Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-01-01
CONGRESS-.
Senate.

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the retirement of the, greenbacks or the
authorization Of bond Issue were utterly
impossible Of accomplishment. In execu-
lowing: John L. Peak of Missouri, to be
minister to Switzerland; Brig. Gen. Wesley
Merritt to be major general; Col: q: r.
=: Cra1ghtll, to be chief of engineers; Col.
Thaddeus n. Stanton. to, be paymaster gen.
eral At LAS the Senate adjourned to the
House.
The capitol was crowded on the Dist
There were many animated conferences
among the senator's prior to the opening of
the session, opinion being divided over the
status esntng from the
legislation before a recess and the Senate's
prior agreement to a resolution to take
holiday recess today The House of Repre-
sentatives adjourned until Monday Chair
man Dingley called a meeting of the ways
and means committee of the House imme-
ganize and might discuss the Presidents
message, but that he would propose no
bill today.
1t being generally understood that tho
ways and means committee could not be
prepared to report its bill for the relief of
the treasury situation for two or three days,
the attendance in the House on the Odd was
comparatively small. Mr.. Dingley, chair
man OF the ways and means committee,
tnen announced that the committee had met
in the morning and had unanimously de-
cided that in view Of the Presidents spe-
cial message to Congress and the circum-
stances surrounding it, that it was not ap-
propriate that the two houses should adj
Journ until a proper response had been
made. The committee had already entered
They would not be presented to the House
before the 10Th. 1t was important that
members Of the House who had gone home
under the impression that the usual holiday
recess would be held. should be present
when the report of the ways and means
committee was made to the House. and
proper hau
opportunity to return. he would ask the
House to meet on the Oath for the purpose
Presldents message, after which he would
ask the House to adjourn over Christmas
day. ION the 26th,'' he concluded 1--WE
hope that the House will make a response
to the urgent request of the President AID
take some action which will relieve the
situation In which the country finds itself"
House adjourned until the Following day.
The House on the 9th entered upon the
aroused the united opposition of the Demo
Gratis and Popultsts, the gold Democrats
belng arrayed against it because they
claimed it did not give, the. secretary the
authority to issue gold bonds, with which
he desired to replenish the reserve, and the
silver Democrats on account Of their gen
eral opposition to bond issues. The latter
contended that the raids the treasury
could be stopped if the secretary would use
his discretion to redeem notes in silver
when the reserve was threatened In the
Republican ranks also there developed such
bitter opposition to the bill as originally
drawn and to the proposition to force the
bill to vote that day that the Re-
publican members of the committee on
ways and means Incorporated in it an
amendment specifically declaring, that moth
ing in the act should be construed as
modification or repeal of the act Of 1878 for
the reissue of the greenbacks when re-
deemed, and the committee on rules extend
ed the limit of debate until 3 O'Clock on the
following day, but declined to give the
members of the House opportunity to offer
amendments. The feature Of the day was
a strong speech from Mr.. Johnson Rep.,
Cali appealing to his Republican colleagues
to vote against the bill He scored the
Republican leaders for bringing in the bill.
He said he had voted for the revenue meas
ure under protest. but he refused to follow
them on the present bill. Political eXpedi-
ency which involved a surrender OF prin-
ciple, he declared; would never succeed.
The debate ran far into the night. The
principal speeches were made by MessrS.
Dingley CMe.l and GrOsvenor (OD, Repub-
leans and Messrs. Turner (Ga) and Pat
terSOn (TeQn) Democrats