The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-19
Washington Notes.
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VEST on THE FUNDING BILL


The record in the Flipper court-mal
lie tial case has reached Judge Advocat
Swain.
VEST ON THE FUNDING BILL.
: Senator Vest, in his speech on tn
= Sherman funding bill, claimed that tn
~ Democratic funding bill of last congress
would lave saved the people $25, 600
!, 600 year in interest on the public debt
q and that this was prevented by the Re
, publican party. He said he was not al
!, itacking the national banks, but he did al
. tack the vast power invested in them. HI
# Istrongly condemned the Legislation
which had given the national banks thS
# power TO contract or expand the debt a
!. will and declared that the natiOna
j banks have grown in wealth and power
= Ito such an extent that they do not ia
. tend 10 surrender their charters or their
j existence. The banks can only cOntinus
: with the national debt, and they do noI
> propose to have the public debt paid of,
! because it would wipe them ont. He
Insisted that the issue between aegre.
gated capital, or national banks, on one
, side, and the peoplesOn the other, is nos
: presented, and he arrayed himself 90
the side nf the people. He criticised
Senator Mcpherson for his remasks YES
, tsarday in supports f the national he,
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the Democratic party does not syInpa-
thiZe with national banks.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS.
II WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE senate
committee on claims decided to report
adversely on the claim of Warren Mitch.
ell for $128, 692, covered into the treas!
Dry az the proceeds Of cotton taken from
him at Savannah. by General Sherman
during the war.
CONGRESSIONAL. ~,
SENATE. q
Il WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan ia mem.
Der of the committee to inquire into the
alcoholic liquor traffic submitted one or
more memorials on the subject,
Senator Gorham submitted q resolu-
ton directing the special committee on
woman suffrage TO inquire into the
matter of suffrage ip Utah, and to report
u bill to annul any existing law con-
ferring the right of suffrage on women,
in that territory. The resolutions went
lover. ---l------------
Att expiration of the morning hour,
Sherman's funding bill was taken up
and Vest addressed the senate. .- ~
The president pro TEN. announced q
special committe on the rights of women.
as faliows: Lapham, Anthony, Ferry,
1 ouu
HOUSE.
Orth's civil service resolution was re-
ferred 10 the committee on rules.
Mr.. Haskell then rose to q question of
privilege, and sent to the clerks desk
and had read, the resolution which he
wanted to have considered yesterday,
declaring it to be the fixed and final de-
termination of the forty-seventh con-
| gresS, that no persons maintaining poly
gamous martial relations, or teaching or
melting others to do so, will be admit
ted to the house OF representatives as
delegate from any territory.
Mr.. Randill did not think the resolu-
ton came within the rules as a question
of privilege. IF it had ever been such a
question it was not so now. The house
had referred the Utah contested case 10
the committee on elections, and so far as
! the house is concerned this question
must be considered as res jHdicGtO
MI, HASKELL considered the resolution
presented q question of the highest priv
ilege, inasmnch as it affected the digni-
ty of the house. 1t had been charged
by the public press that general polyga-
mists were in Jail, but that Mormon pO-
lygamists were seated On the floor of
congress. That was a charge made af-
fecting the dignity of this house and
of all houses and congresses. This |
question should not be lodged or al
tempted to be lodged by points of or
der. Some gsntIefnen had said yester-
day that they were opposed to DOlYamy.
Let them not put themselves in the posi-
ton Of the men who were in favor of
law, but were not in favor of enforc-
ing it.
the ground that IL excluded persons |
from membership on a presumed state of
facts without examination or investiga-
ton.
Mr.. Speers argued that the resolution
did not present a question of privilege.
If the gentleman proposes to FIX new
qualifications for membership his reso-
luton must go to the committee on ju-
dietary. The fact that Cannon Is mol a
member took the question out OF the
question of privilege. Aro
Mr.. Mills coBtended that as there was
no member of the house charged with
sent a question of privilege, inasmuch
as whether adopted or rejected il could
have % effect upan any one,
Mr.. Haske1l declared that his resUlu.
ton did not propose law. 1t simply
asked the house to express an Qpinibu
on the subject Of p0lygamy.
The speaker submitted the question as
| to whether the question presented was
| q privileged question, and by vote Of
100 ayes TO 1S9 noes, the house deter,
mined that no question OF privilege was
inEnlEed in the resolution. -.
| The chairman or the committee on
appropriations reported . bill making
an appropriation Of $40. 600 for the fRal
expense of the tenth census, and gave
notice that ha would tomorrow ask The
house To consider e bill in support Of the
Garfield Memorial Hospital The report
was placed on the house calendar.
Mr.. Burrowa asked leave to Introduce
and put on its passage bill defining
the qualifications of territorial delegates.
It provides thst no person shall
be delegate from the territory under
| the age of twenty-five and seven years
citizen of the United States, and no per
son living in bigamy or polygamy shall
be eligible,
Mansfield and Singleton objected.
Burrows, stating thathe had mistaken
the sentiment on the other side. gave
no.ice that he would introduce the bin
again Monday.
Mr.. Ward Introduced bill providing
for a commission to consider and report
/ what legislation IS necessary for the
better regulation of commerce among.
the states. Referred.
Mr.. Cobb offered resolution calling
on the Secretary of the Interior for the
names Of all parsons or business firms
who present claims for pensions. Adopt
ed.
Mr.. Robson introduced bill to de.
lclaFe certain lands granted railroad CON-
panies, forfeited.
A contest arose as to whether the bill
belonged to the committee on public
lands or the committee on Pacific rail-
roads.
4 Pending the discussion the speaker
laid before the House a message from
the president transmitting acommunica.
tion from the Secretary Of the Interior
relative TO the sale of certain Indian
Hands In Fort Hill military reservation.
i A letter from the secretary OF the
Treasury, transmitting a statement OF
the expenditures under the apprOpFia-
ton for contingent expenses of the
treasury department for the fiscal year
ended June both, 1881.
A letter from the secretary of the
treasury transmitting the annual report
of the national board of health.
A report from the managers Of ma
ltional homes foT disabled soldiers, and a
memorial from the general assembly Of
bigamy.
All referred.
A Verdict OF Acquittal.
CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 12.-The trial of
the Hawkins Brothers before Judge
Mech yesterday for keeping gamb-
ling house resulted in verdict OF ae-
quiItal. II required the jury two min
utes to agree on the verdict and flfteen to
sign their names TO il. As the verdict
was announced the Hawkins boys
smiled knowingly, and the prosecuting
attorney uttered some few words.
Robert Law, who instigated the case,
was greatly surprIsed &C the result and
. Justice Mech, throwing up his hands
calculated: "May the Lord have mercy
on your peEjured souls!" Five
. minutes later some Of the Jury
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