The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-02
LATENT TELEGRAMS
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.

Washington, miller presented
a petition from the Immigration AS
ISOLATION of San Francisco urging
the early passage of an act to carry
into effect the Chinese immigra-
ton bill.
Hoar presented a petition from
officers of the Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION. of Missouri, protesting
against legislation for the uncendi-
tional Acknowledgement of the
women of Utah, and praying for the
extirpation of pOlygamy.
Petitions were presented for the
of polygamy.
A bill was reported favorably APP
prOpriating $4,000 for free vaccine.
On motion of Window a resolu-
ton was adopted requesting the
President to communicate the cor
respondence between the executive
and diplomatic agents
of the United States relating to the
proposed congress of American
nations, or any of them in 1882.
The Senate then took up Morgan's
pending resolution, calling for an
authentic statement of all tests
made by the mixed commission in
relation to heavy ordnance being
built by the United States, and also
for the printing of the testimony
taken III the last Congress on the
subject of heavy ordnance, and pro-
jectiles and tests to which they
had been subjected.
Discussion followed, in which
Morgan explained that his purpose
was to have published matters
which the ordnance bureau had
suppressed. He had been informed
that the bureau was in the hands of
a 'Fring" interested in certain inven-
tions, and its chief officer held
patents upon inventions which "the
ring" had caused to be patented.
He wanted to have the whole mat
ter sifted to the bottom, and an OPP
portunity given American inven-
tors to compete with favOrites of
the bureau.
The resolution was finally laid
aside informally without action.
The Senate took up the per cent.
tond bill, and Morgan advocated as
an additional section an amendment
as follows: That the agreement
made with holders of bonds OF the
United States since the adjourn
ment of the ForTy-sixth Congress.
by which the rate of interest on
such bonds is reduced 10 81 per
cent. per annum, is hereby fully
ratified and confirmed, according 10
the terms and intent of said agree
ment.
After long discussion, upon
the suggestion of ingalls,, the
amendment was modified by
the insertion of an ex-
press recognition of the agreement
as valid and binding upon the gov
eminent. The amendment was then
adopted, without a vote, as also the
provision offered by Davis, Of West
Virginia. declaring That nothing in
the act shall be SO construed as to
authorize an increase of the public
debt. The bill was then reported to
the Senate from the committee of
the whole, and the question being
upon agreeing to the amendments as
a whole, Sherman asked for a Separ-
ate vote upon Plumb's amendment
applying the surplus revenue over
S1O0,000,000 to the reduction of the
public debt. He said if the PROPOSE
sition was not stricken out he and
others, who had acted with him,
would be compelled to be against
the bill. He urged upon the Senate
to appreciate the Importance of
maintaining a sufficient reserve in
the treasury as heretofore in order
that sudden emergencies might be
provided against, ana argued that if
the proposed reduction was now
made it would open the door to fur
ther attempts in the same direction.
The next move he feared would be
to dispose of the revenues in excess
of S50.OO0,000. He had been in
formed that even to-day the flow of
gold from our own country had be-
gun, and he was apprehensiVe that
the balances in our favor heretofore
might be turning against the United
States. He added that on the pre-
vious evening he had felt like i'm
itating the example of the French
ministers aud resigniDg charge of
the bill in favor of the senator from
Kansas Plumb.
Plumb said the senator complained
that somebody might some day re-
duce the redemption fund to $780,
100000. He plumb knew one man,
the secretary of the treasury, who
might to-day reduce it to nothing
and he wanted to restrict this one
mans power. The senator sought
to alarm the country by charging
that panic might occur if the sur
plus revenues were reduced and
had spoken Of the outflow of
gold, and in this he was helping to
bring on every evil he professed TO
fear. He plumb believed now was
the accepted time for applying use
fully the revenue which had been
lying uselessly in the treasury
vaults.
Teller said the financial state
ments laid upon the desks of sena-
tors from official sources disproved
Sherman's assertion that gold ex-
ports had began.
Bayard here took the floor. but
yielded it for a motion for executive