Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-02-05
DISCUSS THE NATIONS AFFAIRS

In the house Thursday the senate bill
granting an American register to the bar
kentine Sharpshooter of San Francisco was
passed. The bill was passed making Santa
Fe the permanent capital of New Mexico.
Mr. Hit chairman of the foreign affairs
committee, reported from his committee
with recommendation that it lie on the
table, the Lewis resolution calling upon
the president for authority in the consti
tuition under which he negotiated the
treaty that will bind the treasury to pay
S4,0O0,OOO to Hawaiian bondholders. The
democrats manifested a desire to discuss
the report, but the question was not de-
batable The house then went into com
mittce Of the whole and resumed consid
alton of the Indian appropriation bill.
Representative Hartman got the floor and
for Is minutes held the attention of the
house in speech denouncing the repub
lican party for its position on the finan
cial question. The senate continued the
discussion of the Teller resolution.
Passed the Teller Resolution.
After a debate, animated at all times
and occasionally acrimonious, which oc
cupied the greater part of the week, the
senate Friday evening, by a decisive vote
of Al to 32. passed the Teller concurrent.
resolution. The resolution is practical
reaffirma ton of that of Stanley Matth-
ews in 1878 and is as follows:
THAT all the bonds of the United States
issued or authorized to be issued, under
the said acts of congress hereinbefore re-
cited, are payable, principal and interest,
1T the option of the government of the
United States in silver dollars Of the
coinage of the United States containing
4l2I grains of standard silver, and that
to restore to its coinage such silver coins
as legal tender in payment of said bonds,
principal and interest, is not in violation
Of public faith nor in derogation of the
right of the public creditor
All efforts to amend the resolution We're
voted down by majorities ranging from
) to 90. Senator Lodges gold standard
substitute being defeated by the latter
majority. The vote on the Lodge amend
ment was, ayes "a, noes 53.
The house passed the bill to reimburse
the book publishing company OF the
Methodist Episcopal church for S2Ss,ooo
damages sustained during the war.
House on Teller Resolution.
The house Monday buried the Teller
| resolution, declaring the bonds of the
United States payable in silver, under an
| adverse ma iority of so votes. The repub-
licans were solidly arrayed in opposition
with two exceptions-Mr Linney of
| North Carolina, who voted with the dem
ocrats and populists, and MIR. White OF
| North Carolina, the only colored member
Of the house, who answered present
when his name was called. The desertlOns
from the democratic side We're Mr.. Nc
Aleer of Pennsylvania and MIR. Elliott OF
| South Carolina. Both voted with the re-
publicans against the proposition. Speak
! er Reed, although it is not customary for
him to vote, had his name called. and
amid the cheers of his followers, went on
record in opposition to the resolution
In the senate two of the general appro-
priation bills-that of the army, carrying
$23, ,243 ,492, and the legislative, executive
and judiciary departments, carrying S2l,-
65s, ,52O-wero passed, the latter consist
ing of l2l pages and occupying the atten-
ton of the senate during the greater part
of the session. John Mc1aurin was sworn
in as senator from South Carolina to fill
the unexpired term of the late Senator
Earle ending 1908.