The herald., 1895-02-24

ness of 5000, 900 to that nation with inter-
est due from the United States, the same
having been appropriated in 1889 to enable
them to make per capita payment to the
Creek Company and to liquidate the
Creek Nation s indebtedness.
at Mr.. Aliens suggestion he modified
his amendment to prevent the sale or as
signment of certificates at less than par.
Mr.. Aldrich said he should move to amend
the amendment by providing for the
immediate payment of the debt.
How are you going to pay it if there is
no money in the treasury" asked Mr..
| Jones.
There is money in the treasury"
| answered Mr.. Aldrich, "and there will al
ways be money there to pay it. Mr.. Cleve-
land has said there is comfortable sur
| plus. We ought either to pay this
money or to authorize the Secretary to
| borrow it,.
Mr.. Morgan said he knew the Muskogees
were very fond of coins, especially silver
half dollars.
II shall offer an additional amend
ment," said he, ''that provides that por-
ton of the seigniorage in the treasury
shall be coined into half dollars to pay
| this debt. | know these people would be
| glad to get this money. This money is
| good for all debts up to IS, and we have
| the surplus bullion in the treasury, and
this gives us the finest opportunity in the
world to pay this debt. L do not think
we would break Wall street by the trans
action, and we would certainly not lower
the credit Of the United States in Wall
street or London"
Aldrich said he should hate to make the
Creek Nation accept its debt in such
small coin.
After some further debate the vote was
taken on Mr.. Aldrich's amendment, pro-
viding for the immediate payment of
$500, 900 of the debt. 1t was carried, and
Mr.. Morgan then offered his amendment,
providing for the payment in silver coins.
An amendment by Mr.. Aldrch to the
Morgan amendment, adding these words,
'or in such other lawful money of the
United States as the Greek Nation shall
desire,' was adopted, and then the Nor
gan amendment as amended was adopted
without division.
Mr.. Vest moved to strike out the provis-
ion for the office of superintendent of In
dian schools. Before this could be acted
D
lay aside informally the Indian bill and
take up the pooling bill. The roll was
called on Mr.. Buffers motion, which was
defeated-yeas, "a; nays, AZ, as follows:
Yeas-Blanchard, Butler, Caffery, Cam
den, Cameron, Carey, Daniel, Faulkner,
Gray, Harris Higgins, Hunton, Lindsay,
Lodge MCPHERSON, Manderson Mitchell
(Wis.), Murphy, Proctor, Quay, Ransom,
Squire, Walsh, Walcott; total, "a.
Nays-Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Bate,
Berry, Blackburn, Call, Chandler, Clark,
Cockrell, Davis Dixon, Dubois, Frye,
George, German, Hale, Hansbrough,
Hawley, Hill, Jones (Ark.) }, Kyle Nc
Laurin, Mcmillan, Mantle, Mitchell (Ore.), },
Morgan, Morrill, Pascoe, Peffer Petit
grew, Platt, Power, Pugh, Roach, Sher-
man, Smith, Teller, Turpie, Vest, Villas,
Washburn; total, AZ.
Mr.. Chandler deprecated the disposition
among the Senators to impute motives
to each other in their conduct with any
measure.
"Will the Senators who do not take the
same view of this question as does the
Senator from Maryland and myself be
kind enough to concede we all stand on
the same plans?'
Chandler then discussed the bill on its
merits asserting the railway managers
had demanded that the bill should be
passed just as it came from the House.
He took especial exception to the first and
predicted it would never be passed by the
present or any Congress.
Mr.. Butler abandoned his fight with an
impassioned reply to Mr.. Chandler's as
sertons about the railway lobby.
'No lobby has any terrors for an honest
man."
Mr.. Butler claimed the bill was directly
in favor of the people and expressed his
indignation that the bill should be side
tracked.
Mr.. Hale criticised Mr.. Butler for al
lowing his bill to drag along through al
most three weeks until the very end OF
the session before making a determined
effort to secure it's consideration, and said
the fault of the failure was his alone
"He cannot pass this bill," he con-
cluded sin twenty-four hours, nor in the
rest of the session, and he knows it,"
Mr.. Butler retorted that this was the
old plea that had been made at every
stage of the procedure.
''It is the best plea, +" said Mr.. Hale,
land the plea and the reasons for it grow
more urgent every day"
docs not the Senator know" asked
Mr.. Wolcott of Mr.. Hale, that scores and
scores of Senators on this side of the
chamber have been requested to speak on
to appropriation bills in
which they had not the slightest interest
for the sole purpose of consuming time
and so prevent the consideration of the
pooling bill?"
Mr.. Hale disclaimed any knowledge OF
such state of things. He said no such
speeches had been made nor would be
necessary for the consumption of all the
time to the end of the session.
Mr.. Butler said that when yesterday the
announcement was made of the decision
OF the steering committee that the Indian
bill could have been passed in two hours,
there had been prolonged
debate and very shortly afterward an
executive session.
''That might deceive some folks" he
added, "but it did not deceive me. Let
us have a vote on this bill. ~
"You can't get vote on bill until
you get it before the Senate" replied
Hale. "Will you vote to take it up now?'