Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-01
wAsKINGToN
One Hundred Dollars for Every
Chinaman.
MINISTER SEWARD NOTIFIED
TO APPEAR.
Russian Agents Iuquiring for Ships.
Congressional Proceedings.

The majority Of the Senate unit
tee on Military Affairs, I o day author
lied Senator Cockrell to report the
House bill, placing General James
Shields on the retired list OF the army,
favorably and without amendment.
The authorization was coupled with a
formal understanding that the mem
berS of the COMMITTEES shall be at liberty
to offer amendments or oppose the bill
in the Senate, If they so desire.
The Subcommittee of the House
Committee on Education and Labor
has drawn a bill which will be couSid
cred in the full committee on Thurs.
day, regulating Chinese immigration.
The principal feature is a capitation
tax of 500 for every Chinaman; the
tax to be paid by the owner or master
of the vessel landing him.
Counsel for Hon. G.. F. Seward,
| Minister to China. has been notified to
request that gentleman to appear ba
fore the House Committee on EXpend
itures in the State Department. Mr..
Seward being at present in Shanghai.
it will be i'm poSSible for him to reach
| here before June.
No Information has been received
here concerning the movements or the
bNlA kFcNCS " AhS SNRtt' .
recently reported off Ellsworth, Me.
The subject excites no particular in
tereSt i'll Washington. A gentleman
extensively engaged in shipping is au-
thority for the statement that the Rus
sian agents have zen privately max
ing inquiries to what supplies of ships
could be furnished that Government
should they be needed.
Tho ('nm mltfeP on NtaVS and Means
by a vote of eight against three, de-
cided to report to the House the fol-
lowing joint resolutions: Whereas, on
the 1st day of April, 1878, there had
been paid into the sinking fund, as pro
vided for under section 3,694 of the re
yised statutes, the sum OF S24l .4S9,
los SO, in excess of the requirements
of said law, which sum is equivalent
to about eight years income in ad-
vance of the amount required by law;
and. whereas, it is as unnecessary for
the maintenance of the public credit
as 1t is unjust to the people, to con-
tinue the imposition of taxes for tits
object, at a time OF great depression
like the present; therefore, be it enact
ed, etc, that the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized and
directed to suspend the purchase OF
United States bonds for the sinking
fund, As provided by section 1854 OF
the revised statutes, until the close Of
the fiscal year, ending on June 30th,
1885, unless otherwise directed bv
Congress. After discussion, the bill
was referred to the Committee of the
Whole.
In the Senate to-day, Morrill,, of
Vermont, from the Committee on FL
nance. reported adversely on the con
current resolution of Beck, declaring it
mex pedient to levy taxes at this time
to maintain a sinking fund. and the
Committee was discharged from its
further consideration. Mr.. Morrill,
said the law, as it now stood, provides
for a sinking fund, and it could not be
repealed by a concurrent resolution.
In the Senate to day, the President
pro tenn. laid before the Senate a mum
Der Of bills from the House, among
them beng the Senate bill to repeal the
Bankruptcy law, with the amend
ments agreed to by the House. MIR.
Merriman moved to refer the bill and
the amendments to theJudiciary Com
mittee. Beck objected to the motion.
and demanded the yeas and nays. He
thought the House amendments
should be c%oncurred in, and the bill
passed. Mr.. C%onKling favored the
reference, and said that in this body
any committee could report at any
time; therefore, there would be no loss
of time by reference. Mr.. Beck OPP
posed the reference, upon the ground
that if any good was To grow III of the
passage of the bill. the soOner it would
be passed the better. All sorts of fraud,
ulent petitions were now being filed by
persons 10 take al advantage of this Bank
rupt law before its repeal.