Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-11
GEalE:RAL News.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION
DOMESTIC.
unitea states Senate.

| sale of o portion of their reservation, and to
make the necessary appropriations for carry
| ing out the same.
Bayard, from the Finance Committee, re,
! ported the Morrill, Tariff Commission bill
| favorably, and the Garland bill adversely.
| Bayard made an argument, stating bis
| views on the tariff. He arraigned Congress
sional lobbyism like the Credit Mobiier.
| The House had delayed action on the tariff,
| and protection had been fostered by question
| able expsdients. He was willing to try the
| experiment CT an honest, practical Commits
| sion.
Beck then addressed the Senate, and at the
conclusion of his speech, which was of consid-
| cradle length, the Senate adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
WASHINGTON, January 10th, The House
resumed consideration of the Utah contested
election case, the pending resolution being
that offered by Haskell. declaring Allen G.
! Campbell, Delegate-eleet from Utah, entitled
| to be sworn in as Delegate on his prima facie
case.
| Reed offered as a substitute a resolution
referring to the Committee on Elections the
| question on the prima facie right as between
| Campbell and Cannon to be sworn in, together
| with all certificates and papers presented on
each side, with instructions to that committee
to report at an early day as possible.
| hGtSel, IN COnc.uSiOu, shlu rOr years bhe
| Democrats had insisted that when man
came here bearing certificate Of the Governor
of his sovereign State, he should be sworn ir,
ard the Republican side lad acquiesced.
| Hew will the country look at the action of
| the House, which has always construed GER
tifcates literally, when. for the first time in
| the history Of the American Congress, it
| turns microscopic, harping, pettifogging
| eye on this question in behalf of q scarlet
| robed harlot Who sits enthroned among the
| hills of Utah,
Cox followed Haskell, and then McCord Of
| Iowa sent to the Clerks desk and hsd read q
resolution which he said he would offer at the
| proper time as q substituts for the pending
resolution. It reciGss that . U;ah Is under the
| control of en- association which maintains
! immoral doctrines, ard practices polygamy in
| violati of the Constitution Of the United
! States and in insurrectionary defiance of the
| legislative, executive and Judicial power of the
! Government; that the Territory thus usurped
| by the barbarous institution Of polygamy
| belongs to the United States that the
Federal Government stands responsible, in
the sight of God and at the bSr of enlight-
| ened public opinion of the civilized world,
| for the continuance of this crime against mo-
rality and marriage, and that the institution
of polygamy is usurpation by the Nor
mons, Incapable of any constitutional exist
| ence, and utterly lawless: and resolving that
! the solemn duty is cast on Congress to wholly
| absolve the Federal Government from any
sufferance or countensnce of the institution
| of poiygamy, and by every means in its power
| to enforce the laws against it ; that it is in
| consistent with the rights and dignity of this
| House that the Territory of Utah, which is
| SO faQrantly controlled by the institution of
polygamy, should be entitled to representa-
| tion on the floor of the House that the Dele
gate claiming seat from that Territory is
/ hereby disqualified, and that all papers in
| this case be referred tc the Committee on
! Elections, with instructions TO present bill
declaring in effect the judgment of the
House as herein expressed.
McCord proceeded to make an exhaustive
! argument il support OF his proposition.
Burrows of Michigan argued in favor Of
referring the whole matter to the Committee
on Elections, and Brown and Voorhees, con
tended that Campbell should ba given his
seat on a prima facis case.
Converse Of Ohio took still another ground
holding that upon the certificate, taken in
connection with other papers in the case,
Cannon was entitled to be sworn in.
Hiscock and Cox, having engaged ia an
oral war, in which Robinson joined Hiscock,
Haskell demanded the previous question,
which, being seconded, cut IF Marsh, who
desired to offer resolution directing the
Committee or Elections to report on the fact
az TO whsther either claimant were practical
polygamists.
Haskell stated tLat he desired to offer a
resolution giving certain instructions to the
Committee on Elections, in case the matter
was referred to it. It was read, as follows:
WHEREAS polygamy has been for many years.
and is row, practced in several Territories OF the
United States in contravention of the laws thereof
(Sec. 1852 r. s.; and whereas, there has been adj
mitted into former Congresses OF the United States
delegate from TIE Territory OF Utah, who has been
received in the House OF Representatives as such
while sustaining poygamous marital relations. wide
documents in the contested election OF Cannon
VS.. Campbell Therefore be it
ReSOIUed, as the fixed and final determination of
the House of Representatives of the Forty seventh
Congress, That no person or any person guilty of
living in polygamous marital relations, teaching
instgating others to do So is entitled to be ad-
NIT ed in this House as delegate from Territory
oil the United States.
The reading of this resolution was received
with applause.
Randall raised the point of order that the
resolution was not german TO the case under
consideration
Tt: Speaker ssid the resolution did not
give such instructions to the committee as
were comprehended in the rules, and ruled it
out of order.
Reeds substitute was then adopted-1S 1S9 to
and the contested case was thereby referred
to the Committee on Elections.
Haskell then desired to offer as privileged
question the resolution given above, but was
cut off by adjournment.
BurbrIdge. Blackburn.
New YORK, January 10th.-A Washing
ton correspondent of the EGpress says: Gen
eral Burbridge proposes TO crowd Blackburn
into an uncomfortable corner, and will not
permit the matter to rest as It is in the con-
troversy, where Blackburn attempts TO ignore
him. 1t is evidently his intention to force
Blackburn to square back down or fight
That he means business is evidenced by the
fact that he has summoned here an old friend
and fighting man, who has had largo expe.
rience in such matters-Colonel Parker, late
of the United States army, but now of Dead
wood.
Fire at Denvcr-enc Man Killed.
DENVER (Col J, January 10sh.-A fire this
morning destroyed the buildings owned by
Halleck Bros, occupied by Jensen, Bliss &
Co.'s hardware store and Osborne 4 Nc
Carthy's drug store. The loss on the build.
ing is about $50, 900. Jensen. Bliss & Co. 3
loss on stock is about $40 coo. Osborne &
McCarthy's loss on stock is $4,000. The in
surance covers the entire loss John Town
send was killed by a falling wall. The fire
was caused by an explosion In the drug store.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
DENVER, January 10th.-It is now ascer-
tanned that the total loss this morning by FIRE
is little over $780, coo, distributed as follows:
Jensen, Bliss & Co, stock of hardware,
sS5, COO; insured for $4,000 Osborn &
MacCarthy, stock of drugs. S75 600; insured
for $4,000 Hallock Bros, building, S3S, 0O0;
insured for $50, 600. Several other firms lose
from 81 600 to $1,000 John Townsend, a
timer, was killed, and J. w. Lester. q car.
penter, fatally injured by falling walls.
Ground Broken for a New Railroad.
ST. LOUIS, January 10th.-Ground was
broken yesterday on the extension of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad from Veni.a,
Indian Territory, to the Arkansas river. A
large force will be put at work, and the
whole section of sixty-fve miles, the contract
for which was let some days ago, will be
ready to rail by May 1st.
Obsequies of Ex.Hinister ssoushfon.
New YORK. January 10th.-The funeral of
ex-Minister Stoughton was attended by a
large concourse of distinguished citizsnr.
The pail bearers were General Grant, Judge
Brady, Admiral Baldwin, Alfred Bierstadt,
Q. A. Seward, John Jacob Astor, A. Leroy,
Mr.. Musgrove, Secretary of the Navy HUT,
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