The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-03
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.

Washington 2.-Platt, from the
committee on patents, reported IA
vorably the bill to regulate practise
in patents also adversely the bill
for the refunding of fees in all cases
Of void registration of trade marks.
Vance offered a resolution recit-
ing the cost of collecting the in
ternal revenue tax in the sixth col
lection district of North Carolina,
nearly 60 per cent, being 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 be-
lieYed ; and providing for the APP
pointment by the President Of the
Senate of committee of three to
investigate the charges and COM
plants, with power to compel the
attendance Of witnesses, etc.
Sherman regarded the resolution
as extraordinary and i'll the nature
Of an executive order. He supposed
it referred to matter pending i'll
executive session, and before the
committee on finance. He would
not object to calling on the treasury
department for information, but he
certainly objected to recital about
which the Senate could know
nothing.
Vance said he had twice appealed
fer the information he desired, once
by Senate resolution and then by
a letter to the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, and in each instance
had encountered a clear and unmis-
taxable evasion Of his demand. The
matter had been public scandal in
North Carolina for ten years, and as
he wanted to get at the truth he
would insist upon vote on the res
olution at the earliest moment. The
matter was laid over under Objec-
ton.
German offered resolution call
ing for the report of the postmaster
general concerning the details of
tho special fast mail service.
Adopted.
Conger, from the committee on
commerce, reported faVorably with
amendments, the House bill to pro-
mote tie efficiency of the life-Saving
service, and to encourage the saving
of life from shipwreck, with amend
ments to the first two sections of
the Senate bill, which provide a
pension for two years for widows
and children of keepers and surf
men who may lose their lives while
in the service, and for the payment
of salaries to keepers and members
of crews during the time of sick
ness or disability resulting from
wound or disease contracted in the
line of duty. Calendar.
The Senate took up the Chinese
bill, and Grover spoke in advOc ICY.
With the exception CT VIM. Penn,
our ancestors proceeded 10 drive
out the aborigines with the fist and
sword, and to occupy the land for
themselves. They did not attempt
to ciViliZe the red men. or make
them a part Of the nation, Tut
treated them as aliens and outcaStS.
Their conduct must be construed aS
being limit to the meaning Of their
public declarations that all men are
created equal and endowed with the
inalienable right to liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. He und0ubt-
eddy meant all men like themselves.
Grover continued his remarks at
some length, closing with an argu-
ment in support of his amendment,
offered on Tuesday, and was fol-
lowed by Farley, who replied to
Hoar. He challenged proof that
the treaty had been forced from
China, and showed that the bill
simply provided for legislation,
which China had consented to in
advance. He argued the inherent
right of all governments, to impose
restrictions on immigration, and
extorted an admission from H0ar
that he favored admitting
the Chinese to naturalization
and suffrage on the same terms as
the other foreigners; denied that the
people Of California had oppressed
or maltreated the Chinese; COM
mented on the significance Of the
practicability of the unanimous
vote in California against Mongo-
lian immigration, and called atten-
ton to the fact that the COLOMBIA
tion of Chinese laborers in Massa-
chusetts some years ago had not
proved to be permanent success.
Several lively colleagues took
place between Farley and tie Mas
SachusettS senator's. At , he
yielded to a motion offered by Ed
munds for an executive session,
which was adopted, and the bill
went over as unfinished business
for tomorrow.
When the doors re-epened the
Senate adjourned.