Show = I IN CONGRESS What the Lawmakers Did on Monday MORGAN RESOLUTION IRE Ha not the Con i ins Conzress veclarln tltuUonsl power to Appoint the contemplated Trustees SENATE January 11A number WASHUfjroh r were presented prayingcr i L oetitioas suspension of silver coinage the Harrison reported favorably from the I on Territories an original committee bill to admit Dakota and provide for the organization of the Territory of Lincoln Butler reserved the right to submit a minority repoit if after the perusal and consideration of the majority reporfhe conclude to do so should from the same committee HarriO0 Harr nVtd adversely on the resolution reported heretofore offered byButler and Vest Sg for inquiries as to the prganiza nalling State government u Dakota tiSra a ion the calen was placed on The nsotaton daFr i introduced a bill for the relief of Frye marine rcerchant h Amtiican WiSiS resolution relating offered a Morgan thettllstees provided for in the Utah to and affairs the property bill to manage of the Mormon Church organization The preamble to the resolution recites that the union of church and State in the joint administration ot temporal and spiritual affairs of any church or religious sect is dangerous to the freedom free-dom ot religions worship and violates the principles of the Constitution of the United States The resolution sets forth jaiong other things that in the opinion of the Senate it is not within the power of Congress to appoint officers of the United States to participate with the officers of any church or religious sect in the management of the affairs ota church or sect and that it is in Tioition of the Constitution for the pendent to aDpoint any such officer cede any law At Morgan request the resolution was allowed to lie over Manderaon called up his bill to in iease the efficiency of the infantry branch of the army The bill provides that each infantry regiment shall con sjtof twelve companies one colonel one lieutenantcolonel three majors one adjutant one quartermaster one Bcartermasters sergeant and one chief musician All the appointments to the original vacancies above the grade of second uteiunt created by the act i shall be filled by seniority in the infantry in-fantry branch ot the service ilander son addressed the Senate on the bill Blair addressed the Senate on the bill heretofore introduced by him to provide pro-vide for the erection of a monument at Washington to Lincoln and another j to Grant 11 t Pugh called up Becks silver resolution j t resolu-tion and addtea ed the Senate on it With the aid of all the learn fag in the world Pugh said the greatest statesmen were still grappling with the monetary question at precisely the same point at which j they began to grapple with it So far as the United States is concernedthere never has been a time when our paper or metalic currency was so sound and healthy as today The condition of affairs and the premium on our lands c nstituted a grim satire on the prophesies pro-phesies of the opponent ot legislation hitherto enacted by Congress on the money question Nothing was more I I tube desired Pugh thought than that 1 the banks bankers and Federal trea airy should stand aside and allow Greahams law to have full and free op erstion on our silver currency He had much confidence in the political ideas sound jndgmnt and integrity of President l ta ddhin tfoft dent Cleveland and his devotion to con sttntional principles but many Democrats Demo-crats would differ with the President on the money question and on details affecting the tariff These questions were so farreaching and complicated compli-cated in their operations as not to be capable of a final solution satisfactory w all honest inquiries He Pugh had given the Presidents message much consideration but was constrained to differ with him in regard to money nigh quoted figures from the New York clearing houses to show that only about 3J4 per cent of the clearing clear-ing house transactions were repre seited by cash the remainder being made up principally of checks Congress was confronted he said by tae official announcement that our business relations had reached a crisis In rIch ie must suspend the coinage of silver if we would secure an interna tional ratio between gold and silyer the real point involved Pugh believed w be not the suspension but the total stoppage of silver coin and if silver coinage were suspended now it would M a blow that would directly and speedily tend to the consummation of w organized conspiracy of capitalists to secure the absolute control of all our currency at the regulation of the volume sad consequent purchasing power PUgh believed he spoke for the Wtnern people when he said wttsefourths qf them would today opportunity were given vote against proposition to suspend silver coin w The petitions that came to Con Peso favoring the suspension wereall o a printed blanks and signed mainly by of hikers > Pugh criticised the arguments the Secretary of the Treasury and of tie President He inquired whether pe were to take the meie dictum of the resident on this matter and insisted that the Executive officers were under obligation to enforce the laws of Con gress Why had those laws been hourly j elated Had Congress abdicated its gwers to the Executive Department of S II government The National banls ern h5 were the fiscal agents of the pov = h ll1ent should not Pugh thought 5e 111Ve been allowed to become dltll1beS of a clearing house that trejiisd the silver certificates of gov 1 ert The national banks had evaded the law of Congress by agreeing that they would not offersilver certificates certifi-cates to the clearinghouses and therefore there-fore none had been actually refused by the clearing houses A New York newspaper he said had squarely identified iden-tified theinvasion Why was silver opposed op-posed by national bankS Because silver sil-ver was the only medium of our currency cur-rency which they could not control Stop the coinage of silver said Puglf It and those banks will become absolute monarchs of all the money The opinion James G Blaine he continued con-tinued would have influence with some He read from the remarks re-marks made by Blaine while inC in-C < Jn res3 to the effect that the establishment of a nonmetallic god standard would be injudicious to our industries and commerce and that t reUnited re-United States could not wisely treat silver sil-ver as the European countries did Both metals Pugh insisted were necessary neces-sary in order to counteract the constant con-stant tendency of money to contract under the vast increase of the values of the world He quoted from an eminent English authority to show that no gold standard country in the world had advanced in prosperity in a degree at all to be compared with that Qf the double standard United States Without concluding his remarks re-marks Pugh gave way to Edmunds for a motion to go into executive session Vance gave notice that at the close of the mornings business tomorrow he would ask the Senate to continue consideration con-sideration ot Becks resolution t COKO gavenotice that on Wednesday next he would ask permission of the Senate to submit some remarks on the same subject The judicial salary bill was then placed pro forma before the Senate and doors were closed for executive session When they reopened the Senate ad oujned HOUSE The call of States was resumed and the following bills were offered and referred ferred By Wheeler AlabamaAuthorizing females to enter lands under the homestead home-stead law By Healey CalifornlaTo promote iJOtoCo1 rnl eltiJ the introduction of water in the Colorado Colo-rado Desert Bv Rogers Arkansas Appropriating Appropriat-ing 100000 for the improvement of the government reservation at Hot Springs Ark By McKenna CaliforniaFor the I appointment of two army and two navy officers and one civilian authorized to construct two gun foundries one in California at the Mare Island Navy Yard or at the Bepicia Arsenal and one at such other place as the board may determine at a cost not to exceed 1000000 for each foundry Among the many bills introduced in the House today was one by Grant of Vermont to enable the people to name their postmasters By Head of Idaho authorizing the committees for reports but with the exception of the judiciary committee which reported two or three private bills there was no response Adjourned |