The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-15
HE WANTS SILVER COINED
ABSORPTION INTRODUCED BY MR.
 MILLS IN THE SENATE.

Washington, Jan. 14.-In the senate to-day MT. Mills, dem., of Texas, offered resolutions declaring that the outstand- ing legal tender notes shall not be re- tired cancelled or funded into interest- bearing bonds, but shall be kept in cir culation; that the whole of the silver bullion now in the treasury shall be coined as rapidly as possible-the colns for the seigniorage to be paid out ln current expenses and the rest in the re- demption of treasury notes issued TOT its purchase; that whenever there is deficit in the treasury legal tender notes shall be issued to meet current expendi- lures and shall be destroyed when re- turned to the treasury; that all laws authorizing the sale of interest-bearlng bonds shall be repealed; that 1t is the established policy of the United States not only to keep all kinds of money is- sued under its authority at par, but to require all creditors, public and prl- yate. to receive gold and silver coins in payment of all obligations where the terms of the contract stipulate for coin payment, and that it is the duty of the secretary of the treasury to pay United States notes in both gold and silver coin.
 He asked that the resolution lie on the table, and gave notice that he would address the senate on it tomorrow.
 A bill granting to the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad company and to the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Rail- road company the right of way over part of. the, Sac and Fox Indian reserva- tion was reported and passed.
 At ? D. m. the house bond bill with the finance committee silver substitute was taken up.
 MT. Butler, pop, of North Carolina, offered an amendment to the bill pro- hibiting the issue of bonds for any pur- pose whatever without further action of congress. and requiring the payment of greenbacks, treasury notes, and the interest and principal of coin obliga- tions in either gold coin or silver coin, and he addressed the senate in favor of 1t.
 It would not do, he said, for either to evade responsibility by saying that 1t had no majority. T pledge" he said, 'ssix peoples party votes in this cham Der to either party that will stop the further issue of bonds; and six votes will give a majority to either side. In fact, either party can have a majority in this body when it desires to pass any law in the interest of the American people,
 When MT. Butler had concluded the floor was taken up by MT. Peffer, pop, of Kansas, who will address the senate on the bond bill tomorrow.
 THE HOUSE.
 The house proceeded at once, in com- ,nittee of the whole, MT. Hopkins, rep, of Illinois, in the chair, to further con- sider the general appropriation bill. MT. Northway, rep, of Ohio, was the first speaker, answering the criticisms made by MT. Bartlett, dem., of New York.
 MT. Northway indulged in some criti- cism himself upon the management of the pension bureau, prefacing it with the explanation that in his view of the question a pension was higher than any vested right. He would accept the def- milton of Mr. Bartlett, that pension
  ton had less right to withdraw or modify it than if it were paid in pur- suance of a contract. It should not approach the pensioner with the pension in one hand and a club in the other The administration of the pension laws should be upon a broad, liberal, gener- ous basis. Instead of that, MT. North way said there was in the administra- L1- <.t1x lN contracted, unfriendly and unjust spirit, compelling the pensioner to approach the bureau in a cringing, supplicating attitude The spirit of the bureau com- pelled the soldier to assume a burden which ought not to be put on him, and which misrepresen,s the sentiment of the country to it's old defenders
 In support of his general statement MT Northway instanced rulings, espec- ially upon the phrase total disability" by the pension bureau, which, he said, should bring jingle of shame to the cheek of every man in the nation per- mitting such a policy to be pursued (applause)
 MT. Hemenway, rep, of rndiana spoke in favor of the amendment pro- posed to be offered by MT Graf, rep, of Illinois, which forbids the dropping or devrease of any pension except upon proof of fraud on the part of the pen sioner. established in any United States court.
 In the course of his speech MT. Hem enway said that testimony which the bureau rejected as insufficient to par rant the issue of pension had convict ed man of bigamy.
 Mir Gibson, rep, of Tennessee, said that the pension office was the great est court that the world had ever known; yet there was not a syllable of law prescribing the course of procedure before it. The result was that it was an arbitrary, tyrannical and unjust court.
 MT. Walker, rep, of Virginia, who commanded the famous "Stonewan Brigade" said that the people of the south and the confederate soldiers, with few exceptions, approved the payment of pensions to federal soldiers which would keep them from suffering or dis tress (Applause).
 AIessrs. Woods, rep, of Illinois, and Kirkpatrick, rep, of Kansas, criticised the regulations adopted by the pension office.
 Mir. Pickler. rep, of South Dakota, said that in one case the pension bureau