Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — BROKE UP IN A ROW. [ARTICLE]

BROKE UP IN A ROW.

]The Commercial Congress Closed in Confusion. •Free Trade Resolutions Adopted and Withdrawal of Seven of the Delegates— Acrimonious Debate. Two sets of resolutions were presented to the commercial congress at Kansas City on the 17th. The majority report favora the adoption by Congress of a law authorizing free unlimited coinage of sliver and' ; the issuance of a sufficient amount of legalitender notes to be redeemable in both gold and silver, to restore the equilibrium between money and all other products; favors a tariff for revenue only, and urgea : Congress to enact laws to place the tariff jUpon a purely revenue basis at as early date as possible; declares that the inter- ■ state commerce of tbe counter should be controlled by the general government; Javors the improvement of the Mississippi river; the construction of the Hennepin ’canal and other water-ways by the government; the equalization of taxjation; a national bankruptcy law; the suppression of trusts and com-, bines; an amendment of the immigration ( laws; the restoration of railway landgrants to the public domain and the opening of the surplus lands to settlement; the reclamation of arid lands; the enactment of laws to prevent dealings in futures, and commends the Secretary of Agriculture for his efforts toward removing the restrictions onjour foreign meat trade. / The minority report favors the free, unlimited coinage of American gold and sil. ver on a ratio established by an international monetary convention which shall make siLver and gold equal purchasing powers, and favors a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection. '■ The free coinage and tariff resolutions of both the majority and minority reports were received with applause. The resolution relative to immigration was loudly applauded, and a resolution which hailed with delight the burying of all animosities between the North and South was greeted with great applause, and upon motion of Major Warner, of Missouri, was given three hearty cheers. The debate that followed was acrimonious and was participated in by many delegates. The majority report was adopted. The minority then charged the convention with being held in the interestof the Democracy, and several delegates withdrew.