The evening times., 1896-01-07
SILVER MN' BOND DILL
Reported is fhe Senate and De,
bate to Begin Tomorrow.
CHANDLER HAS A MEASURE
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when the body met at noon today, and the
galleries were wen filled. Mr. Lindsay OF
Kentucky appeared and look the oath OF
office for his ne W term.
In presenting petition from the common
council Of Worcester, Mass, in favor OF
the Arncnians. Mr.. Hoar inquired whether
|. the Committee on Foreign Relations had
taken any action on tie numerous petitions
referred to il OF the same character.
He was informed by Mr.. Sherman. its
chairman, that the Committee on Foreign
Relations WIS animated by u most ca rnest
desire to relieve the Armenans. IL possible:
but had not yet taken the subject into con-
sidrration. The committees had only re-
Gently been appointed, and the matter had
not yet been reached.
Mr. voorhees, presented memorial of
the yearly meeting OF Friends in Indiana
deprecating war between the United states
and Great Britain as 'an unparalleled
calamity and urging an international
agreement 70 refer controversies between
these two nations to a court OF arbitration
Referred To the Committee on Foreign Re
lations.
BOND BILL SUBSTITUTE.
Mr.. Jones reported from the Committee
on Finance the House bond bill with a SUBJ
stitutc, and gave notice that tomorrow,
immediately after the morning business, he
would ask the Senate to take it up for con-
sideration. He hoped that II would be
disposed Of at the earliest possible day.
Mr.. Morrill,, chairman of the Committee
on Finance, stated that the substitute was
approved by a ma jority OF the committee,
h,,N p,,, of,
The bin was read in full and was placed
on the calendar.
joint resolution concerning the COM
pletion Of the public building at Mankato,
MIMI, was reported and passed.
bill relating to final proof in timber
culture entries, allowing proof I" be taken
before United States court commissioner.
or a clerk OF any court of record, was re
ported by Mr.. Pcttigrcw from rhc Commit
tee on Public Lands, and was passed
resolution was offered by Mr. voorhees,
and referred to the Library Committee for
the purchase, at $3.50, OF a portrait of the
late Allen G. Thurman, now hanging In the
room or the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At the request OF Mr.. Elkins his resolution
requiring United states bonds to be issued
after public advertisement, was referred
to the Finance Committee.
POPULAR LOAN BILL.
Mr.. Turpie introduced bill Increasing
pensions for total deafness from $50 to
$50 a month, and made an appeal in favor
of the proposition. Referred.
The House joint resolution to fill the
vacancy on the board OF regents OF the Smith
sonian Institution by the appointment of
nf ioiu
passed.
Mr.. Chandler introduced a popular loan
bill and proceeded to explain it. He re-
ferred to a paragraph in u dispatch from Mr..
Rothschild stating that until the boundary
question was settled, the European public
or capitalists would not take American
bonds for investment.
What. he asked. did Mr.. Rothschild mean
by that? He meant that America should
agree to Lord Saiisbury's proposition and
allow Great Britain to take substantially
all of Venezuela that she needed and refer
to arbitration the question whether she
should have the rest OF not. (Laughter.)
In that view of the situation it seemed to
him that 1t was time FOR the American people
and the American government tosee whe
they could not raise among themselves the
money necessary to carry on the govern
ment. He was satisfied that that could
be easily accomplished by a suitable APP
peal to the people of the United States. He
feared that the 100000 bond can
would not result well.
The people were called upt.l there to bid
and to fix the price themselves. They did
not want a popular loan like that. They
wanted something immediate In its opera
ton.
He was grateful to the Secretary for
needing the voice of the people as offered
IN the senate the other day by the Senator
from Nebraska tMf. AIlenl and other tri-
bunes of the people Haughter), but he
did not regard it as a wise method of test
ing the willingness of the people to supply
money to the government.