Show t V HURRYING UP Hushing Things in the Senate and House TIlE SILVER QUESTION TALK The Disposition Being Blade of the Appropriation Bills in Congress The Senate WAfcniNGTONFebruary 28TlJe Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the AttorneyGeneral stating that the deficiency defi-ciency bill as passed by the House insufficiently in-sufficiently provides for the expenses of juries and in connection with United States courts not more than onehalf the estimates having in any case been allowed The Attorney General further states that there will not be money enough to carry on the courts named during the coming four months unless further provisions be made Referred to the committee on appropriation Hale submitted the reportof the conference con-ference committee on the agricultural appropriation bill Agreed to A substitute for the river and harbor bill was read the second time and referred erred to the committee on commerce which on request ofMcMillon got permission per-mission to sit during sessions of the Senate Mitchell offered the following preamble pre-amble and resolution Whereas The commercial value ot silver has so far depreciated that standard stand-ard silver dollars coined under the act of 1878 are now worth but 82 cents in he open market and Whereas The continued coinage of such depreciated dollars now amounting amount-ing to nearly 200000000 seriously threatens the suspension of gold payments pay-ments by government from the necessity and the consequent banishment of gold coin from active circulation therefore Resolved That the committee on finance be and hereby is instructed forthwith to prepare and report to the Senate a proper bill to provide for the immediate suspension of the coinage of silver dollars and for the resumption of such coinage whenever the commercial value of the standard dollars aforesaid shall rise to within 5 per cent of par with standard gold dollars of the United States Mitchell asked unanimous consent to have the resolution considered at once and to have read in connection with the resolution a very important letter from a distinguished person meaning the letter of the Presidentelect just pub lished on the silver question Objection was made by Harris Maxey Cameron Wis and others both to the reading of the letter and to its present consideration The resolution resolu-tion matter therefore Went over one day under the rule The bill passed appropriating 70000 for a public building at Port Townsend Washington Territory The announcement was made that the House disagreed with the Senate on the post office appropriation bill The Senate insisted on its amendment Adjourned The House WATHINGTON February 23 Dibrelt submitted the Conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill agreed toThe The House then proceeded to the consideration con-sideration of the Senate amendment to postoffice appropriation bill The recommendations of the appropriation appropri-ation committee were generally followed fol-lowed The committee was voted down however how-ever on its recommendation of non concurrence in the amendment permitting permit-ting sample copies of secondclass publications pub-lications to be transmitted through the mails at 1 cent per pound and an amendment relative to compensation to American steamers for cariying mails was nonconcurred in All amendments having been disposed dis-posed of Townsend Holman and Hair were appointed conferees upon the disagreeing dis-agreeing votes of the two houses The naval appropriation bill with the Senate amendments was taken from the Speakers table and referred to the committee on appropriations Hancock moved to suspend the rules so that the House shall go into committee com-mittee of the whole on the fortification bill general debate being limited to two hours The motion was agreed to and the House went into committee as indicated indi-cated Blount in the chair Eosecranse th favored committee bill Keifer omitting mention on the fortification forti-fication bill addressed his remarks to the silver question and found fault with the Cleveland letter It is assumed in that letter that unless the coinage of silver was suspended the time would come when there would not be enough gold in the Treasury to redeem all the greenbacks He had supposed that greenbacks might be redeemed at the pleasure of government in gold or silver coinThomas Thomas said while the committees fortification bill purported to appropriate appropri-ate 900000 in reality it appropriated 3000000 and enabled the great American Ameri-can gunburster Norman Wiard to buy guns from the United States at onefourth of a cent a pound and after a slight change to sell them back at SOc a pound Dorsheimer thought the speech made this morning by Horr in eulogy of Cleveland indicated that the gentleman was coming over to the Democratic party The public act of the President elect which had been the subject of the gentlemans eulogy was the letter addressed to certain members of the House He agreed with the gentleman that the letter contained an abundance of sound doctrine but he would have preterred that the Presidentelect had done what he had no doubt he would do on the first occasion offered him suggested to Congress some practical method by which the circulation as coin of the two metals could be reconciled recon-ciled and maintained tor he did not believe be-lieve it to be desirable or possible that silver should de demonetized in this Ui country On the other handhe thought it the part statesmanship to recognizer t the fact which existed and to bring I about a reconciliation between the two L currencies irs a reconsideration of the ratio of their value In judgment k the true solution of the question was to make the silver dollar the equal of the I gold dollar If the silver dollar were I made equal to the gold dollar thera would be no reason for plaeng any rev fI stnction whatever on its coinage and l4 tot indeed in this case it might be safe to Ij t I make silver the sole foundation of tile r paper money of tire country I Horr was not surprised tbatthegen f i leman from New York should think I he was about to go over to the Democratic 11 Demo-cratic party because he remembered I fi i I that not very long ago that gentleman 4r I was iat rousing good Republican IV Laughter But that was not his style F He did not see why the gen 1 tleman should complain because j he Horn was able to discover a I I little common sense in one Democrat sri he United States If the Democrats f t had taken his advice they would not have given their President thus early Ii the blackeyc they had administered i the other day The President had not deserved it Warren of Ohio who was the re 1 cepient of Clevelands letter thought ft I i that as the silver Question had been imported f i im-ported into this discussion it would not r be out of place to say a word in reply i The silver question was an economic question and not a political one It Ii II f was not a question to be settled by mere opinion It was well understood that j the Presidentelect had different views u on that question from maD members in the House Distinguished Repub 1 licans hold different views from the ma jority of their party It was a question of monetary science and nothing else l One word as to the alarm which had f been sent throughout the country as to I the crisis which was to come as a result of the continued coinage of silver Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the care with which tho letter referred to had been prepared notwithstanding the candor with which the views of the Presidentelect had been formulated in this particular he was mistaken The condition of things I which was predicted in the public pres3 y as about to take place was an impossi bility It was a condition of things 1 that never had taken place in any country in the world With a currency of 750000000 it was impossible that i this currency should go below the par gold It was not in the power of all the banks of this country aided by all the banks of London to put gold to a premium pre-mium and keep it there 33 long as the i 1 volume of money was kept down aside I B from gold to 750000000 r On motion of Reid the paragraphs I 1 were stricken out which prescribes tho j calibre of the guns to be manufactured and the manner in which the shall be tested t b i f t The committee then arose reported r the bill to the House and it passed 1 This is the last of the appropriation bThe t The House agreed to the Senates I amendment striking out the clause of the fJ army appropriation bill permitting i courtsmartial to hold their sessions at such hours as they see fit Itii Adjourned r |