Red Lodge picket., 1895-01-12
CAUCUS ENDORSED 1T
Carlisle Currency Plan Receives
Approval.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
Prominent Democratic Leaders Assert
That the Bill Can Not Pass the
Lower House.

Washington. Jan. by vote OF 81
to 10 the democratic house caucus voted
today to indorse the Carlisle substitute
currency bill.
Speaker Crisp took the lead in pre-
s.nting the resolution and vigorously
urged the necessity Of It's adoption.
The committee on rules was instructed
to bring in a rule tomorrow TO close the
debate Efforts to amend Crisps reso-
luton We're voted down, one Of the
adverse votes showing only l3 members
Of the caucus favorable to the issue "t
bonds to retire greenbacl<S.
The result of the caucus is accepted
with considera BE apprehension by the
friends OF the bill, Notwithstanding the
passage Of the resolution Of endorse
ment
The 81 votes which the amendment
commanded in the caucus is far short
Of the number necessary to pass il in
the house.
It is the belief, i5oWeEer, That many
Of the 50 votes reco"ded asainst the res
olution Win be changed now that the
Carlisle bill has prestige Of the caucus
amendment. But there were several
prominent leaders who asserted lit The
close of the caucus chat the vote showed
conclusivcIy that the bin could not
pass.
The caucus was called together with
MIR. Holman in the chair. All the party
leaders and the democratic members
IF the banking ANA currency committee
We're On hand. Tie following resolu-
lion was prepared by Mr.. Springer and
introduced by Speaker Crisp:
"keeolvt !, that il is the sense Of this
caucus thSt the Carlisle currency bill
should be PASSED by the house substan-
TALLY as i IS presented in the substi-
tute whica has been printed in the
Record and which will be offered A The
proper time by the chairman of The
committee on banking and currency,
and that the committee on rules be
requested to report an order tomorrow
after the reading Of the journal which
shall provide for its consideration for
one more day for general debate and
thereafter under the tive-minute rule
and the final vote thereon j The near
t-st time practicable during the week.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, Jan. I'm the absence
II the Wee president and president
pro TEN, Senator Ransom was chosen
president pro TEN today. The oath Of
office was administered - the vener-
able Senator Morrill,. Senator Ransom
briefly thanked the senate for its tx-
PRECISION of confidence. I was due TO
himself to say that IN the return ot the
distinguished senator from Tennessee
fEarriSD, who had been elected presi-
dent pro tenn, he should ask to Ee re
lieEed from the position. The presiding
officer then called Senator Henderson
10 the chair. and the resolution was
adopted authorizing the secretary of
The senate to inform the president OF
The United States and the house of
representa- dives Of its action regarding
1he election Of presiding officer.
Senators George and Butler opposed
lhe Lodge resolution calling on the sec
.etary Of the navy for information why
United States warships had been with
drawn from Hawaii
Senator Peffer then made a speech
on the pension bill. after which the sen
ate proceeded to consideration Of the
Nicaraguan canal bill Senator Nit
chell Of Oregon addressed the senate.
S3e said Since the early history of
che government, in the absence Of othal
arguments. the constitutionality OF a
zleasure has been the Shibboleth in
yoked by those who desire its defeat.
So far from the pending bill being a
proposition TO guarantee the payment
nf If "a ia nc
suggested by Senator Turpie and thus
promote mere private ana personal
ends, it is a proposition to guarantee
the bonds of the great public corpora
ton intended to advance great national
and international interests. Seventy
per cent of the stock will be held by the
United States, the balance by Mica
agua, Costa Rica and Maritime Canal
Company
The constitutional question present
I'd is whether the government, in the
ample plentitude Of lis power. has the
constitutional capacity to do that which
ali must concede, tends directly and in
an unreasonable degree to promote
commerce, which is included in the
power to regulate commerce. not only
with foreign nations, but among the
StNefal states, ana Whlch tends, more
over, as with the construction Of the
NiCaraguan canal, to add incomparab
ly to our natiOna! provision for com
mon defense and pfGmotl"n ot the gen
er;l welfare.
VIII it be said that there is no CON
StitutiOnal power in congress to do
this? The distinguished senator. while
conceding that there IL no inhibition in
the constitution against 1t, says Very
properly that the material question
should be: Is there anything in tha
instrument allowing, permitting nr au-
thOriZing it, ana then assuming that
there is not, he triuTnphantly declares
that the silence Of the constitution is
as obligatory as its utterances.
The constitution is not silent upon
fhe subject Of regulation Of commerce
svith foreign nations and among the
several states, nor is il silent upon the
general subject Of a provision for com
mon defense ana promotion Of general