Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-29
IN THE SENATE.
Probably Vote on Bond Bill and Silver
Substitute Will Be Reached. thursday.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-ln the Senate.
Allen, Pop. of Nebraska gave notice of
an amendment to the bond and free coin
age bill, depriving the secretary of the
treasury of the power TO issue bonds or
other interest bearing obligations of the
government. unless Congress shall first
declare the necessity therefor.
Lodge offered a resolution, which went
over until tom orrow, calling on the civil
service commission ior the correspondence
respecting the civil service law between
the public printer and the commission
from July I, 1895, to Nov. /, 1895.
There resolution heretofore offered by
Call, for a special commission to nvesti-
gate the case of the imprisonment of
Eugene V. Debs 1.-THE labor leader for con
tempt of court was laid before the Senate.
Call said he offered the resolution at the
request of the labor ISOLATION.
Hill said that ordinarily he had very
great respect for the laborng people of the
nitcd States. but he was not aware that
any communication from the laboriDg
people asked the Senate for the proposed
investigation. If it was To he made. he
thought that it should be by one of the
standing committees OF the Senate He
therefore offered IN amendment instruct
ing the Judiciary committee to investigate
the whole subject of contempt of court as
enforced by federal courts.
Call opposed the amendment and spoke
Of the standing committees of the Senate
| as "sepulchrcs of popular movements for
reform and Of Eugene V. Debs as "a
great loader, a man of power, and repre-
sentative man.
Hill argued that rs tine question in.
volved was judicial one, it should be re
ferred to the judiciary committee. Be
sides, he said, the Debs case had already
| been decided in the supreme court--to the
| effect that his Imprisonment was legal.
After further discussion. Gordon re
minded the senators that the hour had ar
rived when the senator from Nebraska
Mr.. ThurstOn, was TO address the Senate
| The Call resolution was laid aside, and
Illusion Rep, of Nebraska, addressed
the Senate on the question Of the Monroe
| doctrine
At o clock, the Vice President laid be
| fore the Senate the House bond bill ard
| free coinage substitute, and Jones, Dem.
Of Arkansas. who has parliamentary charge
Of the BILL tried 10 have an understanding
arrived at by which the bill should be
voted on, Thursday. Various suggestions
were made and notifications offered; but
objection was interposed by Hill, who said
chat he knew several senators who desired
to speak, and he could not consent to an
agreement until they had an opportunity
to present their views. He expressed the
hope that IL vote might be had, Thursday
| Jones then gave notice that he would
ask the Senate to remain in session, Thur
| -Apv until a ronfbpd
Wolcott expressed the hope that the
physical test would not be applied He
had heard it said, again and again, that
it was the silver people $50 calicd) who
were endeavoring to stave Off the vote of
the bond question; and now it was seen
that it was the senators from the East VIII }
We're procrastinatng and who were will
ing to postpone vote,
Hill asked whether the senator from
Colorado referred to him as trying to post
pone the vote.
Certainly not said Wolcott. sarcss-
tically How could | accuse the sena-
tor of that when he has just been on the
floor asking for further time?'' Laugh
teri.
Teller gave notice of an amendment he
would offer to the substitute providing that
|
shall be redeemed in coin when presented
to banks issuing them. and that banks
falling to redeem them shall be dissolved
Clark, Rep, of Wyoming, addressed the
Senate in advocacy of the free coinage sab
stltute.
voorhees, also addressed the Senate.
in support OF the free coinage substi
tute. The country, he said was In the
midst of IA revolution brought on by those
who had plotted against silver. 1t was
that class which brought on panics, des
troying the parity of the metals. He
characterized as revolutionists the men
who demonetized silver in 1873 These
men sought to overcome the constitution.
the laws and policy of the country.
He criticized Sherman financial record
remarking that the senator from Ohio he
lieved in sound money for Wall street. but
not for the soldiers. The gold with
drawals of the last year, he said, was part
OF conspiracy to compel an issue of in
tercst bearing bonds. Ruin had followed
in the train of demonstration. Never
| before, he said had IA member of A parlia-
mentary body found himself compelled. AS
Senator Sherman had, toassst In PUTTING
| to death his own ptfSnripp That ant e+oo1