The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-18
TELEGRAPHIC
WASHINGTON.

Washington, 1.-The house COM
mittee of ways and means, to-day,
adopted the report of the sub committee
charged with preparing a refunding bill
with an amendment that $500, 00O, OOO
treasury notes provided for in the bill
shall bear 81 per cent permanent interest,
the same as 20, 40 bonds.
The congressional printer asks for a
deficiency appropriation of $3.50, 900, the
extra session making necessary a great
amount of extra printing.
| Professor Baird wants $4,000 to fur
nish fish Matching steamer for the coast
Of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
The foreign affairs committee, to day,
| discussed for two hours the sub-com nit
tees report on the Acklen affair and ad-
journed till tomorrow. The findings of
the subcommittee are simply as to the
truth of the published charges.
The House territorial committee has
agreed to report favorably on the bill
prohibiting the settlement of any more
Indians IN Indian territory without the
consent of Congress.
In the House the regular o:der was a
motion TO lay on the table the motion TO
Yesterday, ordered the main question on
the bill prohibiting the publication of
lottery schemes in the District of Colum-
bia. The motion was defeated-l11 to
III. The motion to reconsider was
agreed TO- Knott moved TO lay the bill
on the table; rejected. The bill goes
over till the next District day.
The bill for removal of causes from
state TO federal courts was taken up in the
morning hour. Knott supported it. He
instanced the great power of corpora
tions, one of which, like the enormous
Octopus, stretched its monstrous tentacles |
into eleven states and controlled 6, 000 /
miles Of railroad and its financial opera |
tions were second to the government |
itself. Congress could not disturb these |
parasites on the body, but it ought to |
deprive them of extraordinary privileges,
as this bill contemplated. and which they |
had in contraventiUn 10 the Constitution. |
He criticised the courts decisions which |
regarded corporations as citizens. The |
logical conclusion from the decision was |
that it might become president or general
of the army, but that it had no soul and |
could not take the oath or be damned. |
The bill went over.
The House recommended the revision |
of the rules. Warmers amended substi-
tute to Spears amend nent to rule y |
provided that it should be in order to |
reduce the amount of money provided by
existing law, and to that extent only /
change the law. Rejected-32 to go The
next amendment was loves, prohibit
ing partisan legislation upon the appro- i
pristion bills. The bill submitted the /
amendment that when an amendment Is
offered to an appropriation bill changing
the law, the retrenchment proposed shall |
not be by inference, but shall expressly |
specify the amount of money thereby /
saved. Hurd spoke against preventing
on appropriation bills; history |
indicated that The provision of the Con-
stituliOn which gave the House the so:e |
power to originate revenue bills had been /
but representatives of the peo-
pie might control the purse and compel
a redress of grievances and the adoption
of heslthful legislation. 1t was proper \
check on the President Spear and
Warner were proposing TO surrender this |
power, but they could only do so by
amendment. Hereveiwed
the advantages which had accrued to the
democracy and to the nation through /
rising this power durir 2 the extra session. |
The subcommittee in charge Of the |
case of Bradley Us. Stemons (Arkansas) |
unanimously signed the report in favor
of Stemons, the sitting member.
The House committee on manufacture, |
agreed 10 report favorably the bill pro-
hibiting adulterHtion Of articles of food |
and drink by the use Of ingredients |
deleterious to health and prescribing |
penalties therefor. The bill provides |
that any person having cause TO suspect |
the character Of any article of food or
drink, may demand q sample of the |
same, and dealer refusing to comply
shall be subject to arrest and fine lot ex-
ceeding 500.
Ths Senate committee on military
affairs has authorized Senator Maxey to
report for passage q bill extending TO
non-commissionedo officers of the army
the same privileges Of retirement, after
thirty years meritorious service pro-
vided by law for commissioned officers.
In executive session, the Senate COM
mittee on foreign relations reported back
the French claims treaty, with recon-
mendation for ratification.