The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-28
TIE NATIONS CAPITOL
The Financial Question in the Senate Eyokes
Personal Amenities and Harsh IKeClYes.
THE NEW BATTLESHlP KENTUCKY
'Ehc Gold RcScrve-.A Joint Resolution
FnYornbIy Reported In the House
for Acceptance OF the Natahdin =
Republican Senate Caucus rHcId-
The Batticship Indiana.

| Washington, Dec. 2I.-House.-In nc-
cordancc with the decision OF the Com
mittec on Ways ana Means reached last
Monday. Chairman Dingley to-day re-
ported to the House the bill to provide
FOR the restoration and protection of the
| gold reserve by the sale of 5 per cent.
| bonds ana To authorize the issue of GER
| tlhcates of Indebtedness to meet def
| cicncies in revenue. But under the
protests OF n large number Of Rcpubli-
cans. the bill was amended by the com
| inittcc at IL meeting held this morning
anu thc programme calling for II vote
| on The passage of the bill at O'Clock
| to-day wa. changed so as to give six
hours for debatc-thrcc tonight and
| thfee to-r.orrow, the vote to he taken
At O'Clock Saturday afternoon. The
resolution from the Rules Committee
| 10 This effect was adopted--lga to lOI-
| after 1t had been nntagonized bv
| AleasrS. Crisp. Bailey and McNiIlliu. The
| Repuhlicans refraining from discussing;
The debate on tho bond bin was
Opened by Mr.. Dincley. who advocated
,ls passage in speech Of nearly an
| hours duration.
lie said It's provisions would tend to
| Stfensth"n and protect the cold 20
| serve by making ii n fund for. tbn ro
| tcihption OF Erecnbacks only and not
luhd To be drawn upon for current
| EXPENSES. 1'''
me passage Of the bill was also advo.
t'er Nv III the course of the afternoon by
ar. Grosvenor NtcpD, of Ohio. MS n M
trloiic duty; by Lacey RepJ. OF ohio.
ana johnson NtepJ. Of North. T.ltota,
| VI was opposed by MIR. Turner (Dcml )
"t beof2ia- who said that the Ameri-
cans wanted all the paper money rntirad
ana If he had had an opportunity IN 10
bill 90 a'''en" thc
| IT was also opposed by Mr.. Patterson
| 'ccn) "i Tennessee who said the duty.
-! nohfress was 10 restore condolences
~ ihe currency of the country and by
MesSrs. Swanson CDem.l of Virginia and
W hccier tDemD of Alabama
me sensation of the day came at n
'itts i honr IN The afternoon, when Mr.
in impassloned manner the opposition
| Ia The measure in the ranks of the ma
!oFl'E -" said IL gave the lie to every
itcpupi"an II speech and each Repuhli-
can speech and each Republican plat
lorm and he pleaded with his political
asSncaation to vote against it, He was
| checreh by the Democrats and many
republicans as he predicted the defeat
| OF the first section of the bill and de-
cinred that the only true relief to be
coinage OF silver.
Before the debate was entered upon
by the report Of the COMMITTEES on Flee
tions. No. !. which commended MIR. Nc
Cam for his fairness and justice in
Hugh lSclknap was declared to b,.
entitled TO the seat from the
Third Illinois district. for which Mr..
Lawrence r.. McGann. held the certiti-
cate. Mr. Belknap was sworn in by the
Speaker. AT $ o'clock the House rose
"A ~ tn. nj "a ~,
There was not more than n dozen
Republicans In their seats when Speak
| er Reed called the House to order at Z
O'Clock.
Mr.. Wheeler Dem.) of Alabama, who
was entitled to the floor, having held
II when the House arose for recess. be-
ing absent, Mr. Terry CDcm) OF Arkan-
sas. was recognized. He read a speech
against the single gold standard, intro
duceh by n brief reference to the pend
ing bill.
Later in the evening the attendance
increased to almost 100 members.
MIR. Underwood CDem) of Alabam
stated his ohjectino to the pending
hill to he in the fact that II could
result in the retirement of the green
backs. despite the declarations on the
floor, and the provision in the bill ap-
parently to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
The first speech Of the evening in favor
OF tHt Dlll was maze Dy MT. "cilinE-
ton URep.) of Maryland. He supported
the revenue measure of yesterday and
the pending bill because he believed
that the first duty Congress owed the
people was the protection Of the credit
of the nation, and this these bills pro-
videtl.
Mr.. Wilson Rep3 Of Idaho, explain
Ing his opposition to the bill, said the
gentleman from Maryland CWclling
toni had given him an excellent reason.
which was that President Cleveland
was the father of the measure
Mr. Bowers GRcp). of California, said
the pending hill was either n fat propo
siticl to destroy the greenbacks, or 1t
did not mean anything.
Mr.. Gibson Rep). of Tennessee, said
the pending measure was proposed in
response 10 the appeal of the President
who. while he was n Democrat. was the
President OF the United States Of Amer
lea The question was not Il practical
or financial one. but an American one
and the Republican party would sup
port of the President on that ground.
The remedy for the situation which
would occur to any one from ordinary
ranks of life, said Mr.. DeIArimond
(Deml of Missouri. was to coin into
standard silver dollars the silver bull
lion in The Treasury with It's $4,000. oGn
OF seigniornEc. followed by the coinage
of silver as gold is coined.
The debate was continued by NIr.
NorthwnY Utep.). of Ohio. in support
of the hill.