Show = FORTYNINTH CONGRESS SENATE f H TAI i II A 1 U WASIIIKGTOS January HBeck said he did not there had come to him 4elid l know why several f petitions I to be pre s ntcd to the Senate urging Congress to suspend silver coinage He had declined de-clined to present such ijetitions and had returned them to the persons sending taem to him He had pursued that course because he believed the sending of such petitions had been influenced dialed Confiden bya circular lletter tial sent out by a committee of the New York board of trade and transportation transport-ation Beck read a copy of the letter It asks its recipient to write a personal letter to Speaker Carlisle urging him to refrain from placing extreme flirver merr on thecoinage C9nimittee of the House of Eeprespntatives3and S ilso4 write per onal letters to SejiatorsJand Representatives entatives urging suspension of sil ver coinage 4 JMandexson desired toy Correct an error of the1 the statement bftne Kelly correspondence to the effectthatwhen Kassou had been nominated to the Spanish Mission he was objected j to by the government of Spain f Allison sent to the desk and liad the clerk to read a letter from Evarts then the Secretary of State to Kasson saying that no question was eyer raisec As to Kassons acceptance by the Spanish Span-ish government The appointment for Madrid the letter continues originally proposed by me was changed upon your preference to Vienna and for reasons having no connection whatever with or the knowledge of either government Evarts corroborated Allisons statement state-ment Brown called up Becks silver resolution reso-lution The officers of the Treasury Brown said should treat all public creditors cred-itors alike if they paid the bondholders bondhold-ers in gold alone they should pay the laborer in gold alone Although the bondholders had expressly agreed to take payment in either goldor silver they were being paid in gold alone while everybody else was paid in silver This was neither fair dealing nor common com-mon honesty If the National banks attempt to practically demonetize silver said Brown in conclusion > l and if the officials who now represent the people in the different departments of the jovernment will not take the matter In hand then the people at their re cnrring elections should take it in hand and 511 all the departments of the government with men who will apply the corrective and forfeit the charters of such banks as abuse their privileges Maxey followed on the same subject The silver advocates he contended repelled the imputation that they wanted to take any advantage of their creditors by paying a dollar debt in an gu1 fedh iOcent dollar A ouler lie had never been uttered against a brave and industrious in-dustrious people The people knew that the fall ot silver was the result of a conspiracy of combined capital to de story silver as a money metal and the gamblers were but reaping the fruits of their own folly The suspension of silver sil-ver coinage waS but another name for the total stoppage of coinage and such suspension or stoppage would be fraught with the most serious consequences I conse-quences to the people The judicial salary bill was then laid before the Senate One section provides I that no person related within the degree of first cousin to a judge of the United States shall beappointed by such Judge I to any position in his court and persons per-sons related who now hold such office shall not continue in office after six r months from the passage of that act Edmunds moved to strike out the clause that would effect persons at I present in office and in the course of his remarks in support of the motion said Even this reform administration the picture of purity and grace and of everything that is lovely laughter has sent to the Senate the nomination of a father and son to go to the same place to exercise the functions of the two officers one under the other I After debate Edmunds amendment was agreed to Adjourned until Monday HOUSE On behalf of the committee on presidential presi-dential laws Caldwell called up the Hoar presidential succession bill and as there were but a few minutes of the morning hour remaining it was agreed that the debate should continue during the afternoon Caldwell reserving the right to call the previous question at any time Caldwell stated that the committee com-mittee in reporting this measure had not dealt with indifference or disrespect with other propositions before There were many measures proposed that woud more properly meet all possible or imaginable exigencies than the one now reported but they all required a constitutional amendment before they could become laws and a constitutional amendment involves deny which would ills iccord with the reasonable anxietywinch the great body of the people felt There were many exigency s wLh the p2nd ins measure did not coverbut the present exigency it completely cohered It was a temporary bridge thrown across the chasm in order to meet the public demand and would Ibe followed in due time by an enduring structure over which a long line of Republican and Democratic Presidents might march in unbroken succession Cooper of Ohio who prepared the minority report protested against the general principle of the billagainst the idea of vesting in the person who occupied the Presidential chair power to perpetuate succession by naming his sect essor He was profoundly doubtful doubt-ful of the constitutionality of the provision pro-vision which would vest the Presidency upon p man appointed by an outgoing administration He believed it to be in violation not only of the spirit and letter let-ter of the constitution but of the spirit out or whioh the constitution rose and was unwise legislation because it tended to widen the space between the 1resulent and the people If there were defects in the prese itJaw they shoulii be remedied by cnreC llvconsid red Iegisiation What it was worth wnilefor an Amerf Congress to do was worth doing weft He could see no exigency which required redhot haste in passing any measure I After debate the House adjourned |