Show In the Senate WASHINGTON April 7 After routine morning business a resolution was offered by Teller and agreed to calling on the secretary of tho treasury for a statement as to tho amount of silver offered to the government each month since the passage of the bill July 1 1890 by whom and at what price the amount of silver bullion purchased each month of that time from whom and at what price and the number of days given sellers in which to deliver silver Tho Senate proceeded to the consider tion or tne Dill making an appropriation for the expenses of the government in the District Dis-trict of Columbia While the bill was under consideration Stewart made a personal per-sonal explanation on the subject of the article in yesterdays New York Evening Post containing a list of mortgages made to him in Alameda Cal wherein there was an obligation that payment should be in gold coin These mortgages ho said resulted re-sulted from sales of property at auction through a firm of broers in San Francisco The mortgages ho presumed were drawn up in the usual blanks which contained an obligation to pay in gold He had never sean them but lad no doubt that that was the cause It arose from what was known as the Pacific contract law passed in lbG3 which was stil in force there and under which gold is the standard and had been maintained during tho war Mr Halo hoped that tho Senator would Ben to it that no such thing should take place in future Mr Stewart promised to do so and added he would be glad to bo paid in any kind of money He had always been opposed to the Pacific contract law which ho thought had operated to the great detriment of the Pacific coast Ho repeated that the brokers had drawn up mortgages in tho usual way and he was not responsible for that Mr McMillin offered an amendment to the District bill appropriating 75000 for the reception and entertainment of the next encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Washington onehalf the amount to be paid from the treasury and tho other half from the revenues nf the District of Columbia providing no part of the amount shall be available until 50000 shall have been raised by popular subscrip tion and expended Mr McMillan offered for McMian otered himself a a substitute appropriating 100000 for the same purpose Mr Harris and Mr Vest opposed the appropriation After some do bate the matter went over without action after Mr Hawley had given notice of an amendment placing tho expenditure under the control of the secretary of war During the discussion the bill to place wool on tho free list and to educe the duty on woolen goods was received from the House and after tho District bill was laid aside the wool bill was laid before the Senate by the VicePresident and referred to tho finance committee The Senate after a short executive session adjourned |