Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-02-14

with.
Washington, Feb. THE debate on
che administration bill to authorize
the issue OF $780, OO, 900 gold bonds
for the purpose Of retiring the legal
tender and treasury notes began in
the house, and continued for six hours.
IL developed widely divergent views
at the outset. The silver Democrats
n Populists opposed 1t outrighgt.
Some of the administration Democrats
favored n substitute on the lines of the
Carlisle bin. while Mr.. Reed, the lead
or of the Republicans, after a speech
charging the present trouble to the
deficiency In the revenue, introduced a
bill authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to sell 3 per cent coin bonds
CO keep up the gold reserve and GER
tifcates of indebtedness ~redeemable
mt the pleasure Of the government to
pay current expenses until the reye-
nues shall equal the expenditures. The
Issue OF gold bonds, he said, would
discriminate against the coin bond of
the past.
The senate session opened with n
very breezy personal alteration be-
tween Mr.. Mitchell (Or.) and Mr.. Har-
rls CTenn.). The words ''ungentleman-
ty" and Contemplate" were ex-
changed, and for q time 1t looked as
though the senate chamber might
witness a repetition of the b~elligerent
scene In the house last week. But the
conflict assumed a somewhat serio-
comic aspect and the senate soon re-
lapsed into an ~uneventful considera-
tion of routine business. The senate
modified the Japanese treaty so as to
provide for its ~abrogation on n
years notice after it goes into effect.
Washington, Feb. 8. - The second
days debate IN the administration bill
authorizing the issue of $500, 100000
of gold bonds for the retirement Of the
legal tenders and treasury notes was
not productive of marked incident OF
any kind. A good deal of confusion
existed when the committee began
voting on amendments to the bill.
Most Of the amendments were de-
feated as rapidly as offered. The COM
mittee on banking and currency sus-
tained two defeats, two of the amend
ments proposed by the committee be-
Ing voted down. They were the
amendment proposing to strike out
the section providing for the payment
OF Gust IS duties In gold, which vas
allowed to stand amended so as to
make them payable In gold and silver
coin. Mr.. BANDS substitute was
ruled out on a point of order.
The senate tool up the diplomatic
appropriation bill and was engaged
most of the day In debate over an
amendment appropriating 100000 to
begin the laying of a cable to Hawaii.
NO action was taken.
Washington, Feb. 9.-The last hope
of financial legislation for the relief Of
che treasury at the present session Of
congress went by the board and a
special session and a bond issue were
assuerd when the house, by a vote of
1874 to 161, rejected the administration
bill to authorize an issue of $500,0O0,-
600 gold bonds. The bill was beaten
before il reached its last parliamentary
stage. This result was reached aft,
three days Of spirited and at times
heated debate, and at the end of a
seven-hour session, from IL until $3.50
o'clock to-day. when the bin with the
:'ending substitutes was reported TO
the house from the committee of the
whole, amendments were offered in
rapid succession. most OF which were
voted down as fast as they were of
fered. Many of them were desired TO
load down the bin, and the votes
thereon were In no sense test votes.
The Bell amendment. for instance, to
make the bonds payable in gold and
silver, was defeated by the decisive
vote of 76 to 106, while the bill was de-
feated Icy 1874 to 161.
Both the Reed and Cox substitutes,
with the amendments thereto, We're re-
tected after the bill was reported TO
the house. The Reed substitute au-
thorizlRg the issue. of coin bonds for
the replenishment of the gold reserve
and certificates of indebtedness to de-
fray deficiencies in the was
lost-109 to 1877. 1t was a party vote,
save for the fact that seven Democrats
and Cannon OF California voted for 1t.
When the question came up on the
third reading and engrossing of the
bill, the whole opposition concentrated.
While the vote was being taken, which
resulted in the refusal of the house to
order the third reading, the interest
ecntered in the vote of Mr.. Reed. He
sat quietly in his seat during the first
call, and did not answer to his name;
DIT on the SccOnu cdll lie NOleu lOE the
bill. As son as the result was an
nounced Mr.. Reed attempted to make
an explanation of the attitude of him
self and those of his colleagues who
mad voted for the bin, but objections
were made. He afterward explained, !
however, that he had submitted a
proposition (his own substituted which
ne considered would meet the situa-
ton. The II mocrats ha' rejected
this, an ! ~ er he and ma.! Of his
colleagues, aitiious opposed TO features
OF the bill, had voted for 1t In the hope
thu 1t would ass and be amended in
the senat" MI. Springer then moved
10 > .ops'd ). the vote by which the
third reading was refused, but this
motion was laid on the table-135 to
I23-- and the bill was killed. parlia-
mentarily speaking. An analysis of
the vote shows that AZ Republicans
and 90 Democrats voted for the bill.
and 56 Republicans, 9S Democrats and
z Populists voted against ii.
The laying of a cable to Hawaii was
errtbar diScpcsad In tho Sonatp hut M