Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — Page 2

(T|)c DcmocraticScntinet RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record, of the Week. \ FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. The debate of the Bock silver resolution was continued in the Senate on the 12th inst. by Mr. Pugh of Alabama, who said that silver had not been treated fairly, and that when silver, under the same treatment received by gold, and under the natural laws of supply and demand, failed to hold its own, he would consider the coin controversy settled. Mr. Pugh expressed willingness to support any change in the existing law that would withdraw any paper currency under 810, or even S2O, so as to give the entire field for the use of small bills or small change to silver and silver certificates, and advocated the passage of the bill heretofore introduced by Mr. George (Miss.). Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, followed Mr. Pugh. Ho declared that the attempt to depreciate silver was one of the grandest conspiracies ever seen. The banner of the attacking party should bear in plain letters the words of holy writ: "To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall bo taken away even the little that ho hath." The success of the efforts against silver would result in the greatest industrial calamities. There was received from the President a draft of a bill to amend the act for the punishment of Indians for grave crimes. Mr. Logan made a favorable report on a bill appropriating 8450,'000 to purchase for army purposes the old Produce Exchange Building in New York. In the House of Representatives Mr. Caldwell reported back the Hoar Presidential-succession bill. In a debate on the President's message' Mr. Reagan advocated the double standard of value, opposed the mn-p vision of compulsory silver coinage, and proposed to charter no more national banks. Mr, Manderbon offered a resolution in the Senate on the 13th inst., calling on the Postmaster General to report why tho fast mail is transported from Chicngo to the Territories by roads other than the Union Pacific. Mr. Plumb was given jiormission to withdraw a petition by a British subject presented by him recently. Bills were introduced to provent tho publication of lottery advertisements, appropriating 815,000 to mark the grave of General Daniel Morgan at Winchester, Va., and to grant to the Jamestown and Northern Road the right of way through the Devil’s Lake Indian reservation in Dakota. In a speech on the coinage question, Mr. G'oko said the silver standard had no terrors for him, and that the fight against silver was directed against the people by tho banks and bondholders. Tho House of Representatives passed a bill to legalize the election of the Territorial Assembly of “Wyoming. Mr.Curtin declined tho chairmanship of tlie Committee on Banking and Currency, and was excused from serving. Among tho Presidential nominations confirmed by the Senate were the following: Jabez Curry, of Richmond, to be United States Minister to Spain ; Charles H. Scott, of Alabama, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Venezuela; Frederick H. Winston, of Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Persia : Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, to bo United States Consul General at St. Petersburg; George V. N. Lothrop, of Michigan, to-be United States Minister to Russia; M. H. Phelan, of Missouri, to bo Consul General at Halifax ; John B. Stnllo, of Ohio, to bo United States Minister to Italy; Cnarles Denby. of Indiana, to Le United States Minister to Chin '.

