The Portland daily press., 1896-04-02
ISHnAELITE IN POLITICS.
Congressman GrOsyenOr Thus Char
aeterizes Cleveland.
SAYS TIE COUNTRY Is LABORFNG
UNDER AN INCUBUS.

Plac ed Upon Its Industrial Interests by
the Democracy-Mr. Patterson Came
to the Defence of the Administration
Another Cuban Resolution Intro
duced Into the Senate.
Washington, April lin the Senate to-
day bill was introduced by Htr. Butler,
Populist, of North Carolina, and referred
to the finance committee, providing that
payment of notes, bills, checks, etc., shall
be in legal tender money, irrespective of
any stipulation in the contract. He ex-
planned that his object was to stop gold
mortgages and gold notes. 1t did not
affect existing contracts.
A committee of conference was ordered
on the legislative appropriation bill and
Senators Cullom, Republican, of Illinois
and Call, Democrat, of Florida, were ap-
pointed oonferees.
Mr.. Call introduced joint resolution
relating to the Continual violations of
usuages and rules of war in Cuba, and
the inhuman and brutal outrages on men
women and children" and directing that
an adequate naval force Of the United
States shall be Immediately sent to Cuba,
as shall be sufficient to protect by force,
il necessary, citizens, of the United
States in Cuba from wrong, and from
violation of treaty obligations: also re-
questing the President to communicate
this resolution to the government of
IL, RI i,,f-, 4.
the United States will forcibly intervene
to protect the rights of American citizons
and in the interest of civilization, if there
shall be recurrence of murder and out
rage, or of the shooting or putting to
death Of prisoners of war.
The resolution was laid on the table.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
the Delaware election case. MIR. George
continued his speech, begun yesterday,
against the right of Mr.. Dupont to the
vacant. seat.
Without finishing his argument, Mr.
George yielded the floor. The post office
appropriation bill was taken up, the ques-
tion being on the amendment allowing
$50. 600 additional compensation to the
Oceanic Steamship Co., for carrying
mails from San francisco to New Zea-
land and New South Wales. Mr. Per-
favored the fostering OF American ship
ping as against English shipping. Eng
land, France and Russia had, last yeHr,
give SIS, 600, coo in postal subsidies. The
amendment as to the Oceanic Steamship
company, was passed over without action,
and the rest OF the bill proceeded with,
and agreed to. Mr.. Allison said he ex-
pcated to have final action on the bill to-
| morrow. The Senate adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. The committee on appropriations
omitted from the bill the amount of S35, :
600, carried for many years, for the sup
port of Howard University (colored) in
the District Of Columbia, but upon mo-
| tion of Mr.. Evans, Republican of Ken
lucky, the item was inserted without dis
cussion or dissent.
An amendment was offered by Mr..
sayers. Democrat of Texas, appropriating
s30,00 for the purchase of the House on
Tenth street in this city, in which Preei-
dent Lincoln died. He urged it as one
of the most meritorious propositions ever
called to the attention OF the House.
The. amendment was agreed to.
Upon an amendment proposed by Mr..
Hyde, Republican of Washington, to
add $75. GOO to the appropriation for be-
ginning work on the new military post
at Spokane, Mr.. Grosvenor Republican
OF Ohio, made some remarks on the
financial condition of the government.
The trouble with the treasury, he said,
was that the country was laboring under
an incubus placed upon its manufactur-
ing and industrial interestsaby Democrat
ic legislation. Mr.. Grosvenor read from
tables showing the operation of the treas
ury under the first nineteen months of
the Wilson tariff law compared with those
of the Mckinley law, in the first nine
teen months of it's existence
a This showed a deficiency of $76, 167, S76
in receipts compared with the expendit-
ures under the Wilson law, and surplus
of S24, 983, 22l under the Mckinley law.
Mr.. Hyde's amendment was agreed to 58
to 3d.
Shortly aftarwards Mr. Eattarcop