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Show FORTA'sJf'lNTH CONGRESS, The IIeueJri Washington, February. 2iImmeaiately upou assembrmg"the House, under thftj previous previ-ous order,V wenf into ConfMittee of the Whole for general debate on Ihe state? of the Union. ;. I Chandlerfof Georgia. subrSited ait argument argu-ment against"! j h?HE SUSPENSION OF SILVBRCOINAQE. He contended that there was no souna basis for the pre'diotion made by the gold-bugs that the continued coinage of silverjwould have the effects Af driving gold out of the country. , 1 .. Lantham, of Texas, spoke in support ofa bill previously introduced by him to disapr prove an act of the Legislature of New Mexico Mex-ico to prevent the introduction of diseased cattle into the Territory, arguing that it wag unconstitutional, in that it interfered with inter-State commerce.. . Weaver, of Nebraska, discussed the silver question, and predicted that the effort of the I money oligarchy, assisted by the , executive officers of the nation; to double the pedple's burdens and CBIPPLE THE BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY By a suspension of silver coinage, would prove unsuccessful how that the attention of the people was attracted to the question. He favored unlimited coinage, and asserted that if the whole yield of the mines was coined annually, it would bT twenty, years .before .the' per capita iciroulatidni. of ,4,he United States would bev equal .to that of ' France'?:andftbig"?dh?ou been made, without ; taking jntoftcgurrjf any increase in the "population of the oounfry. |