The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-15
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

oSIhoSiaS, NhSh gu tlS iool III q OCT
speech on the tariff, He reviewed the
disparity between the legislation for
the north and south and drew the con.
clusion that the protective tariff was in
the interest of the north. that a calcu-
lation shows as the grand total of
money and funds expended by the
government for the benefit of the
north, $275,362, 900, against $o4,SI4,-
900 for the south, and a donation of
246,449,ooo acres of land, for the
north, against 2S,5I9 900 acres for the
south. Besides this seven-tenths of
all the emoluments of public Office
were engaged by the northern people.
And then depouncing protection as a
robbery, and referring to the text of
the supreme court decision in support
of the assertion that the term had been
applied by that court to the present
system, Vance ridiculed what he called
the hypocrisy of the manufacturers
cry f"protection to American labor. "
He denied that protection built up a
home market. except for manufacture
ers.
Edmunds got his anti-polygamy bill
taken up, and laid over as new bust
ness.
Morgan offered resolution looking
to the settlement of all unadjusted
claims between the United States and
that country.
In the house: A bill was reported to
prevent persons living in bigamy or
polygamy from holding any office of
trust or profit in any territory of the
United States and from being dele
gates to congress.
By, Orth from the committee on for
eign affairs, adversely upon the reso-
luton originally offered by Robinson,
of New York, calling on the attorney
general for his opinion as to whether
if Joseph Warren Keifer, Alonzo B.
Cornell, or Charles Carroll should be
arrested in the British empire without
having committed any crime. The re.
port was that the English government,
by suspendlng the writ of habeas cor
pus, could lawfully detaln them on in
definite suspicion, without trial, or
without the right of the United States
to demand redress.
Robinson desired to debate the res.
olution, but the speaker held that the
pending motion to lay on the table was
not debatable. and the resolution was
tabled. Yeas, III; nays 1903.
Orth also reported adversely on a
resolution requesting the president to
communicate all correspondence with
the British government on file in the
state department in regard to the case
of D. H. O'Connor, citizen of the
United States, now in prison in Eng
land. Both state that the papers re-
ferred to had been asked for by pre-
vious resolution of the house under the
guise of parliamentary inquiry.
Cox, of New York, managed to get
in few remarks in support of both
these resolutions, declaring that their
demands underlaid the first great prin-
ciple of American citizenship, and that
second it was necessary to show the
state department that congress was ur-
gent in the matter.
The house agreed to lay the resolu-
ton on the table.
Cox thereupon offered an amend
ment requesting the president to obtain
for d. H. O'Connor and other Ameri-
cans now imprisoned under suspension
'of the writ of habeas corpus by the
British government in Ireland, without
trial, conviction or sentence, speedy
and fair trial, or release.
The point of order was raised that
the amendment was german to the
subject, and the speaker sustained the
point.
This started a debate in which
Robinson, of New York, led off, and
bore a chief part. He questioned
the manhood of any member voting