Show 1MPUssIllJ1 TO REPEAL The Sherman Act Cannot Be Annulled An-nulled Unconditionally A NEW RATIO PROBABLE A Report of National Banks Circulation Circula-tion Is Called For Numerous Petitions for Free Coinage Presented to the Senate Mr Commas Amendment to the National Bank Circulation culation Bill The Deserted House WASHINGTON Aug 17The Senate made no progress on the financial discussion discus-sion today because a majority of the members apparently believe their speeches should be withheld and the matter at issue in a repeal of the Sherman Sher-man law squarely presented to the Senate Sen-ate Pressure is becoming stronger daily on the finance committee to report some definite proposition on the Sherman purchasing pur-chasing act and the result will probably be that the committee will soon report a bill and leave the decisive battle to be fought out on the floor of the Senate A majority of the committee at this time is in favor of reporting to the Senate a similar sim-ilar measure to the House bill Every indication at this time points to the impossibility of any repeal by the Senate unless it be coupled with some such declaration as is made in the Hill bill or with more positive legislation providing for the actual free coinage at n revisea ratio When the Senate met today numerous petitions were presented some for tbe unconditional repeal of the Sherman act and others against its repeal without a provision for the free coinage of silver One was presented from the board of managers of the National Temperance society so-ciety against the proposed six months suspension of the whisky tax A resolution was offered by Mr Kyle and laid on the table for the present call ing for a report from the treasury department depart-ment as to what national banks have diminished and subsequently enlarged their circulation and what national banks have no outstanding notes in circulation A resolution was offered by Mr Gallin ger and went over until tomorrow calling for a report as to whether the secretary of the interior commissioner of pensions had conformed to provisions of the existing exist-ing law in suspending and dropping pensioners pen-sioners from the pension roll The Montana senatorial case was taken up and Mr Pasco addressed the Senate in opposition to the right of Mr Mantle to n seat under the governors appointment appoint-ment Mr Dubois made a short argument on the other side of the question This was followed by a colloquy between be-tween Senators Mitchell of Oregon and Chandler of New Hampshire the former advocating and the latter opposing the admission of Mr Mantle The discussion was interrupted by an amendment offered by Mr Gorman to the national bank circulation bill amendment amend-ment which provides that any national bank desirinerto withdraw any part of its circulating notes hal in writing at least sixty days before the proposed for such withdrawal make application to the comptroller of the currency and that no such withdrawal shall be made unless I such application be approved in whole or in part by the secretary of the treasury but no more than f 3000000 national bank circulation shall be withdrawn within any calendar month After a short argument by Mr Call against the right of appointment by a governor Mr Hoar who has charge of the report called for a vote upon the resolution for the admission of Mr Mantle Objections were made however by Mr Vance and finally unanimous consent was given that the vote be taken on Monday next at 5 p m After a brief executive session the doors reopened and the House joint resolution for the payment of mileage to senators and representatives for the extra session came up for discussion and after an hours miscellaneous debate on the question ques-tion it passed A message was received from the House announcing the death of Mr Chipman of Michigan whereupon the usual resolutions resolu-tions were offered and agreed to and a committee appointed on the part of the Senate to attend the funeral As a further mark oi respect to the memory of the deceased tho Senate adjourned |