Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-07
AN ALTERATION.
Qessrs. Mitchell and Harris Have
e spat In the Senate.
IN APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED.
The District Of Columbia Bill Passed After
Having Been Before the Senate .
Week-Admlnistration's Bond
bill In the House.

WASHINGTON, Feb 6.-The senate
session opened yesterday with very
breezy personal alteration between
Mr.. Mitchell, Of Oregon, and Mr.
Harris, Of Tennessee. The words "un-
gcntlemanly" and Contemplate
were exchanged, and for time IL
looked as though the senate chamber
might witness repetition Of the bel
ligerent scene in the house last week.
But the conflict assumed q somewhat
aerio-comic aspect, and the senate soon
relapsed into an uneventful considera.
ton of routine business. The District
Of Columbia appropriation bill was
passed, after having been before the
senate more than a week, and discus.
sion Of the diplomatic and consular
bill was begun. The senate then held
brief executive session and adjourned
ut 4.4O p. m
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-The debate on
the administration bill TO authorize the
issue of 100000, 900 gold bonds for the
purpose Of retiring the legal tenders
and treasury notes began in the house
yesterday and continued for six hours.
Mr.. Springer, Of Illinois, chairman Of
the committee on banking and cur
rency, opened the debate with a long
statement concerning the condition Of
the treasury. He produced figures to
show that there would be an estimated
surplus Of 100000 in the revenue at
the end of the present calendar year,
but deficiency at the end of the fiscal
year June 3d. of S26,OoO,oOO The de-
ticiency now was 1854 900, 900, but this
would be reduced sl4,OO0,OO0 in the
coming five months. On June 80, 1896,
he said, there would be in the treasury
$4,000, 900 Of surplus revenues This
surplus had been derived from the sale
Of bonds
The debate developed widely d.
vergcnt views at the outset. The sill
yer democrats and populists opposed 1t
outright Some of the administration
democrats, like Hail. Of Missouri, fa-
vored Il substitute on the lines OF the
Carlisle bill, while Mr.. Reed, the leader
Of the republicans, after speech charg-
Ing the present trouble TO the de-
tlciency In the revenue, introduced q
bill authorizing the secretary Of the
treasury to sell 5 per cent, coin bonds
to keep up the gold reserve, and certiA-
Gates of indebtedness, redeemable at the
pleasure of the government, to pay cur
rent expenses, until the revenues shall
equal the expenditures. The issue Of
gold bonds, he said, would discriminate
against the CON bonds of the past. Mr..
Patterson, a democrat from Tennessee,
on tho contrary, favored the issue Of
gold bonds. Alr. Simpson, Of Kansas.
regretted in beginning his speech that
he could addn1hilarity to 'lthis funeral
OCCASION He inquired whether the
'smoral obligations to which Mr..
Springer had referred as binding the
secretary to redeem obligations In gold,
and declared that it was an evil inher-
itancc from the republican rule He
characterized the new bill as com
plete surrender Of the democratic party
to the banking interest Mr. Pence,
Of Colorado, marveled that such q
measure as the pending bill should
pmanate from democratic committee
ut the dictation OF democratic pres!.
dent, and he expressed for himself and
his party q willingness to cooperate
for the passage Of some relief measure,
Mr. McKeighan, Of Nebraska, followed
In the line, creating some amusement
by calling Mr. Springer the "artful
dodger OF the situation. "
Several bills were passed by unani.
nous consent, among them one to pen
sion the widow Of the late Commodore
Frank Avery at the rate Of $40 per
month, and one for the relief Of Kate
Ebert, an Indian woman, and the
house adjourned at 4.45 D. IN