A petition from commercial travelers forrelief from burdensome local taxation was presented In the Senate on the 14th inst. by Mr. Platt. Mr. Sewell made a favorable report on the bill appropriating £OOO,OOO per annum for arms and equipments for the militia. Mr. Hoar introduced a measure setting aside SIO,OOO for a monument to James Madison at the national capital. Mr. Brown, in discussing the silver issue, took the ground that tho payment of 40,000,000 standard dollars to public creditors would make them anxious to uphold their value. Mr. Maxey said the raid on silver was planned in Europe, and wo needed only to enforce with vigor our contract with tho bondholders. In the House of Representatives, Mr, Dingley reported a resolution for an inquiry as to legislation required by tho American marine employed in the fisheries. It was resolved to hold Friday night sessions for the consideration Of pension bil.ls. The Hoar Presidential bill passed the House of Representatives on the 15th inst., by a vote of 183 to 77, precisely as it came from the Senate. Following are the provisions of the bill: “In case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vipe President of the United States, tho Secrotary of Plate, or, if there be none, or in case of his removal,' death, resignation, or inability, then the Secretary of the Treasury; or if there be none; or in case of his removal, death. resignation, or inability, then tbo Secretary of War; or if there bo none, or In case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Attorney General; or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Posfmaster General; or, if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Secretary of the Navy; or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Secretary of the Interior shall act as President until the disability of the President or Vico President is removed, or a President shall bo elected : Provided, that whenever the powers and •duties of the office of President of thS jJJmted States shall devolve upon any of tho persons named herein, if Congress be not then in session, or if it would not meet in accordance with law within twenty days thereafter, it shall ho the duty of the person upon whom said p&wefs and duties shall devolvo to issue a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days’ notice of the time of meeting. Sec. 2. That the preceding section shall only bo held to ascribe and, apply to such officers as shall have been appointed by the advice and with the consent of the Senate to the offices therein named, and such as are eligible to tlie office of President under the Constitution, and not under impeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of tho office ■hall devolve upon them respectively. Section 3. That Sections 146, 147, 148, 149, and 150 of tho Revised Statutes are hereby repealed.” There was no session of the Senate on the 15th. At a caucus of Republican Senators it was decided to call upon the President for papers throwing light upon causes 'of removals or appointments. The position was assumed that the Senate has a right to these papers, and from them should judge what course to take in the matter of confirmations.

EASTERN.

A granite building in Clinton street, Boston, occupied by W. 0. Rogers & Co. and C. H. Thompson & Co. with farm supplies, was burned, the total loss being about $300,000. The four children from Newark, N. J., who were sent to Paris for treatment by M. Pasteur for hydrophobia have reached home in safety and good health. Professor Fowler, the well known phrenologist, was arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. The miners and coke drawers at the Standard works in the Connellsville region of Pennsylvania demanded an advance of 10 per cent and threw down their tools. .

Western.

The Pullman Car Company has purchased or is about to consolidate the Mann Boudoir Company, as is evidenced by the acceptance of the latter’s tickets and passes.

It is rumored that, upon his return to Canada, Sir John Macdonald will grant fnll and unconditional pardon to all political prisoners now undergoing sentence in the Northwest A special committee of the base ball league lias decided to admit the National Club, of Washington, under the management of Dan O’Leary, in place of the Providence nine. It was left to the Chicago, St Louis, and Detroit clubs to select a nine from either Kansas City, Milwaukee, or Indianapolis. Akron, Ohio, lias a sensation in the sale of a wife by her husband for five cents. Serious trouble with the Blackfeet and Blood Indians of North".rest Territory next spring is feared. A delegation from Montana is soon to visit Washington for the purpose of presenting the alleged claims of that Territory to admission as a State. Six men were buried in a snowslide at Mount Sneffels, Ouray County, Col. Martin Pearson and Andy Peterson were found dead by tho rescuing party, and the other four were badly injured. The Chicago, Burlington and Northern Road has laid 120 miles of track, reaching a point near Savanna, HL, at a cost of $2,000,000. Within a year the company intends to have trains running to St. Paul. A committee of the Muscatine Temperance Alliance, in lowa, lias reported in favor of the impeachment of Judge Walter L Hayes, charging that lie does not attempt to enforce the law against liquor-sellers.

