The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-05-04
FORTY.SEvENTH CONGRESS-.


Senate.
communication was received from the
PRESIDENT recommending an appropriation
asked for by the secretary of the navy for the
purpose OF observing the transit of Venus re-
terred. :. Bills were introduced: To refund and
distribute among the cotton-producing States,
for the support of common schools, the pro-
ceeds OF the cotton tax; ; to appoint special
commissioner TO promote commercial inter-
course with certain Central and South Ameri-
can countries. Mr.. Morgan introduced a | i'll
for the encouragement of closer commercial
relations between the United States and the
South American countries. 1t provides for the
holding OF convention in Washi, gton the
present year, with a view to the construction
of through railway line along the eastern
slope of the great mountain chain from Cen
tral America to Chill, and the establishment
of other facilities Of communication: Messrs
Bayard and Pendletun made speeches fayoring
the Mississippi improvement bill.
Consideration OF the Mississippi river inn
proVement bill was resumed. Messrs Garland,
Jones and kellogg withdrew their amendments
ana the bill was finally passed az reported 1t
approprates $4,000 600 for the im-rovement
Oh the mississippi river. Consideration of the
Chinese bill was resumed. An attempt to
strike out the section prohibiting any State
from admitting Chinese to citizenship was
defeated; an amendment defining the term
''Chinese labOrers' TO mean skilled as well as
unsk He'd laborers, was adopted.
Mr.. Beck moved to take up his bill to pun
ish the unlawful certifcation of checks bv ma
tional banks. The motion was lost by a tie
vote-27 to 27. The vote was strictly a party
one, save that Mr.. Davis, of Illinois. voted
with the Republicans and Messra. Ingalls, and
Plumb with the Democrats. :. "A bill repeating
the law prohibiting ex-Confederate officers
from appointment to positions in the army was
the subject of long political debate, but no
action was taken.
BY vote Of thirty yeas to nineteen NAYS
the new anti-Chinese bill was passed substan.
TALLY as it passed the House. The bill pro-
vldes that from ninety days after its passage
the coming of Chinese laborers to this country
shall be suspended for ten years; that anv mas
ter OF a vessel who knowingly lands Chinese
laborers in this country shall be subject TO a
fine of not more tnan $500 for each laborer
aud the Chinese laborer himself shall be sub.
)ect to imprisonment for not more than
one year; Chinese laborers who came here be.
fore November II, 1880, or who shall come be-
iore the expiration of ninety days after tho
passage of the bill are excepted that the
excepted Cinnamon shall be registered by
collectors OF customs, and furnished with
certificates to show their right to come TO and 60
from the United States of their own free will
that Cinnamon who are not laborers shall
be identified by certificate of the
Chinese government to show that they
are entitled to come to this
country; that no Cmnaman shall be permitted
TO enter the United States by land without
producing such certificate; that the creden-
tials of diplomatic aud other officers of the
Chinese government travelling upon the busl-
no-s OF that government shall be taken as
equivalent to such certificates, and shall ex.
empt them and their servants; that
hereafter no State or United States
court shal! admit q Chlnaman TO
that the words "Chinese laborers"
shall be construed TO mean both skilled and un-
skilled laborers and Chinese employed IN min.
lag. There.are other sections providing for the
punishment OF making OF false certificates and
for the removal OF Chinese who may come into
the country by land contrary 10 the provisions
OF The act
The House adopted the resolution calling on
the President to continue his efforts for the
release OF the American citizens imprisoned in
Ireland -. The House refused to take up tie
election case OF Lynch against
Chalmers, OF Mississippi. "A resolution
was adopted instructiug the committee on
judiciary to make full inquiry into the case
Of Andrew Devne, an official stenographer of
the House, who was removed by the speaker,
and into the validity of the action of the
speaker, and report at any time with such re-
concentrations as may be deemed proper.
The House refused to concur in Senate
to the agricultural appropriation
Dill 80. A plll WAS reported prONlQlnS Tor the
payment of bo0nties to the officers and sailors
on Urited States vessels under the command OF
: niral FarraGut.
The House resumed the consideration of the
election case of Lynch versus Chal.
mers. Mr.. Lynch the contestant and General
Chalmers both made speeches in support oftheir
claims and the question went over The
speaker laid before the House a message from
the President respecting the cowboy troubles
in Arizona and suggesting the use of the army
as posse comitatus TO suppress the troubles,
which was referred to the committee on mill
tary affairs with leave to report at any time.
The House. by vote of 1914 to II, adopted
esolution declaring that James r. Chalmers
VAS not elected and is not entitled to a seat in
he Forty-seyenth Congress from the Sixth
u .trict of Mississippi 1t then, by vote of
20 to 50, adopted resolution declaring that
Ohm r. Lynch was entitled to the seat occu-
Jiel by Mr.. Chalmers. Mr.. lynch then
anne forward and was sworn in The confer
nee report on the postoflice appropriation bill
vas received and concur ed in