Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-06
CONGRESSIONAL

case this establishes the political division Of
me the upper branch OF Congress until March 4.
1897, as follows: Republicans a: Demo-
Gratis -; Populists, t. Total. 50 Necessary
for majority. a. Should Mr.. Dupont bs
seated nom Delaware the Republican
vote would be increased to A. but at
the sam t;lne the number necessary for a ma
lority would increase to tt Mr.. Baker of Kan
sas presented petition from Mrs Waller wife
OF the ex-United States consul in Madagascar
recIting her husbands arrest, his trial by
"rumhead court. and his transportation in
chains to French prison. Mrs. Walters
petition recites: By these acts Franco mas
held my husband. an American citizen. as
an imprisoned felon for the past ten
months, and believe and am sure
mat had my husband been subject OF
Great Britain he would have long since been
released As an American woman Mrs Waller
asks the American Congress to take action At
o clock the silver bond bill was taken up two
OF the new members of the body, Mr. Nelson
Republican, of Minnesota, and Mr. Bacon
Democrat, of Georgia, making speeches the
former against the free coinage of silver and
MT Bacon urging the evils of gold standard
Mr.. Lodge Offered an amendment to the bond
silver oil providing for bond issue of $780,.
100000 the proceeds to be used for coast de-
fenses.
The house afteran interesting four hour de-
bate. adopted the resolutions passed by the
senate, calling upon the powers signatory to
the treaty of Berlin, to enforce the reforms in
Turkey Suarants sd to tn Christian Armenians.s
and piedgiug the support of congress to
the president in the most vigorous &C.
ton he might take for the prote> ton
ana security OF Americans in Turkey. Mr..
Hepburn of Iowa. proposed to give the Turkish
minister his passports and sever all diplomatic
relations with T1rkeJ. His remarks denounc-
ing the Turkish outrages and charging that
tue powers signatory to the treaty of Ber-
III were actuated from political and
other considerations in maintaining the shall
ance OF power" in Eastern Europe, were re-
ceITed with great enthusiasm, and at one time
it looked as If the House might be carried to
bis way of thinking. But the counsel OF Mr.
HIT not to take rash action prevailed. He
pointed out the consequences that might result
from the severance of diplomatic relations with
friendly power thai had fulfilled her treaty
obligations to rs, and the Hepburn proposition
was overwhelmingly defeated.
Jan 2S.-Foreign affairs and finance occu-
PIED the attention of the Senate. MIR. Thurs
ton of Nebraska. vigorously upheld a strong
application of tina Monroe doctrine and was
att1mes warmly applauded for the patriotic
ring of his sentiments Senator Turpie of In
diam touched on the Turkish atrocities in a
brief but very energetic speech, in which he de-
clared that the resolu ton just passed
by Congress should be followed by
a blow, shot which should crash through the
sultan seralgio, sweeping back Mahamme-
danIsm and advancing Christianity. Mr. Voor-
hees OF Indiana. who was until recently chair
man OF the finance committee, spoke in atiyo-
cacy OF the demonstration of silver and sharply
aTralgned those responsible for the elimination
of silver from the coinage. Mr. Grav of Della
ware urged the advantage of a gold standard
His speech was notable In its presentation
showing
10 result from natural causes and not from
silver demonstration. Mr.. Clark of Wyoming
spoke IN favor of silver coinage. Another effort
was made by Mr.. Jones of Arkansas in charge of
the silver bond bill to have the vote fixed for
Thur~day- Mr.. Hill objected however and
hr Jones notified Senators to prepare for a
test of endurance on Thursday, as he would
ask them to sit until vote was taken. A fruit
less discussion of the resolution to INQUIRE into
the arrest of Eugene V. Debs occurred during
the day, but action was deferred until to-mor-
row.
Jan 3O.-After the transaction of routine bus
iness Senator Mitchell of Oregon address ed
the Senate IN opposition to the House gold
bond bill and in favor of the free coinage OF
sEer- \ very animated discussion then took
place on the question of bringing the bill
to vote 1t had been expected that Mr.. Jones
OF Arkansas in charge of the measure. would
hold the Senate in session until a vote was
forced. He had given notice of this purpose
and enators were prepared for it But at 4:I5,
when Mr.. Villas secured tho floor for a speech
he yielded for motion to into execu-
tive session M Jones explained that it was
proposed to take recess until Tomorrow He
felt satisfied he said that a vote could be-
taken in the near future. This led To much
discussion Mr.. Chandler was sarcastic at the
abandonment of plan for a vote. Mr. Stew
art declared 1t made no difference when vote
was taken, or whether vote was taken. 1t
was all dress parade and 'buncomb" he
added the significant statement that the pend
ing silver amendment would be germane as an
amendment to tbs. tariff bill. and that when
would offer silver amendment to test Sem
ators on their choice between silver and tariff
After lengthy discussion the Senate went into
executive session and then took q recess until
to-norrow without exact understandings as
to the. vote. although the talk had shown a Tur-
pose to secure a vote on Saturday.
Jan 3I.-In the senate MIR. Villas smoke
against the bond bill 1T will said Mr. Villas
doubtless never be necessary to discuss this
bill. "a 1t came from the house But it NAV be
said that 1T deserved its fate StraueIed nv
silver. 1t was but the fraudulent pretext Of
response to the e1igency which 1T professsd n,
meet and to the reasonable suggestions OF the
President, which 1t denied, while it ayoxed
their wisdom With the exception cf
provision for emergency certi6cafss-
which ought to stand in the permaoent
statutes-the House bill contained nothing
commendaoie- EVERYTHING was but mockery
OF the legislation demanded by fiscal con-
ditlon- Declaring that the bill, as ut came
from the Hous a mere sham and fraud
Ar. Villas proceeded to show that the Seuat IA
amendments made IL worse than the original
measure 1t was bad stock he asserted
though IL had been budded with a worse
scion The best hope is that both will shrivel
and die IN the desert air of the Senate" Mr.
Villas spoke three hours and was given vsrx
close attention. as 1t wa generally
believed he voiced the views of the
administration When Mr. Villas closed sir
nishins at once began to fix a time for voting
on the bill After considerable vranelinv ?
O'Clock tomorrow was fixed as the time for
taking the vote An evening session was hefd
and Bate of Tennessee and Pascs, of E3<,-s<7;-