SOUTHERN.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has decided that tho coupons on State bonds cannot be received for taxes set apart by the constitution for the maintenance of free schools. An Arkansas farmer, with a doublebarreled shot-gun, captured and marched hack to tho Coal llill Minos six of the convicts who recently escaped. He states that he will bring in four others anil secure the reward offered. Taleen, Johnson & Co., dry goods and groceries at Isbpeming, Mich., failed for $50,000. James Cutshaur, the last representative stage-driver in Ohio, who for half a century was employed on the route from Zanesville to Cliillicothe, died last week at Lancaster, aged 87 years. Thomas W. Keen, a member of the Virginia Legislature, fell dead in his seat after making a brief speech. The discovery of a rich gold mine is reported from Leaky, Edwards County. Texas. The ore is said to yield from SOB to S3OO per ton. Prospectors are pouring in and claims are being rapidly staked off.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Lamar, in the matter of the Bell telephone patent, asks the Attorney General to proceed with a thorough investigation, in the name and at the expense of the Government, in order to ascertain if a patent has been obtained by fraud or issued for an invention not patentable. Miss Kate Bayard, the eldest daughter of the Secretary of State, was found dead in bed in Washington. On tho day of her delhise she had promised to go to tho White House to assist Miss Cleveland at her reception. Tho Executive Mansion was immediately closed and tho Marino Band dismissed. Miss Bayard was the eldost of the Secretary of Stati’s six daughters. Tho next daughter, Mabel Bayard, is the wife of Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of Boston, and Miss Annie, Miss Florence, and Miss Louise Bayard have but recently entered society at the capital. The youngest daughter is with Mrs. Warren in Boston pursuing her studies. Miss Katherine was the flower of all these daughters, a brilliant, clover, and accomplished girl, whose latest sayings and doings were always quoted. She was well read, gay, humorous, and witty, and her spirit and repartee made her famous as a conversationalist Sho was a fearless rider, and at hunts and riding parties would dare any leap and put her horse at anything, while her coolness and presence of mind were equal to any emergency. Her death was caused by neuralgia of the heart

POLITICAL.

A Washington special says that Representatives from New England States are gratified to find that the House Judiciary Committee intends to take up the national bankruptcy bill next week, that it may be reported to the House in time to secure an advantageous position on the calendar. They have high hopes that a bankruptcy bill will pass both houses before the summer arrives. The opposition is expected to come, as it has always come, from the West and South. Only four out of the fifteen members of the committee are from Eastern States, but Chairman Tucker, of Virginia, and some others favor the enactment of a national bankrupt law, and Mr. Tucker thinks the committee will report a bill. A Washington special to a Chicago journal says: “The President has not told any Senator what he Should do about the applications of Senate Committees for information regarding his reasons for making removals and appointments. He does not intend to define his position until some Senate Committee applies directly to him for the desired information. Thus far the Senato Committees have only applied to members of the Cabinet. In several cases the Postmaster General, and in one case the Secretary of the Treasury, has responded with the desired information—or a part of it The President expressed to the members of his Cabinet the wish that they should return to the Senate committees any further applications for information with the statement that the President had not authorized them to explain what his reasons were for making the removals and appointments.Then, if the ‘committees want to pursue the subject, they can address the President himself. He will then, by way of reply, tell the Senate what he understands to be his own perogatives and responsibilities, and what he understands the functions of the Senate to be. In other words, the President is

standing on his dignity, and invitee the Senate to ask him for his reasons if they are wanted, and not waste time trying to get the information at second hand from the members of the Cabinet When he is asked for his reasons he is prepared to explain to the .Senators that, while they have a right to reject his nominations, they are exceeding their prerogative in asking for his motives.” The House of Representatives of the Ohio Legislature adopted a resolution appointing a committee to investigate charges made against four members of the present House to the effect that they accepted bribes to vote for Henry B. Payne for United States .Senator while members of the previous General Assembly. The committee was named, consisting of three Republicans and two Democrats.

