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Show 'LATEST TELEGKA21S.I i J FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. ! EXTRA SESSION. j ho lki-:. Washinntou, 10. The journal this morning embodied, for the brut lime, petitions deposited in tbe box. j A quiretiou waa rained by Garfield, who expressed the hope that it would j not p;us into precedent. i An explanation waa made by the speaker as to the reasons why be bud j directed Hi is to bo done, the principal one being that under existing circuin J stances, while petitions and memorials memo-rials aro being presented, accompanied accom-panied by bills, tbeuueatiouaa to which committee they should be referred to became important, and already d tierencea bud arisen between the chair and member presenting peti lions as to their proper reference. It waa therefore deemed proper ibit tue home ilaclt should have an opportunity oppor-tunity of parsing on the question. Krye said it might be tound ttiero would be no objection whatever to tne introduction of biila next Mondiy, however absurd they Bhould be. Tue matter waa finally relerred to the committee on rules. The subsidiary ailver coin bill then . came up as uutiuiehed business of i the morning hour. Warnor moved tn amend the third 1 section, which makes ailver coin legal tender to the amount of $10, by add- ing the words "for all debts, public and private." Cif.rro, !-, n lii-iof nnnAih nflill the country, to-day, presented the strange spectacle of haviug three dialinot silver coins, no two ol which are of the same value. There was the trade dollar of 420 grains, the staudird dollar dol-lar ol 412$ grains, and the half dollar, dol-lar, two ol which contained only Ji85 8 10 graina. This was all wrong, and the evil lell heavily upon labor, lie did not, however, propose to discuss dis-cuss that question now, but he wanted the pending bill paased a9 a first step in reform. After that other matters could be taken up. Mills ollered a substitute fur the bill. The first section of the substitute substi-tute provides for a silver dollar of 4124 grains, half tlolLars of 206i grains, quarters o( 1031 grains, dimea of 41 graina, and hall dimes of 20 j grains, nnd that all of them shall be legal tender for any turn whatever. Tho ononnrl annlinn malt-Pa oilvnr mind exchangeable in sums of $10 and its multiples for United States legal tender money. Tbe third aeciiou provides tor a like exchange of trade dollsre, and Mexican dollars containing more than 377 grains pure ailver, The fourth section authorizes the holder of ailver bullion or silver foreicn coin to receivo for it leal tender money at tho rato of one dollar ior every 31 grains of fine ailver, Tho fifth section directs the recoinsge of all ailver foreign coins in the treasury. The sixth section sec-tion directa the application of all legal tender silver coins in the treasury or that may come into it first to the pay-ment pay-ment of intereat on United Slatea bonds; second, to tbe payment of the principal of such bonds, aa they fall due, and third, the purchase of bonds that are not due. The eeventh sec-lion sec-lion directa the secretary of the treasury, in exchanging legal tender notea for Bilver, to pay out one and two dollar notes until ho ehnll have paid out $50,000,000. Garfield exprested himself ao favor able to the general scope ol the bin, but he desired to cfler eonie amend- I menta to it in its detail. Tub first amendment was to increase the amount at which subsidiary silver coins may be presented, (or exchange, from $10, aB in Ibe bill, to $50. Stephens said be had no ohjec'iou to that amendment. Garfield also suggested that the words "legal tender money" should be changed into "lawful money ol the United States," which is tho term used in the law. Hia only serious objection ob-jection to the bill wa to the third section and he would strike that out. Hawlev made a point of order on Alilla' substitute. Decision reserved. Spriuger submitted an amendment making trade dollars legal tender to Morton hoped ihe bill would pass. It was in the interest of the people, of every woman or child pocaesaeU ol a single piece of fractional coin. Government Gov-ernment issued those coins at par and should redeem them at par. Unless ro redeemed, if the government con-tinuad con-tinuad to ioaue those coins, it waa in-evitable in-evitable that eooner or later they would pass at their bullion value, which was even lower than that of the silver dollar which waa to-day worth S3 cents. GarfieUtt' amendment substituting the words "lawful money of the United Statea" for "legal tender money," was agreed o. Springer's amendment increasing the Irgal tender quality of EuLuidiary a:lver coin to $20 was agreed to yeas 123, nays 1U3. Stephens entered a motion to reconsider re-consider Mr. Warner's amendment that subsidiary coin shall bo leg.il tender for all debts, public and private, in all sums not exceeding $20. Agreed lo. The house having reached Springer's amendment making the trade dollar legal tender in buqjb not exceeding i-0, lieed .raised tbe point ol order that the amendment was not germane. Springer withdrew his amendment saying Lie understood a bill would be reported from the coinage committee making trade dollars legal tender. The morning hour here expired. Tbe house then went into committee commit-tee of tbe whole, Blackburn in the chair, on tho legislative appropriation bill. Price, who vias entitled to the floor, yielded to Frye, who Baid that, in connection with a misunderstanding which had taken place yesterday, between the gentlemen froai Kentucky Ken-tucky and Ohio (Blackburn and McKioIey) in regard to the proper construction of Blackburn's speech, he desired to read to the house the conitructiun put on that eptech in Mississippi by the now famous paper Okolona States, which ho received through tbe mail. He thereupon read, with great emphasis, the fol-article fol-article from that paper of tbe 1st of April, prefacing it with the statement tnat the article was complimentary (o the gentleman from Kentucky, and therefore that