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Show FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. extra session. senate. Washing t.-n, 17. Consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was resumed. Among the amendments agreed to was one oflered by Voorhees, from the joint committee on library, appropriating appropri-ating $5,000 for the purchase of works of art. The amendment recommended by the committee on finance appropriating appropri-ating $20,000 for diplomatic and consular con-sular services, to be expended at the discretion of the President of the United States, waB agreed to. The reason for this amendment is that there is a movement in Europe with a view to arrange for a bimetulic stand-ard, stand-ard, and it might be thought advisable to Bend a representative there to take part in the proceedings. During the debate on the amendments amend-ments op the subject of the clerks in the poatoffice department, a colloquy occurred between Saulabury and I Kin dom, ia wnich the Utter said he would not join tho former in his wish to ecenorn'ze expensed by reducing the army which i required for pro " lection of tho frontier from the attacks i of Indians. A discussion followed i with baulabury, Conkliug and El-munda El-munda using the name of Schenck in the use ol troops in Maryland and Delaware. Logan eaid there was no more honorable man than Gen. Schenck. (Khen treaBon stalked about the land and thenation was rolling and, rocking to and fro like a distressed vessel on a atormy sea, Gen. Schenck reached forth his hand in his country's defense. de-fense. He was one of a band of patriots who defied treason and risked hia life and all other things precious for the preservation of the Union. He did not claim that Gen. Schenck was entitled to credit for being a government gov-ernment patriot, but because he was a patriot waB no reason why he Bbould be maligned here or elsewhere. Gen. Schenck waa a crippled man, pensioner pen-sioner for wounds received in hia country's defense, and he waa a patriot pat-riot and an honest man notwithatand iug the sneers of the senator from Dalawsre. Adjourned. UOLSE. Washington, 17. As business of the morning hour, consideration waa resumed of the bill to amend the law relative to the transfer of oases from the state to United States courts, and McLane concluded his argument in favor of the bill. Urnor opposed the bill on the ground that one of the sections proposed pro-posed to be repaaied was virtually the judiciary act of 178D, which gave force and etlact to that clause of the Constitution Con-stitution which authorizes United States courts to pass upon questions in controversy between citizens of one state and citizeis of another state. The morning hour expired before Urner had finiihed his argument, and the bill went over till Tuesday next. Consideration was then resumed of ths bill to amend tho statutes relating to gold and silver coinage and coin, and bullion certificates, tuo question being on the third section and amendments amend-ments thereto. The first amendment wae ono oflered by Be! ford confining, :he privilege (f fr-c r,iin;tte to silver mines in the United Suu-a. Springer spoke in favor of hie amendment, to which Belford'a amendment waa oflered. It would uaftke tin- diQereuce between tho value of bullion and the value of coin inure to government inttead of to bullion owners. It would give the bullion holder 84c. for his bullion, which it waa worth, anal not 100c., whidh it waa not worth. It would put into the treasury the difference between the bullion and coin value of Bilver, and keep it there as a trust fund for the people of the United States. (Applause on the republican side.) Jiuckner opposed Springer's amendment amend-ment aa a proposition utterly destructive destruc-tive of the whole theory on which the bill was founded. It waa a worse blow at silver than the proposition ol tne secretary of the treasury to atop its coinage at J50.000.000. This amendment cut the throat of the silver dollar, aud if it waa put upon the bill be would vote against the bill because it would theu put into the hands of the secretary of the treasury tho vory power he deaired, and would virtually stop the coinage of another silver dollar. Newberry oppeacd the bill. It was not based upon facts but upon theories, opinions and guesses of the wildest kind. He was thinking of o flaring an amendment to the bill, providing that any owner of paper pulp might deposit the same at the treasury and receive therefor legal tender notes of thesamo denominations denomina-tions aa those now in use. Bright, Tennessee, said the question was whether government should have a aeignorage on coinage, or whether the country should have free coinage, and argued when a seiguorage was put upon coin it would be driven out of the mints. He opposee Springer's amendment as amounting to little lers than a tax of 1G per cent, on the coiuage of silver bullion. Soon afterwards a vote was taken on Belford's amendment, aud it waa defeated yeas 87, nays 120. Marah argued against any change in the standaid of value, and asserted that to-day tho gold dollar really re presented $1.15, and the standard silver dollar represented $1. The demonetization de-monetization of eilver had been b crime and a fraud, and the third sec lion of .the bill was another fraud, because it waa giving the bullion holders an'advantage of 17 per cent. (Laughter aud applauae on republican repub-lican side). Garfield Baid congress had never legislated on any question that reached further, boih territorially and in time, and touched more vital interests than those touched by this and similar bills. Il'ithin the recent year, and notably within the recent months, the leading thinkers in the civilized civil-ized world bad become