MISCELLANEOUS. Flames in Montreal destroyed the hardware store of B. & S. H. Thomson, tlie cigar factory of Fischer & Co., tho china store of J. L. Cassidy, and the Mount Royal Vinegar Works, causing a loss of $500,000. The tinware establishment of Levey & Co. at Cambridgeport, Mass., valued at SBO,OOO, the Rathbone Hall Block at Macon, Ga., and the Lathrop Block at Dover, N. H., were also destroyed by fire. The commercial travelers have petitioned Congress for relief from burdensome taxation. Twenty-four persons perished in Kansas by the recent blizzard, and others are believed to bo missing. Emily Barmore, a reputable colored woman of Anderson County, South Carolina, froze to death with two young children. The remains of four men, who had been frozen to death, were found near Benkelman, Neb. In the District of Akron, Col., several persons also perished by the storm. Three colored persons perished in a blazing tenement at King's Mountain, Mich. Noah Merriman, a wife-murderer of Belleville, 111, Charles Wilson, of St Louis, and Henry M. Stair, of Nevada, Mo., were all hanged at the places named. In tlie first two instances there were horrible scenes at tho gallows, the unfortunate men dying only after a struggle. The Rev. William Jones (colored), for the murder of his mistress, was executed at New Providence, La. The rope tore open his neck, and, the blood spurting forth, drenched some of the spectators standing near the scaffold. William Madison, a wife-mur-derer, was hanged at Beaumont, Texas. Business failures throughout the country for the week were 332, of which twen-ty-five were in Canada, against a total of 336 for the week preceding. JJradxlreet's Journal, in its weekly commercial summary says: “Special telegrams report a checked distribution of merchandise throughout the country, caused by the severe storms of snow and wind. This appears to have been universally recognized as a temporary obstruction, and the feeling among leading bankers and merchants at almost all points is one of confidence in the prospects of business for an improvement early in tho current year. As an outgrowth of the condition noted, it is reported that country collections in many cases are reported slow, though this is said to bo due to some extent to the bolding back of produce ou the part of tlie farmers, or to low prices received therefor when sold.” The carriage factory of Hiram W. Davis & Co., in Cincinnati, was damaged by fire to the amount of $150,000. Tlie car-works and foundry at Reaver Falls, Pa., worth $175,000, were burned, as also the opera house and the grocery of Innes & Sons at Lexington, Ky. The glove-fight arranged to take place in Boston between Sullivan - and Ryan is off, the report being that friends of the latter can not raise the money necessary.

FOREIGN.

M. Sagola, a banker of Calais, France, has suspended, with liabilities estimated at 52,000,030. The members of the Bavarian Cabinet resigned because the King had forbidden them to interfere with his financial affairs. Tho mad monarch owes, and is unable to pay, about 14,000,000. Representatives of a German syndicate recently sailed for China, with SIOO,OOO for expenses, to negotiate with the government for the construction of railways. A Paris cablegram reports the formation of a company of French contractors to enter into competition. It is feared that what will be almost a famine is coming in Ireland, and that with it acts of lawlessness will be more frequent John Magee, the adventurer who lately pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to procure money from the Prince of Wales by a threatening letter, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. An important change has been made in the formation of the Japanese Government. A responsible Cabinet has been organized and the general make-up of the executive department now corresponds closely -with that of the United States and England. The German Beichstag has adopted a resolution declaring that the expulsion of Poles from Prussian territory was unjustifiable and incompatible with the interests of German subjects. The ukase ordering the expulsion of all unnaturalized persons from Russia will banish about 100,003 persons. Employers are given eight months to leave, workmen six months, and peasants six weeks. London dispatches say that, while eighty-six Parnellites hold the balance of power in Parliament, it is daily becoming more evident that public opinion will demand a renewal of coercion in Ireland. Affairs in Egypt have assumed a serious aspect, owing to Turkish intrigue. The strife ie assuming a religious coloring, and it is well known that the Sultan has strong feelings on this head. The London Daily Telegram says that the Government proposes to ro-cnact tho clauses of the crime act relating to boycotting and the parte providing to impartial trials and the crushing ojit of terrorism in Ireland.

LATER NEWS IETMS.

