The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-24

on Public Lands, reported favorably {
S Pnean a, TOT the ns Pssnsn sa
of public lands in States in regart
to land entered within their limits by militar,
p sS the Supplemented census biz ma Ss
available an appropriation for the paymen1
| of census employees. Bills were introduced
Hon Of shin canal to Connect LAKE Ponchar
train and the Mississippi River; by Mr.. PUNT
(Kans.)-To regulate promotions in the army
and INCREASE its .S efficiency By Mr. CaInsS
| revenue and fixing the tax on each proof gal
lon distilled; by Mr. Warner (Tenn.) ITO re.
peal the law chartering national banks.
| MIR. SLATER addressed the Senate upon
the importance to the commerce of the North.
! west of the Improvement of the Columbis
River, Feb. IA. Mr.. Vance made q speech on
the tariff, in which he deplored the burdens
| of high protective policy, which fell with the
greatest weight on the agricultural class and
did more to retard the growth and impair the
wealth of the South than any other cause. Mr.;
Morgan offered a resolution, which was re-
ferred, requesting the President to bring to
the attention of the Government of Nicaragua
the necessity of arranging by convention the
final settlement of all unadjusted claims
existing between the United States and Mica.
ragua and of citizens of either of said govern.
the House, Mr.. Orth, from Committee ON For
eign Affairs, reported adversely the resolu.
ton originally offered by Mr.. Robinson, OF
General for his opinion as to whetR-
er, if Joseph Warren Keifer, Alonzo
b. Cornell, or Charles Carroll should be ar.
rested in the British empire without having
committed any crime, the English Govern
ment, by suspending the writ of habeas COR
pus. could lawfully detain him on indefinite
suspicion without trial or without the right of
the United States to demand his release. Mr..
Robinson desired to debate the resolution, but
the Speaker held that the pending motion to
lay on the table was not debatable. The res
oluton was tabled. Yeas, III; nays. LOB.
THE Anti-poIygamy bill came up in the
Senate, 18th, and the amendments proposed
by the Committee on Judiciary were read and
agreed to up to the fifth section, W hich author
ICES the President to grant amnesty to classes
of offenders guilty before the passage of the
act of bigamy, pOlygamy or unlawful cohab-
itation, on such conditions as he may think
er, under his exercise of the pardoning power,
which was limited to pardOns and reprieveS
in individual cases, the President could, con-
stitutionally, pardon whole classes of offend
ers against particular law upon such condi-
tons as he may prescribe. Mr.. Edmunds
said the committee had been in doubt wheth-
or any provision or point was necessary at all,
and had inserted it only because the question
it was to enable the Government to say to the
great body of the Utah people: elf you stop
prosecuted for what you have already done"
The section, as amended, and the remaining
committee amendments to the Sth section,
were adopted. The House managed to
spend the day over the Appointments bill
without voting.
16th the Senate proceeded with the Anti po-
eighth section, as reported from the Judicia.
ry Committee. Mr. Morgan asked whether
the bill would not exclude from his seat in the
House the delegate from Utah, who was rep
tod co. rN<Nlt NSc%
said, in reply, that an inquiry would be made
in due time on behalf of the committee
which reported the bill. Mr.. Vest denounced
Sl OF Of attainder Its an sxstX pnnsh
ment without judicial trial, which was pro-
hibited by the Constitution. Mr.. Pendleton
objected to several features Of the bill, par
box known pOlygamists in trials for pOlyga.
my, etc. The remaining committee amend
ments and several sections of the bill were
the Senate as from the committee of the WHOLE
MIR. Brown renewed his amendment requir.
ing that not more than three members of the
the same political party. Agreed to by a
party vote-yeas, 26; nays, "a. Mr.. Davis, of
illinois, voted yea with the Democrats. and
Mr.. Malone was absent, Several amend
cisive votes, and after Encouragement of its
sections the bill finally passed by a vive voce
vote. The bill granting pension of 5000
amendment to the Apportionment
bill, fixing the number of representatives at
325, was agreed to by l62 to 1O4. All the Re.
publicans except two, Darrall of Lou
isiana and White of Kentucky, voted
for 325. The Democratic members from
South Carolina and Texas, beside
few from Louisiana and Maryland, voted with
the Republicans. The remainder of the Dem
ocrats voted solidly against the proposition.
A motion by Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, to re-
consider the vote by which the House had re-
jected the amendment offered by Mr.. Colerick,
was the signal for scene OF 81 eat noise and
confusion motion to table the motion to
was Immediately made on the Re
publican side, and the Democrats demanded
the yeas and navs-l3l tO4. No quorum,
Democrats refraining from voting.