CONGRESS-Continued. In the 51st Congress (Rep.) it was beaten by 24 majority. In the 52d (Dem.) the House bill was beaten by a tie vote on March 24, 1892, and a bill passed by the Senate was rejected in the House by a majority of 18 on July 13. In the 53d Congress (Dem.) a freecoinage amendment was rejected by a majority of 101. At the late session of the 54th Congress it was squarely beaten, after a full debate, by a majority of 125. CONGRESS—Apportionment under Eleventh Census. Constitution, 1789, ratio 30,000, whole number of Representa tives 65 First Census, 1793, ratio 33,000, whole number of Representatives 105 Second Census, 1803, ratio 33,000, whole number of Representatives 141 ...... Third Census, 1813, ratio 35,000, whole number of Representatives 181 ..... Fourth Census, 1823, ratio 40,000, whole number of Representatives 213 Fifth Census, 1833, ratio 47,700, whole number of Representatives ....... 240 ... Sixth Census, 1843, ratio 70,680, whole number of Representatives Seventh Census, 1853, ratio 93,423, whole number of Representatives 223 .... 233 Eighth Census, 1863, ratio 127,381, whole number of Representatives 243 Ninth Census, 1873, ratio 131,425, whole number of Represente tives 293 CONGRESS-Continued. Tenth Census, 1883, ratio 151,911, whole number of Representa tives .. 325 Eleventh Census, 1893, ratio 173,901, whole number of Representa tives Population at each census: 356 1867... Pounds. Bushels. Bushels. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. 1868. 8.48 3.92 23.52 21.1 5.01 1.09 1869... 10.51 1870... 12.88 1871... 12.82 1872... 14.10 1873... 11.10 1874... 1875... 13.60 15.19 1876... 11.90 1877... 14.77 1878... 14.03 1879... 13.71 1880... 15.90 1881... 18.94 1882... 19.64 1883... 16.15 1884... 20.80 1885... 16.30 5.64 27.40 1886... 15.16 1887... 19.59 1888... 16.84 1889.. 19.59 1890... 17.22 1891.. 18.50 1892... 22.02 1893... 24.03 1894... 17.07 1895 15.91 22.48 COOPERAGE-Continued. Materials Products .... 20,636,911 Annual wages paid per capita, $473.20; duty under old law, 30 per cent.; duty under new law, 20 per cent. COPPER-A Money Metal. Why not Demand Free Coinage for? No. 96. The copper producers have just as substantial ground for complaint as the silver mine owners, due to the depreciation of their metal, which is equally a money metal with silver. When silver was of full value with gold, at a ratio of 16 to 1, copper was marketable at 21 cents a pound. Silver since then has depreciated from $1.29% per ounce down to the present price-69 cents. Copper, meantime, has gone down from 21 cents a pound to the present price, 94 cents per pound, from the same cause-oversupply. Instead of free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, when the bullion value of silver makes it over 30 to 1, copper would make more honest money for the country, and more of it (if that is what is wanted by the farmers and others), as the ratio can be made 100 cents to $1, and still make it honest money, and, if the coin should be made four times the size of the present penny, it would really be restoring the money of our daddies if made free, unlimited, and independent coinage. COTTON GOODS-Continued. Imports, 1893, $33,343,553; duty received, $19,031,638; duty under old law, 52.55 per cent.; duty under new law, 43.54. COTTON GOODS-Imports, 1894-'95. The 16 to 1 theorists, who propose to cure all evils by restoring the condition which existed prior to 1873, will not stop with the restoration of silver. The proposed restoration must include the doubling of everything which has shrunken. The following is suggestive of others: DISEASE. Ten days per annum is the average amount of sickness in human life. That is hardly enough. What we need is to have the per capita doubled. If there was twenty days' sickness instead of ten then the doctors would earn just twice as much as they do now, and, of course, would spend twice as much, and that would increase the money, and everybody would be just twice as well off. The production of the country would be thus increased, for there are a good many more doctors than there are silver mine owners, and by doubling their earnings and thus setting twice as much money in circulation business would revive. The doctors would have to use more horses to drive around among their patients and so there would be twice as many oats used. This would double the price of oats, and so all around there would be a rise in values. CRIME OF 1873--Continued. Wages would go way up with the other things, and then, too, a mao would not have to work so hard as he does now, for he would lay off with sickness twice as many days as he does now. Ever since the demonetization of disease sickness has been gradually declining and the per capita is altogether too low. What we need is more sickness, and there should at once be a return to the old ratio of our fathers, 1 to 16, that is, one sick day to sixteen well days, which would make about twenty sick days in a year instead of ten. Until this is done we can have no prosperity. CUBA. No, 101, In Cuba the standard is gold and silver; the monetary unit is the peso; the value in United States coin is $0.92.6; the coins are of gold: doubloon ($5.01.7); silver: peso. The ratio of gold to silver is 1 of gold to 15% of silver. CUBA, WAR IN-Action of 54th Congress Respecting. No. 102. Senator Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, in the Senate, reported a concurrent resolution as a substitute for various resolutions on January 29, 1896 (Record, page 1210), and on February 5, 1896, he reported a further substitute. These resolutions were debated in the Senate, beginning February 20, 1896, and continuing at intervals until February 28, 1896, when the Senate voted on the various propositions pending, and passed the following by a vote of yeas, 64; nays, 6: "Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That, in the opinion of Congress, a condition of public war exists between the Government of Spain and the Government proclaimed and for some time maintained by force of arms by the people of Cuba; and that the United States of America should maintain a strict neutrality between the contending powers, according to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the United States. "Resolved further, That the friendly offices of the United States should be offered by the President to the Spanish Government for the recognition of the independence of Cuba." The Senate concurrent resolution was received in the House the same day. On February 27, 1896, in the House of Representatives, M Hitt, |