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Show SILVER CONFERENCE. Moderate Friends of the White Metal are Quite Well Satisfied With the Outlook. - 1 1 - WANT H 0 GOLD DELEGATES. A Suggestion That the Names of tl"i Delegates be Sent to the Senate" Sen-ate" for Confirmation. It WSB Have the Kflect of Givinp the ltepresentntives a Hetter Standing Other Washington News. New York, May 13. A Washington dispatch dis-patch says the moderate silver men in congress con-gress are very well pleased with the progress pro-gress made toward an international monetary mone-tary conference and accept it as an earnest of the sincerity of the administration. They say, however, In order to make the conference of any advantage, the president must appoint men friendly to silver as dele-g dele-g itcs from the United States. There will be live, and the silver men argue that this uum-her uum-her will give them ample opportunity for the representation of the various views. They are not disposed to insist that the delegates del-egates shall represent the extreme free coinage coin-age view tield !n the United Stales, but believe they shou.l be siucere friends of bimetallism, bi-metallism, "and not "gold bugs" either openly open-ly or in disguise. The appointment of men bitterly opposed to the coinage of silver under any conditions condi-tions would, the silver men say, make the monetary conference a farce, and deprive it of any usefulness. They hope the president will seek to give additional weight and popular pop-ular support to the conference by sending the names of the American delegates to the senate for confirmation. They admit that he can ask gentlemen to serve without asking the approval of the senate, but believe be-lieve it would be more in harmony with the spirit of our institutions and would strengthen the delegates and the conference if it were known that the delegates appeared with the sanction of the senate. If the l)Me e of men , f moderate views are sent to the senate the silver men say there will be no opposition to their confirmation. Serilte liilis. Washington, May 1". In the senate denong the bills introduced and referred were the following: Authorizing the president presi-dent to proclaim a general Holiday out incinerating incin-erating the 400lh anniversary "f the discovery discov-ery of America on October 1,', IStSJ. By Senator Hiscock To encourage Amer- lean ship building by ex ending U the steamship China, which plies between Sau Francisco and China on the Pacific Mail line, but flics the British flag, tb same privileges as were extended to the City the City of New V Senator Call offered a resolution which was B referred to the committee oa foreign reia- H tions, requesting the president to open V negotiations with the government of Spaiu for the purpose of inducing that goyern- Kineut to e(i:.-en: tn tin- establishment iu the . 'f Cuba of a tree and independent epuliHe, such consent being given on the avmi-nt by Cuba to Spain of such H to the H . Island, a:.-1 the relinquishment of her a L. to secure such material commercial president's message on subject of ternatioual bi-mctallic conference was i up and Senator Pfeffer addressed the declaring conviction that if the 1, naval appropriation MiU was then ; and read. amendment ag an $50 000 for the expenses Hlivel 's McPherson asked Hale (in . of the toil.; f-naU-rffale Vthatefii.trd expected for F-xtntt wouid. rmr.liiuoit to and after an executive session, the senate H Mr. Wilson of Washington presented, and the house P the bill for the sale of the Klamath rirer !n- Mr. Reed moved to increase the appro-priation appro-priation for lighthouse establishmuntii ; rotn $170,000 to WOT, 000, saying that the bill as reported approoriated $370,000, ilus the duty, or in all ?40S,bOJ, exactly what the amendment proposed. Mr. Hoi man hoped that thu increase would not be made, and, after some discussion, discus-sion, .Mr. Reed's amendment was rejected On motion of Mr. Savers (Tex. ) the appropriation appro-priation for the life-saving service a"a increased in-creased 1,000. Mr. Butler (Iowa) charged the republicans republi-cans with violating the rules by remaining in their scats ami not rotinir. Mr. Reed criticised the democrats for making no explanations of the reductions they made. Their argument in favor of reduction re-duction was brute force, he said, and that was the reason therefor. Pending further action the committee rose and the house ad journed. |