At Adrian, Mich., Thomas Campsie and his wife were found insensible from coal gas, the woman dying, while Air. Campsie is beyond recovery. Glanders prevail to a dangerous excent in the neighborhood of Lisbon, HL An explosion in Short & Cooley’s rendering establishment, at Creston, lowa, killed two persons and wounded four others, one of whom cannot recover. Grades laid by .the Northwestern Road at Yankton, D. T., have been tom up by employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, and trouble is threatened. Five members of a family at Tarentum, I’a., have diel of tricliiniasis, and three others are beyond recovery. The steamer Modoc exploded her boilers at Pittsburgh, scattering fragments for five hundred yards. Joseph Davis, the pilot, was killed, and Captain Evans and Fireman Higgins were badly hurt A dispatch from Newport, R. 1., announces the death of Mrs. Greene, whose husband was the son of Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary General. She had passed the age of 102 years, and until recently retained her fine literary tastes. The President, in conversation with a Republican Senator, said, the other day: “I am led to believe that the majority of your body intend to insist that I shall give my reasons for suspending an officeholder at the time I nominate his successor. I must inform you that I shall do nothing of the kind. “Nominations are made by and with the consent of the Senate. ’ It is fitting in such cases that tho Senate should have all the information they desire regarding the man whose nomination they are asked to confirm, but when they insist upon my reasons for making removals they are usurping a privilege that belongs to the Executive alone, and their request will in every case be denied. That is the position I propose to take, and I am ready to abide tho consequences. ”

The judicial salary bill, giving United States Judges $5,000 a year, and prohibiting them from appointing their relatives to office in their courts, passed the Senate Jan. 18. Mr. Cullom submitted a bill regulating interstate commerce, which provides for the appointment of five commissioners. Mr. Frye offered a resolution to provide for a commission to settle the fisheries question. This led to a sharp debate, in the course of which Messrs. Frye, Edmunds, Hoar, and Dawes attacked President Cleveland for extending the Canadian fisheries treaty. Mr. Morgan defended the President. Mr. Ingalls presented a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury to state what proportion of the bonds lately called in is held by national banks as a basis for circulation. Mr. Eustia addressed the Senate on the silver question. The President, he said, had told Congress that there was not enough silver now in circulation to cause any uneasiness ; that the whole amount now coined might, after a time, be absorbed by the people without apprehension, but that it was the “ceaseless stream that threatened to overflow,” etc. From this it was to be understood that the silver dollar is an honest dollar when absorbed by the people, but dishonest when offered to the bondholders. The results of the Congressional policy of coinage had never been fullv tested according to its true intent and spirit because the executive department had, in its practice, manifested an unfriendliness to that policy, and, by partiality and discrimination, had retarded it. If that department had not discriminated in favor of the bondholders as against the people, its representations as to finance would have been entitled to more respect. In conclusion Mr. Eustis said: “If this disloyal practice of ineivism by the executive department in declaring war against silver coin, which is a coin of the Government, in belittling its usefulness, in depreciating its existence, and in inviting others to believe that it is a deformed offspring of legislative imbecility, is to continue, than some of the evils that have been predicted may come to pass; but those evils will not be attributable to any vice in our financial system, but to the practice and assertions of the executive department in dishonoring and discrediting the coin \ which' it is their duty to sustain by all the influence and power of their official in the House of Representatives, hills were introduced for the resurvey of the Bay of San Francisco, to provide for the inspection of live stock and hog products, to abolish the Fort Wallace military reservation in Kansas, to pension the only surviving granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, to confer on Lieut. Green the rank of colonel, for the admission of Montana as a State, and for the erection of an Indian school building at Carson, Nevada. Mr. Wadsworth offered a resolution declaring that President Cleveland has faithfully endeavored to maintain the equality of gold, silver, and paper dollars.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.00 @ 6.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White .94 @ .96 No. 2 Red 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2 50 @ .51 Oats—White 40 @ .45 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.50 CHICAGO Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.25 @ 5.75 Good Shipping 4.5 J @ 5.00 Common. 3.50 @ 4.00 Hogs 3.75 @ 4.25 Floor—Extra Spring 4.75 @5.25 Choice Winter 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring .78 & .80 Corn—No. 2 35 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 28 & .29 Rye—No. 2 58 @ .58)$ Barley—No. 2 64 @ .66 Butter—Choice Creamery 28 @ .32 Fine Dairy 18 @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream, new 10 @ .11 Skimmed Flats 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh 20 • @ .21 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 60 @ .65 Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 78 @ .80 Corn—No. 2 35 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 28 @ 29 Rye—No. 1 57 @ .59 Pork—New Mess 10.25 ♦@10.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 89 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 38 <g .40 Oats—No. 2 1 30 @ .32ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 @ .91 Corn —Mixed 33 @ .34 Oats—Mixed 29 @ .31 , Pork—New Mess 10.50 @10.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ .94 Corn —No. 3 36 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .32 Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @4.50 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.00 Sheep 2.50 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 88 @ 90 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .35 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red '. 90' @ .92 Corß—New.; 35" @ .30 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.50 @ 6.00 * Fair 4.50 @ 5.00 Common 8.75 @ 4.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 2.75 @3.75 „ BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 94 @ .90 Corn—Yellow 40 @ .42 Cattle 4.50 @ 6.00

