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Show IN THE SENATE. Couslderatlon of the Coaiy-rcncc Jte port on the Silver Bill ItPMintrd. A WORDY DEBATE OCCUPIES MUCH TIME. flie Cunirrcnrc Report on the Diplomatic au J Consular ip. proprlation Bill. THE NATIONAL" EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEETS. President Harrison Vetoes a Bill.- The lVjorain? AImisIon Bill Is KTrrrcil. Tclccrapb to tbe Nme?. sii.vr.u hill. Conferceer Krport 011 the Srmarc t'onsltlertl by ihe Senate. W'ASiii.Nurox, July 9. C'ousiiJ-f C'ousiiJ-f ration of the conferenco report on the siher hill was rcsuniul, and Cocl.rell oontlnued hl argument against the report. Cockrell criticised criti-cised the last clnue of the "wcond section of the conference hill and said the languasre therein indicated a preference for tlie single gold standard. The Secretary of the Treasury would so interpret It until a ptrty lietw een the metals was established, es-tablished, and gold uould be given preference, and legal tender notes be redeemed iu gold. Teller contraverted this aeertIou. Jones I Ark.) read an extract from an article in yesterday's New York Etenuig rod, i jiaiwr opjiosed, he said, to cilver legislation in all its forms, to the ellect that the conference confer-ence 4report contained features not imbraced in either the House bill or Senate bill and tending to make it a lietter measure than either; It akoaid Ihe iuriioe of silver was foiled. Cockn.lI I'reci'-ely what I have alJ. Tiiat article is from a ery able representalive of the good Interest and it is a warning to the senator from Nevada (Jones) that he has abandoned the caii'-c of equalization of silver with gold. Underthiscuu fennce report tbe Secretary of the Treasury can drive the country to part with every dollar of gold and can lock up Ju the vaults of the Treasury every silver dollar. That is the most dangerous power given a Secretary of the Treasury since the 1WMIATIOX OS T1I1M.OVE11NMFNT. Piatt Does the senator mean to say that he would not give the Secretary Sec-retary of Hie Treasury discretion as to which coin he would pay iu? Cockrell I certainly would give him that discretion. I would say, "redeemable iu coin." Piatt That is all that there Is to say. Cockrell That is true, but there is with it a declaration which is a fatal tiling, and that is the guld standard still exKta and niu-l im maintained. Taking up the third section of the conference bill, Cockrell entered a moi-t earnest and solemn protect against it, as meaning a practical ovulation of silver coinageafter Julv, 1S9I. Jout9(Xev.) That's all we want. Cockrell In other words, the senator from Nevada is willing to abandon the double standard, to make silver a mere commodity, to stop its coinage ami to tell the people of the country that he has done something for them in the restoration restora-tion of tiie double standard. The conference bill it a total abandonment abandon-ment of all pretensions to a double standard. Mitchell, in the course cf some questions involving CockrelPs consistency, con-sistency, rt marked that while he was in favor of tbe free and unlimited unlim-ited coimtx of silver, he would support the, conference bill because it was all that the friends of silver could get. Cockrell I believe that if the Senate will reject this report the House will in the end agree to the Senate bill. We have made no determined de-termined effort to support the Senate Sen-ate bill. We show no back bone. We show no disposition to stand by what wo have solemnly done, and we give truthfulness to the assertion of the monomctallUte of the East that the bill was only a project to furnish a market for silver bullion. DANIEL ADDItESSKDTHE SENATE In opposition to the bill. The silver question, he said, was a great deal bigger than the President of the United States, whether the President's Presi-dent's name were Benjamin Harrison Harri-son or Urover Cleveland. Daniel argued that under the conference bill SIO.UOO.OuO worth of silver "bullion "bul-lion could be piled up in the treasury treas-ury every year for all the years that tlie silver stream would bellowing, and not a dollar of it could be coined to ny the bonded obligations of the United States which were payable In coin, ami such an enormous discrimination dis-crimination tfgainit llver as that never existed in legislation, except when silver was completely demonetized. demone-tized. He admitted that it woulJ be lietter that the conference bill should Icnimc a law than that no bill on tlie sir! jeet should lcome a law, but it was a mere makeshift. Sooner or later, Daniel said, Congress Con-gress and the Executive had got to come Into collision on the ativcr question. Why not let the collision come now? If the friends of silver stood up to the fight they could win it, and if they ran away they would lose IU It they lielieved in the free coinage of silver as he did they should stand by the Senate bill and let the President of the I'nited States take care of himself. Morgan took the Moor, but saw he could not finUli his remarks today. An informal understandingwas had that a vote would be taken tomorrow and tlie Senate adjourned. Wasiunoton, July 9. IHtt (Ills.), from the committee on foreign for-eign atTairs, reported back the resolution reso-lution requesting the President to furnish to the House the correspondence correspond-ence between the governments of the United States and Great Britain touching the t-ulject in dispute In Behring Sea since March 4, 1SS9. After some debate the resolution was adopted. Hitt presented the conference report re-port on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Iu the course of the discussion, reference having been made to tlie appropriation bill for a protection of the United States' rights in Samoa, McMillan (Teuti.) declared that it now appeared that tlie entire result of the Samoan negotiations had leen to enthrone a king who had been dethroned by his people. Our representatives sent abroad for the purpose of set-tling set-tling Samoan matters had actually gone to the extent of overriding the will of the people of Samoa and setting set-ting up as king a scapegrace who had been dethroned, and, moreover, this American administration had undertaken to pay part of the expenses ex-penses of his kingdom. IT WAS A DIKWACB to Uw American oplo ami to the Administration rrstionslble for the negotiations. , , Mcrreary '!-,). who wai clialr- manofthe foreign atTairs committee of the last Congress, said he believed be-lieved we had done the best that could be done, and McMillan was liut.ingittoottrougly. If he was not satisfied wlih the negotiations, he could introduce a bill to carry out his views, or he could call for rorre-spondeace with foreign nntions. There was not a word about Samba in the present bill. McMillan The gentleman lias admitted the taking up of a deposed Mug and placing bint on a throne. as not this auother argument that a chief justice should be appointed and the governnicnts of the United States, Great Britain and Germany jointly guarantee his salary? McCrejry The gentleman states it too strongly. The Samoan bill has nothing to do with this appropriation appro-priation bill. Hitt then demanded the previous question (declining to yield to McMillan, Mc-Millan, who was desirous of continuing contin-uing the Seoiaan controversy). Thereupon McMillan raised tho point of no quotum, iiendlug which Rogers (Atk.) moved that the Houo adjourn. It jeas 75; nas 9S. The previous question was ordered yeas 103; nays 41. The Speaker counted a quorum, and then McMillan moved a reconsideration. reconsider-ation. The vote on tabling the MOTION TO IllXXINSIDKK resulted-yeas 101; nays 00 the Speaker cuuntiiigaquorum and declaring de-claring the motion carried. Brecke-nridge (Ky.) challenged the correctness of count, itut inclmr that tiie names of Kuloe, Herbert, Crain and Fitliian, and stated that they had not I'een present. Subsequently Subse-quently he withdrew his challenge to the names of Crdnaud Kilhiau, but persevered as far as Kniocand Herbert were concerned. I lie Speaker, w Idle admitting the necessity for absolute correctness iu the record of memliers present and voting, stated that, even eliminating tho names of Kuloe aud Herbert, there wjs a quorum present. He therefore declared tiie motion to table carried, and put tlie question on agreelug to tlie conference reintt. The vote resulted, jeas 111; nay, :, and the S(caker was un ible to count a quorum, so the conference report was not agreed to for the present. Adjourned. |