Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-08
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
DOMESTIC.
United states Senate.

United States Senate.
WASHINGTON. February 7th.-A favorable
report was made on the claims for depreda.
lions by the Utes ia the White River mas.
sacre in 1879.
The bill regarding the japanese Indemnity
fund was reported favorably.
The bill passed for the payment by the
Secretary of War to the Society OF the Army
Of the Cumberland of $500, for the Garfield
monument.
C,ke spoke on the Morrill, tariff bill, favor.
ing revision by q committee of both houses.
Coke having concluded his speech, several
measures of no general interest passed.
Cockrill, from the Committee on Military
Affairs, reported favorably joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary Of the Treasury to
ascertain the amount expended by Kansas IN
repelliDg invasions and suppressing Indian
hostiities.
The pension arrears resolution was made
| un6oished business.
Adjourned.
House OF Rep csentaiives.
WAsHISGToy, February 7th.-A resolution
was ad opted directing the Postmaster Cen.
| eral to furnish Information c'1c7rnipg the
sub. letting Of contracts for carrying mails.
Msjority and minority reports from the
| Banking Committee, enabling tie National
Banks to extend their corporate existence,
were placed en- the calendar.
The Nicarsguan claims were reported back
adversely.
Bills were reported for the erection of pub
lie buildings at Denver. Col, and referred to
the Committee of the Whole.
At the conclusion of the morning hour,
Page called up, on special order, his Dill to
restrict Chinese immigration.
PRESCOTT antagouiz this with motion to
take up for consideration the apportionment
bill.
After some discussion the Speaker ruled
that the apportionment as represented was
a privileged question. and the other was
ruled out A point of order was made by
Page. The latter gentleman raj ed the aues-
ton Of consideration. when the House de-
cided, by vote of 16S to 6S, to consider the
arportionment bill first.
Ryan Of Kansas reported the Indian eppro-
pristion bill. III appropriAtcs 81 800 OPS
1921, 80 less than the estimator. and S35 GEO
greater than the amount appropriated for the
current year. The number of agents are re-
duced from 81 to 60
The appprtionment bill was again taken
up, and amendments offered fixing the num-
bar Of representatives at 327, 32l. $50, 3l9,
32i and 800
Hoar of Michigan opposed the bill SIS an
outrage or common sense, and criticised the
spss CD Of Prescott Of New York for the init
nation that sppor;ionment shall be based
surne what upon the wealth Of the various
States. New York was wealthy because the
snsIl States had labors1 to build her up, and
/ did not como with coed grace from her to
attempt to strike down the political power OF
those little States in manner 30 wrong and
so unjust upon its face. Applause
Pendiug the discussion the House al
journed.
WASHINGTON, February 7th.-As fore.
Swallowed in these dispatches, The Chinese
bill ia the House of Representatives had to
give way to-day to the apportionment bill,
which even if the special order assiguiog this
day for consideration of the Chinese bill had
not contained reservation in its favor,
would nevertheless have been entitled to
priority under Speaker Keifsr's ruling de-
cl1ripg il a matter Of high privilege. Page
then asked unanimous consent OF the House
to make the order concerning the Chinese
bill q continuing order, which would give it
prec, d nee hereafter against any and all
business except the apportionment meas
ure and the annual appropriation bills but
Representative Ellis, of Louisiana, peremp
toriIy objected. This leaves only two courses
open to Page to obtain early action on the
bill in his charge. One is to make motion
next Monday, or on some subsequent Mon
day, to suspend the rules and adopt resolu-
ton by a two thirds vote assigning some fu.
ture day for consideration of the Chinese
BILL and the other is to move each day, when
there ia informing hour" that the House
shall proceed to consider business on the pub
lie calendar, and if this melton prevails,
which requires only msjority vote, success
i've motions may be made to set aside each
bill ahead Of the Chinese bili uutil it is
| reached and disposed of. Page intends to
| adopt the second course above indicated,
holding the other in reserve for use in
cass cf need. The objection later posed by
| Ellis the Democratic member from Luis
ians, was inspired by an inhexible opposition
| to the bill on his part, which several Pacific
| coast members vAlniy endeavored 10 re nova
| by private argument. His opp itioa to ihs
, bill Ia based on the idea that Chinese labcrefs
will be needed to REPLACES tse negro II II
hands on the plantations Of Louisiana aud
other so To S ates, al he Is aliparsDt'y
| 9, welded to this idea that it seems i'm
possible to move Tin, even by referer &c TO
| the disastrous failures which have ATTENDED
several experiments of that kind AREA y
An impression seems to x st in some quarters,
| as evidenced by the California papers just
| received here, that the Pacific coast delcga-
! ton are not acting in ha mony for the
| attainment of legislation to Cary tue Chinese
| treaty into effect. This is total mistake
| There is no petty Jealousy aGorg them IN
reoard to this matter, and all are united in
endeav oring to secure the one great object of
restricting Chinese immig grafton to the fullest
! extent possible under the treaty, and against
| the widespread hostility or Indifference Of
| Eastern sentiment. TIE two bills now pend
| ing in the House and Senate, respectively,
| we're both based upon msasures originally al
most identical In substance, but both have
necessarily undergone notifications In their
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| which reported them. The Senate bill, espe-
cially, has bsen subject to searching analysis,
every word having been weighed, considered
and discussed by some IF the ablest jurists of
the country. The House bill has also been
matured with care and ability, and Senator
| Miller and Representative Psge. while for
obvious reasons col forming their own ideas
| to o greater or less extent to the viii and
Judgment of their colleagues on the two c0m-
| mitteeF, have acted III concert and with a
common understanding as to the main object,
namely, the passage of practical and satis
factory bill to prevent the continued immi-
grafton of Chinese laborers Whichever bill
may pass first, it will be pushed In thu other
house ard be made to form the basis Of the
| law which the delegation hope to place uprn
the statute book. II ia highly probable that
neither bill eau pass without come amend
ment, and 10 one can tell at present how
I RADICALLY I06 Oil WnlCu may DCSsiHO q law
may d # II from either of the measures now
reported. The most hostly-contested battle
ground will probably be in the Senate. where
the previous question does not prevail and
debate is unrestricted; but wherever and
| whenever the contest comes, it will find the
Pacific coast delegation fully prepared to
meet it.
The California Canned Salmon Affair.
CHICAGO, February 7tb.-The Tribune
! says A San Francisco dispatch of Sunday
stated that Government officials here had
seized canned salmon received by local firm,
\ and that the business of shipping inferior
Sacramento river or Puget Sound salmon
under labels of the Fraser River Canning
Company, had been systematically carried
on by parties in San Francisco and Chicago.
Ii is also charged that similar course had
| been pursued in regard to California canned
fruits. j. K. Armsby, of this city, informed
| o reporter that the salmon probably referred
to were received by his firm last September.
and delivered TO wholesale grocer, tu whom
| cAiload had been sold, to arrive. The sal
mon were put up for local houses by A. L1sk
4 Co., OF San Francisco, who used an old
salmon River label. which they owned, because
they happ.ued to be out of the regular labels
used by the firm The fish were Sacramento
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