Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-03
AN ADDITIONAL MOVEMENT In the Direction of BimetaIIiSm
 By Chandler. SILVER AS WELL AS GOLD Should Be Maintained as Standard Money With
 Free Coinage of Both. A PARLIAMENTARY POINT IS RAISED By Gibson of Maryland on the Immigration Blll-Nicaragua Canal Bill Discussed. Electoral Vote to Be Counted
 February 10.
PARLIAMENTARY POINT IS RAISED

Washington, Feb. 2.-An additional movement in the direction of bimetallism was made in the senate today by MT. Chandler It was in the shape of res- olution declaring 1t to be the sense of the senate that the United States should not permanently acquiesce in the single gold standard and that the efforts of the government in all it's branches should , be directed to secure and maintain the use of silver as well as gold as standard money with the free coinage of both. The resolution went over with notice from MT. Chandler that he would address the senate upon 1t.
 The conference report on the immigra- tion bill was taken up and was opposed in long speech by MT. Gibson (dem., Md.), who raised the parliamentary point against it that the conference committee had exercised its powers and had in- jected new matter itno the bill. An equal ly long speech was made in defense of the conference committee and the bill by MT Lodge. Much indignation was ex- pressed by MT. Lodge at interference with legislation on the part of the North German Lloyds and its agent In Chicago to prevent the passage of the bill. If the bill were defeated, he Said it would be taken as the victory of a corporation on great question of public policy. The report went over without action, Mr. Hill (dem., N. Y.), giving notice that he would speak against it tomorrow on the parliamentary point raised by MT. Gib- son.
 The remainder of the days session was taken up by the Nicaragua canal bill. Mir 1. Villas (dem., of Wis), who had the floor to . continue his speech against It, declined to state whether he thought the bill could be disposed of in such time as to give any opportunity for other important legisla- tion. He gave notice of a substitute for the bill which would provide for the ap- pointment of an inter-oceanic canal com mission to have surveys and investiga- tions made for the determination of the most feasible route for the canal.
 Notice of another amendment was giv- en by MT. Teller (rep., Col), also providing for survey before any canal bonds are guaranteed by the government of the United States and that if the cost should be reported as exceeding $150.000,000 no bonds shall be guaranteed and no respon- sibility assumed.
 MT. Villas had not finished his speech when, at 5:05, the senate adjourned until tomorrow
 IN THE HOUSE.
 Nearly all of today's session was spent by the house in listening to a discussion of the controversy now raging between two electric lighting companies in the District of Columbia, which found it's expression in connection with the consid- eration of the bill making appropriations for the expenses of the district for the year ending June 30, 1898. The bill re- mains the unfinished business on the calendar.
 The house passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill with trifiing changes.
 The consulate at Hargen, Switzerland (sa1ary $2,000 was abolished. and the total appropriation reduced to $1 1,673,70S. The usual resolution was agreed to providing for joint session of congress on the 10th inst, to count the electoral vote and declare the result, MT. Grosve- nor proposing that the election of a pres- ident and vice-president of this republic was always matter of momentous im- pcrtance to the people of the United States, involving as 1t did the perpetuity of the institutions of the country. asked and obtained consent to print in the Rec ord table he had prepared showing the vote of every state cast at the late elec- tion He said he had been induced to prepare it largely by reason of the pub- ncation of a senate document which as- serted that in that election & sufficient volume of illegal votes had been cast in sixteen states, as shown by the cen- sus of 1890 to change the result. which a count of the honest votes would have shown as a matter of fact. MT Grosve- nor stated but four states-West Vir- ginia, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa--had cast more votes in 1896 than the census showed there were males of the voting age in 1890.
 Senate amendments were agreed to to the resolution authorizing the temporary stringing of wires for lighting and deco rating in connection with the approach ing inaugural
 The house at 5:05 o'clock adjourned.