Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

FORTY,NINTHCONGRESS. The debate of the Beck silver resolution was continued In the Senate on the l‘2th fnst. 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 de/mand, 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 $lO, 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. He 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 be 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 $450,000 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 suspension of compulsory silver coinage, and proposed to charter no more national banks. Mr. Manderson offered a resolution in the Senate on the 13th inst., calling on the Postmaster General to report why the fast mail is transported from Chicago to the Territories by roads other than the Union Pacific. Mr. Plumb was given permission to withdraw a petition by a British subject presented by him recently. Bills were introduced to prevent the publication of lottery advertisements, appropriating $15,000 to mark the grave of General Daniel Morgan at Winchester, Vn., 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. Coke said the silver standard had no terrors for him, and that the fight against silver was directed against the people by the banks and bondholders. The House of Representatives passed a bill to legalire the election of the Territorial Assembly of Wyoming. Mr.Curtin declined the chairmanship of the Committee on Banking and Currency, and was excused from serving. Among the Presidential nominations confirmed bj' 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 be 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 be Consul General at Halifax; John B. Stallo, of Ohio, to,, be United States Minister to Italy; Charles Denby, of Indiana, to be United States Minister to China. A commercial travelers for relief from burdensome local taxation was presented in the Senate on the 14th inst, by Mr. Platt. Mr. Sewell mode a favorable reporton the bill appropriating $500,000 per annum for arms and equipments for the militia, Mr. Hoar introduced a measure setting aside $40,000 fqr a. monument to James Madison at the national capital. Mr. Brown, in discussing the silver issue, took the ground that the payment of 40,000,000 standard dollars to public creditors would make them anxious touphold their value. Mr. Maxey said the raid on silver was planned in Europe, and we needed only to enforce with vigor our contract with the bondholders. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Dingley reported a resolution for an inquiry as to legislation required by the American marine employed in the fisheries. It Was resolved to hold Fridav night sessions for the consideration of pension bills. The Hoar Presidential bill passed the House of Representatives on the 15th inst., by a vote of 183 to 77, precisely as it camo from the Senate. Following are the provisions of the bill: “In case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Slate, or, if there be none, or in case of his removal, death,' resignation, or inability, then the Secretory of the Treasury; or if there be none; or in case of his . removal, death. resignation, or inability, then the Secretary of War; or if Jjhere be 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 Postmaster' 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 Vice President is removed, or a President shall be elected : Provided, that whenever the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States shall devolve upon any of the persons named herein, if Congress bo not then in session, or if it would not meet in accordance with law within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom said powers and duties shall devolve 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 be 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 the office of President under the Constitution, awl not under impeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the office ■hall devolve upon them respectively. Section 3. That Sections 14G, 147, 148, 149, and 150 of the 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.