The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-17
HAS MADE NO REPORT
Wolcott Says That Negotiations
Are Still Pending.
HE PROMISES TO EXPLAIN
The Secretary of War Directed to Send
Supplies to the Klondyke- -Pritchard
OF North Carolina Delivers a
Speech on Civil Service.

Washington, Dec. l6.-Mr WoIcott of
| Colorado. chairman of the commission
! appointed by President Mckinley to
I secure if possible the cooperation of
\ foreign countries in an international
conference upon the silver question,
| said in the senate to-day that the com
mittee had not made a report to the
president, and it was uncertain
when report would be made
Negotiations for a bimetallic confer
ence, he said, are still pending, but Mr.
Wolcott assured the senate that the
commission had no intention of pro-
longing its effort beyond the point
where reasonable hope of success should
exist. Mr. Wolcott promised to explain
fully the work of the commission in a
speech TO be deliverd after the holiday
recess.
A resolution directing the secretary
of war to send supplies to Americans
and other sufferers IN the klondyke re-
gion. passed. Mr Pritchard of North
Carolina, chairman of the civil service
investigating committee, delivered
brief speech upon the execution of the
civil service law as developed by his
committee.
Mr.. Hanna of Ohio, after an illness of
a week, appeared in the senate to-day,
and was cordially greeted by his coli
IedSut1 MI. rye VI tlt Al6G 0ll
commerce, favorably reported, and the
senate passed a bill directing the secre-
tary of the treasury to purchase or
construct a suitable vessel for revenue
cutter service on the Yukon river at
Alaska to cost not to exceed 1000.
Mr.. Allison of the appropriations COM
mittee reported favorably the house
joint resolution providing for a recess
Of congress from Dec. Is, 1897, to Jan.
10, 1898. The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Hawley of the military affairs
committee, reported the resolution Of
Mr. Mcbride of Oregon for the relief Of
American miners and other sufferers in
the Yukon. valley. The committee
struck out all but the enacting clause
and amended the resolution by appro-
priating $250,00 which is to be used by
the secretary of war for the purchase
of subsistence and supplies and for
their transportation and distribution,
the consent of the Canadian govern
ment first TO be obtained to pass over
the Canadians territory. The resolution
further provided that the supplies are
to be distributed among the needy
miners, as the secretary of war may
determine, and that the supplies are 10
be transported by means of reindeer,
the reindeer to be sold after they have
performed their service. Mr.. Hawley
asked for immediate consideration of
the resolution, and it was then adopted
MT. 9eJllBGeW secured Ine ddoIliDn Oh
a resolution directing the secretary of
the interior to furnish the senate an
itemized statement of the receipts and
expenditures of the Central Pacific rail-
road for each year from 1877 to 1897, the
statement also to show the subsidies
paid to steamboat companies.
Mr. Cannon of Utah offered and had
passed a resolution directing the secre-
tary of the treasury to furnish the SEN
ate information regarding filibusterlng
off the coast of Florida.
Mr.. Aliens resolution calling upon
the president for information about the
instructions given to the international
monetary commission and the report
came up. Mr. Wolcott of Colorado,
chairman of the commission, said that
the commission had not made a report
to the president. The English govern
ment. he added, has published a resume
of the proceedings OF the commission in
Great Britain. That document will
soon be here, and as it covers the sub
iect fully, 1t will be valuable to sena-
tors and others.
II hope soon, said Mr.. Wolcott, Ito
make statement concerning the work
of the monetary commission quite nat
urally the statement / shall make will
be unofficial, but it will contain some
information that may be of interest and
value to the senate
Mr.. Wolcott asked and the senate
ordered printed a speech delivered by
NJ Meline In the French chamber of
deputies on the goth of November last
in which he dealt at considerable length
with all subjects bearing upon bimeta1-
Iism M. Meiine shows said MIR. VOL
colt. that the steady depreciation of
prices of agricultural products is due
solely To competition between gold and
silver countries.
MIR. Stewart of Nevada said he had
been satisfied from the first that the
efforts Of tie commission would fail. lie
had always advocated independent ac-
ton by the United States to secure BIZ /
metallism and he thought that the ef- /
forts to secure the corporation Of for /
eign nations would not be only unneces- (
sary. .but dangerous. In the course Of /
his remarks Mr.. Stewart said that the I
uttcrances 8f the president and the sec +
retary Of the treasury proved that this I
was a gold standard administration.
This statement brought MI Chandler +
of New Hampshire to his feet He said +
that Secretary Gage had never an
nounced that the present administration +
was in favor IF a gold standard and f
h. did not believe that the senator from
Nevada desired 70 misrepresent the adj
ministratian-
Mr. stewart disclaimed any intention
10 usisFepfasent President Mckinley or
Secretzry cage. but insisted that the
words and actions of the secretary es-
tatlfsh#d tae truthfulness of his state
mem.
Nj fllaa IF Nebraska. the author Of
tn. atan said he was not disposed
tn r NJ this time if the sEaazu
frar zEa1a Mr.. WolcotD desiEel t.
MI ii AZ a later date hut he
ta the matter ought t. be
al
Il an inquiry. Mr. Wole5t5
z-sE aat think the commission
had 5E5 u OF making f=.5afE T
al r...# si-e and IS a matter IF fae. he I
did LEI EeeM when the report would %.
ma Dr.
,-~ 4H.a said he had always been
sat.-z=5 szF International bimet8lism
was "a a ann AN ~ ality THAI ss4utd .
never LEE 4lized, but he was willing
ta f# commission all re= e=#s54a8Ie
Ia-#.r.## Ea asked that the res. tftzfau