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Show FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. THe Senate. Washington, January 11. In the Senate Brown called up Beck's Bilver resolution. The officers of the Treasury, Brown said, should treat all public creditors alike; if they paid the bondholder in gold alone-, they should pay the laborer in gold alone. Although Al-though the bondholders had expressly agreed to take payment in either gold or silver, sil-ver, they were being paid in gold alone while everybody else was paid in silver. This araa NEITHER FAIB DEALING NOB COMMON HONESTY. If the national banks attempt to practically demonetize silver, said Brown in conclusion, and if the officials who now represent the people in the different departments of the government will not take the matter in hand, then the people at . their recurring elections should take it in hand and fill all the departments of . the government with men who will apply the corrective, and forfeit for-feit the .charters of such banks for an abuse of their privileges. Maxey followed on the same subject. The silver advocates, he contended, repelled the imputation that they wanted to take any advantage ad-vantage of their creditors by paying a dollar dol-lar debt in the 80-cent dollar. A fouler lie never had been uttered against a brave and industrious people. The people knew that the FALL OP SILVER WAS THE BESULT OF A CON-SPIBACX CON-SPIBACX . Of combined capital to destroy silver as a money metal, and the gamblers were but reaping the fruits of their own folly. The suspension of silver coinage was but another move for the total stoppage of coinage, and such suspension or stoppage would be fraught with most serious consequences to the people. The Judioial Salary bill was then laid before be-fore the Senate. One section provides that no person related within the degree of first cousin to a judge of the United States shall bo appointed by such judge to any position in his court; and persons related who now hold such office shall not continue in office after six months from the passage of the act. Edmunds moved to strike out the clause that would effect persons at present in office, and in the course of his remarks in support of the motion said: "Even this reform administration, ad-ministration, the picture of purity and grace, and of everything that is lovely (laughter) has sent to the Senate the nomination nomi-nation of a father and son to goto the same place to exercise the functions of two offices one under the other." After debate the Edmnnds amendment was agreed to. Adjourned until Monday. |