Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

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.