The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-07
ON THE BOND BILL.
Discussion Continued in the House-Work
 of the Senate.

or the senate.
 Washington, Feb. 6.-The house to- day went into committee of the whole and the discussion on the bond bill was resumed. MT. Wheeler, dem., of Ala hama, member of the committee on ways and means who is in favor of concurring in the senate substitute providing for free coinage of silver, crit icised MT. Dingley's argument of yes-
 terday
 MT. Johnson, rep, of North Dakota, spoke against free coinage. He had an easel set up upon which he presented
 the variations in prices and amount Of production of the several articles upon which he discoursed.
 If the fallacy of these silver men were sound" said MT. Johnson, "the red
 line of the diagra1n marking the f1uctu-
 ation in price should have been practi- caHy straight one. It is as crooked as a snake, and tell you" Undressing MT. Shaferoth of Colorado) unless you re- pent the error of your ways and flee from evil you'll see worse financial snakes than that Gaughter). MT. Johnson declared that there never had been a times when the farmer could have paid his debts so easily and cheap- ly as in 1891, the continuation of thirty years of republican rule and policy. (Applause)
 MT. Johnson further said that the financial statistics showed that insur-
 ance companies, savings and national hn n1y hla6 tpp thn11so nd y,ot11
 of dollars on deposit for which they
 were debtors to the people. Free coin
 age os silver would enable them to
 shave this indebtedness in two by pay
 ing it in depreciated silver dollars. This
 would make, were the money equally
 divided, five thousand millionaries. At
 present there were about 4,000, And to
 do this" he remarked, you would rob ti.e widow and the orphan of one half
 their living"
 | c. w. Stone, rep, of Pennsylvania, l and MT. McRae, dem., of Arkansas, in favor of free coinage.
 Mir Johnson, rep, of California, ad- vocated free coinage and asserted that a do-nothing policy or a policy con-
 fined to action on non-essentials would not serve. It was none of the business
 of the house to consider what the senate would or what the president would do. The house should do it's duty. | The duty of the hour demanded that l something be done for silver. He warn 1 ed MT Dingley that while the country 1 was waiting for the relief which he ! Dingley) had promised would come in | time, trouble would come and the prom l ised relief be then in vain. What the silver men asked was that the country l be put back to the days of 1873, when silver and gold alike were coined in it's
 hints. He criticised Mr Dingley for l offering nothing as an alternative to | free coinage, and urged that American i silver at least be coined.
 | There was manifestation of the feel | ing between the silver and anti-sflver 1 factions when MT. Johnson remarked
 with emphasis that if there was to be war the silver republicans were ready | MT. Settle, rep, of North Carolina, | and MT. Brewster, rep, of New York, I both spoke against free coinage A l recess was then taken until 7:30 THE SENATE
 | MT. Hill, dem., of New York, offered a
 resolution, which was agreed to, direct | ing the secretary of the treasury to send | to the senate at his earliest convenience | a statement of the bids opened yester-
 day for the sale of bonds, giving the | names and residences of the bidders, | the amounts bid for and any other de- 1 tailed information that may be desir-
 able for the proper understanding of the | bids.
 MT. Turpie, dem., of Indiana, ad- | dressed the senate in support Of his
 resolution providing for the election
 of senators by the people. The resolu- | ton was then referred to the commit ] tee on privileges and elections. | House bill to prohibit prize fighting i and bull fights in the territories and the 1 District of Columbia was passed. Also senate bill to amend the statute to
 amend the power of the secretary of the | treasury to remit or mitigate fines, l penalties and forfeitureS.