Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

At Tuesday’s session of the Senate Senator Gray resumed bis argument in support of the President's Hawaiian policy and reiterated bis charges that the revolution ists dependent on the United States minister and the United States forces for support of their movement, and that thereafter the provisional government depended absolutely on the United States forces and the flag for protection and for the maintenance of the government they had estiblished. The debate developed the fact that the provisional government of Hawaii is not lita ly to bo interfered with In any way by the Unite l States, although Senator Gray said that he regretted that it was a practical impossibility to restore the stfitui qtio of Jan. 16, 1833. At tho conclusion of Senatir Gray’s argument, the house bill, to compel tho Rock Island railroad to stop its trains at the towns<of Enid and Round Pond, was taken up. Senator Blackburn taking the floor in opposition to the bill. No conclusion was reached oh the bill, and. on request of Senator Berry, it was agreed that the measure should come up again. On motion of Senator Ram on, the Senate, at 5 p. m., went into executive session, and ten minutes later adjourned. The House spent Tuesday In debate on the Bland seigniorage bill, the principal speeches being those by Mr. Culberson, of Texas, in favor of the measure, and Mr. Coombs, of New York, in opposition. Several times Mr. Bland attempted to reach agreement for closing general debate, with a view to securing a vote, but objection was made. Mr. Kilgore was recognized to complete his speech begun last Friday. He began by denying the statement made by the opponents of the bill that it would force the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem the treasury notes of 1891 in silver. It wouid not In any way Interfere, he said, with the redemption of these notes in gold or silver, at the op lon of the holder, but, having been redeemed, silver coin or certificates would go out to take their place in the country’s currency. Mr.. Coombs opposed tho bill. It was not pleasunt for him, he said, to .differ with his Democratic colleagues. Mr Bell, of Texas, who followed, contended that the real question at issue was whether the United States should exercise its right of sovereignty to issue paper money or to issue interest-bearing bonds upon which the national banks would issue national bank notes, Mr. Culbertson said the general object of tho Bland bill was to get the silver bullion now in tho Treasury in circulation as rapidly as possible. About $55,000.0 0 of it would be a pure addition to the currency; It would not appreciate any class of money nor carry a taint of depreciation Into the currency. Mr. Warner announced himself in favor of permitting the government to coin and is.-a > all kinds of money and issue all bond money, and the banks to issue all credit money. The committee then rose, and, at 4:45, the House adjourned. The entire time of the Senate, Wednesday, was devoted to a discussion of the Honse bill compelling the Rock Island railroad to stop its trains at Enid and Rounlpound in the Indian Territory. Senator Frye presented a remonstrance from the National W. C. T. U. against a tax on whisky.

At the opening of tho House, Wednesday, the resignation of Representative Brawley, of South Carolina, who has been appointed United States district Judge, was read and filed. The newly elected members from New York, Messrs, Quigg and Strauss, were sworn in. Messrs. Roid and Bland became involved in an angry altercation over the limitations of the debate on tho Bland seigniorage bill. At 5:30 the House adjourned. In the »Senate. Thursday, Senator Iloar presented a bill to deprive lotteries of mail service. Then the House bill to compel the Roek Island Railroad Company to stop Its trains at Enid and Round Pond came up. After argument Senator Blackburn moved to lay the bill on the table. The roil call resulted, yeas 35, nays 31. and the motion to table the bill was defeated. On a final vote the bill passed—27 to 27, with the vote of the Vico President in the affirmative deciding the contest. The bill was, however, amended by the Senate and must go back to the House. Senator Peffer presented an amendment to provide that in any election for the location of county seats, “all citizens of the Untied States, irrespective of sex,” shall be entitled to vote. It was opposed by Senator Blackburn, but Senator Peffer made a strong speech in support of his amendment. “I intend.” sa d he, in conclusion, “to avail myself of every opportunity to give to woman—God bless her—every advantage, every right and every privilege that I havo got.” [Applause.] The amendment was defeated, the vote being —y<as 15, nays 42. Those voting for woman’s suffrage were: Senators Allison, Carey. Davis, Dolph, Frye, Gallingir, Hansbrough, Kyle. Manlerson. Mitchell of Oregon, Peffer, Perkins, Stewart, Teller and Wilson. In the House, Thursday, Mr. Bland moved to go into committee of the whole for consideration of the seigniorage bill which was agreed to. Mr. Bland then made a personal explanation, stating that Mr. Walker had quoted from one of his speeches in which he was represented as admitting the possibility of the depreciation of the silver dollar to the price of bullion. He did not dispute the accuracy of the report of his sp-ech. but the words had been spoken in the heat of debate and did not represent his views. There was, he said, an active, universal demand for silver for use in the arts. Under these circumstances it would be strange, he said, if bullion silver and coinel silver had the same value. He urged, however, that once thero was free and unllmite I coinage of silver the demand for the bullion for colnago purposes would bripg both coin and bullion silver to par. Mr. Hendrix opposed the bill and said that there was nothing sadder than to see a farmer sitting on a fo'ice rail with a gesticulating politician trying to convince him that the low price of wheat was due to the “crime of 1873.” The other speakers wero Messrs. Simpson, Bingham, Boatnor. Enloc. Hall of Minn&sota. Goodnight. Rawlins and Latimer. The House adjourned at 5:15. The Japanese have become “Christianized” enough to reaort to bomb-throwing in order to get revenge on their enemies. Recently a resident of Gumma prefecture threw a bomb into the honae of a politician who had not obtained for him a coveted position. Four Inmates of the house [ were injured, ou# fatally.