The record-union., 1896-01-24

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-After a lot
of routine morning business Mills Dem)
of Texas introduced bill to repeal the
Act Of July II. 1870, to authorize the re-
funding of the national debt, and the
Act of January IA, 1875, of the resump-
ton Of specie payment. He asked that
it be read a first time to-day, and that
it have its second reading tomorrow,
when he hoped to have vote upon it.
Villas (Dem.) of Wisconsin reported
from the Judiciary Committee bill to
prevent the carrying of obscene Htera-
ture and such things from one State or
Territory into another State or Terri
tory. Placed on the calendar.
Call (Dem.) of Florida offered a reso-
luton, which went over until to-mor-
row, for the appointment of a select
committee to inquire into the i'm
prisonment Of E. V. Debs in connec-
tion with the railroad strike.
Pugh endeavored to call up his reso-
luton declaring all Government obli-
cations payable in silver, but was sur
prised to learn that it had gone to the
calendar, and declared he had been
trapped by the skillful Senator from
New York child.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Warren (Rep) of Wyoming directing
the attention of the Committee on Ag-
riculture to the late unprecedented
shrinkage in numbers and values of
farm animals throughout the United
States was taken up, and Warren ad
dressed the Senate. His speech was an
argument in favor of high protective
duties, denouncinga the Wilson tariff
bill as IAN emblem Of benefcence to
foreign interests and of disaster TO our
own" He denied the claim made in
the recent speech of Vest tDem.) Of
Missouri that the wool growing and the
wooden manufacturing interests had
alike profted under the Wilson bill
The House bond bill with the free
coinage substitute was taken up at 2
p m, and Dubois (Rep.) of Idaho ad-
dressed the Senate in favor Of the un-
limited coinage of gold and silver and
such protection to raw materials
and the manufactured products Of the
United States as would prevent the
ruinous competition of the poorly paid
labor of foreign countries.
The Senator said that while he cheer
fully greeted the Populists votes in the
Senate for free silver he could not ac-
cept Populist leadership, that party be-
ing irrevocably committed to fiat money
with unlimited imitation. Further, the
silver Republicans favored protection,
generally, including protection of So
called raw materials. and particularly
lead. wool and lumber, beside various
products of the farm, plantation and
ranch.
Referring to the charge that the
Western silver States each have two
Senators and are enabled to pass free
coinage bills, he said the question of
representation was fought out when
the Constitution was framed. Not
withstanding this" he added, ''I read
in the press of the East almost every
day that the region I represent is
pocket borough not entitled to con-
sideration at your hands, and the in
ference is that it is peopled by a class
of people who are a perpetual shock to
the refined and virtuous East. The
nneanest and most vindictive of the
newspapers which attack the silver
men are published in New York City,
where for fourscore years the worst
elements of our foreign population
have found lodgment, and where there
have been more scandals in connection
with their city government and cleo
fions than in any other spot in our
country"
At the close of Mr.. Dubois speech
the bond bill was laid aside, and the
resolution offered by Sewen (Rep) Of
New Jersey in relation to the Monroe
doctrine was laid before the Senate,
Daniel Dem.) of Virginia taking the
floor to speak upon it
Daniel in the course of his speech.
> II
of all nations of the earth object to the
assertion of the Monroe doctrine by
the United States, as it had been an
nounced. not merely with the approval
of the British Minister of Foreign Al
fairs but at his earnest and oft-re-
peated solicitation. And with no better
grace could Great Britain persist in re-
melting the manifold overtures made to
her for arbitration. The refusal Of
Great Britain to arbitrate a question,
noulinally one of boundary between
British Guiana and the republic of Ven
ezuela. involving many thousand
square miles of territory, has led TO a
controversy between the British Gov
eminent and the United States.
IN that correspondence the United
States Government has stood for and
recommended arbitration, but Great
Britain has stood out against it and
repelled it. To all such appeals Great
Britain had turned deaf ear. The re-
sponsibility Of the first wrong was fixed
on Great Britain, and Congress and the
Administration stood out in their ap-
propriate attitude as friends OF justice
and friends of peace.
This nation" Daniel continued,
sscannot recede from the Monroe doc
trine, or from the position taken by
the President. All critics, ali friends Of
peace, should recognize this fact, and
take their reasoning. 1t is not TO be
expected of US to speak in whispers
or TO start at shadows while the cor
invectives Ieveled against those who
do not applaud the aggrandizing spirit
of Great Britain"
Jones fDem.) of Arkansas moved that
Thursday next be set as the time for
I taking a vote on the bond bill, but
withdrew it upon the suggestion of
Chandler tRep) of New Hampshire
that he wait until there is a larger at
tendance of Senators before making the
motion.
The Senate then, after a brief exec
utive session, adjourned until to-mor-
row.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-On motion
of Henderson tRep9 of Iowa. it was