The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-13
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

MAY 2.-Mr. Farley called attention to
the large number of nominations awaiting
action, and moved an executive session. He
said petitions were daily coming from CalifOr-
MIA asking for the consideration of the Chi
neSe treaty, and other important matters.
A debate ensued between MeSSrS. Dawes and
Farley, the Chinese question receiving con-
siderable attention. Senator Beck said the
Republicans had not dared to go into execu-
tive session because OF divisions in the party
on important nominations. The usual motion
to go into executive session was defeated.
MAY 3.-Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, took
the floor with speech upon the debt ques-
ton between the Virginias, promising his re-
marks with an expression of regret that the
speech made by the Senators from Virginia
and Ohio (MahOne and Sherman) should have
compelled him to discuss in this chamber
what he considered to be purely a local mat
ter. The debt question in Virginia had never
been made political one, and he regretted
that the RepuhSean Senators should make
statements rejecting upon the action of the
Democrats of that State on th- question. Mr.
Davis gave a history of the debtcOmplicatiOn,
and said the Virginias and their people will
pay their debts, and the sooner the better.
He hoped the two States would soon come to-
gether and settle the question.
MAY 4.-The Senate opened with the
formal announcement from Mr.. Dawes that
the fight should go steadily on as before. He
arraigned the Democratic party as Obstruc-
tionists, who had paralyZed the efforts of the
majority OF the Senate to complete its organ
ization. He declared the Democratic minority
revolutionary, but at the close of his remarks
Mr.. Dawes said it would not do for the Re-
publicans to neglect their duty elsewhere
while they were resisting the minority. Rec
ognizing the necessity of this. he would move
to drop the fight for time and attend to 9th.
er pressing business. This created consider
able amusement ON the floor and in the
galleries, even Republican Senators not re-
was finally put There was some little spar.
ing between Pendleton, Dawes and Beck, and
the motion for an executive session was car
ried unanimously. The executive session
the reference of nominations and the Chi
nese treaties. The following were confirmed
by unanimous consent: Robert Hit. Illinois,
Assistant Secretary of State; Hiram Price,
Iowa, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Alfred
M. Jones, United States Marshal, Northern
District Illinois; Sanford A. Hudson, WiscOn-
sin. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Dakota; Joseph o. Jones, Postmaster, Terre
Haute. Indiana. -E.sllg = gE al
MAY 5.-The Senate transacted q remark
ably large amount of business in executive
session, clearing the calendar of treaties and
taking final action on eighty .fOurnomination
in about four and half hours. The first mat
ter disposed of was the Chinese immigration
treaty, which was ratified without amend
ment by practically unanimous vote. The
Chinese commercial treaty, after brief discus
sion, was also ratified without amendment.
Proceeding with the calendar of treaties, the
Senate next ratified in quick succession the
extradition treaty with the United States of
Colombia; Consular convention with Italy,
modifying and defining the judicial powers
of certain cOnSulateS; the convention with
Morocco respecting the taxation prerogatives
of the Moorish Government; and the treaty
with Japan. prescribing reciprocal duties
ments in case of shipwrecks upon their re-,
Spective coasts % ''