CONGRESSIONAL TALK.

Interesting Debate in the House on the Hoar Bill Passed by the Senate. The Silver Question in the Senate— Messrs. Brown and Maxey Favor Coinage. Presidential Succession. Mr. Caldwell, of Tennessee, called up tbeHoar Presidential-succession bill in the House, and stated that the committee, in reporting this measure, had not dealt with indifference or disrespect with other propositions before it. There were many measures proposed that would more properly meet all possible or imaginary exigencies than the one now reported, but they ail required a constitutional amendment beforethey could become laws, and a constitutional amendment Involved a delay which, would ill accord with the reasonable anxiety which the great body of the people felt. There were many exigencies which the pending measure did not cover, hut the present exigency it completely covered. It was a temporary bridge thrown across a chasm in order to meet public demand, and would be followed in due time by an enduring structure over which a long line of Republfcan-Democratic Presidents might marchin unbroken succession. Mr. Cooper, of Ohio, who prepared the minority report, protested against the general principle of the bill—against the idea of vesting in the person whooccupied the Presidential chair the power to perpetuate the succession, by naming his successor. He was profoundly doubtful of the constitutionality of a provision which would vest the Presidency upon a man appointed by an outgoing administration. He believed it to be in violation, not only of the spirit and letter of the Constitution, but of the spirit out of which the Constitution rose ; and was unwise legislation, because it tended to widen the space between the President and the people. If there were defects in the present law they should be remedied by carefullv considered legislation. Wlmt was worth while for the American Congresß to do, was worth doing well. He could seo no exigency which required red-hot haste in passing this measure. Mr. Eden, of Illinois, defended the bill against adverse criticism, and pointed out wherein it was an improvement over the existing law. The present measure would preserve the country from anarchy in cases of trouble arising in the matter of the Presidential succession. Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, gave notice of a substitute which he would otter for the bill. This substitute preserves the law of 1792, with the addition of a provision that for the purpose of having a Speaker of tho House of Representatives continually in office Congress shall convene on the 4th of March next succeeding tho elections of Representatives of Congress; and whenever a vacancy exists either in the office of President pro tern of the Senate or the Speaker of the House the President shall convene the House in which the vacancy exists for the purpose of electing a presiding officer. Mr. Peters, of Kansas, regarded the pending measure as unconstitutional, inexpedient, and impotent. But for these faults it was a pretty fair bill. He asserted that Congress had no power to enact a law which violated the intent of the Constitution, and which in effect declared an appointive officer should act as President. It was a flagrant usurpation of tho power vested in the people. The best measure on the subject, in his opinion, was the bill introduced in 1807 providing for the meeting of Congress on the 4th of March each alternate year. Thai* would amply provide against any break in the line of succession. Mr. Seney, of Ohio, believed that the Presidential succession under existing law was at, best doubtful and uncertain. He earnestly advccated the passage of the pending measure, maintaining tnat it would remove many dangers from the path of the Presidential suesession. Mr. Rowell, of Illinois, characterized the bill as a crude one, and •suggested that if the presiding officer of the Senate was of the same party as the Executive there would not be the haste to amend a law which had stood for nine-ty-four years. The strongest objection to tho bill, in bis opinion, was that it permitted the party in power to perpetuate that power for an indefinite number of years, as admitted by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Caldwell). Never before had the American people been presented with such a temptation to crime, such a temptation to anarchy, such a temptation to revolution.

