The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-01-12
Carlisle Currency Plan Receives
Approval.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
Prominent Democratic Leaders Assert
THAT the Bill Can Not Pass the
Lower House.


currency bill.
Speaker Crisp took the lead in pre-
senting the resolution and vigorously
urged the necessity of its adoption.
The committee on rules was instructed
to bring in a rule tomorrow to close the
debate Efforts to amend Crisp's reso-
luton were voted down, one of the
adverse votes showing only Is members
of the caucus favorable to the issue of
bonds to retire greenbacks.
The result of the caucus is accepted
with considerable 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 it in
the house.
1t is the belief, however, that many
of the SO votes recorded against the res
olution will be changed now that the
Carlisle bill has prestige of the caucus
amendment. But there were several
prominent leaders who asserted at the
close of the caucus that the vote showed
conclusively thai the bill could not
pass.
The caucus was called together with
Mr. Holman in the chair. All the party
leaders and the democratic members
of the banking and currency committee
were on hand. The following resolu-
ton was prepared by Mr.. Springer and
introduced by Speaker Crisp:
Resolved, that il is the sense of this
caucus that the Carlisle currency bill
should be passed by the house substan-
TALLY as it is presented in the substi-
tute which has been printed in the
Record and which will be offered at 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 it's consideration for
one more day for general debate and
thereafter under the five-minute rule
and the final vote thereon at the near
est time practicable during the week.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington. Jan. In the absence
OF the vice president and president
pro TEN, Senator Ransom was chosen
president pro TEN today. The oath of
Office was administered by the vener-
able Senator Morrill,. Senator Ransom
preston Of confidence. 1t was due to
himself to say that on the return of the
distinguished senator from Tennessee
(Harris) who had been elected pres-
dent pro TEN, he should ask to be re-
lieved from thu position. The presiding
officer then called Senator Henderson
to 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
representatives of its action regarding
the election of a presiding officer.
Senators George and Butler opposed
the Lodge resolution calling on the sec
rotary Of the navy for information why
United States warships had been with
drawn from Hawaii.
Senator PETER 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.
He said: "Since the early history of
the government, in the absence of other
arguments, the constitutionality of a
measure has been the Shibboleth in
voked by those who desire its defeat.
So far from the pending bill being a
proposition to guarantee the payment
of bonds of private corporations, as
suggested by Senator Turpie and thus
promote mere private and personal
ends, it is 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
ragua, Costa Rica and Maritime Canal
Company.
1.-The constitutional question present
ed is whether the government, in the
ample plentitude of it's power, has the
constitutional capacity to do that which
all 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
several states. and which tends, more
over, as with the construction of the
Nicaraguan canal to add incomparab-
" to our national provision for COM
mon defense and promotion of the gen
eral welfare.
"Will it be said that there is no con-
stitutional power in congress to do
this? The distinguished senator, while
conceding that there is no inhibition in
the constitution against it, says very
properly thai the material question
should be: rs there anything in the
instrument allowing. permitting or au-
thorizing it,? and then assuming that
there is not, he triumphantly declares
that the silence Of the constitution is
as obligatory as its utterances.
1.-THE constitution is not silent upor