The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-03-28
WASHINGTON, March %.

WASHINGTON, March %.
The Vice President laid before the Senat,
. memorial signed by 400 women of Utah
strongly deprecating the admission of thai
Territory into the Union As a State. In .
letter addressed to the Vice President, &C.
companying the memorial, a committee d
five ladies state that large msjority of the
signers have been residents of Utah and
members of the Church for many Year.
that numbers of them have had pereonal and
very bitter experience in the practical work
ings of polygamy, and that they have every
reason to believe that their wrongs would be
continued and greatly intensified BY the ad.
mission of Utah into the Union, and the
consequent accession to power of the Nor.
mon priesthood. The papers were ordered
printed.
Bills were introduced as follows:
By Mr.. Pomeroy, from the Committee on
Lands, to secure homes.eads to actual SET
tiers on The public domain, repeating the
pre-emption laws, and providing for home
stead settlement only.
By Mr.. Caldwell, from the Committee on
Private Land Claims, a bill extending for
three years the act providing for the final adj
justment of land claims in Louisiana, Flori-
da and Missouri.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Vermont, introduced a
bill repealing the acts granting lands and
certain privileges in Indian Territories to
railroad companies.
Mr.. Logan called up the bill to enti.!e dis
charged soldiers and sailors to lands.
At the expiration Of the morning hour
the tariff bill was taken up, but Mr.. Win
LII shsS 70 - H.. el.e T.
LoRan's bill might pass.
Mr.. Logan said that 400 soldiers petition.
ed its pasage.
Mr.. Sherman objected.
On call for the yeas and nays, 81 voted
to lay the tariff bill aside, while 10 voted
against it.
Mesrs. Logan, Window and Stewart
then advocated the SOLDER homestead bill,
and it passed.
The tariff bill was then taken up, Mr..
Corbesi having the floor.
Mr. Corbett criticised the bill as making
100 great q reduction in duties, and tending
70 produce stagnaiion in trade; argued that
- the premium on gold went down the ne
cessity of high protection duties grestly in
creased.
Mr.. Morton said that while prohibitory
tariff was an absolute idea, free trade was out
Of the question, and that the doctrine gener-
lily accepted BY the American people at this
lime seemed to be tariff for revenue 70 adj
listed a to discriminate in favor of Ameri-
an industry; that On this tariff question the
political parties we're divided, the Demo-
rat. seeming to be opposed to reduction of
arif on articles in the production o. which
heir particular States we're inierested, and
n favor Of liberal reduction on all other
lEticles.
Mr.. Morton read from the Democratic
'latform OF 1868, On the question of tariff
md said he understood there was to be
'ew party formed in that political morgue
shieh had been opened in Cincinnati for the
eception Of dead bodies. which bodies he
bought would not be recognized amer the
meeting; that the movement had started on
free trade basis, bat it was feared that il
'ould NOT work we'll 20 it was dec;lsd thatlit
houd be neutral on the tariff question. The
lrif, he mid, vas . question Of lahos and
'agD more than anything elss; vaen in
.neland vers about sevsatvslfths Of our
Lmesie,n wages, and IN 0amaay snd Bel
ium thsy ve1s only 90 did = aseh = in
be United States, and that, with such dis |