The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02


Kelly, chairman of the committee on
ways and means, reported bill repeating
the discrimination duties on tea ana cofiee
products of the possessions of the Neither
lands. Passed. 100000
s mate bill apprepriating 100000 for
con ,inuing the ofimprovement OF Galveston
bar )or passed.
81 Iction of a bridge across the Mississippi
at Keithsburg, lllinois.
Bills were introduced and referred as fol-
lows:
Bv Young-To establish marine hos
pital at Cincinnati.
Calkins, chairman of the committee on
cle ,tions submitted n report in the con-
tested election case of Campbell VS.. Cannon,
accompanied by resolution declaring
neither contestant nor contestee entitled to
seat. He also submitted a minority re-
port declaring Campbell entitled to seat,
while Mouton submitted q further resolu-
ton signed by Atherton, Davis, OF llli-
nois, Moulton, and Jones, OF Texas,
declaring Cannon duly elected
delegate to congress. The re-
ports were laid on the table for future
action.
Richie, from the committee, reported a
resolution declaring the bill admitting a
delegate from Alaska, shall not be reported
until the committee on territories report
thereon. Referred.
Kasson made a motion for the considera-
tion of the tariff commissions bill. Subse-
quently he withdrew it and the house went
into committee of the whole on the military
academy appropriation bill.
The committee alter some personal eA-
plantations rose, and the military academy
bill passed.
Robeson, of New Jersey, by request, in
| troduce1 a bill suspending the coming Of
Chinese labor for twenty years after sixty
days succeeding the passage OF the act. u
allows them to come during these sixty
days, and those who were in tine country
| November II, 1850, TO 60 and come at pleas
ure. The bill does not apply 10 Chinese
officials or their servants, and also eXcepts
f-om the suspension Chinese merchants,
| travellers students and teachers. whose COM
! ing and going are to be registered az the
custom house, and they are 20 produce
passports from the government
! showing that they individually belong 10
the excepted cases. The time at which the
{ eaty takes effect is optional with China
or the United States. and the pre-
anble 20 the bill rccites that it is
ths opinion Of the United States
| tnat the coming Of the Chinese laborers e. =
dangers good erler in certain localities in
Goodman moved to amend by adding as
new section the WOrust Jnluese
labOrers wherever used IN TINS
act shall be construed 70
mean both skilled and unskilled labOrers
and Chinese employed in mining"
Farley then introduced bill 70 organize
a national labor league railway company
Of America for the purpose
demonstrating operating and maintaining
arailwav from the Atlantic seabOard 10 Chi
csr0. -. Louis and Council Bluffs Il has
I provisions Tor the purpose Of establishing
| equal rates in the commerce among the
states. and Tor the purpose Of releiTlng rail
vsv hire under such civil control
as b prevent combinations detrimental
10 the public good. Certain gentlemen
shall Be appointed commissioners under
4 .he national board of interstate transI Orts-
/ ton These certain gentlemen and col
learues are authorized % issue 2 capital
sfoeE e SnODO00. The bill pro
vi5ss vh.r ~ ruad has been constructed
20 C,.-rucil BIrfis. i may be continued %
! ssr + ancisoo. and in ard q iis csnstruc-