Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — NATIONAL CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The Sqpate on the 13th continued debate on the silver bill. The House substitute to a pension bill was noa-concurred in. The House debated the tariff bill. Mr. Butterworth, Republican, made an exs tended speech in opposition to tbe bill, the Democrats giving him their time. The Senate on the 15th debated the silver bill. , The House on the 15th agreed, after a vigorous protest from the Democrats, to close tbe debate on the tariff at once and to vote on the passage of the b.ll on tbe 21st. The Senate on. the 16th continued th debate on the silver bill. The matter of public debt redemption funds came up under the discussion, and Plumb and Sherman took issues on the former proposition that an amount less than 910,000,000 be kept in the. treasury for the redemption of treasury notes. It was stated that the real surplus now stored in tht treasury was $35,000,000. The House considered ths tariff bill.