The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-28
When The Bond Bill Goes to the Sen.
ate II Will Be EmaSCulated.
THE PROBABLE FATE OF THE TWO BILLS.
Thc Tariff Biil saay pass the Senate.
But VIII Lsic at the white House
Fhc Bond Bill Will Never Reach
There iu its PrcSent ForIn-Sirns
OF II Short Session.
Especial Correspondence.)
Eirginian Bureau,
Washington. d. @. De,

Col. Wm. Lamb, of Norfolk. was in
washington to-day. This evening he
addressed the following open letter to
Senator John w. Daniel
Washington, d. c.. Dec. 81. 1896
Hon. John W. Daniel Senator from
Nirginia:
Dear Sir:-I respectfully call your at
tention to the following item from n re.
cent issue of the Boston (Mass) news.
paptf: Dorliriun coal will pay 81 next
month on the preferred none of the
common. The company is putting u
great deal Of its product into this coun-
try now 1t is being sold at just about
cost in order to make friends and trca q
market The Maine Central is so well
satisfied that beginning next year all
It's engines will be run with Dominion
coal The Boston ana Maine passenger
engines this week began using Alr.Whit-
neE coal The experiment on the
freight engines having proved success
iul, the Fitchburg ia also using Donin-
ION coal and increasing Its orders Some
oi our large manufacturing concerns are
DOING the same. They are all furnished
al ilrSt with men to teach Their eng-
neers how to uS1 Cape Breton coal.
When once in it stays. Some remarlta-
Die experiments with this coal have just
peen concluded in Manchester. They
proved that ii is far cheaper! i'm araS
making than the Southern coal now en-
nloycd"
The above information is pregnant
with much disaster and distress TO the
people cf the TWO Virginias. You arc
aware that previous to the party per,
lidy ana rarty dishonor" tariff bill of
iS"3 going Unto operation .he
virginia ports shipped over 1000.
ooo oo tons of hituminous steam
land: that after the reduction of duty
on bituminous coal from 75 cents to 80
events this price had to be corresponds
;;nEiy reduced In these markets, whore
u was consumed mostly altogether by
lorciSn steamships ana manufacturers
OF protected Goods and railroads haulin.;
these protected goods; that notwith,
standing the reduction OF price tn.
trade decreased through foreign COM
petition, ana stocks in tho mines i'm tho
two Nirginas resulting from -: great
NirGinin ana West Virginia trunk limo
coal carrying railroad going into the
hands OF receivers from the effects of
the aforesaid tariff. The pa,agi.aph
quoted above shows that this railroad,
which has done so much for the pcopIr
or the two Nirginias, has lost two of its
largest customers. This British cor,
poration. The Dominion Coal Com,
nnhE;' which pays royalty to the Brit
lsh crown on every ton of coal mined,
mas perfected it's plant and shipping
faculties, and is now ready. under the
i'fltish ilag. to take the customers of
our virginia miners from them, and
leave them in poverty and want Can
YOU, rs Nirginia's representatives cal lmlv
witness this spoliation of Your people
without Il protest. I beg of YOU then. TO
insist upon an amendment to the House
Revenue bill Just passed, putting the
leNSS on all bitlminouS coal from the
nEurcS that the Canadian Government
lcVys on all bituminous coal from the
United States imported into the Domin.
ION VIZ: 90 per cent. rar ton 1000 or
% 10 per cent. per 2,2i0 pounds. The
scheme will not fall on account Of nee
cssary delay for this act of justice. and
President Cleveland Is too much of n
patriot TO veto thu bill on account OF
ms protection of our people from Brit
fsh competition. Your fellow citizen,
(SiEneD WM LAMR
The bond bill was taken up in the
House to-day, and the debate vote will
be taken at O'clock tomorrow.
me hrst clause of the bill pro-
Nlhcs authority for the issu-
ance by the Secretary of the Troosurv
OF per cent. bonds rcdcemable after
iiNe years, the, proceeds of which shall
pc used for the redemption of legal ten
der notes. \ number of the Republi-
cans conceived the idea yesterday that
under this provision n hostile Secretary
might issue bonds. redeem the legal
tender notes, and fail 10 reissue them
as provided In the present law and thus
contract the currency, ana mum Der
OF them held meeting last night and
decided to attempt an amendment pro-
riding for the reissue of the notes by
the Secretary.
They were too late. however, the edict
had gone forth from the Gear, and as the
laws of the Mcdes and Persians. so do
his mandates stand. 1t matters but
little, however, in what shape this bill
goes to the Senate for the silver men
have already demonstrated their
strength In that body, and when they
finish with this bill its best friends I'm
the House would fail to recognize it.
Thus the two bills stand. The tariff
bill may pass the Senate and meet its
just fate at the White House, while
the bond bill. that would In all probabil-
ity he approved by the President has
but n shadow of a chance ever to reach
him In anything like its present form.
The Democrats in the House offered
no substitute for the tariff bill. but
stood simply upon the present law and
voted against the new bill. To-day
however, they came forward with q
mongrel measure in which silver was
the star performer. supported by n
motley array of vaudeville comedians,
representing about every phase of tinnn-
cial burlesque.
The Orntora in Despair.
When Mr.. Reed, In his opening speech,
In the House, intimated that this would
he a "do nothing" Congress, the orators