Show The Grand Army and Silver WASHINGTON Feb 1SThe Grand Army of the Republic not infrequently have been accused of being used to sub servo partisan ends but today the grave charge of seeking to divide the party against itself was preferred against this great organization in the House Bland the free coinage leader was the accuser and Harter a freo trader is the antifree coinage Democrat of Ohio the gentlemen charged with attempting to subvert the Grand Army of the Republic to the interest in-terest of capitalists and monopolists Speaker Crisp called the House to order this morning but resigned the resigned gavel to Richardson of Tennessee The Presidents message relative to the Choctaw and Chickasaw claims was laid before the House and read The message was ordered printed and laid on the table for the present The protest of the Philadelphia board of trade against the free coinage bill was presented pre-sented Referred The speaker pro tern laid before the House the response of the secretary of the treasury to the House resolution asking for information as to the authority by which the 4J < per cent loan was extended I was ordered when me House adjourns Friday i shall be to meet Tuesday This order is taken to enable members to accept the invitation to visit Chicago Geary of California from committee on foreign affairs reported bill for the exclusion exclu-sion of Chinese Calendar The Rouse then went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill During the course of a general debate on the Indian appropriation bU Bland sent to the clerks desk and lad road a circular letter written by Harter to various Grand Army posts in denunciation of the free silver bill and advising members of posts to urge Congressmen to vote against it as it would prove detrimental to the interests of pensioners This circular Bland characterized char-acterized as BULLDOZING DOCUMENT I was an effort to intimidate members and part of the bulldozing tactics of the millionaire lionaire which always had been carried on in opposition to measures which would give free silver to the country He denounced de-nounced it as unfair and unbecoming the dignity of a member Harter admitted the authorship of the C I circular letter To men who were afraid to have an expression of their opinions made public such a circular might seem toe b to-e bulldozing He was not a millionaire nor was he the owner of any na tonal bank Ho was more of a farmer than tho gentleman from Missouri Mis-souri He was as much opposed to giving the silver bullion producers TiE EARNINGS OF THE PEOPLE as he was to giving them to manufactur ers I a free coinage bill passed it would elect Benjamin Harrison for a second term and this would be done by a Democratic House under the leadership of the gentle man from Missouri Ho would like gente pay members of Congress with the 70cent dol ler and see how they would like it If any thing should be made legal tender it should be the corn of Kansas and not the silver of Colorado siver Bland had Barters biography as pub lished in the Congressional Directory read in order to show his business life was lfe spent as a banker and manufacturer Silver was then laid aside and considera tion of the Indian bill resumed Smith of Arizona criticising some of its features especially tho appropriation forTE for-TE CARLISLE SCHOOL The bill was generally discussed until ad generaly journment j untl The secretary of the treasury has writ ten a letter to the speaker of the writ response to the House resolution calling on him for resoluton calng information whether informaton at any time since the 47 per cent bonds became duo there have been sufficient funds In the treasury to pay the same and i so by what authority he assumed to continue any of such bonds at 2 per cent interest and why the same were not all paid at the time said bonds were due The secretary the 43 per cents are redeemable at says the pleasure of the United Stated on three months notice to the holders He shows there were SUFFICIENT FUNDS IN THE TREA3URT to pay outstanding bonds but says it was deemed prudent and profitable to the gov ernment to continue a portion of them and the authority under which the bonds ware permitted to continue was contained in the act that authorized their issue The scene tary cahs attention to the fact that the Fortyseventh Congress approved the con tinuation of the 5 and 0 per cent bonds at 3 per cent |