Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-03
NATIONAL LAW MAKERS.
Work ofthe Two Houses Of Congress Yes
terday.
The Senate.


WASHINGTON, March 2.-Senator Platt from
the committee on patents reported favorably
o bill TO regulate practice in patents; also ad-
versely the bill for the refunding of fees in all
cases of said registration OF trade marks.
Senator Sawyer from the committee on
poftofices, reported fayorably for the amend
ment of the bill to provide for the payment Of
the amount due the Burlington, Cedar Rap
ids & Western railway company, for transport
tation of United States mails.
Senator German offered resolution direc-
ting the postmaster general TO transmit a
statement giving the amount expended dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1881, for
special facilities for fast mails, list of railway
companies receiving the same and the
amount paid each company the additional
service furnished by each company, and to
what extent the service has been expedited;
also, detailed statement of contracts made
for fast mail facilities during the present fiscal
year to date, the amount to be paid to each
railroad company, and the character of the
additional service to be performed by each
company. Adopted
Senator Vance offered resolution reeiting
the cost of collecting the internal revenue tax
in the Sixth collection district of North Caro-
lima had been 60 per cent. greater than that of
any other district in the United States; that
many and serious charges against officials are
openly made in newspapers and elsewhere, and
are generally believed, and providing for the
appointment by the president of the senate of
a committee of three to investigate the
charges and complaints, with power to COM
pei the attendance of witnesses, etc.
Senator Sherman regarded the resolution as
extraordinary and in the nature of al execu-
tive order. He supposed it referred to the
matter pending in executive session and before
the committee on finance. He would not OBJ
ject to calling on the treasury department for
information, but he certainly objected to the
recital about which the senate could know
nothing.
Senator Vance said he twice applied for the
Information desired, once by senate resolution
and then by letter to the commissioner of in.
ternal revenue, and in each instance had en-
countered clear and unmistakable evasion of
his demand. The matter had been public
scandal in North Carolina for ten years and
as he wanted to get at the trouble be would in
sist upon a vote on the resolution at the earl-
est moment The matter Was laid over under
subsection.
Senator Conger, from the committee on
commerce, reported favorably, with amend
ments, the house bill to promote the efficiency
of the life saving service, and 10 encourage
the saving of life from shipwreck. The
amendments are the two sections of the Senate
bill which provide pension for two years for
widows and children of keepers and surf men
who may lose their lives while In
the service, and for payment of salar-
les to keepers and members of crews
during the time of sickness or disability re-
sulting from woupds or disease contracted in
the line Of duty. Calendar.
The senate took up the ChiEese bill, and
Grover spoke in advocacy.
Senator Farley, replying to the points made
in the speech OF HOar, Qnoted from Senator
California the conclusion of its author, that
this class could only be protected from perse-
cutiOn and outrage by our giving them suf-
frage and citizenship. He then asked Hoar to
state squarely whether he endorsed this senti
ment and favored enfranchisement and natur-
alization of the Chinese.
Senator Hoar replied that he was in favor of
admitting to citizenship all foreigners who
foreswore foreign allegiance and who
were fit for it in character and intelligence and
were attached to our government He would
apply the test with reference to character, not
color of the skin of the applicant. He was
quite willing to admit the suffrage the young
Cinnamon who last year received LID at Har-
ward College, or the learned and admirable
gentleman who died at Cambridge last week,
as the California prosecutors of Chinese,
whom Senator Morton has described as "ferce
and interruptions ruffians."
Senator Farley, resuming, denied that the
people of California had oppressed or NAL
treated the Chinese, but without concluding
he yielded for an executive session. When the
doors re.opened.,
Adjourned