The record-union., 1896-01-23

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rulers are despots and suffrage a farce.
Mexico, under the able and wise rule OF
Diaz. has enjoyed exceptional and long
continued immunity from revolution
but from the date Of the Independence
Of Mexico in 1921 down TO 1860, a pc
riod of thirty-nine years, the country
had thirty-six different forms of gov.
ernment and seventy-two individuals
figured as it's Chief Executive. They
We're Regents, Presidents, President
substitutes, Emperors, Commanders-in-
Chief, Generals and Dictato1s, but the
people had no more voice in the Govern
ment than they have in Russia to-day.
'"rhe description which have given
OK the South American republics gener-
ally applies with added force to vene-
zuela"
Pugh's resolution being still before
the Senate, Hill (Dem) of New York
offered an amendment to it, providing
that if for any reason such silver coin
shall not be at a parity with gold coin,
the United States bonds now payable in
coin shall be paid in standard gold coip
whenever demanded. Hill started to
speak to the measure. but he was inter-
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with the statement that the morning
hour had expired, and that the House
bond bill with the free coinage substi-
tute was now before the Senate as the
unfinished business.
Teller (Rep.) of Colorado addressed
the Senate. He expressed the general
dissatisfaction of the people ait the
present condition of the country The
finances, he said, were represented by
the President and the Secretary of the
Trasury to be in very deplorable con-
dttion. He did not suppose there had
ever been so many men out of employ
ment or ever a time when the productive
interests of the country were less profit
able than now. He denied, however,
that there was anything in those condi.
ticns that indicated any distrust of the
money in circulation on the part of the
people of the country.
In the course of his speech Teller was
asked by Allen (Pop) of Nebraska
whether he attributed the depressed
condition of business to the tariff The
answer was in the negative.
At the close of Tellers speech a re-
sponse to it was made by Sherman
(Rep.) of Ohio, who declared that the
whole trouble in the Senate grew out of
the desire of debating an old-worn
issue-the free coinage of silver-in-
stead of applying the remedy which the
President asked for-which a Repub-
lican House of Representatives had
cheerfully granted, and which the Re-
publican side of the chamber was ready
at any monment to grant. He had no
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ity of the Senate in favor of the free
coinage of silver, and he did not think
there was any desire on the Republican
side of the chamber to discuss that
question What he and the Republican
Senators complained of was that this
free coinage substitute, which every
body knew could not pass this Congress,
was thrust in the way of measures
deemed by the Executive Department
absolutely necessary to carry on the
Government. That, he said, was OBJ
structing necessary legislation.
The discussion continued and was
further participated in by Senators
German (Deu) of Maryland, Hoar
(Rep) of Massachusetts,, Aldrich (Rep.)
of Rhode Island and Lindsay (Dem.) of
Kentucky until $50 o'clock, when it
was suddenly brought to a close by a
motion to adjourn, and the Senate ad-
jcurned until tomorrow.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-Two-
thirds of the three-hour session of the
House to-day was occupied in the con-
sideration of a Senate joint resolution
authorizing the expenditure of $4,000
all told for the employment of outside
assistance to the supervising architect
of the treasury in the preparation of
plans and specifications and supervis-
ion of the Chicago public building. In
the course of the debate the conduct of
the architects office was the subject of
considerable criticism. The joint reso-
luton was passed, as was also the fol-
lowing:
A resolution directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to transmit to the House
the report made by Henry w. Elliott
to that department in November, 1890,
upon the condition and prospects of
the fur sealing industry; House bill ex-
tending three years the time for COM
pletion of the incline railroad on West
Mountain, Hot Springs, Ark; Senate
concurrent resolution authorizing the
printing of 5000 copies of a paper on
'.The Public Lands and Their Water
Supply contained in the sixteenth an
nual report of the Director of the Geo
logical Survey; House bill providing for
the appointment of Chaplain of West
Point from civil life.
The unanimous report of Election
Committee No. ., that H. C. Miner was
entitled to the seat now occupied by
him as Representative from the Ninth
New York District, and that Timothy
j. Campbell, contestant, was not enti
tied thereto, was agreed to without dis
cussion.
The House at $3.50 o'clock adjourned
until tomorrow.