alarmed at the attitude of precious metals in relation to each other, and they were already of the opinion that by some wise, broad and judicious arrangement both metals might be kept in Bervice for the currenoy ol world. Even England, which, for more than half a century had believed in a single gold standard, was now seriously meditating how she might harness both those forces to the monetary power of the world aud yet outside of this chamber and capitol there waa not a single bimetallic authority in the world who regarded it Eale to plunge out in any wider coinage of iiilver at the present time any where. The French aud Latin union, which had believed in bimetallism bi-metallism and had maintained it against all comers and had advocated it throughout the world, were not coining silver coin and had not done so aince 1SG4. The most stringent advocates of bimetallism now said it would be ruinous to bimetallism for France or the Latin union to coin any more Bilver, and yet the United States government, which bad coined in less than two years more of silver dollars than bad been previously coined from the foundation ol the government and ten times more than had been coined in Beventy years of its exialenco, was to day fearing tho world and denying the universal opinion about bimetallism by saying that America, single banded, could enter the contest and Beltle this mighty quebtion alone. This was madness. He had once seen a dog on a great stack of hay which had been floAted out into the wide overflowed bod of a river. For a little while the dog appeared perfectly happy, the hay stack was there, the stack pen was there and he thought the world was all right, but bye and bye he began to discover that the barn and the house and eur-roundiogB eur-roundiogB were not all there as they uad been before he went to sleep, and hfl began to understand that he could not quite command all the prospect 09 he had done. So with the United States. We are all afloat on this mighty question and we "bay the moon" as we float down the whirling tide, and say wo are wise; we have been launched on the wide current which aweepa over the whole world,' and we bark from our hay stacks, as if we commanded the whole. For heaven's sako let ua take some account ac-count of the flood; let us understand that deluge means something and try, if we can, to get our bearings before be-fore we undertake to fix it all up in the house of representatives. To-day we are coining one-third of all the silver that is being coined in the round world. China is doing auother third and all the nations of the globe are using the other for subsidiary ooin. If we want to tie with China, and part company with all the civilized civil-ized nations of the world, let us do it in this bill. What this country needs moat of all is that this congress go home. (Lsucbter and applause on the republican side.) and let these forces of business and peace and order and brotherhood work in their natural way, and bring us into light, ability and peace. Even now our administration is opening negotiations with all eastern nationa to see if there cannot be an international inter-national arrangement whereby ibis question Of bimetallism may be wut ly settled. Warner Baid he was glad the present administration had been induced by the aclion of this house to open a correspondence on this question with foreign countries and he hoped that the aclion would be backed up by the vote of the house. The npiuion seemed to prevail very generally thai if this bill passed it at once transferred by law 15 per cent, of all the silver bullion that might be coined to tue bullion holder. The absurdity of that proposition was to him so plain that he only wondered that so many had fallen into the fallacy and had become be-come bewildered on that point. Take for instance gold, it was set apart from ull other things aa a money metal and tho coiner of it did not alloy its value. The same bad been true of silver. Exactly up to 1873, an ounce of bullion had had precisely the same value In the market as an ounce of coin. Haskell declared himself an enthusiastic en-thusiastic bimetalhst but opposed the bill acd Springer's amendment because be-cause if the bill passed, gold wsuld leave the country and currency would be contracted to the extent of $u0,-000,000. $u0,-000,000. Ewing said the great apparent object ob-ject ol the amendment oi Springer was to eave to the government the difl'er-en.ee difl'er-en.ee between cum aud the bullion ol eilver, but the great defect of the amendment waa that. While repealing, repeal-ing, Li this bill would repeal, the existing law making prtumptory the coinage of $2,000,000 a month, this amendment would commit to the secretary of the treasury the power, at his discretion to strip entirely the coiuage of silver dollars. How? It eaid the secretary should buy it at market price. Where? At Iondon or San Francisco, or New York or Virginia City. He had a right to fir where aud bwng ut erlyand intensely inimical to the coinage of the silver dollar ho would so construe aud exercise exer-cise hia power that no bullion holder wjuld sell ut the markat price aa declared by him. The country wcuid, , in 'hat way, be put off with a coinage which he ventured to say would not amount to the p esent coiuage required by law. The amendment which he proposed fixed the market value at the average market mar-ket price at New York and San Francisco Fran-cisco for a week preceding the tim bullion was deposited. The vote was then taken on Ewing's amendment and it waa adopted yeas 100, naya 105 the speaker canting the deciding vote amid applause on the democratic aide. Springer's amendment, as amended by Ewmg, was rejected ynas 38, nays 171 and the house then, on motion of Clymer, adjuurned until Tuesday. |