| Show MIVER AXD GOLD onldrUon otIe Matter nror the ZJnue Committee WAILur March 3Before the MouSe ireHoUBe committee on coInage talker Slam Miii lamsatlafio It Is the desire or a large majority of the people of the UnIted states that further uuiia mj made uj bring the pncuof the etandard sliver ratio and Willie gold together personally at tarn willing to try further experiment experi-ment by pacing the treasUry bllj In oucdlenceto the popular demand foJ Pplsr a minimum risk to our monetary system yet the Senate bill departs SO widely from all experience that under no circumstances could I vote for It The difference between tho bills I as follow Tho Secretarys bill proposes to receive ta much of thosllver product of the United l States that If the product of our own mints I ani ore produced In this cauntrXaAVSKUrJbe odVrwl at He market Yalue and Irene ccrtiflcatesasalmt It The al vet products of the United States Including the silver obtained from Mexican ores and reduced In this country aggregates abut 31000000 lint ounce alitlually Deducting the amount used annually in the nr say CUOO000 ounces thuamount would probably aggregate 45000000 ouncxs The ijuantlty rvctivcdnud on which nohrs jvould lie issued l would nniount t 45000000 all the production of American mines and smelters Tie government 61mply a passive agent for the receipt of such American silver as I utTered and i not COJUELLri TO GO ACI1OAD and join with foreign opuculators and fix I fictitious price for silver The committee considered tbo tnt two Mvtlons of the WinJotn bill and rejected several amendments amend-ments thereto A motion by Bland lo itriko out the paragraph limiting the Tna sury purchases to the domestic product duc was defeated by n voto of nine to tires A motion by Knapp ou the other hand t strike out the words or orese which makes the bill penult the pdrclme of other Mlvertlian from Mexican on was defeated by nine to three island moved to strike out ton one of the bill and Insert the first section of the Senate bill This was defeated de-feated by a voto of five to seven A proposition by Mutchler t limit purchase under the bill to 84 560003 per month was lost by a vote of five to nine nl amendment amend-ment proposed by Knapp providing provid-ing for certificates of less denomination denom-ination lost than S shall beissued was lot In executive session of the Senate tliis afternoon no conclusion was reached in thu matter of violations of stcrecy by the newspapers I1E11GIOC3 LEGISLATION Senator Stockbrldge pmenled today to-day two Immense packages of n monstrancfs against the pawagoof any mln rte observance of tile Salibatli or ixmln Day of any ether religious or ecclesiastical regulation against tie adoption of any resolution for any amendment to the National Constitution that would In any way Rive preference to the principles of any religion above any other or that would In any way sanction legislation upon the sulject of religion These re monstrances contain Individual slg natures of 303377 citizens from dl ercnt States and Territories as follow fol-low Michigan 41447 Minnesota s Wisconsin 0750 Kansas rcs07i California iO4 S Ohio 19 I TUB 1BESIDENT I liis approved the agreement entered n with the Chippewa I Indians In Minnesota under an actof Congress of January ISS9 Four million acre are ceded to the Government under thl agreement Rcferrlngto his approval the Secretary of the Inlerlor ha promulgated a notice warDIng wouldbe Killers that tluse reservations are not yet open and that they must not trepat thereon TIinXAOIE CASK CJXCIUDED TIle argument before thu United States Supreme Court in Xagles abtat corpus case was concluded today The ease was closed by At orueyGeneral Johnson ofCalifor laon behalf of the Stile Ue conceded con-ceded that Congress might pass a aw for tho protection of judges while traveling to or from their rcult but maintained that no such Ins had been os > ed giving this pr ttion cither in words or by Implication cation and that Its passage as 3b olutely essential In order to sot side Uiejolice power of the Stitea |
