The herald., 1896-01-08
THE f|FTY-FOURTH CONGRESS
Vest Treats the Senate to a
Speech
LODGE JUMPS ON PULITZER
As Guilty Of Treason for Asking Foreign
Opinion
Gray Objects to Going Back on the Track %
Dead Centuries and Sitting
Public Opinion

Associ ated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Jan. THE senate was
treated today to one of Senator Vests
characteristic speeches. He arraigned the
supreme court for the income tax de-
cision; he laid the responsibility for the
lack of revenue at their door, when they
exempted the ''sortlid wealth of the land"
from taxation; he threw Some light upon
heretofore unknown chapters in the his
tory of the Mckinley law. He denounced
the financial dependency of this country
and of others upon the money influence.
He attacked the president and the secre-
tary of the treasury for their proposition to
retire the greenbacks and place the circu-
Iation in the hands of the national banks;
quoted Secretary Carlisle against himself,
and IN conclusion declared the conflict be-
tween bimetallism and the gold standard
was irrepressible and that the sooner it was
decided the better it would be for our
people.
The other feature of the session grew out
of the Introduction by Mr.. Chandler of q
bill for popular loan through the issue of
postal savings certificates. In the course
of Mr.. Chandler's remarks the cable re-
plies of the prince of Wales, the Roths-
childs and others to the New York World
were alluded to, and Mr.. Lodge claimed
that the editor of the World had been
guilty of violating section 1886 of the re-
vised statutes in holding communication
with officials of another government, the
purpose of which was ITO interfere with
measure of the United States"
Mr.. Gray of Delaware rebuked both Mr..
Lodge and Mr.. Chand er for the suggestion
that public opinion could not be solicited,
either here or abroad, on any question, and
affirmed that a just public opinion in any
civilized center must be the final arbitrator
of all disputes.
Numerous petitions bearing on the Ar
menian outrageS, the question of the recOg-
milton of the Cuban belligerents and the
Venezuelan boundary dispute were pre-
sented. Among the latter was one from
the Society of Friends of Indiana praying
for arbitration.
Mr.. Jones, Democrat of Arkansas. re-
ported from the finance committee the
free silver substitute for the house bond
bill and gave notice that he would call it up
| tomorrow and ask the senate to consider II.
Mr.. Morrill,, Republican of Vermont.
chairman of the finance committee, noti-
| fled the senate that the senate bill was OPP
posed ''by every Republican member of
the committee"
The bill went on the calendar.
On motion of Mr.. David, Republican of
Minneapolis, the house joint resolution
concerning the improvement of the public
building at Mankate, Mimi, was agreed to.
On Mr.. Kyle's motion a bill passed
amending the existing law 80 that the evil
dence of timber claimants can be take;,
before the clerk of any court of record in
stead of requiring them, a. now, to go be-
fore the officers of the land office.
Mr.. Voorhees,, Democrat. Indiana,
secured unanimous consent for the pas
sage of resolution authorizing Gen. Casey
10 make con racts for the completion of
the new library of congress by stating that
if it passed the building would he COM
pleted within the time fixed by the act and
that about $50, 900 would be covered back
into the treasury.
"An unprecedented thing in the erection
of public buildings" calculated Mr.. Hale,
Republican, Maine.
Mr.. Voorhees, offered resolution, which
was referred, for the purchase of a portrait
of the late Allen G. Thurman. now hang
ing in the judiciary committee room,
painted by j. H. Dewitt.
Mr.. Elkins, Republican, West Virginia,
offered resolution, which was referred to
the finance committee, providing that
hereafter any contemplated issue OF
United States bonds shall first be adver-
tised for at least twenty days, and that
such bouds shall be sold to the highest
bidder.
Mr.. Allen offered resolution, which was
referred, for the appointment of COM
mittee of five senators 10 investigate the
question of whether there was now and
had been for the past two and half years