr.. McGann
had appeared before the committee and
conceded Mr. Balknap's election, and
the committee cordially approved the
action of Mr. McGann for its fairness
and justice.
The resolution was agreed to and Mr..
Belknap appeared and took the oath of
office
Mr. Henderson Rep, Iowa) presented
a resolution from the Committee on
Rules providing for the discussion of
the bond bill until five O'Clock this af-
ternoon, and at an evening session from
7:3O to 10 o'clock and at 3 o'clock to-
morrow vote on its passage shall be
: taken.
Mr. Crisp Dem., Ga.), speaking to the
resolution, said he desired again to call
attention to the impropriety of the
course of the majority in this regard,
and to appeal to them, for their own
sakes, to proceed with greater caution
and deliberation
The experience with the two bills al
ready reported to the House. he said,
should induce them to make haste
slowly. The bond bill, as originally pre-
pared, had occasioned murmurs and cri-
ticisms on the Republican side because
it was couched in language the effect
of which would be to retire the green
backs What the Democrats said about
it had no weight, but Republican OBJ
lection led to a revision of the bill as
it had been hurriedly drawn in the
committee room Objection from the
same source, Mr.. Crisp said, had led
to a modification of the rule. proposed
yesterday to close debate and force a
vote at o'clock today, SO that the de-
bate had been extended for six hours.
The leaders of the House had yielded
to that objection. as yield they must on
all such occasions; and MF. Crisp urged
upon Republican representatives who
were opposed to the bill to make their
objections valid by voting against a
rule which would deprive them of the
right of Offering any amendment to the
pTOpOS0u
The resolution was agreed to-yeas,
195; nays, 10l
The extension of time was due to a
conference held this mornig. The com
anittee of seven appointed by the Eb-
bftt House Republican Saucus last night
called upon Speaker Reed and Messrs.
Henderson and DalzeIl, the majority
members of the Committee on Rules.
Mr. Broderick of Kansas the Chairman
of the Caucus Committee. explained
the purpose of the caucus, the sentiments
expressed by the various members, and
added that these were the sentiments of
Republicans holding diverse views on
the silver question. He urged that the
time for debate on the bond bill be ex-
tended and that the Republican op-
ponents of the measure should have con-
troll of their own time
According to one of the members pres
ent there was a disposition on the part
of majority of the Rules Committee
not to comply with the request made
of them. This led one of the visitors to
state that they represented eighty Re-
publican votes against the measure.
which. with a Said Democratic minor
ity, would be sufficient to defeat it.
This was followed by general con-
versation, which resulted in an agreement
with the Speaker that a resolution
should be reported from the Rules Com
mittee extending debate until three
O'Clock Saturday afternoon and giving
the dissatisfied Republicans control of
their time, as requested.
1t was also agreed-and this the OPP
posing Republicans consider matter of
great importance-that the bond bill
shall be voted upon by sections. This
permits them to support the las. section.
providing for the increase of fifty mill
ions of certificates of Indebtedness and
to oppose the first section, which specifi-
cally authorizes the bond issue.
Today's session of the House will be
supplemented by night session which
win begin at seven o'clock. in order that
the fullest opportunity for debate shall
be had.
The opposition to the bond bill, which
\ developed with unexpected rapidity
among the Republicans in the House
sIyesterday-an opposition which it was
claimed threatened to defeat the pas
sage of the bill-resulted in it's amend
ment by the Ways and Means COMMITTEES
Hhis morning SO as to prevent the retire
1nent of the legal tender notes. The i'm
nled retirement of these notes in the
bill as originally agreed upon, furnished
the inspiration for much of the hostfi-
4 ity to the measure among certain of the
Republicans who belong to what Is term
ed 'stae sound money wing of the party.
The action of the committee today nulli-
fes this hostility and in the language
Of Mr.. Hopkins of Illinois, through whose
efforts the bill was amended, ENSURES
IT'S passage through the House"
When the Ways and Means Committee
met this morning the amendment pre-
pared by Mr.. Hopkins was inserted in the
hill as part of Section l and tale.Chair-
man was directed to report the measure
ITO the House in that form
Section /, as amended, after giving
authority to the Secretary of the Treas
nry to sell coin bonds bearing interest
at per cent, redeemable after years
reads as follows:
And the Secretary of the Treasury
shall use the proceeds thereof for the
redemption of United States legal tender
notes and for no other purpose; provided
that notlEng in this act shall be con-
grrued to repeal or modify the act ap-
ps'oyed May /, 1878, entitled IAN act te
forbid further retirement of United
states legal tender notes. tsss sse.
Then follows the reanainde: q the sec