The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-04-10
HAI!gHAL BBHE R&RES.
hr. Teller Introduces q Bill for Banks to Keep
Them in Their Own Vaults.
THE NEW METRIC SYSTEM.
Senator TiIIman 20 Leave Washington on
his Western Tour ut Ones-The Bii
on the InhictiOa Of the
Death Penalty.


WASHINGTON. April S.-The senate
to-day discussed the clause of the post
Office appropriation bill involving the
matter of the consolidation of post
Offices. The debate on the amendment
having been closed, Mr.. Allison moved
to lay it on the table, and this motion
prevailed-yeas, 4S; nays T.
Mr.. Teller introduced a bill provid-
ing that all national banking associa-
tons shall keep their reserves in their
own vaults and moved its reference to
the committee on finance lie said
there was a very general impression
that the congestion of money in the
eastern cities grew out of the practice
of country banks keeping their re.
serves in the city of New York and
other reserve cities" The bill was
referred.
The Indian appropriation bill was
afterwards taken up.
The joint resolution issued by Mr..
Call proposing Intervention by the
United States in the war in Cuba was
advocated by MIR. Turpie.
Acting under the operation of the
previous questions upon the eRgross-
ment and third reading of the Till to
adopt the metric system of weights and
measures in the United States the
house proceeded Immediately after the
reading Of the journal to vote on it by
nays and yeas The result: Yeas, Il9;
nays, III A motion was afterward
made to reconsider, which was carried.
Mr. Stone then asked TO have the bill
recommitted.
TiIIman's Western Tour.
WASHINGTON, April s.-Senator Ben
jamin Tillman will leave Washington
tomorrow night for his western tour.
Among the cities in which the senator
is booked to speak are st. Louis and
Denver. This tour is designed to bring
Senator Tillman forward as a candi-
date for the presidency. His aim is to
so arouse the silver sentiment in the
west that the free silverites will Sc
cure control of the Chicago conven-
tiOp. If this occurs, Senator Tillman's
friends believe he viii be the nominee.
They have been doing some close fgur-
ing, and they claim to be ready to show
the Chicago convention that with Sem
ator Tillman as the nominee he will
be sure of 100000 pOpulistic votes
and of 100000 silver republican votes.
Should the free silverites dominate the
convention and Senator Tillman be Sc
lected as their standard-beareFa bolt
of the sound money democrats and the
nomination of a sound money candi-
date is expected. This, in fact, is
what is desired, for with an eastern
sound money democrat in the field and
a republican nominee on a sound
money platform. Tillman will then
have his opposition divided and his
own forces solidifed. Should the free
silverites fail, however, to get control
of the Chicago convention, the purpose
Of the Tillmanites is to make the sill
yer vote as large as possible, and have
him put forward as the nominee of the
free silver and populistic convention
in St. Louis
Private Charities Barred.
WASHINGTON, April s.-The District
of Columbia appropriation bill which
was recommitted to the committee by
the house because of the aid carried
by it to charitable institutions was to-
day considered by that committee and
remodeled so far as it applied to pri-
vate and semi-private institutions
which had heretofore depended largely
upon the government for support
| being stricken out and lump sum of
S94, 100, equal to the total OF the vari-
Gus items added for the relief and care
of the poor and such charitable and
reformatory work as have heretofore
been provided for by direct appropria-
tions, to be expended by the district
commissioners, either under contract
or by employing the public institutions
of the district The amendment ends
with this clause: THAT no part OF
the money here appropriated shall be
paid for the purpose of maintaining or
4 aiding, by payment for services or ex-
pense, or otherwise, any church or re-
ligious denomination, OF any institu-
ton or society which is under sectarian
or ecclesiastical control
infection Of the Death Penalty.
WASHINGTON, April S-Seuator Hoar,
from the Judiciary committee, yester-
day favorsbly reported the house bill
reducing the cases In which the death
/ penalty may be inflicted in the United
! States courts. Dir. Hoar sought 10
have a time set for the consideration
of the report, bat failed to secure
unanimous consent tie said the bill
was OF pressing importance, as under
the existing law she death penalty
vas imposed in many cases where
there should be 4 lighter sentence He
/ instauced the fact that in one district
in Arkansas there had been from $50
to 200 executions within the past few
/ years, and said there were 80 or 40
cases pending in the same district