Show In the Senate WASHINGTON 19 Plumbs resolution resolu-tion to recommit the bankruptcy bill to the judiciary committee with iustiuctions to amend by making it apply to voluntary bankruptcy only was taKen up and after discussion placed on the calendar cal-endar The matter will not be brought up again this session Voorhees introduced a joint resolution for an immediate increase of silver money by the purchase and coinage of 10000000 ounces of silver at a price below 512929 within the next thirty days this purchase to be in additon to the amount required by the existing law Referred to the finance committee The Senate then went into executive session When tho doors were reopened the Senate passed a number of bills including the House bill to discontinue the coinage of j and 1 gold pieces and 3 cant nickle pieces The House bill to reduce the amount of United States bonds required of national banks und restore to tho channels of trade the excessive accumulations of lawful money in the treasury having been reached on the calendar Plumb said he believed its passage xvould tend much to quiet even the present agitation in the money market Undoubtedly tho effect of tho bill would be not only to prolong but encourage the national bank system Plumb feared the bill would finally result in a contraction of the currency While he agreed that the national banking system as a system of discount and deposit was wise and ought to be continued it was plain to be fen it was not long t be a system hair relation to the currency The banks themselves wanted to et out of that business Congress could not afford to let the national bank currency disappear without supplying a currency in its place He believed the business of tho country in greater peril than for years from the lack of a sufficient circulating medium Power moved to strike out the first section sec-tion reducing t 1010 the deposit of bonds to return charters After further discussion the bill went over till tomorrow tomor-row XOXVThe Senate bill for the protection of trees and other growth on the public domain do-main from destruction by fire passed I J it 1 > o I The House bill to define and regulate the I jurisdiction of the courts of the United States with the amendment of the judiciary judi-ciary committee in the nature of u substi tute was taken up as unfinished business and went over without actton Adjourned |