Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate debated the silver bill on the 7th. Plumb favoring and Hiscock op posing free coinage. The House discus ed the subsidy shipping bill. In the Senate, Mr. Sherman reported | from the committee on foreign relations a ; bill providing that the United States guarantee the payment of 1100,000,000 bonds of the Nicaragua Canal Company, holding; the canal and Its revenue as security. It : is designed to give the support of the go. -, | ornment in encouragement of the on <er ■ r prise, and was reported unanimously. Mr. | ( Morgan apoke on the financial bill. In the ! ! House the army appropriation bill was re. ! I ported and discussed. It provides for the appropriation of $34,639,000, an increase of >400,0001