The Dollar of the Fathers. In the Senate Mr. Brown called up Mr. Beck’s silver resolution and addressed the Senate on it. The officers of the Treasury, he said, should treat all public creditors alike; if they paid the bondholders in gold alone, they should pay the laborer in gold alone. As to the accumulation of silver dollars in the Treasury, Mr. Brown insisted that it was the duty of the Secretary of tho Treasury to pay thein out to the public creditors whenever anything was due, and if that did not dispose of them, ha should call in enough bonds on which the people are paying interest to absorb the silver dollars, and so stop the interest payments. If the public creditors were paid 30,000,000 or 40,000,000 of silver dollars their endeavor would be to keep up the value of silver; if paid in gold alone their endeavor would bo to depreciate tho value of silver—to make it represent less property. If it were said that it was nest honest to pay them in silver, on the ground that the silver dollar was not an honest dollar, Mr. Brown would reply that it was always honest to pay a debt in tho very currency which the creditor, by his contract, had agreed to take. The creditors had secured several successive changes in the contract, and the contract as it now stands, was that the bondholders should be paid in gold dollars or silver dollars, at the convenience of the Treasury. Though they had thus agreed to take payment in either gold or silver, they were being paid in gold alone, while everybody else was paid in silver. This was neither fair dealing nor common honesty. Mr. Brown advocated the issuance of silver certificates to represent the silver in the Treasury. Every surplus gold and silver dollar, he said, net part of the necessary Treasury reserve, should be put into circulation by a gold or silver certificate. Instead of having too much much silver coin, business would be much improved if we had more of it in circulation in the form of paper certificates. If the national banks attempt to practically demonetize silver, said Mr. 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 Government with men who will: apply the corrective and forfeit the charters of such banks as abuse their privilege's. Mr. Maxey followed on the same subject. He said the raid on silver was a European raid, and if successful would inflict incalculable injury on the United States. The bugbear of silver, so terrifying to the European moneychangers, had no terror for the American people. The people of the South were not grievously burdened with silver or any other money, but if they should by chance find themselves hampered by a great weight of silver they could exchange it for paper certificates, which, when based on coin, dollar for dollar, were better than coin for active use. Mr. Maxey expressed himself as utterly opposed to an irredeemable paper currency, and declared a fluctuating currency inconsistent with healthy trade, while a sound currency, based on the precious metals and convertible into coin, was a blessing to civilization. The silver advocates, he contended, repelled the imputation that they wanted to,take any advantage of their creditors by paying a dollar debt with an 80-cent dollar. A fouler lie had never been uttered against a brave and industrious people. The people knew that the fall of silver was the result of a conspiracy of combined capital to destroy silver as a money metal; and the gamblers were but reaping tho fruits of their own folly. The suspension of .silver coinage was- but another name for the total stoppage of the coinage, , and such Suspension or stoppage, would be fraught with-most serious consequences to the people. What weneOdod in out. dealings with tho Mr. Maxey insisted, was a strong, vigorous enforcement of the contract made with them. Miss. Cleveland always speaks of her brother as “ the President.” Alphonse Daudet is getting ready townie a life of Napoleou Bonaparte.