gentleman would take no offense ; "What was it that brave Joe Blackburn said in the house, Mesare. Soft Shells I Oh, yes ! We remember now. He remarked that uur party would strike the last vestige of war measures from the atatuto books. Tho states never said nioro and never said less than that. You repudiate states. Will you repudiate Blackburn? You are silent. Will you repudiate Blackburn? You are otill silent. Well, gentlemen, we will give you just oue more chance. Answer, or forever after hold your peace as far as states is concerned, will you repudiave Blackburn? Down with the devil-born devil-born amendments! Down with centralism and its hints of crown and sceptre I Down with pictures of Lincoln Lin-coln and the scoundrels who surrounded sur-rounded him iu the battle daya of 1561-5 1 Down with every anti-democratic idea and idoll These will be the watchwords for 13S0." ' Blackburn, having come down from the chair during tbe reading ot tiie article, in an excited manner, !s-id: "Mr. Ch -;rn:u:j, if Ibis be not tho first time 1 invj been forced to complain of unfairness at the hands of my friends on tbe other aide, it is certainly the first time I have ever been compelled to make auch complaint ajjainet tho gentleman gen-tleman from Maine, I have but this to say. I regret that every recurring day brings up some personal assault which it seema to me lair dealiufr, honesty of construction and ordinary coaniiood would repudiate. repu-diate. With each recurring day 1 find myself forced to repel miscou-struction miscou-struction given, either by some mom bera of tho bo'jse to the language uttered ut-tered by me in the Bhape ot garbled quotations, or else the unwarranted, unfair and nnnntural construction put upon somebody else's language tiy a member cf that side ol the bouao. So fr as tbe newspaper article ar-ticle which the gentleman from Maine ha read to the house is concerned, con-cerned, I care nothing far it; for that paper, a contribution from Ohio to Mivdikaippi, simply repeats the unfair, ungenerous and untruthful eflbrt that wos made here yesterday to misrepresent misre-present me. I care nothing for tbe utterances of that paper, but when the gentleman from Maiue seeks to add his high authority to tho injustice in-justice done ono by the editor ot that inconsequential sheet, it than be-comea be-comea a more aeriom matter. Tnen I group the paper and tbe gentleman from Maine together, and I say to this committee and the country that it occurs to mo tboy aro well mated. The one ia us unfair aa the other is illiberal and crazy. (Applause and laughter on the democratic side). Frye The one waa a colonel in the Confederate service and not a carpet bagger from Ohio. The one waa the peer of the gentleman from Kentucky iu that service in the south. Of the other I have nothing to eay. (Applause (Ap-plause on the rspublican Bide.) Blackburn (who had by this time moved into tbe area in front of the speaker's chair, and who stood there surrounded by many democratic members) But I have thia to aay of the other. He aeema to be more perfectly familiar with the history, antecedents and merite ol that adventurer adven-turer than I care to be. Whether be served in that army or the other is a matter of no concern to me. I simply desire to repeat that, in tbe article which tbe gentleman baa read, in order to twist it to partisan purposes, ne perpetraieu an aci oi grosa inj notice no-tice to which the gentleman from Maine, to my uttor amazement, haa sought to lend bis high authority. Frye I did Ibis and nothing more. I heard the 6peech of the gentleman from Kentucky when it waa made on this Door, as taken down by tho Asso oiated Preaa reporter and aentallovei this country, and I say I had not a scintilla of doubt that the tonatruction which this paper has put ou that gen tlemau'e language would be put on it in tbe south. If that gentleman made a declaration on the tlaorof tbe house, which the Associated Press at tbe time could declare to be what it did declare it to be, and which the Okolona States, from a dispatch in ! the Associated Press report could declare de-clare in its joy it to be what its heart demed it to be, then it is not I that ie to be oalled lo account for anything I have reapealed to this bouse. I eay ii is my right and it is not illiberal or unjust to the gentleman from Keulcky for mo to state to the bouse, not my own words, but tbe worda of this paper published in Mississippi, endorsed, en-dorsed, aa it is, by scores and scores of tne papers in the south. I believe I intended no injustice to the gentleman gentle-man from Kentucky. I aay iu my heart and from tbe utterances which I have seen iu the papers of the south, that if tbe gentleman from Kentucky had uttered, on thia floor, the very words spoken by that paper-no more, no lees he would have commended himself lo Dine out of every ten of tbe democrats eouth of Mason and Dixon's line. Ddvidson You do injustice to all ol us. Blackburn I wish the gentleman from Maine to understand the issue distinctly. I atand by the record made in (his bouse and I wish him self and his colleagues would act as fairly. Blackburn, in conclusion, expressed tbe hope that there would now be an end to this miserable wraDglinc. Ho never complained of a manly blow struck from tbe front, but only ot tho unmanly stab delivered in the back. The discussion here terminated, and Blackburn resumed his place as chairman ol the committee of the whole. Price disclaimed any idea of giving giv-ing Tiae to the exciting scene which had juit taken place by any remarks he had made, and proceeded to argue against the repeal of the election law. Steel made a speech denying the asortion of Frye some time since as to political outrages and murders in North Carolina. Tbe matter and manner of the Bpeech provoked Ire-quent Ire-quent outbursts ot laughter. At the concluaion of Steele's speech Bailey obtained the floor but yielded to a motion, which carried, that the committee riae. White moved that when the house adjourn it bo to meet on Tuesday next. Defeated 39 to G7. Adjourned. |
