The age-herald., 1897-12-17

return, on account of an accumulation of business, been able to prepare such a statement as I should like to make to the senate. If the senators will permit, the question might go over until after the re- cess when, about the middle of the next month I shall be able to discuss the sub ject''
 MT. Wolcott asked, and the senate or dered printed speech delivered by M. Meline in the French chamber of deputies on the 20th of November last, in which he dealt at considerable length with all the subjects bearing upon bimetallism.
 "Meline shows" said Mr. Wolcott, 'that the steady depreciation of prices of agri- cultural products is due solely to competi- tion between gold and silver countries"
 MT. Allen, of Nebraska the author of the resolution, said he was not disposed to press 1t at this time, if the senator from Colorado MT. Wolcott, desired to speak upon it at a later day, but he thought that the matter ought to be cleared away.
 "There is no desire upon the part of any body said MT. Wolcott, ito prolong the negotiations after all hope has disappeared. No member of the commission would de- lay for an hour the announcement of its decision after a decision, one way or the other, shall have been reached"
 Believes It Dream
 MT. Allen said he had always been satis- fled that international bimetallism was a dream-an ideality that would never be att tained, but he was willing to afford the commission all reasonable latitude. He asked that the resolution go over until the 18th of next month, and it was so agreed.
 Civil Service Again
 MT. Pritchard, of North Carolina, chair man of the committee civil service, which is engaged in an investigation of the civil service system then delivered speech with the general features of the civil service law.
 .It was," he said, "a singular coincidence that 1t never occurred to MT. Cleveland to make his sweeping extensions of the civil service law until he reached point where it was obvious to him that his party was to be repudated by the American people at the next general election nor until nearly all republicans had been removed from office and their places filled with Simon-pure democrats
 Revenue Cutters For Yukon
 MT. Frye of the commerce committee fayorably reported and the senate passed a bill directing the secretary of the treas ury to purchase construct a suitable vessel for revenue cutter service on the Yukon river, Alaska, to cost not to exceed $40, 900.
 MT. Allison, of the appropriations com mittee, reported favorably the house joint resolution providing for a recess of con- sress from Dec. IS, 1897, to Jan. 5, 1898. Tho resolution was adoptet.
 Relief For KIondyIsers
 MT. Hawley, of the military affairs com mttee, reported the resolution of Mir. Mcbride, of oregon, for the relief of American miners and other sufferers in the Yukon valley, Alaska. The committee struck out all but the enacting clause and amended the resolution by appropriating s25O, 900, which is to be used by the secre- tary of war for the purchase of subsistence and supplies, and for their transportation and distribution, the consent of the Cana dian government first to be obtained to pass over Canadian territory. The resou- tion further provides that the supplies are to be distributed among the needy miners, as the secretary of war may determine,