The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-14
PATRIOTISM IN THE SENATE
SECRETARY OF 1HE TREASURY SENDS IN 4 COMMUNICATION.

United States Notes-Blll Introduced on Were Introduced in the Senate in One of Which MT. Hill Was Attacked.
 1 'tlon was received from the secretary of the treasury in reply to a resolu- l tion of the senate, offered by MT. Peffer, pop, of Kansas, which asked whether the gold reserve of $1O0,00O,0 900 had ever | been actually segregated; or set apart, | from other currency in the treasury. The secretary states that lat no time since the es'ta ablishment of the so-called goid reserve, has the sum of $100, 100000 or any other sum been segregated, or | set apart from the general cash in the ! treasury; and that there is no pro- vision of law requiring it to be done. In presenting numerous petitions in favor of recognizing belligerent rights | in the Cuban revolution MT. Call, dem., of Florida, asked to have them printed as a public document, with the names | of the signers, stating that it was im- portant for congress to be made aware of the feeling of the people on any great public question like the war in | Cuba; but objection was made by MT. Platt, rep, of Connecticut, who stated that all the petitions were on the same printed form, and that there was a rule of the senate forbidding the print ing of names in such cases. The vice | president ruled in accordance with MT. PlattE views; and MT. Call withdrew his request.
 MT. Faulkner, dem., of West Virginia, | made a report from the committee on the District of Columbia on the reso- lution offered some weeks ago by Mir
 Hale, rep, of Maine, as to the law prevailing in the district under which man may, by his last will and testa- ment, control the custody of his minor i chtldren-+to the exclusion of the widow. The report, he said, was compilation of the laws on that subject i'm force in the District of Columbia, in many of the states and in England. The committee, however, had reported no bill on the subject.
 | MT. Hale expressed his regret that | the committee had not reported a bill doing away with the statute of Charles II. and said that he would himself in- | troduce a bill.
 | Among the bills introduced and re- l ferred was one by MT. Chandler, rep, of New Hampshire, for the refunding 1 of United States notes in per cent. bonds
 1 MT. Kyle, pop, of South Dakota, fn.- troduced concurrent resolutions em- | powering and directing the president | of the United States to receive such persons as may present themselves, | satisfactorily accredited ito act on be- half of the Cuban patriots, and, on the production of evidence showing that
 they have esta blished seat of gov ernmenb on the island of Cuba and
 that majority of the native born residents are actively supporting and defending it with arms, or are in sym pathy with the same, extend belligerent rights to the Cuban patriots.
 | The resolution was referred to the committee on foreign relations
 A bill to amend the act forfeitfng rail- road lands was reported back by MT.
 McBnide, rep, of Oregon, and passed.
 It was explained by Mir. Mitchell, rep, of Oregon, who had introduced it, as having mo other effect than to require the fencing, improving, and cultivating | of such lands to be regarded as full filling the requirement. of possession. i"
 MT. Pritchard, rep, of North Carolina, replied to the criticism indulged i'm by | MT. Hill, dem., of New York, few days ago against the two North Caro- | lima senators who, though chosen at | the same time and by the same com l bination, stood on directly opposite sides on the tariff question. He re- viewed MT. Hills speeches and votes op the Wilson tariff bill, referred to
 the fact that one of MT. Hills political supporters in Troy was now counting. | in Sing Sing, the hours that were ito elapse before his electrocution; and sug- gested that the difference between his colleague (Mr. Butler) and the New
 York senator was that the former left
 the democratic party because it's abuse could not be corrected inside of the organization while the latter had been kicked out and branded as a traitor. !"
 MT. Hill, dem. of New York, said
 that he was not aware that he had said
 the other day anything that called for such an elaborate speech as that just
 made by the senator from North Caro- lima. As to his (Mr. HilPs) having been
 kicked out of the democratic party,'
 he said the democratic party has met with some reverses within the last two or three years. That is true But still I fiatter myself that am lively mem- Der of what is left of that organization. !"
 Gaughter) As to MT. Pritchards allu- sions to Bat" Shea and John Y. Me Kane, MT. Hill explained that Shea had l got into a row at local election fight in the city of Troy which had started at a republican primary; and that, at the time of his (N1r. Hilrs) and his col leagues (Mr. Murphy's) election to the senate McKane was republican.
 But" MT. Pritchard interrupted, ''McKane never got into the penitenti- ary until after he joined the democratic party" Gaughter)
 1 MT. Butler, pop, of North Carolina, defended his political course and his | present position on the tariff question, contrasting both with those of MT. Hill.
 MT. Hill commented upon Mr. Pritch- ards statement to the effect that North Carolina was republican and had been republican ever since the war, if there had been fair elections; and then upon | this fact that other North Carolina sen- ator (AIr. Butler had acted with the