The age-herald., 1898-01-23
berg (dem) of Texas; Adannson (dem) of Georgia: Underwood (dem.) of Ala ana.
 The house at o'clock adjourned.
IN THE ATE.
Aliens Desk Covered With Flowers Stewart
 Spoke on Teller Resolution.

Washington Jan. 22.-On the desk of Mr. Allen. of Nebraska at the opening of to- days session of the senate was stand of beautiful American Beauty and Bridal roses. It was a testimonial from the ladies of the departments for your noble and brave defense Of womans honor."
 MT. Allen championcd the cause of Mrs. NJ. Roberts, who was sllmmarily dismissed from the pension office.
 The resolution of Af~. Teller, of Colorado. providing that the boEEs of the United States may be paid in silver dollars was then laid before the senate and in accord- ance with notice given yesterday MT. Stew art, of Nevada, addressed the senate. He said that the disregard of the resolution which Is already a law of the United States had brought many ealamities upon the land. and that the results of such dis regard had been disastrous and lamenta- b.e He attributed the panic of 1893 directly to the disregard of the law.
 MT. Stewart said he expected to show that the secretary of the treasury had no more authority to sell bonds and demand gold for them when there was coin in the treasury with which to redeem bonds than he (StewarD had. Bonds had been
 
 in the treasury was not the kind with which it was desired to pay bonds. He maintained that the law was mandatory upon the secretary of the treasury to re- deem bonds in silver. Even the Indian apolis commission, he continued, which knows as little of finance as it is possible for men to know, admits that its obliga- tions are payable in gold or silver at the option of the government.
 Steal of $3O,00O,OOO.
 Referring further along to the sale of the $262, 100000 of bonds by the admnistra- tion of MT. Cleveland, MT. Stewart de- clared that in the sale of those bonds there had been 'steal' of $50 900 900, with the connivance of the executive. The sen ator denounced it as a shame that no ad- equate investigation of the "steal had ever been made by congress.
 Mckinley, said he, could not have got ten enough votes to make decent showing if he had not been announced b,metallist. Indeed, it was claimed throughout the west that Mckinley was a better bimetallist than Bryan, because, it was further claimed, that he had the only method by which bimetallsm could be accomplished.
 MT. Nelson of Minnesota, at the conclu- sion of MT. Stewards speech, offered the following amendment to the Teller resolu- tion::
 "JAnd it is the duty of the government of the United States under existing laws to maintain the parity in value of its gold and silver money; that the dollar of the one metal shall for all monetary purposes always be equal in value to the dollar of the other metal"
 MT. Morgan of Alabama secured the pass age of bill to grant 25,00O acres of unoc- cuped lands of the United States in Ala- bama to that state for the use of the in- dustrial school for girls of Alabama and of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial h. stitute.
 A bill was passed authorizing the Shreve- port and Red River Valley Railroad com- pany to construct and maintain a bridge across the Loggy bayou in Louisiana
 The senate, at 3:0S p. m., went into ex- ecutive session, and at D. m., adjourned