Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-02


 That from and after the passage of this act the minis. of the United States shall be open to the coinage of silver and there shall be coined dollars of the weight of 4121s grains troy, of standard silver, nine-tenths fine, as provided by the act of Januar Is, 1887, and upon the same terms and subject to the limitations and provisions of law regulating the coinage and legal tender quality of gold, and whenever the said coins herein pro vided for shall be received into the treas ury certificates may be issued therefor in the manner now provided by law.
 Section ?. That the secretary of the treasury shall coin into standard silver dollars, as soon as practicable, accord E ing to the provisions of section 1 of this act, from the silver bullion purchased un- der authority of the act of July IA, 1890, entitled An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of treas ury notes thereon, and for other pur- poses" that portion of said silver bullion which represents the seigniorage or profit to the government, to-wit: The differ ence betwwen the cost of the silver pur- chased under this act and its coinage value, and said silver dollars so coined shall be used in the payment of the cur rent expenses of the government; and for the purpose of making the said seign- forage immediately available for use as money, the secretary of the treasury Is nefeDy auInOf1ZeQ anu ulrecteu tO ISSUE silver certificates against 1t as if 1t was already coined in the treasury
 Sec. 8. That no national bank note shall be hereafter issued of a denomina- tion of less than $10 and all'notes of such banks now outstanding of denominations of less than that sum shall be, as rapidly as practicable taken up, redeemed and cancelled, and notes of $10 and larger de- nominations shall be issued in their stead under the direction of the comptroller Of the currency.
 Sec A. That the secretary of the treas ury shall redeem the United States notes. commonly called greenbacks, and also the treasury notes issued under the pro- visions of the act of July IA, 1890, when presented for redemption, in standard silver dollars or in gold coin, using for redemption of said notes either gold or silver coin, or both, not at the option of the holders. but exclusively at the option of the treasury department, and said notes, commonly called greenbacks, when so redeemed, shall be reissued as provided by the act of May S1, 1878. .
 The long struggle was over at pf f'1R and the senate at 5:15 2 .'e e..oo.eqqve o.qq session til next Tuesday a;Xoid Ie. nm. adjourned un-
 The houy' 'r House.
 considerrase spent another day in the approfsation of the District of Columbia fAmSfr6riation bill, without conclusion. prblndments were agreed to reducing the ylce of gas to consumers in the district l<6 75 cents per 1000 feet and of electricity for light or power to rates not exceeding 75 per cent of those in force on January last. The appropriations for private charities were the subject of attack, led by. MT. Hainer, and pending that thee house at 4:25 adjourned until Monday.
 In the first hour of the session, by unanimous consent, the following were considered and passed:
 House bills authorizing Capt D. Me Nally of the army ordnance department to issue a duplicate check for $36, 195, in favor of the Independent National bank of Philadelphia the original check in favor of the Midvale Steel company, in payment for material furnished the ord nance department and deposited with the bank for collection, having been lost In the malls; authorizing the issue of an American register to. the foreign buiit ships Linde and Johann Ludwig; grant ing right of way through Indian ana Oklahoma territories to the St. Louis, Oklahoma City railroad; authorizing the secretary of the interior to pay from the fund in his hands, belonging to the ln- dians. the sum of 5000 to Reese Voorhees and John Paul Jones, for legal services to the "old settlers or western CheroKee Indians. right of way through the Indian terri tory to the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad, so as to permit the con- struction of branch near Scullvilie to Fort Smith, Ark.
 MT Taft. republican, of Ohio, reported favorably from the committee on foreign affairs to ask the president to send to the house the correspondence with the Ger man government relative with the refusal to permit American insurance companies in the German empire, and it was agreed fn