Show THE sl mi washington slay may ia in the sen ben ae afe toda to da dai edmunds from the judiciary committee reported ba bate the house amendment to the antitrust anti trust bill with ith an amendment thereto sinking striking out certain words and inserting the worda words BO so that rates of such transportation may not be raised above what is jost just and reasonable reaBon ablo it was agreed to and a co ferenci committee a appointed anted the silver bral bill was then taken up and sherman offered an n amendment mentioned in venter days dispatches plumb moved to amend Shen Sher nans mans amendment by y inserting r t i and ili hereafter no funds available i 1 a able for payment of public c debt including such as are kept for redemption of treasury notes shall be r in Treasury the in excess of 1 I I 1 sherman opposed plumbs amendment as putting it restraint upon lie the treasury dep deportment and preventing erting it from paying government obligations as they became due plumb defended liis his amendment arguing that the treasury department shou id ila icae e n thine thing to do with ith ment the lie currency suddy of the country the holding of money in I 1 lie treasury except forthe for the needs ol 01 the government itself wits an economic crime coming to the file diac cf of the filver bill itself sherman paid said he lie did not like oi of ili its features lie ile might be driven to support it some of the friends at of the tile bill seem to have abandoned it already lie ile did not want vi ant to embark upon tilt the wide ide sea of free coinage of silver and did not want congress to pledge itself to buy all the silver which may be offered let those who would take the theriel risk of such speculation take it not he be but anything whatever yer that can be done by this bill or any other to give us more good paper money based on actual deposits of gold and silver bullion or that n will ill raise the value of silver he be would favor if we can adopt a measure th it will make use of both gold and silver and keep them together at par with each other he lie would vote for it if not he would content himself by simply voting in the negative the discussion wag was continued at treat preat length finally turning on monthly I 1 v debt statements of the treasury in callb a stating that he found in them astounding amazing bewildering and irreconcilable discrepancies 11 undertaking to explain them then and allison giving views upon them allison said there waa was an erroneous bat but widespread belief in the country particularly in the wept that there was an immense amount of government money stored up in the treasury while in fact the tile real surplus was a ai stated by sherman the silver bill went over without action adjourned |