Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-26


is removed. II shall not be lawful
for the Union Pacific Railroad to
with or to lease or ope-
rate the road of any other company
or to divert its funds or lend its
credit in aid of any other company
or any individual, nor shall the
Union Pacific Company take, hold,
or deal in bonds, stocks or other
corporate property Of any corpora
tion or individual and all such
bonds and stocks now held by the
Union Pacific Company shall be
converted into money without I'M
reasonable delay.
Booth, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported, with
amendments, Senate bill to declare
certain lands granted in aid of the
construction of Pacific railroads by
the acts of July 1852 and 1854, sub
ject to taxation. Placed on the
calendar.
HOUSE. - Shelley introduced "a
bill authorizing the issue of United
States notes and providing for the
redemption of certain United
States bonds; by Whitthorn, to
further protect the postal revenues
and for life station and coast guard.
Whitthorn wanted it referred to
the Naval Committee, but on the
motion of Cox it went to the Com
mittee on Commerce; by Foot, a
bill retiring the circulating medi-
UNI of National Banks and replace
ing it with United States Treasury
bonds; by Bland, for free silver
coinage and to utilize the product
of gold and silver mines and pro.
vide for issuing certificates for gold
and silver bullion deposited IN the
mints; by Blair, extending the
Southern Pacific line eastward to
Ell Paso; by Hewitt, for appointing
two additional Honorary Com mis-.
sioners from each Territory to Par
is; by Crittenden, to reduce the
pay of navy officers and reduce the
number of such officers In the line
and staff.
Willis, Of Kentucky, from the
Committee on Education and La
Dor, submitted report in regard
to the question of Chinese immi-
grafton. Ordered to be printed and
recommitted.
Banning, chairman of the Mill
tary Committee, reported back the
bill recognizing the army, consol-
idating certain of its departments
and reducing its cost. Ordered to
be printed and recommitted.
Scates, chairman of the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs, reported u
bill to transfer the Indian Bureau
from the Interior to the War De.
partment. Referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole.
Goode, chairman of the Comm
tee on Education and Labor, re-
ported bill applying the proceeds
of the public lands to the support
of free schools. Recommitted.
Cox, of New York, offered res
olution directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to transmit to the
House the report of Capt. Merri-
man, of the Life Saving Bureau,
with reference to the loss of the
ship Metropolis on the North Caro-
lima coast. Adopted.
Hartridge offered resolution di-
recting the Judiciary Committee to
investigate the condition of the
governments interest in connec-
ton with the proposed foreclosure
of the mortgage of the Kansas Pa
cific Railroad company and into
any fraud or wrong doing on the
part of the directors of said COM
pany. Referred.
Fuller, from the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, re.
ported back the bill to forfeit GER
tain public lands granted to aid in
the construction of certain rail-
roads. Ordered to be printed and
recommitted.
Turner asked leave to offer a res.
olution for the appointment of Il
select Committee of 10 to enquire
into the causes of the pecuniary
depression throughout the country.
Conger objected.
Roberts, chairman of the Com.
mittee on Accounts, moved to sus-
pend the rules and adopt resolu.
ton for the appointmentof experts
to aid Committees Of inv estiga-
ton. Defeated.
On motion of Hewitt, of Ala
bama, the House went into Com
mittee of the Whole, Southland in
the chair, and resumed considera-
ton Of the bill granting pensions
to soldiers and sailors of the Mexi.
can and Indian wars.
Joyce opposed the bill as one
which placed Confederate soldiers
who fought in those wars on q bet
ter footing than Union soldiers
who fought in the war of the Re-
bellion, because the latter were en-
titled to pensions only in case of
loss of limbs or health in service,
while this gave pensions irrespec-
tive Of the question Of disability.
Goode expressed his surprise at
the extraordinary speech made by
Joyce and at the opposition to the
bill made by that gentleman on
the grounds that some of the bene-
ficiaries under the bill belonged to
the South and took sides with the
South in the late unhappy civil
war. He had not believed that
there was a member of the House
who would undertake to visit pun
ishment on the Mexican Veterans
on any such ground. Was not the
late war over? More than thirteen
years had elapsed since its termi-
nation. The fields that had been
trampled by its red, fiery hoof had
yielded many rich harvests. The
flowers of Spring had bloomed and
faded over the graves of the dead.
The Mexican Veterans who be-
longed to the South paid their tax,
bore their proportion of the bur-
dens of the government and per.
formed all the duties of good citi-
zens, and, if the emergency should
ever arise again, they would re-
spond to the call of their country
with the same zeal and alacrity as
hey did in 1S46. They would not
be found behind the constituents of
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